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http://books.google.com/books?id=y_s6_k8ngccC&printsec=frontcover

"Portrait of the Israeli Soldier", by Reuven Gal

Not American, but similar to the "American Soldier" study following WWII. ...

I think your take on the ISI is well placed. I think the Pak govt serves at the pleasure of the army, while the ISI upholds the agenda of the "true believers", while allowing the govt and army...

...this is just about a perfect series of ops. A tactical action that has operational and potentially strategic effect. The MSR is closed, as Cavguy mentioned, the numbers are significant, and we...

My recently departed CoC only allowed informational and self-agrandizing articles.

The greater frustration was after having good discussions in private with others who could change training for...

Schmedlap, here are a few I found. I keep bumping the book down my to read list, but now I think I will crack it open.

http://www.d-n-i.net/dni_reviews/the_utility_of_force.htm
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While the second part of your statement quoted above is correct, the first part is a supposition. I would agree that it is a logical one but one cannot know where a tipping point is for another. ...

The problem is that despite our success we are not inflicting a prohibitive amount of casualties. We are not impacting the movement by killing scores of young zealots. Other movements, some related...

Playing global whack-a-mole is not the path to success. If we focus on one area then AQ central would shift their support to another franchise (i.e. AQ in the Mahgreb, Horn of Africa, etc.)

We...