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Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

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

The Real Plan B in AfPak

... The Real Plan B in AfPak: Keeping China Out, Bringing India In, Calming ...

Journal Article - Feb 5 2011 - 7:48am - 9 comments

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

... 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 - 11:30am - 79 comments

Real Leverage Starts with More Troops

... 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 entry - Nov 27 2009 - 6:31am - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War

... 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 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

The Real Afghan Strategy

... The Real Afghan Strategy - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinon. ...

Blog entry - Nov 1 2009 - 8:25am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say

... 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 entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct ... sets and then take it for granted that what they see is "real" for them and then they move on to new subjects without fully exploring ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

How Afghanistan Ends

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil conflict, academic and policy ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

America's Flawed Afghanistan Strategy

... Strategic Studies Institute monthly op-ed. Despite the lavish time and attention that the Obama administration devoted to ... at this time line? A nuclear country that views certain Afghan Taliban groups it supports as strategic to nuclear Indias influence in ... security threat." This seems to indicate the very real possibility that even a successful counter-insurgency campaign in ...

Blog entry - Aug 11 2010 - 3:47pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments