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... The Generals' Revolt - Robert Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone . In early October, as ...

Blog post - Nov 1 2009 - 10:24am - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... This is not a KoolAid answer b/c there are good Generals and bad just like there are good NCOs and bad ones (People are people ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... My Foreign Policy column discusses the strategic implications of this week's massacre in Panjwai, Afghanistan. ... in the name of some mystical "security"? Our successful Generals/Presidents - Washington, Grant, Eisenhower - were mindful of how ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 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 post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... Some aspects of the war in Iraq are hard to fit into "classical" models of insurgency. One of ... strident critique of his criticism that American generals lack moral courage. Was there personal invective on my part? Yes ...

Blog post - Aug 29 2007 - 2:52am - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... Pop-COIN and ‘The Death of American Strategy’ by A.E. Stahl Defenceiq ... but because the American Army and some of its senior generals have been entranced by the promise of making American coin work in ...

Blog post - Jan 13 2012 - 7:19am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... A Civilian's Comprehensive Critique of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual...In 5-6 Pages ... policing than to conventional soldiering. Sorry, generals. Wasn't really ever your kind of fight. Come home. Save some families. ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... 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 post - Dec 6 2011 - 8:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... Part One of Three: The Build Up to War Author(s):  ... resulted in regional and global isolation. Saddam’s generals observed Iran with interest and received briefs from anti-Khomeini ...

Journal Article - Apr 10 2012 - 5:54am - 1 comment

... "Prine's Line of Departure" has a very important post on the history of the Vietnam War , and specifically on the generalship of ... day. In each of these two cases the health of these two generals kept them from performing as they had in previous battles. ...

Blog post - Jul 1 2011 - 6:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments