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... communities? At some point, you are going to have to sit down with a community representative and figure out what the hell is going on ... not get him closer to achieving his mission, then I would shut up and say "Yes Wilf, we indeed have a problem." I could care less ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... out a desired end-state into the future, and we anchor it down with our logic that stabilizes for us how the world functions (principles ... vulnerability) to the real COG- the idea. We were told to shut up and color...I think it is because even at the highest levels of our ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... to support our CT operations; all of this will settle down to "normal" Afghanistan." What I basically understand these two ... the tribal areas. It was this network that was partially shut down starting in 2001, under American pressure. But every step was ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... it's only a matter of time before it makes its way down to the E9 and E8 levels. It's at the E8 level that I see it more often and ... you a leader. Tabs and badges do not make you a leader. Your PT (and training for the PT test while hiding out from combat focused PT) ... like being forced to take drink a steaming hot cup of shut the F*&^% up! Heres the analogy for many of these blog ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... extremely difficult for the Pakistani authorities to back down. The easiest path for U.S. policymakers would be to throw Davis ... Jee, relax, I am not suggesting that these sites be shut down. I am saying that Americans should read them just like many middle ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... Command, so taking over ISAF will technically be a step down. But Mattis will otherwise retire from the Marines, so maybe he wouldn't ... if he can't keep his mouth or the mouths of his staff shut while lounging in Paris or Berlin. The gulf in expectations disgusts me. ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... fire and maneuver, then I stand corrected and will stand down. Russia? Maybe, the Fulda Gap is still there. They did invade South ... adjusted to cope with an enemy's almost certain efforts to shut down as much of our acknowledged and beneficial technological edge as he ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... at his best when he gathers field observations, boils them down to distilled principles, and then describes those rules in a clear, ... class telling then LTG Starry in the late 1970s to shut up and quit whining about Active Defense Doctrine since it was proven in ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... to sell to the higher Commands, even MARSOC had to stand down and retrain after their "problems" in Afghanistan. SOCOM and SF itself ... are crying mostly because you think the SF teams are being shut down by SEALs and Rangers(McChrystal, Olson) You really are mixing up a ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments

... Forward-deployed forces should be able to shoot down incoming guided missiles and mortar shells. By contrast, U.S. forces ... of the strategy and demonstrating that Pakistani threat to shut down the NATO supply routes are hollow.... The same sub conventional ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments