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... be just as informed as the senior admin official. Re: Slow Burn I agree with you, but let's not pretend that generals have never ...

Blog entry - Oct 7 2009 - 3:52pm - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... way faster than I can type...and yes, I realize I am a slow typer. Just doing spell check is not enough... :-) Re: Win, Learn, ... destruction, better for us to stand back and just let it burn itself out IMO. Re: Win, Learn, Focus, Adapt, Win Again Slap, ...

Blog entry - Apr 9 2011 - 5:48pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Though this program shows potential, the populace has been slow to cooperate. Village elders in the district have been supportive of the ... on your mission. Got it, you have to do it, but I wouldn't burn the midnight oil working on them, you have more important things to do. ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 6:55am - 9 comments

... since so many Taliban are there? Attack Pakistan Pashtuns? Burn all the poppy fields since some of that money finances the Taliban? Is the ... by EFPs and RKG-3s until the insurgency decided to slow down the pace when it appeared we were in fact actually going to leave ...

Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments

... also, is likely to hinder any real consideration of a "go slow" approach. Re: The Great COIN Debate: Time for a Change? To sum ... transformation do you advocate? What fields would we burn other than poppies and how would that help people who proceed to starve? ...

Blog entry - Jan 19 2009 - 2:26am - 42 comments - 0 attachments

... me a break with your description of the VC/NVA. They were slow learners. If you wanted to get body count go to the Trail. At the local ... in a world with a billion muslims and CNN, a slash and burn campaign through Pashtun lands would be more effective than the bad will ...

Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 7:45am - 40 comments

... so correctly stated: "Strategy without tactics is the slow road to victory" but "tactics without strategy is the noise before ... useful. Unable to separate the wheat from the chaff, we burn Afghansitan and give what survived to Karzai. Does that make sense to you? ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2011 - 12:34pm - 36 comments

... the right type of platforms for this fight. Fly low and slow over the rocky ridges of southern Afghanistan, and that is exactly what ... arguably been deficit spending since about 1950, but the burn rate cranked up considerably since 2001. Strategies of Containment are ...

Blog entry - Nov 19 2010 - 5:57am - 27 comments - 0 attachments

... or any other reason for an insurgency. A slash and burn second enemy-centric "Crusade" would hardly relieve Islamic insurgency and ... still takes "time" to develop it. If possible, we need to slow the promotions down to O4 to allow our junior officers to mature in the ...

Journal Article - May 9 2011 - 6:49pm - 23 comments

... and the Florida pastor Terry Jones’ decision to burn a Koran. Insurgents can leverage the public relations advantage in the ... face to face contact, populaces no longer need the slow, high-risk methods of classic Maoist insurgency organization and can ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 7:02am - 29 comments