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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... in the military and provided an appendix of the ages of generals across history at the time of their greatest achievements. The average ...

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

... In the April 2007 edition of Vanity Fair - The Night of the Generals by David Margolick. The six retired generals who stepped ...

Blog post - Mar 5 2007 - 7:44pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... The real Civil War is about to begin ... bigger truth to all of this is that in these kinds of wars generals can in fact "get it" and the wars can still be lost. Gian--it will ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... system that prides itself on justice will reward the generals that have presided over failure, whether at the operational and ...

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

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... was the key difference he enjoyed over the thousands of Generals on both sides of the Western Front. I dare say every last one of them ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... Sorley, Lewis. Westmoreland:  The General Who Lost Vietnam . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing ... Pentagon, and with four previous books on Vietnam and Army generals he can get right to the point. Within five pages we are into ...

Blog post - May 22 2012 - 7:29am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... Powell-Jones cautioned allies that ‘too much in the way of generalities should not be deduced from the Malayan campaign’ ... foreign lands. How the American Army and many of its generals came to believe (and still does as evidenced by Bob Cassidy's new book ...

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

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... will still be thralls to misty eyed visions of the generals and we will have subordinated our national interests to a bunch of ...

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

... The Generals' Insurgency: The Story Behind the U.S. Troop Surge in Iraq - ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2009 - 3:36am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... Barry McCaffrey and gang. We really need a ban on retired generals promoting programs designed to double down on their earlier failed ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 6:10am - 42 comments