I'm kind of partial to it.
Sam Liles
Selil Blog
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The scotch and the Oreos are proven commodities, will be happy to join you for both.
As to the book, I'm not so sure. I'm mentally composing a piece tentatively titled: "Zombie COIN - Why FM 3-24 has no Soul"
("Soul" being an understanding of insurgency itself. Ok, couldn't help myself, still sitting at the airport...)
Robert C. Jones
Intellectus Supra Scientia
(Understanding is more important than Knowledge)
"The modern COIN mindset is when one arrogantly goes to some foreign land and attempts to make those who live there a lesser version of one's self. The FID mindset is when one humbly goes to some foreign land and seeks first to understand, and then to help in some small way for those who live there to be the best version of their own self." Colonel Robert C. Jones, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
Don't know how to put this on a T-Shirt but it is inspirational.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVrpiG7haE
How about the "I give a #### about your chai!" Guy:
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawam...t-mission.html
To me he sums up the whole deal.
Here's my vote, which provides a nice alternative to the current SWJ logo
Supporting "time-limited, scope limited military actions" for 20 years.
There is also a message for the media in there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5m4...eature=related
Zombies?
Those are the little kids with AK-47s and dead eyes...
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Page...-with-ak47.jpg
http://www.iansa.org/documents/images/tamba-ak47.jpg
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...d-abuse-16.jpg
Peter Pan he ain't
http://www.fmft.net/African%20Infant...047%20%201.jpg
http://ak47.lanternblog.com/Images/zulu.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FtuG0ZOGjI...n+soldiers.jpg
(the one on the right, obviously)
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burm.../child-soldier
http://images.lightstalkers.org/imag...dier_large.jpg
Notice a theme here?
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
How about something that symbolizes service members, government officials, NGOs and academics working together? Maybe have all four of them circled in a war zone, talking?
An image that that symbolizes modern war?
I can't resist:
(I know McChrystal shut it down, but the KFC is opening and Timmies is still there)
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Scotch, yes; Oreos, no. I have to admit, I shudder at the juxtaposition !
Oh, Gods..... GET IT WRITTEN NOW!!!!!!!!! Seriously, Bob, I've already got one of your papers on the required reading list, but I want that!!!!!
Personally, I'd take an image of a trooper, put a media guys on his back, an NGO person on their back, and a politician on top of them and sub-title it "The modern, agile soldier". Then again, I've been told I have a low sense of humour... .
Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat...
Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
http://marctyrrell.com/
In Dear John (yes I watched it. If you didn't, then you got your own issues). Anyways, in Dear John, there was a great scene when the Green Beret was patting an indigenous soldier on the shoulder as he was executing a task. I thought that scene summed up small wars perfectly.
Zombie COIN. Sounds like something in the vein of this book.
Supporting "time-limited, scope limited military actions" for 20 years.
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