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... The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing " The Way Ahead in Afghanistan " featuring witnesses General John Keane USA (ret.), ...

Blog entry - Jul 31 2011 - 12:04am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... Killing Your Way to Control by William F. Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ...

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

... Challenges Ahead in the Middle East by A. Lawrence Chickering Download the Full ... of the trappings of their present, more-traditional way-of-life and to adopt the more-modern way-of-life of we foreigners. This ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:18pm - 36 comments

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... is a torture technique. Period. There is no way to gloss over it or sugarcoat it. It has no justification outside of its ... they represent a code of behavior that is leaps and bounds ahead of most of our enemies. Remember the Navy SEAL who just received ...

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

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... allowed to exist in what are purported to be the preferred way to recruit and inculcate military values in officer aspirants, how can ...

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

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust ... naive. This is politically-charged and framed in the same way as the gay debate was framed: you are a bigot if you are against this. ...

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 ... for a smaller follow-on military force to pave the way for a long-term advisory and assistance effort. Download the Full ...

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

... The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD by Jimmy A. Gomez ... the people and understanding WHY they are functioning the way they are is vastly more important (and much harder to understand) than ...

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 ... elsewhere, which will be good for the Army all the way around. I wonder if poor decision making is a nice way of labeling ...

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

... Guest post by Robert C. Jones: The Department of State focuses on governments.  The Department of Defense ... power: cutting deals with the powers that be who lean our way while sending a broad message to the world that we support the spread of ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments