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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... this earlier in the year, especially when former Marine Generals Krulak and Hoar rejected all arguments for torture . Evan Wallach ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... General David H Petraeus: The General's Knowledge - Charles Sennott, The Sunday Times ... Both came intending to undo a series of mistakes by the generals and diplomats who preceded them and brought the war to the edge of ...

Blog entry - Jun 28 2008 - 7:19pm - 0 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

... and sergeants had directly observed a "toxic" leader in the last year and that about 20 percent of the respondents said that they had ... Look at the number of officers relieved and/or retired by Generals Marshall and Eisenhower at the onset and during WW2. What ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political anthropologist/COIN guru is at ... going to use it, I am sure.) It's great to talk about what generals think is or isn't happening, or what it seems like is or isn't ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments