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... I came back from my latest month in the field in Afghanistan disquieted about our basic military mission. Is the ... find technologies and techniques for the grunt. Re: Tactics or Strategy? Distilled,I'd put the concern the other way around, ...

Blog post - Aug 15 2009 - 6:23pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. After eleven years of ... out of that part of the world. For many people our tactics (or, more likely- our operations and strategy)- or at least some of ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 59 comments

... Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair out in frustration at yet another ‘Design’ article with too much ... the same chess rules of the game. He can apply different tactics and strategy, but he must move a pawn only the way a pawn moves…that ...

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

... current content into a more appropriate context and nuance in general, and address the primary shortfall of the current manual.  All ... Insurgency can employ any mix of violent and non-violent tactics over time and occurs in three broad types: Revolution – (rarely ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... An interview with Daniel R. Green, who served at the PRT in Uruzgan in 2005-2006 and in Kabul from 2009-2010. ... to understand the human terrain, familiar with small unit tactics, and have a background in political and social science because, at the ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

... Traditionally, we prefer to quantify revolutions as ending in a win, loss, or negotiated settlement. [1]   While this framework is ... comprehensive strategy.  We continue to muddle in tactics bypassing strategy. Today, we are in a time of unprecedented ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Sergio Miller takes an in-depth look at COIN in Malaya Click here ... to light a cheroot and reach for a gin and tonic. Tactics: as different as chalk and cheese Afghanistan and (modern) ...

Journal Article - Apr 16 2012 - 4:44am - 23 comments

... purpose of the military and of the use of military force in countering an insurgency? After all, the classic counterinsurgency (COIN) ... and some adjustment to organizations, equipment and tactics are generally required. The faster an army can do this, the more ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 6:54am - 79 comments

... the strategic implications of this week's massacre in Panjwai, Afghanistan. My Foreign Policy ... feasible or appropriate goal in the first place. Just as tactics without a viable strategy are useless, strategy without a practical, ...

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

... presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a manner that achieves U.S. objectives in Afghanistan. This scenario takes ... The correct thing would be for the US to stop using such tactics AND discourage its putative allies from doing the same.. Accepting it ...

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