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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 ... but I am trying to understand where a certain threshold lies. Principles cant be based on one-in-a-million scenarios that may or ...

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

... Small Wars Council in this Army Times piece titled What Lies Beneath . Reports from Iraq are showing that the war-torn country ...

Blog entry - Feb 26 2008 - 5:05pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... exactly U.S. officials decided to confirm Davis's status. What this confirmation will mean for Davis and other U.S. government employees ... realize you might have to look at something other than the lies of Pakistan's political press, but what you stated was utterly false. ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... Counterinsurgency is the military's version of what criminal and social justice systems have been doing for years. Whether ... He was a big joke and known as "tall timber" for the "lies" he told about the trees in Oregon. After the war, on a troop train ...

Blog entry - Jul 18 2010 - 6:08am - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... the implications of a standing Army and worried about what it might do [3] . They demonstrated no such concern for a Navy, for ... and no other task that service to the State. Therein lies the pride of the soldier and the best tradition of the past…. [The ...

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

... a conclusion."6 Regardless, the focus is on the enemy or what the enemy holds most dear." You dont do that by building schools and ... an advisory role to much senior policymakers. And therein lies the rub. There is no unifying strategic vision, or if there is it changes ...

Journal Article - May 9 2011 - 6:49pm - 23 comments

... tools are facilitating Open Source Warfare or what might become known as Wikiwar. Maybe Tom Friedman is right , and that ... US at all. In each case the key to addressing a conflict lies not in calling it OSW but in understanding the unique context and the ...

Blog entry - May 25 2007 - 3:11pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... than a year." ... More at The Times . What is This Thing Called War? - The Economist . Slowly and ... of the second world war. The euphemism now lies buried beneath the rubble of reality. On April 15th the Taliban killed ...

Blog entry - May 3 2010 - 3:48pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... collaboration, the authors have been trying to determine what to make of Hazen's June 2010 International Review of the Red Cross ... the criminality and the violence of the cartels wars still lies the socio-economic reality of poverty and desperation among the lower ...

Journal Article - May 22 2011 - 9:22am - 5 comments