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... SWJ Editors Note - the following article by Bing West and Owen West was originally posted at ... decisions and action. For an example, will an adviser model -- fewer Americans but out beyond the wire -- change casualties ...

Blog entry - May 28 2007 - 5:14pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... Afghanistan Ends Linda Robinson served as Senior Adviser to the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence at US Central Command ...

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

... The claims about COIN were obviously false when made, disproved by both history ... law says the Chairman of the Joint Chief is the Military Adviser to the President; that law does not say the President has to take that ...

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

... Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times ( Investigation throws 'Three Cups of Tea' author ... to Afghanistan, making Mortenson a valued but unofficial adviser to the Pentagon." That was in 2009. More recently, in July 2010, ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... "Prine's Line of Departure" has a very important post on the history of the Vietnam War , and specifically on the generalship of ... "Commander in Chief, "president," and "national security adviser," when referring to Nixon and Kissinger and whatever they may have said ...

Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... I've spent much of the last six weeks out on the ground, working with Iraqi and U.S. combat units, ... David Kilcullen is Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser, Multi-National Force—Iraq. These are his personal views only. ...

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

... Years Gone by Stanton S. Coerr Download the Full Article: Ten Years Gone In Afghanistan, there is no road ... a battalion S3, and at the cease fire a District Senior adviser. I was never in a major headquarters, have no great depth of knowledge, ...

Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 7:45am - 40 comments

... Recent SWJ Post By LTC Gian P. Gentile The United States lost the war in Vietnam because it was unwinnable. One ... the architect of Britain's victory in Malaya and an adviser to President Nixon at the time, declare that the US _had_ won the ...

Blog entry - May 13 2008 - 4:05pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... confident Host Nation Security Forces responsive to the rule of law. In Iraq, years of effort to train and equip the Iraqi Army ... Re: On Advisors and Advising Having served as an adviser in Viet Nam and in Iran during both war and peace, I am afraid I take ...

Blog entry - Aug 16 2008 - 3:58pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... By Maura O'Connor, Slate. BLUF: "When people hear about the U.S. military doing development work in Afghanistan, they think about ... was the reaction of my boss, the Deputy Province Senior Adviser, when I enthusiastically reported my observations to him. This kindly ...

Blog entry - Jun 2 2011 - 5:23pm - 31 comments - 0 attachments