Ok Guys I have been off the SWJ forum grid for a while due to an OCONUS NDA, but this paper Countering ISIL’s Ideology: Keep It Limited, Focused, and in Tune with Lessons Learned made me come out of...
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Ok Guys I have been off the SWJ forum grid for a while due to an OCONUS NDA, but this paper Countering ISIL’s Ideology: Keep It Limited, Focused, and in Tune with Lessons Learned made me come out of...
Sorry I am late to your request. PM me I have LOTS of information from research on my last book.
Now I am the one blowing coffee out though my nose! :D
Fully agree with both of these statements. Deny them legitimacy, but, how to wean them completely out of their Islamic support base, as their piety has many admirers? Well, over here in the Gulf...
Fascinating discussion. I am not sure how accurate that suggestion is about all EFPs in Iraq being Iranian. I have imagery of Sunnah Insurgent EFPs that are crude, much larger than the Iranian EFPs...
I should have known better. :D I actualy teach this in my tactical Arabic classes:
01 (Wahid) = None or maybe even 1, if they feel especially honest
02 (Ithnayn) = One, Maybe
03 (Thalatha) =...
:mad: In. Frick'n. Credible. This had beeter have been an IO to smoke him out. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and actually believe MNF-I. :rolleyes:
Good catch!
AQI is going down slowly but definately going down ... now if only we can keep the Shia and Sunnah from killing each other! :D
Rob, et al ... this thread is SO important. I have been writing a new book on defeating AQ's narrative and destroying its IW campaign. I was asked ysterday to write an Oped for the NY Daily news on...
Exactly. AQI tried a "Mini-Tet" in July 2004. (ref'd in my book The Terrorist of Iraq: pg 325 "Black Thursday - the one day Salafist Mini Jihad" )
That was the first and last time Zarqawi...
I have REAMS of actual TT and SL Gov propaganda documents as one of my staffers was the former SL Embassy information officer in Washington, but its all in storage until I return CONUS this fall. ...
Well God bless the Navy naming board for fianally showing some forethought. This makes me tear up a little and want a ship's ball cap and Chief's mess mug. *Sniff*
I re-read the book last night on my flight OCONUS just so I could refresh my memory about what it was that made some of Lutrell's decisions and discussion points worry me. Now that I know about his...
In a word... No.
KSM was a combatant and Operations Officer at AQ Central. Executing him as an unlawful combatant, criminal or brigand on the battlefield would have been acceptable in the Geneva...
By God Ken, even as I wrote it I thought "One should never say never ..." Good advice. :D
Have you seen the book Battle Rattle? It has allot of input from the original Gear Guru, Eric Graves a former SOF logistician and Steve Hilliard a former grunt now at ATS tactical gear. We have...
I agree with Bill. We can't give any ground to anyone judging Lt. Murphy. The team guys have a different way about decision making it depending on the unit. I am not a team guy but I have trained...
This is the heart of the problem we are having at many levels in the military. One time there was a pretty broad ethical line that COULD NOT be crossed. Did it happen outside of the sight of higher...
BBBBBWWWWWWAHAHAHAHAHA. How did I miss this one?
NO HE DIDN'T! He admits it ... Facts don't matter! All of you make me cry. :D
Hmmm ... if this is the case then I am due for an buttkicking from both parties. ;) I followed up Sageman's article that was based on his book in Foreign Policy this month with one of my own that...
All Shiite groups are anti-alQaeda ... they're Shiite! AQ thinks Shiites are apostates anyway which, by Takfiri definition, they're Kufr and that means any Shiite can be killed at anytime.
I know how you feel. This was just some crazy-assed politician, who appears not to have been able to afford crayons ... but enough about him, its worse in the present US administration.
The...
BBWwaaaahahahahahaaa.... well that comment made writing the whole blog entry in one flight back to CONUS worth it. Hey tequila, can I use this in my next book? :)
Seriously though ...
My...
Shivan, You must live in a different Middle East than I because I get Abu Ghraieb, Fallujah, Qana, and 9/11 conspiracy theories thrown in my face almost daily. I speak Arabic & in live in a ME...
Aaarrgh Tequila! You got the jump on my next Blog entry! :D