- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... watching or causing the effects. The brutality would force you into a personal moral dilemma between humanity and hatred. It would ... of fairness and justice to be thrown away in the name of security from terrorists. He somehow determined that the honor the military, ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Security Force Assistance: Just Do It
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... Security Force Assistance: Just Do It Appendix to Accompany CRS Report 41817 ...
Journal Article - Jun 7 2011 - 8:11am - 9 comments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... to develop and improve the community. Security : Operations focused on establishing the rule of law and on creating ... contexts today this means establishing a local security force integrated with provincial and national security forces and primarily ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 59 comments
- The promise and perils of security force assistance
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... has published an essay I wrote for it on the future of security force assistance . Theme: In the wake of the Iraq and Afghanistan ...
Blog post - Sep 1 2009 - 10:23am - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference
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... and the artificial stability achieved through state security forces. This facilitate better prevention, greater civil ... classic principles of coin by a foreign counterinsurgent force like protection of the population, government legitimacy, seperating the ... http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/security-force-assistance-operations While I have no broad While I have no broad ...
Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- Ink Spots of Success: The Smart Power Approach to Our Endgame in Afghanistan
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... Power. In 2001 a few hundred Special Operations Force personnel and air power helped the Northern Alliance defeat the Taliban. ... in Afghanistan is the building of the Afghan National Security Forces. However without an economy there will be no tax base to pay ...
Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments
- Rethinking Revolution: Introduction
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... and we are now moving to Foreign Internal Defense (FID)/Security Force Assistance (SFA) without a serious debate, informed discussion, or ...
Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments
- Malaya: The Myth of Hearts and Minds
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... of British rule and organisation, a loyal police force and the established policy that self-government would be granted as a ... stop-and-search, vehicle checkpoints and other internal security operations in support of the police – but this is a quite ... GIRoA and those who they dispossessed of power with our assistance; and the resistance insurgency against the presence of ISAF and ...
Journal Article - Apr 16 2012 - 4:44am - 23 comments
- How Afghanistan Ends
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... identifies requirements for a smaller follow-on military force to pave the way for a long-term advisory and assistance effort. ... An element of the Pakistani military had left the relative security of the Indus river valley, and had pushed up into the fiercely ...
Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments
- This Week at War: Losing Faith
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... strategic consequences. In a 2007 monograph , Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap catalogued controversies like the Abu Ghraib ... timetable to gradually shift responsibility for security to the Afghan government over the next two years. Pentagon officials ... population thought to be the solution), the military assistance offered by the United States and its allies will be designed to help ...
Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments


