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... 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

... 14th weekly contribution to Foreign Policy - This Week at War by Robert Haddick - is now posted. Topics include attacks begin ...

Blog entry - Apr 24 2009 - 8:27pm - 1 comment - 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

... that 'I have no weapons;' so, I won't try to kill you, this time." It seems we are not such an effete culture after all, my Pashtun ... is the mullah. Who will keep the tribes on side? P.S. This week, two Shinwari sub-tribes took up arms to fight each other over an ancient ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... in the short term. That is the first order of business in this war. Our field commander should be judged on what happens in the field. We ... the ground-Gen. P just had a hard time with that one last week. AND what about the US Amb. E's leaked Secret Cable just before the ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 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

... you made the unnecessary swipe at the USAF. Reference this line: "To do otherwise risks making the Armor branch the Armys equivalent ... gentlemen) to peace keeping/occupation duties within a week of being committed to combat (the left side). Transitions that were ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... Warfare Center and School (Airborne). The comments in this article are the author's own and do not constitute the position of ... are now at a level of 14-20 Working Group meetings per week---think that helps staff processes---in addition to WGs we now have group ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... 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

... or led to charges of undue command influence, etc.) This policy could be (and was) portrayed as a "coverup". Most of what's ... at the Abu Ghraib prison - we offer up this link to last week's BBC interview with England. Re: Torture at The Library of Congress ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2009 - 1:00pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments