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    Rambo: First Blood Part II - The Musical (You Not Expendable)

    You Not Expendable (Youtube Link)

    (Hat Tip - Dangerous Minds)

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    Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen:

    Charles T.R. Bohannan, Lieutenant Colonel, AUS-Ret.
    Wendell W. Fertig, Colonel, USA-Ret.
    David Galula, Lieutenant Colonel (French Marine Corps)
    Anthony S. Jeapes, Captain (British Army)
    Frank E. Kitson, MBE, MC, Lieutenant Colonel (British Army)
    Edward Geary Lansdale, Brigadier General, USAF
    Rufus C. Phillips, III
    David Leonard Powell-Jones, DSO, OBEY Brigadier General
    (British Army)
    John R. Shirley, OBE, Colonel (British Army-Ret.)
    Napoleon D. Valeriano, Colonel (formerly with the Armed Forces
    of the Philippines)
    John F. White, Colonel (Royal Australian Army)
    Samuel V. Wilson, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabers8th View Post
    Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen: ...
    They skipped Sir Robert Thompson!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corto View Post
    They skipped Sir Robert Thompson!
    I think he was deployed to Vietnam during the symposium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabers8th View Post
    Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen:

    Charles T.R. Bohannan, Lieutenant Colonel, AUS-Ret.
    Wendell W. Fertig, Colonel, USA-Ret.
    David Galula, Lieutenant Colonel (French Marine Corps)
    Anthony S. Jeapes, Captain (British Army)
    Frank E. Kitson, MBE, MC, Lieutenant Colonel (British Army)
    Edward Geary Lansdale, Brigadier General, USAF
    Rufus C. Phillips, III
    David Leonard Powell-Jones, DSO, OBEY Brigadier General
    (British Army)
    John R. Shirley, OBE, Colonel (British Army-Ret.)
    Napoleon D. Valeriano, Colonel (formerly with the Armed Forces
    of the Philippines)
    John F. White, Colonel (Royal Australian Army)
    Samuel V. Wilson, Lieutenant Colonel, USA
    Here's the link to the document. The file is rather large, but well worth the read for anyone that wants to be a serious practisioner. As with all Rand products, make sure you click the free download button and not the "pay to play" button.

    http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R412-1/

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeF View Post
    Here's the link to the document. The file is rather large, but well worth the read for anyone that wants to be a serious practisioner. As with all Rand products, make sure you click the free download button and not the "pay to play" button.
    Thanks for that link! That's one hell of a meeting of minds...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Sea View Post
    Thanks for that link! That's one hell of a meeting of minds...
    I just wished that we had transcripts of the private conversations that they had at night at the bars.

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    Nicotine
    Caffeine
    Alcohol

    Burlap sacks

    Sir Robert Peele

    Aldo the Apache

    Custer

    That damned link/ circle powerpoint descibing COIN

    Doctrinal terms on an airport display which change arbitrarily

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    Quote Originally Posted by OfTheTroops View Post

    Doctrinal terms on an airport display which change arbitrarily
    Which doctrinal terms are currently in vogue, and which ones are out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OfTheTroops View Post
    Nicotine
    Caffeine
    Alcohol

    Burlap sacks

    Sir Robert Peele

    Aldo the Apache

    Custer

    That damned link/ circle powerpoint descibing COIN

    Doctrinal terms on an airport display which change arbitrarily
    Given the time period, I think that you forgot discussions of comparing/contrasting women of ill-repute in various conflict zones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OfTheTroops View Post
    Nicotine

    Custer
    He'd be a good example of a small wars failure...
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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