I am also proud to say that George Wilson, the dean of defense reporting and friend, has written the very insightful piece below that explains how American exceplionalism has gotten us into committments that are bankrupting. The only ones who don’t think so are inside the beltway.
Don
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War without End
Posted in Strategy, tagged 4th Generation Warfare, COIN, Congress and Defense, George Wilson, Obama and Defense on June 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
My week at West Point, fantastic!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was invited by COL Casey Haskins to observe application of Outcomes Based Training and Education (OBT&E), Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM) and the Combat Application Training Course (CATC) in the field environment during Cadet Summer Training (CST).
The summer training was the first full implementation of OBT&E, in which ALM and CATC falls under as [...]
Stop Letting Cheney Frame the Torture Debate
Posted in Boyd, Strategy, Uncategorized, tagged 4th Generation Warfare, Boyd's Three levels of war, Dick Cheney, Moral being the strongest level of war, William S. Lind on June 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Military Reformer William S. Lind (not to be confused with the anti-reformer Raytheon lobbyist now ensconced in the Pentagon as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, William J. Lynn) has written an excellent piece of advice for President Obama. While one might want to quibble with whether some of the people now incarcerated in Guantanamo should [...]
The Border Cartels Challenge Obama By Carlton Meyer Apr/21/2009
Posted in Strategy, tagged 4th Generation Warfare at home, Border Wars, Carlton Meyer, G2mil.com, How to stop the drug cartels on June 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A good but true article written by Marine Carlton Meyer, who is another truth teller with brains! Carlton has a great web site called G2mil.com (free access to many great articles). Carlton is writing about what should be done to the drug war waging across our southern borders. At heart of his article is leadership [...]
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