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Westhawk Review: The Strongest Tribe

... Book Review: ' The Strongest Tribe' By Westhawk - Cross Posted at Westhawk ...

Blog entry - Sep 18 2008 - 11:44am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

COIN Toss

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . ... Some might suggest that the US might have been the strongest tribe in the fight, but it wasn't our fight that broke the will of ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Nagl on West: In it to Win

... John Nagl (LTC, US Army ret.), a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security , reviews Bing West's latest book on Iraq, The Strongest Tribe in Sunday's edition of the Washington Post . Here ...

Blog entry - Aug 16 2008 - 2:12pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Understanding the Human Terrain: Key to Success in Afghanistan

... Understanding the Human Terrain: Key to Success in Afghanistan by Andrew Garfield ... convince the BCT Cmdr to release from detention one of the strongest local Sunni tribal leaders who had been "fingered" by the Shiites as ...

Blog entry - Jul 16 2010 - 2:19am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

The Tea Fallacy

... The Tea Fallacy by Michael Miklaucic Download the full article: ... in the words of a great marine, writer and reporter "The strongest tribe"... I don't really think that any military professional ...

Journal Article - Mar 16 2010 - 3:49pm - 44 comments

Challenges Ahead in the Middle East

... Challenges Ahead in the Middle East by A. Lawrence Chickering Download the Full ... the differences among the countries where the unrest is strongest (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and other countries). They emphasize ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:18pm - 36 comments

The Wrong War: An Interview with Bing West (Updated)

... The Wrong War: An Interview with Bing West by Michael Few ... due to politics in the States. Why aren't we the "Strongest Tribe" in Afghanistan? In Iraq, the Sunni tribes, with an ...

Journal Article - Feb 21 2011 - 1:31pm - 33 comments

War is about Killing and Destruction

... Tatham by Colonel Gian P. Gentile Download the full article: War is about Killing and Destruction I feel sorry for ... can occur sans an interpreter. Make the ANA and ANP the strongest Qawm in cooperation with the local community defense initiative ...

Journal Article - Dec 22 2009 - 12:18pm - 38 comments

CCO Interview with Bing West

... Dan Troy of the Consortium for Complex Operations (CCO) was kind enough to share with ... and No True Glory . Bing's latest book, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq has been widely ...

Blog entry - Mar 5 2009 - 5:18pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

SWJ Interview with Bing West (Part 2)

... Bing West , author of The Village , The March Up and No True Glory was kind of ... on the occasion of the release of his latest book The Strongest Tribe . Francis J. 'Bing' West, originally from the Dorchester ...

Blog entry - Aug 15 2008 - 4:45am - 0 comments - 0 attachments