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The War Over COIN (Updated)

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

Blog post - Sep 16 2010 - 12:47pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... in ventures like a joint Harvard Business School/Naval War College degree program.   Yet, in reality, the very word ...

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

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 post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. After eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 58 comments

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 post - Jun 5 2011 - 4:57pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... or subordinate, but we’ve clearly forgotten that over the last decade. We’ve bent over backwards to prove that we’re ... thread and irrelevant to the point. In that same Korean war, attempts at 'Strategic Bombing' wer broadly ineffective and UN air ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... thinkers of this ilk that flow into the Army in times of war and make the warfighting force tremendously successful, but who largely ...

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

Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... Separatism, and Resistance).  Insurgencies range from war to civil emergency and often occur in a blend of types, or morph over ...

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

Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... utterly incoherent manner driven by the electorate’s war weariness and the nation’s broken budget . The correct ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments