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... Stories: CBS 60 Minutes, 17 April 2011 Hat tip to Galrahn at Information Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the ... - CAI Update 8 Stranger than Fiction: What We're Really Losing with Greg Mortenson's Fall by Joshua Foust, PBS. ...

Blog post - Apr 18 2011 - 8:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... like the Naval Post Graduate School instead of MIT in what is a very short term cost saving measure.   We limit their ...

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

... for our military and for our country. I'm also pleased to nominate General David Petraeus to take command in Afghanistan, which will ... ability to explain counterinsurgency, to explain what interests are at stake and to explain the possibility of success and the ...

Blog post - Jun 24 2010 - 5:35am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges by Joshua Thiel Download The Full ... military personnel to analyze insurgencies are governed by what is known as the 10 to 1 ratio or expenditure ratio, the minimum ...

Journal Article - Jan 15 2011 - 8:33am - 25 comments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Ben Kohlmann offers a lengthy rebuttal to his critics. Ben Kohlmann posted a ... know so we can send them our complaints to them. Ben asks what types of conflicts we are more likely to get into over the next few ...

Blog post - May 2 2012 - 5:06pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... a letter penned by then-Captain Ron Keys in the late 1970s to General Wilbur Creech, Tactical Air Command commander.  The below is ... and exposes slapdash discipline and poor process for what it is. I don't think anyone deliberately degrades their combat skills, but ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... in Malaya Click here to skip to comments. At a RAND Symposium on counter-insurgency held ... right – the British recognised the problem for what it was and never became obsessed with Communism in the way that the ...

Journal Article - Apr 16 2012 - 4:44am - 23 comments

... Rich Outzen makes a plea for a transformational approach to promoting language skills in the force.  Is it possible to turn the ... Spoken language so thoroughly permeates how and what people think that it is folly to learn subsets of those ... capability as a core war-fighting function, we will not make a dent in operationally-ready language and LPK in the force.  Until ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How ... Why would India invade Pakistan in the first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments