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... Wading through all the Iraq five years on commentary plastered across op-ed pages this week? Make ... Flournoy's piece in today's Washington Times -- Stabilizing Iraq . Flournoy, president and co-founder of the Center for a ...

Blog entry - Mar 20 2008 - 4:37am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... commitment to Afghanistan. A former tank commander in Iraq and co-author of the Army's landmark 2006 counterinsurgency manual, Nagl ... the FOB-oriented force incapable of securing or stabilizing a deteriorating situation into a more effective stability ... the FOB-oriented force incapable of securing or stabilizing a deteriorating situation into a more effective stability ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... first 8 years while the Bush administration went off to Iraq and flushed any international legitimacy associated with Afghanistan down ... we/GIRoA help local Afghans with will be more of a stabilizing influence than not could also be wrong: instead believing that many ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... can anyone be sure how permanent the apparent progress in stabilizing southern Afghanistan really is. The real permanent leverage ... at a much lower cost than the United States paid in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click below to read more ... ...

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

... we need to be prepared to fight another Afghanistan or Iraq. It is more that the COIN concept merely acknowledges that military ... a great explanation as to why we are now so concerned with stabilizing the world -- developing a foreign policy tailored to dealing to ...

Blog entry - Sep 16 2010 - 11:47am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Afghanistan.  Our goal is to improve the economy by stabilizing the supply-demand relationship in the district by executing four ... an mba, who is also a part-time ca-bubba with two tours in iraq, and who has never been to Afghanistan. Organization aka ...

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

... on an Army requirement for a transition team back to Iraq (although he is not without previous experience in Iraq as he was ... like the tribes in Afghanistan, are absolutely the key to stabilizing a country that has no recent history of effective governance. ...

Blog entry - Oct 26 2009 - 8:49am - 57 comments - 0 attachments

... He is needed there much more than he is needed in Iraq. Salaam eleikum Y'all! Re: One Tribe at a Time This is a ... like the tribes in Afghanistan, are absolutely the key to stabilizing a country that has no recent history of effective governance. ...

Blog entry - Dec 9 2009 - 5:32pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments

... in fights in Afghanistan and the lingering effort in Iraq that could last for years. History will not going to wait on us to move ... act in accordance with "norms" more acceptable to China in stabilizing the north and assuring the PRC that there wont be a overt ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments

... a basic understanding of what's happening, right now, in Iraq. This post is not about whether current ops are "working" — for ... headlong into elections rather than concentrating on stabilizing the economic and security sides of life - offering real ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2007 - 6:11am - 49 comments - 0 attachments