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The War Over COIN (Updated)

... The War Over COIN by Max Boot at Commentary's Contentions. Boot discusses the ...

Blog entry - Sep 16 2010 - 11:47am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

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 ... the Navy SERE program for the first time since the Vietnam War, we incorporated interrogation and torture techniques from the Middle East, ...

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

Hazing is Simply Intolerable

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... Soldier who enlisted as an infantryman during a time of war to serve the United States, a country that gave this child of hardworking ...

Blog entry - Dec 23 2011 - 12:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

Army, Marine Corps clashing over cammies...

... ... and the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is dead wrong on this one. Lance Bacon ... issues, and there are more pressing issues - there's a war going on! I take issue with what Eric said. Sorry brother but that is a ...

Blog entry - Jun 5 2011 - 3:57pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

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 ... as you term it. I think providing a conflict like the Gulf War and draw comparisions from each side on how they seemed to be thinking. But ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

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 ... unresolved and irresolvable tensions led to the Civil War.” [2]  James McPherson in the conclusion of his book on ...

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

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust ... Unless we want to reinvent the wheel during the next war (something we excel at by the way) we should try to institutionalize what ...

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

How Afghanistan Ends

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... a proper words. Actually they want to avoid a TWO FRONT WAR in future! Re: How Afghanistan Ends I will have to agree with ...

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

The COIN Approach to Mexican Drug Cartels: Square Peg in a Round Hole

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College calls “the COIN fever of our time.” [9]   The ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency

... The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. There are moments that define a war. Just such a one occurred on June 21, when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments