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

Blog entry - Mar 5 2007 - 6:44pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

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

Blog entry - Feb 8 2009 - 2:36am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... The "Story" The Runaway General - Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone ... Times Gates Has a Long, Loooong Record of Firing Generals - Danger Room General Stanley McChrystal - USNI Blog ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ... his job, and that we see COIN as warfare and keep putting generals in charge. So, it matters little really if WILF is the general and he ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... The claims about COIN were obviously false when made, disproved by both history ... just used that hammer because the politicians -- not the Generals -- do not know any better and will not provide much other than a ...

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

... It's the Tribes? That's Stupid. - Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Army ... And actually, my problem is less with policymakers and generals (Petraeus and McChrystal clearly understand this stuff, but it doesn't ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . ... and errors. Only hard work by the Troops in spite of the Generals (all too often...) pulled it out. ...and that the current USG ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... Gian Gentile by Octavian Manea Download the Full Article : An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile I've ... think but it wont happen because the American Army and its generals have adopted nation building coin as its operational framework for ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... A Combined Arms Response to Death of the Armor Corps by Major James Smith and Major James Harbridge ... officers(and, frankly, too damned many generalist generals). But there might be something said for retaining branch competencies ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments