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... Kilcullen (I): Here's What Not to Measure in a COIN Campaign - Tom Ricks at FP's Best Defense. ... (one of my rules when I was an editor was to see if I could cut the first three pages of any long article), Kilcullen's first ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 ... 9/11. And he talked ..." He then speculated that "If you ask Americans whether they think it's okay for us to waterboard in a ...

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

... What Really Happened at Wanat - Kirk Ross, Proceedings . Some press ... only lesson learned. The leaders failed to recognize. If they were real leaders, then they would have quit rather than occupying that ...

Blog entry - Jul 2 2010 - 2:19pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... race, creed, color, sexual orientation or whatever...). If they are not doing that today in over 95% of cases -- and it seems they are ... competent leader has no problems in getting people to do what is required and desired (even if that particular thing is sort of dumb. ...

Blog entry - Dec 23 2011 - 12:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... are used to thinking, and embrace uncertainty for a bit. If any of the post-modern and highly abstract concepts offered in this article ... 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

... the problem.  Small wars are wicked problems.  If we continue to plug and play the latest "new" idea to tame a ... 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

... The rule excluded women from non-combat units or missions if the risks of exposure to direct combat, hostile fire, or capture were equal ... 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

... Is Pakistan a person who will run into the outhouse if the main house is being "invaded"? Why would India invade Pakistan in the first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is ... some place to run, if India attacks them again. You know what happened on 16 December 71, India took her revenge in the shape of ...

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

... Getting it Right: What the 34-day War Has to Teach the US Army by Major Irvin Oliver ... bureaucracy and understandably slow to embrace change, but if anything, it should identify and implement organizational methods for ...

Journal Article - Mar 26 2010 - 7:39pm - 22 comments

... Mexico.  Some COIN principles and practices – what the author calls COIN a la carte – can, however, support the ... middle class. [4]   Mexico has had a stable – if not entirely democratic -- political system since the early 1930s.  Its ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments