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... An investigation by " 60 Minutes " to be broadcast this weekend will cite multiple sources that contend some of the most inspiring ... Assistance Force, in an interview at the Pentagon last week. Kolenda was among the first in the military to reach out to ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 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

... 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

... of the post-modern and highly abstract concepts offered in this article help generate some discourse, creative or critical thinking, then ... out and Outlaw- sorry, been out and about this week and not near a computer. Give me a bit to re-engage and I will read ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... 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

... 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

... country's purchase of the U.S.-built Joint Strike Fighter. This outcome is no doubt highly pleasing to the Pentagon. Getting the axe will ... doing any of its own deep bone-cutting. Re: This Week at War: The Biden Plan Returns Saying that an increase in kinetic ops ...

Blog entry - Oct 22 2010 - 6:22pm - 30 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

... While participating in a Commander's briefing in March this year at the Tactical Operations Centres (TOC) on a US military Forward ... exercise. The M16 bullet pierced his lung and artery. A week after the operation Petraeus proved to the doctor he was fit to be ...

Blog entry - Jun 24 2010 - 9:47am - 14 comments - 0 attachments