The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Waging Peace By Leah Bolger, WarIsACrime.org Pauling Lecture, Oregon State University, Power Point Good evening. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak with you this evening—it is such a pleasure to be here. When I received the letter from Professor Clinton congratulating me on being nominated as the 30th person to …
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Most readers of this list should be familiar with the name, if not the ideas, of the late American strategist Col John R. Boyd (USAF ret). Boyd was my mentor and closest friend, and I am deeply indebted to him for the knowledge he so generously bestowed on me. While no short essay can capture …
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How to Read Afghanistan By VANESSA M. GEZARI New York Times, August 10, 2013 ON a sunny, crisp November day in 2008, three American civilians joined a platoon of United States soldiers on a foot patrol in Maiwand District, a flat, yellow patch of earth crowned by black-rock mountains in southern Afghanistan. The civilians were …
(1) Anybody else think this sounds like Sovs’ Patrice Lumumba University of another decade?; (2) totally unsurprising; to use WWII terminology, development of an Iranian “fifth column” in Latin America, an organization that has the capability to fulfill roles similar to the “underground” and “auxiliary” in a doctrinal US-sponsored insurgency; (3) might also be unsurprising to find Iran …
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There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal. At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe. If you think Army leadership is an island of …
Understanding Afghan Insurgents – Motivations, Goals, and the Reconciliation and Reintegration Process Who Are They? What Do They Want? Why Do They Fight? This paper presents the results of 78 in-depth interviews conducted with self-identified Afghan insurgents. If the interviewees are indeed representative of broader Taliban sentiments, then the future of Afghanistan is grim. It …
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15 searches for this phrase today. It’s really three completely different concepts: 01 21st Century war at sea (submarine, surface, air, and electromagnetic) 02 21st Century sea control (special focus on non-state maritime actors) 03 21st Century maritime environment (Arctic, rising sea level, pollution, fisheries, minerals, role of the ocean as source for desalinated water, …
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