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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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... U.S. officials decided to confirm Davis's status. What this confirmation will mean for Davis and other U.S. government employees in ... vehicle carrying Raymond Davis to a hearing in Lahore last week. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP The western spy of the Hollywood thriller ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 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

... fight a war? Recruit a civilian, not a soldier Last week, the Washington Post 's David Ignatius discussed how the line ... larger and far more significant change that continues to this day. In order to survive and compete against the military power enjoyed by ...

Blog entry - Jun 10 2011 - 5:40pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... won by better counterinsurgency tactics and operations. This is the basic nugget of an idea that had a snowball effect; in the 1980s ... with their ANSF counterpart the majority of the day/week in-country (just make sure they are the right people and that they are ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... for a NATO helicopter attack on a Pakistani border outpost this week, Pakistan has closed the Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan to ...

Blog entry - Oct 1 2010 - 6:36pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments