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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... influence in the German Way of War. You touched upon winning the Medal of Honor – not a good idea at this time. This is eccentric ...

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

... 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 post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Here is the latest edition of my column at Foreign Policy : Topics include: ... Pakistan's main objective in the conflict. With its winning position, Pakistan's current task is to arrange a stable end-state that ...

Blog post - Jul 30 2010 - 6:12pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. After eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability ... may be of interest and perhaps even of help to you: Winning the War in Afghanistan ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 59 comments

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... as the Army. We’re all hooah, nation building, and winning hearts and minds. Last I checked, infantry wasn’t an AFSC, and ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... Winning Today's Hybrid Warfare ( SWJ Book Review) by Frank J. ... of his lengthy intellectual and foreign treks into the bowels of human conflict. These travels have taken him to the jungles of ... ground breaking and comprehensive at all three levels of war... Winning Today's Hybrid Warfare (Full PDF Article) ...

Journal Article - Mar 27 2009 - 7:00am - 1 comment

... Military Metrics: How Do We Know When We're Winning (or Losing) a War? by Ethan B. Kapstein Download the Full Article: Military Metrics How do governments know whether ...

Journal Article - Jul 6 2011 - 1:21pm - 6 comments

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... matter, not governmental intent. #10:  “Winning” : Not preserving some regime or defeating some threat, but ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... the history books as a "win" for government. But what is "winning" in such situations? Is winning when the government prevails? Is ...

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

... we focus more on creating ink spots and less on defeating the Taliban? Success in Afghanistan is not and ... Taliban blend into. Consequently the battle and maybe war winning advantage that we had in 2001 has been lost to our adversaries. Our ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments