Sorry I have been off the net for a month…

I have been very busy travelling, teaching workshops and lecturing. I have been very blessed. I have posted some new items of interest. Don

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No One Cares

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/no_one_cares_20100503/ Posted on May 3, 2010 By Chris Hedges We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands of our own [...]

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All you never wanted to know about counter insurgency and the American military mindset

The following spaghetti diagram has been making the round of Versailles … it purports to summarize the strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the Afghans.  But this is just the tip of the systems dynamics iceberg.  This diagram is based on an attempt to model the non linear feedbacks implied in General Petraeus’s [...]

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Politicans are more dangerous than Terrorists

Politicians: Far More Dangerous than Terrorists   Written by Becky Akers    Wednesday, 12 May 2010   So the dictatorial Attorney General of a dictatorial administration has opined that keeping the homeland secure requires “ modifying” the Miranda warning read to criminal suspects (“You have the right to remain silent…”).His excuse is the usual one: [...]

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Training Revolution from the Association of the United States Army (AUSA)

Today’s Training and Education (Development) Revolution: The Future is Now by Donald E. Vandergriff (Land Warfare Paper No. 76, April 2010)  Discusses the changes the Army is making to its educational system to provide Soldiers with the best tools for success on the battlefield. Today’s highly complex operations have emphasized the importance of quality decisionmaking at junior [...]

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