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SWJED
07-27-2007, 10:47 AM
Iraq: Resolving the Coercion/Intelligence Dilemma (http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2007/07/iraq-resolving-coercionintelligence.html) – TigerHawk (H/T Wretchard at The Belmont Club)

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Coercion (http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/07/coercion.html) – The Belmont Club...


Who knew that Tigerhawk wrote his undergraduate thesis in counterinsurgency? Back in 1983 he foresaw that the indiscriminate application of terror -- such al-Qaeda has been engaged in would swing the intelligence advantage to the side which was discriminating in its application of coercion...