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    Ultimately painful medicine for an illness

    After recently talking with senior pers types I've come to the conclusion that the medicine offered, monetary incentives for officer retention, is ultimately bad medicine for this illness. How many...
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    LTC Gentile's article and the subsequent...

    LTC Gentile's article and the subsequent discussions demonstrate that whether we use a paradox or dictum as a spring borad toward explorations of complex warfare the desired outcome is intellectual...
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    LTC Gentile article

    The paradoxes in FM 3-24 are nothing more than Sun Tsuisms for the 21st Century. They require much deeper thought and internalizing then any field manual can provide. As with the original writing...
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    Poll: New organizational structure

    An assuption for any unconventional warfare (UW) structure is that SOF are the resident experts and sole sorce of UW operations. This assumption may not be accurate and may lead military services in...
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    Blackwater

    Do not believe the lies Blackwater is pumping out about the recent events in Al Mansour. None of what they are saying is true.
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    The problem in my initial posting was not how to...

    The problem in my initial posting was not how to attack ivy league types (who will never elect to enter military service). My objective was to discuss the problem of keeping company and field grade...
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    Officer Retention

    I wanted to share some of my observations on an issue that has become a major topic for Army leaders – officer retention. In the Army we hear a lot about retaining company grade officer and there...
  8. Electicity in Baghdad

    The NYT article on the "national" grid in Iraq really misses the mark. The electric grid was broken before the 2003 invasion. Broken by Saddam's neglect. Twelve years of UN supported sanctions...
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