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This Week at War: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon

... The F-35 is cutting into the Defense Department's most important priorities. ... That plan calls for cuts to many of its conventional frontline combat capacities and increased investments in some specialized and ...

Blog post - May 27 2011 - 1:49pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... to visit the torture camps of the Khmer Rouge. The country had just opened for tourism and the effect of the genocide was still ... an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust ...   Show Author Info?:  ... "equality" towards the burden men take on for this country). This is done- not even for one gender population- but for a few ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 8:34am - 46 comments

UPDATED: The strange case of Raymond Davis, a 'strategic corporal' in Pakistan

... Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have confirmed that Raymond Davis is a ... was very interesting. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/01/video-amrullah-saleh-spy... Re: UPDATED: The strange ...

Blog post - Feb 21 2011 - 3:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

A CIA COINdinista's Misgivings

... - Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent . The leak I got yesterday from Kandahar expressing skepticism that ... ... - Amrullah Saleh http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/01/video-amrullah-saleh-spy... Very interesting comments, ...

Blog post - May 13 2010 - 8:16pm - 45 comments - 0 attachments

You Can’t Play Chess When the Taliban is Playing Poker

... What Could be Done Better The Mystery of This War For Taylor [1] the ability of the ... understand that overwhelming majority of money in this country comes from foreign military spending and development.  Why are ... and intelligence.  Facilitators are on the political frontline of subversion and in competition with the government over ...

Journal Article - Jan 5 2012 - 5:36am - 0 comments

In-sourcing the Tools of National Power for Success and Security

... In-sourcing the Tools of National Power for Success and Security Matt Armstrong ... Anthony C. Zinni and Tony Koltz. The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave ...

Blog post - Jan 3 2008 - 4:13pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency—What are they?

... By Any Other Name.” MAJ Michael Coote argued that the current definitions of insurgency found in military doctrinal publications ... This is a law enforcement effort as the police are on the frontline when encountering these criminals. It's actually a ...

Blog post - Jan 26 2012 - 6:07pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

SWJ Korea News and Opinion Update

... Korea Attack on South - Associated Press From the North, a Pattern of Aggression - New York Times A Nettlesome ... have to be driven or they dry-rot in place. The nKorean frontline artillery just doesn't do much range-firing. Not saying that the ...

Blog post - Nov 24 2010 - 6:53am - 40 comments - 0 attachments