As Ken says for you young'ins Dr. Hook...Cover Of The Rolling Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
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As Ken says for you young'ins Dr. Hook...Cover Of The Rolling Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
The Scottish Poet Robert (Bobby) Burns said it in plain simple English: "It takes no brains, no genius to criticize."
"Pedants will be able to cite exceptions, and thus undermine useful (insightful) theory. Their depredations must be firmly resisted by one simple test: does the theory generally aid understanding of useful military problems? If so, then exceptions are permissible."
J.P. Storr “Human Aspects of Command”
Should've banned amateurs when you had a chance. Now you're going to be owerrun with riff raff.
On a serious note, the most intelligent conversation on the net happens here.
Wilf that's even better than "pop-centric COIN"! I can even picture a few of them sitting at a cafe wearing jaunty berets, sipping Absinthe and Pernod, and drawing on their delicately held Gauloises. ;)
Where did they go? Well, having stepped off into the limelight to now revel in their new pop stardome they seem to have left we of the pragmatic and weathered hoi-polloi to continue to march on.
I love it!
Speaking of COINS the contest I won for the SWC coin motto...how many years ago??? Boots on the ground...Eyes on the People.....Mind on the Mission;)
Where is the COIN?? that is what should be on the cover of RS.
One of my idiot friends put "Time's Person of the Year" under Awards and Distinctions, because Time's Person of the Year a couple years ago was "You" (Facebook, YouTube, etc.)
So a bunch of y'all can say you were person of the year TWICE and now are on RS' Hot List!
Matt
I'm not sure they ever existed or went anywhere! They might still be here! Some dinosaurs became birds. They mostly come at night... mostly
The men who made the US Army understand that war is not just formation level combat operations, against other formations, deserve praise and credit. They are cool.
The "War is changing" and "Clausewitz doesn't apply any more" are the folks I worry about.
It appears as a column on the right side of page 85 with a pic of Somali Pirates.
Hot Intelligence: 'Small Wars Journal'
The Military's New Must Read
Want to know how Obama is going to fight the war in Afghanistan? Then check out Small Wars Journal, an online magazine that provides a crash course on asymmetric warfare. Get schooled in fighting Somali pirates. Find out what Malcolm Nance, a former Navy interrogation instructor, thinks about waterboarding ("a torture technique, Period"). When David Kilcullen, special adviser to Gen. Petraeus, live-blogged the Iraq surge, he did it for SWJ.
Contributions include who's who of the sharpest minds in uniform, regardless of rank. "You're judged purely on the strength of your intellectual argument," says John Nagl, a retired lieutenant colonel who helped write the Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Run by two former Marines, the site is a must-read for military insiders. "We must be doing something right," says co-founder Dave Dilegge, "because we get people calling us Attila the Hun warmongers one day and counterinsurgency-loving tree-huggers the next."
what happened to the photo shoot of Ken and Tom in the speedos??:D
Just more examples of the "MAN" trying to keep Ken and Tom down
Phil Spector jailed for 19 years.
Not sure about this new crowd we're running with. :o
You mean that's NOT Tom on the right :eek::D
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