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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... publically bash the most senior leaders for implementing a surge, COIN, and a combat outpost strategy. Amazing how that history or Middle ... of a range of new toolsets for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These toolsets doubled in use almost every year since precisely ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... The Next Surge: Counterbureaucracy - Jonathan J. Vaccaro, New York Times ... detachment of the United States Army stationed in eastern Afghanistan, for help. Mindful of orders to protect the civilian population, we ...

Blog post - Dec 8 2009 - 6:40am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability Operations ...

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

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... grenades (empty 30mm casing inside the perimeter). In Afghanistan they used the rising dust plateau to mask their approach run ...

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

... The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan Security by Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, ... is the Commanding General of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan . The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan ...

Blog post - Feb 15 2011 - 8:58am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... The real Civil War is about to begin ... Iraq, nested along the old Silk Road.  While the Iraq Surge suppressed their efforts, The Council merely withdrew to the countryside ... was biased from the results of the coalition warfare in Afghanistan that sort of looked like UW. I am not rejecting the possibility ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... Complex Adaptive Systems - A Case Study of Corruption in Afghanistan." I would argue that the intelligence method, the "Emergent States ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... "0, 1, and 1" as the major would have told Gunny Highway. Afghanistan, Iraq, F-22, F-35, AAAV, etc, etc, and we are hurt by "disruptive" ...

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

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... in Iraq, but not during “the surge” in Afghanistan, with predictable results).   The blend of perceptions of ...

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

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ...

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