I would caution against taking quotes out of their historical context. There has been a recent surge of politically motivated popular history meant to paint Theodore Roosevelt as the world's greatest...
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I would caution against taking quotes out of their historical context. There has been a recent surge of politically motivated popular history meant to paint Theodore Roosevelt as the world's greatest...
This isn't all that new - it is closely connected to the "Iraqi agency" argument that has picked up steam recently, but it really started at least as far back as Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who said the...
Currently reading Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
Let me change that - one of the best books I've ever read. The last 20 pages alone are worth the price of the book.
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
http://www.amazon.com/Puritan-Origins-American-Patriotism/dp/030010099X
One of the best books I've read in a while
Bob, I would disagree with you ever so slightly. The increase in troops sure enough was a resourcing requirement. "Surge," however, was a terrible name to apply to what we did. It was not just...
Honestly, I think this is a little dumb. My great-grandfather was beaten and had his teeth knocked out as a boy by the Black and Tans. It doesn't affect my opinions on Britain one bit.
The New...
The surge and the Awakenings were not mutually exclusive. This is a favorite excuse of surge opponents, that it was actually the Awakenings that turned the corner in Iraq. It was actually a...
Not advocating any position discussed here, but it's worth noting that the Iraqi security forces were not ready to take up the mantle of security in Iraq in late 2006 - something we should have...
At the risk of getting into trouble for posting too much again, for anyone interested, below is just an example I wrote elsewhere of my argument of how training LSF has usually played out for the US....
Sorry for the late reply - work and power outages prevented me from answering sooner.
RTK - I defer to you on Sassaman's character. As I mentioned, I have no basis for assessment. However, you...
RTK - my point was, and is, that whether you liked Sassaman as a person or not doesn't matter. Whether he was a nice guy or not is irrelevant. And yes - maybe his actions on that night in question...
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2) Sassaman talks about the lack of any coordination between security and reconstruction. The instructions came down to "spend money," but there was no effort to coordinate the work...
This will be two parts, because apparently it is too long for one post
I know, with this posted in the "Social Sciences, Moral and Religious" folder the focus should be on the morality and ethics...
Why do we assume this:
Look back on US history of COIN, at least in countries where the government had either collapsed or been overthrown: so, Philippines 1899, Cuba, Dominican Republic,...