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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 post - May 28 2007 - 6:14pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam. He. was a principal military adviser to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman during World War II ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... 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 - 11:22pm - 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 post - Dec 6 2011 - 8:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... The present mimics the past, more dangerously, as we take a look back at the ... Akbar Etemad, the shah’s chief atomic energy adviser , was more definitive about the quest atomic weapons when interviewed ...

Journal Article - Mar 30 2012 - 6:56am - 1 comment

... 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 post - Apr 18 2011 - 8:06pm - 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 post - Jul 1 2011 - 6:06pm - 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 post - Jun 26 2007 - 7:11am - 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 - 8:45am - 40 comments

... In the past ten months there has been measured progress in the Afghan National ... 'train' the Afghans. Marine leadership has also rejected adviser type organizational structure at any level despite the resounding ...

Blog post - Sep 22 2010 - 6:29pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments