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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

... Remains were recovered over several days during the past week and were flown to Dover Air Force Base, Del., for scientific ... Re: Captain Michael Scott Speicher I've followed this story, with all its twists, since I got home from Desert Storm. I'm glad ...

Blog entry - Aug 2 2009 - 3:33pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a ... been other times when I agreed with their judgment (last week there was an angry, personal attack against Bob Cassidy and they removed ...

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

... to wrest a strategic area from insurgent forces, in this case the Taliban, and win the "hearts and minds" of the local people. In a ... failure. Captain Kendall's paper published earlier this week in SWJ on Ghazni or Captain James Few's case study of Zaganiyah in 2008 ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... This week's SWJ contribution to Foreign Policy - This Week at War by ...

Blog entry - May 29 2009 - 4:31pm - 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

... what impact would growth and compound interest have upon this aggregate figure?  Where does the figure resulting from our calculation ... levels and our (US) usual "blow in on the cheap" with an 6 week initial training program and no field training and evaluation program type ...

Journal Article - Jun 12 2011 - 10:44am - 49 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

... he was ordered instead to return to Afghanistan later this year to work on tribal issues... More at The Washington Post ... To any interested party, Making the rounds this week, talking with a lot of smart folks in the DC area and without getting into ...

Blog entry - Jan 17 2010 - 4:59am - 46 comments - 0 attachments