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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

... Click here to see the latest edition of my column at Foreign Policy . Topics include: 1) Will protecting part of ... losing the rest? 2) Hezbollah captures the Pentagon's war-planning process. Click here to see the ...

Blog entry - Jun 27 2009 - 4:01am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Needless to say, the deployments of U.S. military force this decade have obeyed precious few of these guidelines. Powell wrote his ... their options will watch and learn. Re: This Week at War: The Long Death of the Powell Doctrine With the radical ...

Blog entry - Mar 5 2010 - 4:48pm - 18 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

... 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

... Here is the latest edition of my column at Foreign Policy : Topics include: 1) McChrystal report ... report unwittingly slays counterinsurgency doctrine This summer the U.S. government has faced a deteriorating crisis in ... that America is here for the duration." In this week's essay I have predicted that Obama will abandon a counterinsurgency ...

Blog entry - Sep 25 2009 - 4:59pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... Congress did what the military establishment would not. This legislation provided unity of command and control for Special Operations ... appeared in the blogsite Small Wars Journal just this week and another post on a separate site that was influenced by the SWJ post, ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 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

... 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