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Author(s):  SWJ Editors Teaser:  The Royal United Services Institute and the author have kindly gra ...

Blog post - Jun 25 2008 - 4:24pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Hazing is Simply Intolerable

... towards the end. He arrived at the COP physically unprepared and it was brought up, yet he was kept there. He would have been ... another body to them. He was sent as a replacement. He was unprepared. Good grief this kid was 6 foot 3. He was trained in basic hand ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

Reflections from the Valley’s Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban

... ground development officials, policymakers and soldiers unprepared for the task of counterinsurgency? All of our institutions ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

This Week at War: Losing Faith

... proves this point. Those who argue that we have been unprepared with adequate ground forces at the start of major wars such as WWI ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks

... it would be criminal to allow your unit to go into combat unprepared. * Oil and vinegar: sometimes the leader is not toxic but just ... about their troops welfare but will push taskings on their unprepared and unqualified soldiers because the NCO wanted to take a helicoptor ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2011 - 7:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

10 November SWJ Roundup

... May Spill Over - NYT Experts: State Dept. Unprepared to Oversee Contracting in Iraq - FT UN Envoy to Make New ... United States Experts: State Dept. Unprepared to Oversee Contracting in Iraq - FT Americans Need Proof ...

Blog post - Nov 10 2011 - 7:47am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Talks about Talks – Does Yemen Need More Time?

... because it was peaceful and non-violent; it caught Saleh unprepared.   But despite the non-violent nature of the struggle, ...

Journal Article - May 25 2012 - 5:56am - 0 comments

This Week at War: The Navy's Pacific Problem

... War I, yet despite some initial tactical successes against unprepared opponents they have never succeeded in driving surface fleets from ...

Blog post - Mar 30 2012 - 4:22pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

A Combined Arms Response to "Death of the Armor Corps"

... we examine "The 2006 IDF-Hezbollah War, We Were Caught Unprepared" by Matt Matthews in college classrooms highlights the importance ... foe in southern Lebanon in 2006 -- perhaps partly by being unprepared because of years of constabulary occupation duties -- but say that ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 5:36pm - 78 comments

The Missing Piece in The Saga Of Putin’s Return

... didn’t want to do was to fight in Chechnya. It was unprepared, disorganised and had serious political inhibitions against killing ...

Blog post - Apr 30 2012 - 4:47am - 3 comments - 0 attachments