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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... at your mercy. Furthermore, killing your enemy leads to winning the war. In the vast majority of circumstances, waterboarding does not. ...

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

... Fighting for a Narrative: A Campaign Assessment of the US-led Coalition's Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan ... have to be applied." We cannot use a powerful argument in winning over the people, an argument that all know to be true because ...

Journal Article - Sep 12 2010 - 2:53pm - 3 comments

... The National Review On-Line recently posted an interview with LtGen James ... He is working on his third book about the war. Re: Winning the Narrative "Mufsidoon" "al-Hiraba" "hirab" "munafiquun" ...

Blog entry - Jul 17 2007 - 5:17am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... they wouldn't give up AQ. They perceive themselves to be winning. AQ has helped them in their efforts and are ideological soulmates. ...

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

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... the population from the “insurgents” and winning them over to the government’s cause -- would be a classic example ...

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

... and Design: How Analogies and Design Theory Resist the Military Ritual of Codification by Ben Zweibelson Download ... "science" and in the frame of sending men to the moon or winning the greatest war ever fought (WW II) with machines. These (among other ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments

... It's the Tribes? That's Stupid. - Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Army ... The tribes are most likely to join you only when you are winning and the can get in on the booty. They are first to quit. In fact, ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... Gian Gentile by Octavian Manea Download the Full Article : An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile I've ... The population tends to support those they think are winning and will win (close to the same, but not quite, there is a temporal ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . ... that people in certain foreign lands (inspite of our winning of the Cold War): (1) do not wish to be transformed by the United ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political anthropologist/COIN guru is at ... the machine of revolution isn't MORE important than winning HAM? What if HAM is only important if it can help us find the ...

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