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

Blog entry - Nov 1 2009 - 9:24am - 10 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

... 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 entry - Aug 29 2007 - 1:52am - 29 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

... 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 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... "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 entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times ( Investigation throws 'Three Cups of Tea' author ... limits of friendly peruasion." He went on to chastize the generals for giving Mortenson "rock star status," while ignoring any such ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Moscow vs. the Mujahideen - Wall Street Journal book reviews by Brian M. Downing. ... formed in the aging, ailing Politburo, even as Soviet generals protested. Intervention could cause widespread desertions in the ...

Blog entry - Nov 13 2011 - 11:01am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... The Men Who Would Govern Marjah by William S. McCallister ... have the traditional SF FID missions, the Jim Gant tribal "revolt," and the RA venture into SFA. On the non-military side, we have ... are "in" or "out." I meet a hell of a lot of ANA Generals that worked with the Soviets; and people in the hinter lands often ...

Journal Article - Feb 20 2010 - 6:48pm - 50 comments

... How the U.S. military fell in love with 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Jaffe, ... goals which it never renounces and from which Pakistani generals can be scarcely deflected, even to the risk of global war, ... My understanding is that Spartacus led a slave revolt, and that is a very different thing from an insurgency. I believe that ...

Blog entry - Apr 21 2011 - 2:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments