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Journal Article - Feb 8 2010 - 8:27am - 0 comments

... as well as South Asia and functional experts. Special thanks are due to Clare Lockhart, Michael Semple, Simon Shercliff, Mary ... but bare-bones governance in terms of law and order and delivery of justice, but nothing else, they are true Republicans (without the ...

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

... an Afghan "Los Pepes" to go after the bad guys. Thats what Special Warfare used to be about but we appear to have National Alzheimer's ... all the while having internal assets that can to a degree delivery what it is they need--but that is a whole new article. Will throw ...

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

... with the good Colonel on a lot of issues. However, his delivery sometimes seems off kilter just a bit. A couple of Eons ago when I ... to do that? Fine as well, we'll turn off the foreign aid, special favors, etc and work with whoever it is that is sitting in your chair ...

Blog entry - Jun 13 2010 - 7:00am - 69 comments - 0 attachments

... in terms of light infantry, mechanized infantry, armor, special forces, etc. My worry is that we have lost one key component of ... an artillery battalion. Well and good. The technical delivery of fires is actually a pretty easy skillset to maintain (says the ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments

... I came across this comment: Careful; as a veteran special ops soldier, I've seen this kind of press build up to warfare in far ... in a world where Iran is developing long range missile delivery systems and exporting some of its technology to Hezbollah plus ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... have recently highlighted in the July-September issue of Special Warfare Magazine.  It illustrates the practical application of the ... provide for its people. To facilitate the district’s delivery of the essential services, we will execute three sub-tasks: ...

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

... several years ago an exchange between and N.G. (I think) Special Forces SGT and one of the usual anti-Galula suspects on the blog. The ... treating them as such. An example of the left field delivery is the paragraph above dealing with Taliban & Co. You say you ...

Blog entry - Jun 5 2011 - 9:58am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

... the population from the insurgency and facilitate the delivery of Afghan government services are fatally undermined by the persistent ... similar to a controversial approach advocated by an Army Special Forces major named Jim Gant , is to use Afghanistan's various tribes ...

Blog entry - May 13 2010 - 7:16pm - 45 comments - 0 attachments

... where he served for nearly four years since 2003 as a Special Forces officer for the U.S. Army. "I feel like I was born there. The ... of us are even adults. So I didn't get the intent of the delivery method. The articulating of an assumption that we are ...

Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 6:50pm - 50 comments