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Three Cups of BS? (Updates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

... Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times ( Investigation throws 'Three Cups of Tea' author ... Mortenson's books are the foundation upon which the small war's principle of treating people with respect and courtesy rests. That is a ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 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

The Rising Dominance of the Information Revolution within RMA Thought

... The Rising Dominance of the Information Revolution within RMA Thought ... Revolution most radically redefined the western way of war. In War Made New , Max Boot masterfully addresses the phenomenon of ...

Journal Article - Oct 12 2010 - 11:56am - 7 comments

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

COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges

... COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges by Joshua Thiel Download The ... method for conventional planning; it helps turn the fog of war into black and white numbers that end-state minded Americans like and ...

Journal Article - Jan 15 2011 - 7:33am - 25 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

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

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 Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD

... The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD by Jimmy A. Gomez ... managed by the Operations Officer (Movement and Maneuver War Fighting Function) and is facilitated, synchronized and implemented by the ...

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