- The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers
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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... and most go to get their check-in-the-block degree with no real intellectual rigor. It’s considered a leisurely billet with ...
Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments
- Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan
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... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... home with us. Who can complain about that? The only real danger to this approach is that Afghan leaders and voters might suddenly ...
Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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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 ... genocide was still heavy in the air. I wanted to know how real torturers and terror camp guards would behave and learn how to resist them ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- The Real Plan B in AfPak
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... The Real Plan B in AfPak: Keeping China Out, Bringing India In, Calming ...
Journal Article - Feb 5 2011 - 8:48am - 9 comments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... engaged. These abilities, far more than the money, are the real advantage the A&S investor brings to their investments and which ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments
- Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say
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... officers, analysts and academics, are pushing to have the U.S. mission in Afghanistan significantly narrowed in scope. Their message, ... politically-viable withdrawal, then maybe that meets the "real" policy objectives (get out starting in 2011). We just need to ...
Blog post - Jan 12 2011 - 8:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments
- Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War
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... Gian Gentile by Octavian Manea Download the Full Article : An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile I've ... about COIN and Creatively about Strategy Is the real failure on the "grand strategy" level, or on the policy level? I'm not ...
Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 8:37pm - 83 comments
- The Real Afghan Strategy
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... The Real Afghan Strategy - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinon. ...
Blog post - Nov 1 2009 - 9:25am - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... world without being able to perform calculus problems in real time, without benefit of computational aids. It does appear to me that ...
Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Real Leverage Starts with More Troops
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... In Afghanistan, Real Leverage Starts with More Troops - Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, Washington Post opinion. The president will soon announce the deployment of additional US forces to ...
Blog post - Nov 27 2009 - 7:31am - 8 comments - 0 attachments


