Professor Ross is able take an enormous amount of information, show how it is related and/or connected, and present it in a very comprehensible manner. Absorbing the volume of what he presents is...
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Professor Ross is able take an enormous amount of information, show how it is related and/or connected, and present it in a very comprehensible manner. Absorbing the volume of what he presents is...
" Iraq unfortunately is caught in the middle between these two countries as it often has been since 2003 and has little say in matters."
Apparently neither does the Congress or most anyone else.
20th Century Fox was ahead on this topic. In 1953 they released the movie, Destination Gobi starring Richard Widmark. The studio's press release mentions a Navy publication titled "Saddles for Gobi"....
Notice the quote in the editor's column on the left: "A Professional leader doesn't grow new followers, they grow leaders".
Wish I had that posted on my locker when I was working at MCRD San Diego...
After seven years.
If a message then to whom, for what?
Also, credit to the translator.
The current issue (10/17) of the Marine Corps Gazette has an article pertinent to the West Point study. The Godfather Doctrine by LtCol. Douglas Luccio calls for more organized and committed...
There might be a clue to the USA response to drone defense in some previous posts: http://hacking4defense.stanford.edu/
Warriors and Citizens
by General Jim Mattis, Kori Schakevia Books by Hoover Fellows
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Fifteen prominent experts on civil-military relations analyze data from the largest...
Col. Grau's articles on the Russian's in Afghanistan are an excellent way to start. They are referenced in the Georgia Tech paper.
JHR
Bet the donkey knows it isn't supposed to be carrying the handler's pack in addition to its normal load and is protesting the only way it knows how.
JHR:
"It is not the facts but the relation of things that results in the universal harmony." Robert Persig
You bike fans proabably recognize the source.
JHR
Steve Coll's comments were similar to Mr. Tankel's. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/
JHR
In the 1970's the British listed Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship as one of the PME books for COIN or whatever we called it that day. Probably still applies but don't read it in public, people will...
Base on the various comments and observations above, sounds like we need to assign Brook's' The Mythical Man-Month an FM or put it on the reading list.
A friend of mine whose father was retired Gen. McNinney (USMC) told me his father told him, "a moving foxhole attracts attention".
John McPhee's To Catch a Ship has some good material on pirates as well as shipping and maritime in general. It is somewhat dated, though much of what goes on at sea seems to have gone on forever....
Anybody know anythong about the history and demise of the USMC's "Flying Sgts."?
Properly done, the USMC is not just right of passage but also resocialization, at least for most. Count the bumper stickers and window decals for further proof.
JHR
Making Marines, circa 1780's
“The first thing to be taken care of in the disciplining of men, is to dress them, to teach them the air of a soldier, and to drive out the clown”
Lt. J. MacIntire,...
For a good read, lots of detail and entertaining, try Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters. He was an officer in the 4th Gurkas in that period. The bio is nothing like his novels, thank goodness. It...
Don't forget the early SAS with Land Rovers and reused aircraft MGs. At night they even managed to infiltrate German convoys and enter bases. A few explosives and the base thought it was an air raid....
In First Division Interrogatin School in 1963 we were taught that not only was torture illegal, it was also a waste of time and generated bad info.
JHR
Might this also be construed as the internal parties seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and trying to maximize their share?
JHR
And the bigger a business gets, the more acts like the government previously describe.
JHR