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... like the Naval Post Graduate School instead of MIT in what is a very short term cost saving measure.   We limit their ... College, I attended class with Naval Officers from Yemen, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Japan and Israel. I also had civilians in my courses ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... What Sri Lanka Can Teach Us About COIN by Lionel Beehner Download the ...

Journal Article - Aug 27 2010 - 7:05am - 14 comments

... as he wrote in his 1987 doctoral dissertation, "what policymakers believe to have taken place in any particular case is what ... brutalized their way to victory under a media free zone (Sri Lanka). Can you imagine the US-NATO forces being permitted by global public ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... notions and silver bullets to extricate ourselves from what seems like an unending conflict. The latest great hope is the tribes. The ... commitment in Afghanistan is better than the commitment in Sri Lanka, because that was terrible. But I would go as far as predicting ...

Blog post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... the conventional army will accept this mission to meet what I expect to be a continuing and increasing demand, but that remains to be ... support from the international community. The Govt of Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE with little regard for civilians, media, ...

Journal Article - Feb 6 2012 - 4:22am - 38 comments

... right: "...the real questions we need to look at are what technical skills do we need to replinish, how long will it take to rebuild ... problem. Lower down the power scale - Nepal and Sri Lanka field armies whose only job is COIN / internal security. Basically, ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 7:59am - 65 comments

... intellectual tool. “These principles can provide what Colonel Charles A. Hines describes as ‘military planning ... Of course relatively recently we witnessed the victory of Sri Lanka over the LTTE through decisive battle, so I am not dismissing the ...

Journal Article - Jan 4 2012 - 4:25am - 14 comments

... security outcomes." The joint community embraced what the Air Force was selling and EBO began its proliferation across the ... like this." "They touched this part of the elephant in Sri Lanka in 2010 so it looks like this." And so forth. There also (to ...

Journal Article - Sep 20 2010 - 7:23pm - 32 comments

... good points. There were many concerns from all involved on what would be the way forward once the current BSO took over. Our partners ... those basic tribal instincts. The same approach worked in Sri Lanka with Tamil Tiger Commanders. I used to do be a doorman and big ...

Journal Article - Jul 22 2010 - 5:04pm - 17 comments

... particularly poignant right now with the US contemplating what will happen in Iraq, offensives against the Taliban and Al Qaeda seemingly ... of the West. It still amazes me how critical we are of Sri Lanka's methods, some even claiming they won the wrong way, while we cling ...

Journal Article - Sep 18 2011 - 7:10am - 14 comments