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... After eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village ... Agricultural Component of the Afghanistan Surge? http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=6427 ...

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

... Surge and Destroy - Michael Smith, Sarah Baxter and Jerome Starkey, The Times . ...

Blog post - Jul 4 2009 - 4:42pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... Editor's Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . ... the F-22s out of ammo and gas. Never mind that we might surge F-22s if the enemy surges its fighters. But wait, RAND did not consider ...

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

... How does your organization think, and how does it not think? Download the Full ... understand" also surrounds the myth of the success of the surge which then led to follow on decisions in Afghanistan again based not on ...

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

... Should we focus more on creating ink spots and less on defeating the Taliban? Success in ... "new" ideas may have worked early on and as late as pre-Surge 2009, but that does not mean that they will now work giving the existing ...

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

... takes the current U.S. approach as the starting point and adds 1) a more detailed theory of the conflict that highlights the ... come to the table or you die. This has been a real push, a surge that has to be taking its toll on talibs/AQ. We need to bring these ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... an incident that resulted in nearly two weeks of riots and the murder of six U.S. trainers at the hands of their Afghan students. That ... force will be downsized to the point where an initial surge is impossible. The Navy and USAF will cut means of deployment and ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

... is the control the government gains when the enemy is dead and gone. Control only exists when it is being applied, and it exists via the ... expensive mission with limited hope of success. Use the surge to fight the Taliban, and then we maintain a much smaller presence for ...

Blog post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... the new Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan and explain why U.S. policymakers should have a Plan B ready.   ... the United States would have had to do West Point Surge version 1991 in Afghanistan, yes? In short, and i may be wrong in ...

Blog post - May 4 2012 - 3:17pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... written under the auspices of then-LTGs David Petraeus and James Mattis in 2006, is inappropriate for Mexico.  ... the popular lexicon since the success of the “surge” in Iraq and President Obama’s embrace of the ... propaganda, and demonstrations) and violence to destroy reformulate or sustain the basis of legitimacy . . . .  (emphasis ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 6:10am - 42 comments