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Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... because they used metal shackles to strap the victim down, and a tin flower pot sprinkler to regulate the water flow rate, but it ... are so concerned about the reputation of America; you who sit at your computer screen, sip your coffee and sanctimoniously defend the ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

Taliban Two-Step: Can't Sit Down Yet

... Taliban Two-Step: Can't Sit Down Yet - Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Newsweek Everyone's ...

Blog entry - Nov 2 2008 - 10:34am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

... 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 ... same. Sure- we change slides, make little word changes; sit in meetings for hours listening to senior leadership argue over whether ...

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

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... in an effort to position ourselves as a neutral mediator down the line. For some reason - I can't imagine why, but history might have ... be simple for a change? If one had a chance to sit down and have a conversation with a major insurgent leader---one first has ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... lines (read combat role) in the invasion of Iraq, take-down of Falluja, Sadr City and Tal Afar, patroling Korengal, etc. While ... all...DO NOT ADJUST any training/physical standards. Then sit back and watch. Learn. And be prepared for the experiment outcomes. ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD

... because I think it does an excellent job of breaking down the nuts and bolts of both processes. I'd actually like FLYNN's ... better than nothing, in my view, we are attempting to dumb down the complexity of development and social change to identifying a specific ... clothes and drive unmarked cars. Then they would sit the on VBD 24/7 until the end. Answer to Question #2: Sometimes you ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks

... 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 ... Michael, Not to point out the obvious, but if you sit around in a circle of people who were chosen to lead under a system that is ...

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

Killing Your Way to Control

... their 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 ...

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

UPDATED: The strange case of Raymond Davis, a 'strategic corporal' in Pakistan

... extremely difficult for the Pakistani authorities to back down. The easiest path for U.S. policymakers would be to throw Davis ... thread. And the context of use is the same. So, are we to sit down, cross our little arms, and close our impudent mouths and await the ...

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

A Populace-Centric Foreign Policy

... in that. The trick is that just as populaces brought down Rome and Great Britain's empires; it is populaces that pose the greatest ... academic, or published in the popular press nor asked to sit at the adult table when they decide what's good for the locals ... but then ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments