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... said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Al Qaeda number two guy that ... performed with even moderate intensity over an extended time on an unsuspecting prisoner -- it is torture, without doubt. Couple that ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Women and the Return of the Taliban - Aryn Baker, Time Afghan Women: Fearing a Taliban Future - Alissa Rubin, New ... Threat - Jodi Bieber Photography, Time Re: What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan I know that the title refers to an ...

Blog entry - Jul 31 2010 - 3:58pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... without being able to perform calculus problems in real time, without benefit of computational aids. It does appear to me that appeals ... under which a rational actor model works satisfactorally. What one is left with is an increasingly complex search space for solutions to ...

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

... in tactics bypassing strategy. Today, we are in a time of unprecedented economic, environmental, technological, and political ... violent, and top-down intervention to force reform. 2. What book is MH/CHAOS? I'm not old enough to remember the domestic issues of ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust the policy? As noted widely ... CSTs having a direct or indirect operational impact? Under what conditions and for what missions are they more (or less) useful?  ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... Why would India invade Pakistan in the first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is ... having "full" strategic depth in Afghanistan during the time period of the Kargil War, a conflict occurred between the two. Re: How ...

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

... some horrible leaders. From my vantage point I think it's time to start resetting year groups and/or pushing promotion timelines back ... commanders that believe a chest full of badges determines what kind of Soldier you are. If we have to go through re-certification for ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... to do so. My own approach is to advocating applying what is today the mainstream approach to COIN--the limited force model--only in ... on zapping the bad guys is just a fantasy. It has its time and place, and to be sure Brits and Americans have got pretty good at ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... these threats are nowhere and everywhere at the same time, growing in power and influence while enjoying a sanctuary of status ... or not a U.S. "population-centric" foreign policy (and what that would actually entail: do we give them what we think they want, what ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... '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 friend! ... notions and silver bullets to extricate ourselves from what seems like an unending conflict. The latest great hope is the tribes. The ...

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