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... promoted him. ”  So we get officers who think small, don’t understand the importance of broad understanding, and miss ... that if that large bureaucracy is charged with fighting wars, it must be able to use a lot of average individuals efficiently. ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... Flynn gave this old man who lived through too many lost wars a lot of hope. Imagine that you observe a strange looking new organism. ... Helmand province. The paper notes that in June 2009 "...a small number of Marines and British soldiers were the only foreign forces...the ...

Blog post - Jan 4 2010 - 6:54pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... models so as to realize a ROI from the empowerment of small businesses, from wealth and job creation. For the VC and Green Beret ... Approach to Village Stability Operations , Small Wars Journal, 2011 ( ... poorest people in the community. Ironically this played a big part in them sticking together and supporting each other so that now they ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... flight suit at the club, its about fighting and winning wars- the current one and the ones to come. Your envisioned air to air enemy ... enemy resolve. Even in Desert Storm, a relatively small percentage of bombs were precision-guided. That changed in OIF/OEF and ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... a chord like no other essay published recently in the Small Wars Journal .  In brutal honesty, I have to say that the many sniping ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... or "goal" of an operation is its purpose. Ultimately, all wars must end, but the chain of causality does not end this side of ... fighters and helo in the Tangi Valley (from the admittedly small amount of data points, it seems this was a predictable operation ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... these four aspects the fabric of trust within the team and small unit disintegrate.  Leaders are supposed to know their subordinates, ... was commenting on the same concept in his Fighting Small Wars article when he noted: The notion of individual negation is an ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... who wrongly proclaimed that these kinds or those kinds of wars are things of the past. A senior Soviet officer had told Stalin in 1939 ... What you describe is the normal doctrine process: a fairly small group of people sketch in the general outline, but then it changes ...

Blog post - Mar 4 2008 - 10:01am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... theories, and analysis, we continue to muddle through small wars.  Why?  Perhaps, we often choose mass over maneuver and speed ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... in order to understand the human terrain, familiar with small unit tactics, and have a background in political and social science ... and theoretical constructs that have been used in these wars and were largely developed in the safety of national capitals. Could you ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments