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My column at Foreign Policy wonders what the possible unraveling of the European Union might mean for NATO. Also, the Pentagon takes a Mulligan on the 2010 QDR -- and will likely deliver a better product on the second try.
Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham ; foreword by Stanley McChrystal.
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The military has institutionalized lessons learned from the past decade of nonconventional warfare and will work to maintain doctrine and skills that allow the services to balance readiness for traditional defenses as well as irregular fighting, service leaders told a congressional committee today.
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Two years after setting the new standard in war combat documentaries with its Emmy-winning masterpiece WWII in HD, HISTORY shifts its focus to a different generation and to one of the most controversial wars in American history.
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The Pentagon killed the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program. But a Marine Corps strategist has come up with its replacement - a robot.
Doctrine Man, Doctrine Man, spits out the comics no one can. Doctrine Man, Doctrine Man, saves the world without a plan!!
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An Open Letter to All Marines: A Response to Lieutenant General Robert B. Neller by Major Gregory A. Thiele, Marine Corps Gazette.
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As the specter of serve budget reductions become reality, leaders at all levels will face tough choices; what to keep, what must go, what to cut back--what will and will not get done.
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My Foreign Policy column wonders whether recent cross-border raids by Turkey and Kenya will solve anything. Meanwhile a new critique of the Pentagon's forecasting habits focuses too much on machines and not enough on people.
Paul Wolfowitz and Michael O'Hanlon believe Colombia could be a model for Afghanistan. I agree -- not least because that idea appeared here and at 'The American' almost two years ago.
Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth: Britain and Irregular Warfare in the Past, Present, and Future and Mexico's "Narco-Refugees": The Looming Challenge for U.S. National Security
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Catch-22: Is the Novel Still Relevant to Modern Soldiers? By Virginia Brown of BBC News Magazine.
Mexico’s Drug War by Tim Noonan, Yahoo 7 News, Australia, video report.
Political sensitivities kept U.S. ground forces out of the Libyan war. It appears that Qatar, punching far above its weight, executed a classic unconventional warfare campaign in Libya.
Sometimes, despite our best intentions and desire to help, a strategy of non-military intervention might be in the best interest of our National Security Policy