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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

... 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

... 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

... Armed Forces Journal article Small Wars, Big Ideas by Christopher Griffin. ... So, what is Kilcullen ...

Blog post - Oct 7 2007 - 1:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... 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

... 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

... I have seen more innovation from senior officers (though a small percentage) than I have from junior and midgrade officers who are often ... having a job or doing what you guys put up with in two wars. Most of you Generation Xer servicemembers are combat-tested (like ...

Blog post - May 2 2012 - 5:06pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... online curriculum development. I noted in the following Small Wars Council thread that there are many such materials available for augmenting ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 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

... I think you will find in Clausewitz's letters and small articles a much nuanced understanding of civil conflict. In Peter Paret's ... to conquering places an ocean away and doing more small wars to all out industrial war etc. That Army adapted pretty well and quite ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments