A definite step in the right direction:)
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A definite step in the right direction:)
To paraphrase
multiple authors
Iraq, Afganistan, and other failed state/ Civil conflicts are usually generational in duration 15-25 yr before the world opinion/press bequeaths stability status. ...
The security around a battalion CO is necessary on multiple levels. The security detail often functions as a squad does around its leader. The men understand or should understand that their...
;)Our armed forces need to understand that such activity is potentially critical through out all ranks and support elements. Engineers. logistcs medical etc. Our allies old and new expect it and...
Was not this the major thrust of Col Yinglings article?
The very delema Mcmaster finds himself in.
Though I do not think congressional oversite is the best answer because they can only approve or...
The air and other coalition ambulance crews typically offer care and transport for eval but sometimes people do not accept for multiple reasons scared of US , scared of New Iraqi Army or...
I must say I had not considered the kidnapping aspect and ransom market.
As late as 2006 it was widely briefed in military medicine that the Iraqi medical community was robust and ready to take...
Updated link is http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/iraq2019s
This is a repost to possibly a more appropriate community from the catch all OIF threadline and now I have the link above to the...
Boyd seems excellent in fighter tactics and strategy but the central analogy when applied to forces of size seems to hold only when one faces a rational enemy who above all wishes to preserve the...
Accountability in fast combat rotation schedules (2 months, 4 months , 6 months 9 months 12 months out to 15 months after extension) amounts to a snap shot and there are some stand outs at either...
Wake Island
The civilians gave good account.
Civilians in Iraq now pay dearly.
Multiple conscript Forces in our Nations not so distant past have given well and succesfully.
This is not an...
What will the umbrella organization look like?
This seems like a Dept of State mission in some ways and a military mission in others. ??? Civil affairs work with Agricultural, Police,...
I like your choice in police pics. Plain cloths cops for insurgents is even more unnerving.
The whole point of not disbanding the army is to gain control of all the lists and I mean pleural (people, equipment,arms, etc)and even then to continue paying the officers and men rather than send...
The LA Times could spin me and others up this easily.
And their primary goal is to sell the paper.
Would people buy the paper if the Title was "Foreign service personel has concern for staffing...
I see very little temporary in the specific but globally distributed situations in front of us.
I have been reading about FDR and a swiss general Guisan. In the years prior to US involvement FDR...
18% seems like an over dramatization.
At core it is fundamentally a leadership problem. The mid-level career officers seem to be attempting to weather through their appointed masters tenures...
If DOD is a an example
You do get paid more in DC.
I came from Europe with a very high COLA
The higher BAH in DC More than makes up the difference
Dear Mr Odom and Fischel
I do not have the back ground you gentlemen do but the point of organizational adaptiveness and learning is painfully evident with in my own subspeacialty both in theatre...
Response to last Iron horse post
In certain organizations there are things acceptable to complain about like things which are the understood responsibility of another organization. When the...
Tom nailed it
It is leadership!
I really think the high rotation rate of personel in and out of theatre hurts us more than we know and more than we want to admit. Particularly in the...
If we do not listen we should not be surprized at inadequate results.
The DOS guys are saying (though admittedly in a whine) that the lack of security is affecting their performance and staff...
LTC Yinglings article seems to be at its core an honest question about how the DOD grows leaders. I think many of the posts have focused far to much on career effect of bringing up the question. If...
great site!
unfortunately grim and unwieldly options when developed
Thanks Sir
Multi-drug if not all drugs resistent Tuberculosis.
currently XDR-TB is present in 37 countries. 50 % who contract it will die and AIDS endemic countries will suffer most.
Medicine sans...