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The key to understanding "transformation" in the Canadian sense is that it was never intended to produce increased combat power or readiness. It was designed to kick out ad hoc battle groups for...

I've spent just over three years in Iraq as a security contractor and have read Scahill's book. My critical observations are he complains about Black Water's revenues without considering expenses, he...

I noticed both here in Iraq and Afghanistan several flaws in the creation of local forces. The first was the failure to build a local leaders cadre first. In both campaigns we'd have been better off...

This is a bit off topic but I wonder if Mr. Kilcullen could pass on to his boss that the PSCs in Iraq are on his side. Not a week goes by in which we don't have to scramble to adjust to the latest...

The Kurds I've met are all from the larger cities so I can't speak to rural concerns. It's not all roses:growing inflation, a growing wealth gap, violence in Kirkuk and Mosul (both in or out of...

Any Iraqi opinion poll should seperate Kurdistan and the rest of the country. I've been kicking around Iraq for nearly three years and spend quite a bit of time chatting with the locals. Below are my...

The so called 'decades of darkness" were the response of both Conservative and Liberal governments to the demise of Canada's only convenetional threat, the USSR. Given the realities of government...