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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 ... is defiant. Are we —to trade our nation's soul for tactical intelligence? Is There a Place for the Waterboard? Yes. ...

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

... The Tactical Excuse By Mike Innes (Cross-Post with CT Lab ) Two posts ...

Blog entry - Jun 11 2009 - 5:52pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust ... conduct information gathering, female searches and limited tactical operations. Similarly, Cultural Support Teams (CST), such as the one ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... suggest that the Sandinistats policies were not just tactical responses to outside aggression but reflections of their deep ...

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

... The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD by Jimmy A. Gomez ... F3EAD enables the dynamic tasking process required at Tactical targeting level in support of Full Spectrum Operations. Currently, ... (or being responsible for thinking poorly...) is a minor excuse -- but it's still just an excuse. Doctrine is not the problem. ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... and sergeants had directly observed a "toxic" leader in the last year and that about 20 percent of the respondents said that they had ... procedures or recertification of technical & tactical competence. None of these really apply as the central problem with ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ... absence of illegal political action. Violence is merely a tactical choice. What one might want to pause and ponder is whether or ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... The claims about COIN were obviously false when made, disproved by both history ... from higher is misguided. The part of the mission that the tactical unit/individual executes seems to be what you're referring to. If ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... as a Whole of Government Approach: Notes on the British Army Field Manual Weltanschauung An Interview with ... insurgency -- or other state/societal difficulty -- as an excuse/a reason/a justification for intervening in the affairs of other states, ... lesson No.1 from Vietnam was not to plot action against tactical objective unless its backdrop is fully appreciated. Yet, once again, ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... The Death of the Armor Corps by Colonel Gian P. Gentile ... as opposed to the more ethereal and subjective art of tactical employment. Still , he's correct -- if Armor is not up to its own ... full-spectrum fire support skills. How many DIVARTY (excuse me, Fires Brigade) staffs have planned and conducted large scale ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments