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... 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 entry - Mar 4 2008 - 9:01am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

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

Blog entry - Oct 7 2007 - 12:42am - 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 - 11:30am - 79 comments

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

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

... Win Wars? Today's General Politicks and Does P.R., Too is the title of a New ... of whether they were hic or lic, conventional or small, coin or hybrid, whatever, are either simpler or more difficult than ... it. This is indeed a challenge that did not exist in the big conventional wars between nations. Ken makes some great points in his ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... Page Auditorium on 29 September 2010, “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed tremendous strain on U.S. forces and ... with very limited HIC experience, if any, with a very small professional force. Pointing to experiments in other armies that are ...

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

... others will be published in future special volumes of Small Wars Journal. For each of the two topics, a $3,000 Grand Prize and two $500 ...

Blog entry - Jul 17 2009 - 8:51am - 23 comments - 0 attachments

... and pro-Taliban mountain region bordering Afghanistan. A small element of U.S. personnel was accompanying them, and the team leader ... in the short vice long term; 2. If one accepts that wars such as this one require political solutions, much more must be done to ...

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

... For the practitioners who grew up fighting these wars, we've gone from practice to theory. Many of us are field grades or ... regarding his witnessing assassinations is an example on a small scale, of what international observers where prepared to use as the ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... write. Unfortunately, the world will require us to fight small wars in the future and small wars by definition are ones in which massive ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments