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... I'm also honest enough to realize that this will have consequences - one of which is that the response to a doctrine of total warfare ... of an action. Since everyone admits there are unintended consequences to just about every action, many have come to doubt the ...

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

... monologues raise some serious concerns about possible unintended consequences resulting from Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars . ...

Blog entry - Sep 30 2010 - 5:39am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... some of my recollections oon the sort of allied subject of unintended consequences and their lingering effects. The Brigade structures he referenced ...

Blog entry - Feb 13 2009 - 3:59pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... sometimes, Islamic groups ... could lead to unpleasant consequences," the SARA official stated Prominent clerics among ... Neither was it planned or organized by anyone. It was an unintended consequence of a long string of generally duplicitous and inept ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments

... "my country right or wrong, my country." There are consequences for such actions, and the consequence was a long war protecting a ... fire power to deal with the NVA we created a lot of unintended consequences that isolated us from the populace, but if we focused ...

Blog entry - Apr 9 2011 - 5:48pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... enabler of despots, and that is a role that has greater consequences in today's globalized world than it had in centuries past. We ... it openly and proclaiming it as policy might generate an unintended consequence or two. I'm also not convinced that lecturing or ...

Blog entry - Jun 13 2010 - 7:00am - 69 comments - 0 attachments

... Mr. Yon mentioned the girl because he wanted to give the consequences of our decisions a human face. It may not matter to the big ... people of France were nominally liberated was almost an unintended byproduct -- the liberation of the French people was far from the ...

Blog entry - Jun 20 2011 - 7:46am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

... also aware that words are important; their misuse can have unintended consequences. It has also been my observation that most "civil-military ...

Journal Article - Dec 16 2011 - 4:42am - 15 comments

... Yet it is the US that must front the world to explain the consequences of the current interpretation and implementation of COIN in ... of one's engagement; quick to disavow ownership of any unintended consequences; and equally quick to brag after the fact to anyone who ...

Blog entry - Jun 5 2011 - 9:58am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

... is the step that must be taken; however, the intended and unintended consequences of this decision can be costly. We don't discuss it much, but the ...

Blog entry - Oct 26 2009 - 8:49am - 57 comments - 0 attachments