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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... publically bash the most senior leaders for implementing a surge, COIN, and a combat outpost strategy. Amazing how that history or Middle ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... The Next Surge: Counterbureaucracy - Jonathan J. Vaccaro, New York Times opinion. ...

Blog post - Dec 8 2009 - 6:40am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... Agricultural Component of the Afghanistan Surge? http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=6427 ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... the F-22s out of ammo and gas. Never mind that we might surge F-22s if the enemy surges its fighters. But wait, RAND did not consider ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan Security by Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, ...

Blog post - Feb 15 2011 - 8:58am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... The real Civil War is about to begin ... Iraq, nested along the old Silk Road.  While the Iraq Surge suppressed their efforts, The Council merely withdrew to the countryside ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... understand" also surrounds the myth of the success of the surge which then led to follow on decisions in Afghanistan again based not on ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... that have emerged in current conflicts - things like a 'surge' and COIN - have been mythologized as products of disruptive thinking. ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... effective (and in many ways occurred during “the surge” in Iraq, but not during “the surge” in Afghanistan, ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... we focus more on creating ink spots and less on defeating the Taliban? Success in Afghanistan is not and ... "new" ideas may have worked early on and as late as pre-Surge 2009, but that does not mean that they will now work giving the existing ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments