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    General Wayne Downing Dies at 67

    General Wayne Downing died today. I regret his passing and I will miss him. He never met me personnaly and he really didn't know me, but he always returned my emails discussing the War in Iraq. He...
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    1914: A Small Peace in a World at War

    It was Christmas Eve, 1914…, World War I… and it was the 5th month of a war that lasted five years. And the French and British and others were on one side, most called themselves Christian, but...
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    Bernard B. Fall

    Thank you very much for posting some of Bernard Fall's material. There still is a lot to learn from his writings and speeches. Another Fall citation can be found at: ...
  4. The People's Army

    Thanks Marc for your thoughts. I would indeed look forward to a round of drinks to sort this out! You can buy the first round, if I can buy the second one?

    I actually do agree with your idea...
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    The Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

    Bernard B. Fall (Professor, author and lecturer, widely known for his writings on the French and American experiences in Vietnam ; he died in Hué, South Vietnam, in 1967, patrolling with U.S....
  6. Now Is The Time For A Unified National Will

    Marc’s (above) comments are interesting and I found a lot to think about in his thoughts. For now I would like to focus on his statement:


    I think this is a miss-reading of the American...
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    Iraq Options (cont)

    First let me say how strongly I feel that the Bush administration has truly, truly, truly “messed it up” in Iraq. I can’t imagine how they could have done a worse job, they really royally fudged it...
  8. Check out LtCol Key's excellent paper:

    Check out LtCol Key's excellent paper:
  9. Unified National Will as an Instrument of National Power

    Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney make the point in their Op-ed (New York Times November 28, 2006, OP-ED) piece that:
    The battlefield in the Vietnam War and in Somalia was not only on the ground...
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    Poll: "...the way we did it in Vietnam."

    Gen Wayne A. Downing (USA, Ret) said to Tim Russert, Rep Duncan Hunter (chairman of the House Armed Services Committee), and Rep Ike Skelton (ranking member, House Armed Services commitee) on the...
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    2006: “Go Big, Go Long or Go Home;” 1967: “All Out, Pull-Out, Pull Back or Stick-i

    The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon has outlined three options and “insiders” have applied three slogans to these options: "Go Big," "Go Long" and "Go Home:"



    The use of diminutive...
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