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... Most notable was his intention to extract 10,000 soldiers this year and 23,000 more by next summer, before the height of Afghanistan's ... and innovation remains to be seen. Re: This Week at War: End of the COIN Era? My first thought on the number was: Is ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture ...

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

... Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks This should be good for discussion. Leadership has indeed suffered and we ... in that capacity because I was running a business 7 days a week. But frankly, life was easy back then. Cannot fathom how anybody stays ...

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

... bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, are only getting worse. This week, the Obama administration announced it would withhold $800 million in ...

Blog entry - Jul 15 2011 - 4:34pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

... 11th weekly contribution to Foreign Policy - This Week at War by Robert Haddick - is now posted. Topics include - Plan for two ...

Blog entry - Apr 3 2009 - 6:50pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Not to be outdone, The Economist that same week castigated Angela Merkel’s “pigheaded brinkmanship” and ... than either Britain or France. In the past ten years, this predominance has already been reflected in EU institutions, both ...

Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments

... for the third in response to September 11, 2001. To turn this operational failure around, the U.S. military instrument of power should ... have anything more on this recent report from Aviation Week; From Aviation Week (courtesy of Tigerhawk): Chinese advisers are ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments

... Not Working in Afghanistan, Criti The premise of this criticism is false: "There are alternatives'' to the current strategy, ... the ANA/ANP: We deployed a kandak to RC-S in about a week in order to meet a short-notice change in the operational requirements. ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... on the Web. The criminal and unauthorized manner in which this massive volume of documents was leaked has only helped to further ... are Brutal For more comment see: This Week at War: War Is Hell. COIN Is Worse What will the war on terror look like ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments

... more. The Army has become decidedly infantry centric. This wouldn't be so bad if it was a fighting kind of infantry centered army. ... days on the Bradley (I think it was snowing at Knox that week) but it was widely understood that if you knew the capabilities of your ...

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