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Yea, Right

... at the mosque.... Sure, that's the ticket. Re: Yea, Right Iran's Majlis Speaker Haddad-Adel has called for a thorough probe ...

Blog post - Apr 13 2008 - 11:14am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

General McChrystal Recalled (Updated)

... -- Daily Telegraph "General McChrystal has a right to his personal political views. They are his, and his alone. When they ... look how is Hezbollah spreading terror in Lebanon ." Uh yea, they have terrorrized themselves into cabinetpositions in one of the few ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

COIN – Now we see that it failed. But that was obvious before we started (when will we learn?)

... can't be used. It will be much harder to get small wars right if we stamp our feet and refuse to think about them anymore. Better to ... When you look through the article you see a bunch of "yea, but(s)". Yea but the Philippines was an exception. Yea but Malaya was ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 8:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory

... is basic Green beret stuff I learned over 30 years ago, yea they got cell phones and laptops, and they can google and tweedier and ... Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz it is Left and Right of the Boom if I recall. Anonymous, ya lost me. That's what I get ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 10:53am - 67 comments

Deconstructing Galula

... we are doing what we are doing in Afghanistan...not saying right or wrong...this is what the law says. Hence, this is maybe one reason ... responded with the classic rhetorical diversion, the old "Yea! Well what about this other thing?" We aren't talking about the other ...

Blog post - Jun 5 2011 - 10:58am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare on the Korean Peninsula

... but what happens next? How much time will we have to get right before the problem becomes intractable? Are we really ready? If we ... be experts regarding the Sri Lanka /LTTE conflict, "we'll yea they won, but they didn't do it right", so in their minds a forever war ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 8:17pm - 54 comments

Understanding the Human Terrain: Key to Success in Afghanistan

... diagram for Baghdad in 2006 I would have drawn the line right across the middle of the rectangle, dividing it in half. The people had ... the comments by our community of interest and practice. Yea, I knew this article was a free advertisement and thought about whether I ...

Blog post - Jul 16 2010 - 3:19am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Beyond FM 3-24

... on sound strategy supporting good and clear policy and the right tools (CIA, SOF, GPF, interagency) were employed in the right combination ... mention more Iranian influence than ever. Turned around? Yea it turned around from somewhat stable chaos under a madman to unstable ...

Journal Article - Dec 17 2010 - 9:57pm - 38 comments

Strategy for Military Counter Drug Operations

... that this or that policy, if only employed now by the right person or for the right period of time, would work. Ultimately, as ... Drugs beget crime and that is a fact." by Chet Yea,I have been to quite a few low income,drug infested neighborhoods. Put my ...

Journal Article - Jan 24 2011 - 8:40am - 37 comments

COIN- A Culture of Entitlement?

... successful COIN forces don’t do just a few things right, they do lots of things right, simultaneously.  Good COIN practices ... and should have been disproven in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yea, maybe 70% of the Iraqis who were insurgents in his district were ...

Journal Article - Dec 20 2011 - 5:36pm - 12 comments