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Anne did her Masters on the interaction between new Pl Comds in a Rifle Coy and their Snr NCOs and troops.  She lived with C Coy 1 PPCLI intermittently for one year including a significant portion of RV '92.  She is also ex-Military (MP Captain I believe?) so that likely helps.  While not...

Whoaaa!  What are you trying to say.... that segregating all of the ethnic Chinese rubber workers and tin miners in Afghanistan and Iraq into relocation villages will not solve the problems? The value of Malaya is not necessarily in the TTPs (by definition tactical) of the Malayan situation...

Infidel-6, Thanks for your observations.  I cannot find much with which I would disagree with you. Implementation and money are the crux of the matter I would think.  I hope that the money is there to carry this out effectively, without creating unnecessary adversaries.  The amount of money...

Lind argues from his 4GW theory perspective.  If anything he is consistent, and at times has been rather prescient, if you read his archived "On War" series of articles.  Lind's 4GW perspective is in line with commentary from the likes of Anthony Cordesman, Andrew Krepinevich and the Malaya...

Below is a very opinionated (as Lind always is) view of operations in Afghanistan from the 4GW perspective.  I offer this article as food for thought and to generate some discussion, not as a personal commentary or criticism of current operations in Afghanistan.  There is certainly some truth in...

I am certain that the Btl Gp in Qandahar is doing the absolute best job possible under the circumstances.  Suggestions were made in interviews from Afghanistan that Senlis council personnel had not visited the BG AO.  I would suggest that the Senlis Council therefore is unlikely to be able to...

A great soldier.... those who spent some time in the PPCLI Home Station Officers' Mess in Calgary may have met him at one time or another... and likely would not of known how impressive a soldier and leader he was.  He certainly didn't flaunt it, a man with a DSO, 3 MCs, the Croix de Guerre and...

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers new album Stadium Arcadium.  Great album, track 4 from the first disk is "Stadium Arcadium" and it is the best tune on the album in my opinion.

Niall Ferguson, professor of history and economics and author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (well worth reading in conjunction with Thomas P.M. Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map), with a suggestion that the world is taking a Left-wing shift that we might not be...

My sincere condolences to the familiy and friends of Lt Turner, Bdr Mansell, Cpl Dinning and Cpl Payne.  RIP.

Zipperhead_cop, Some insight that I would recommend on the subject of counter-insurgency in the links below.  Most counterinsurgency doctrines and experience suggests that you cannot win an insurgency by brute military force.  One must be concerned with winning "hearts and minds", separating...

Yup.  But it is all about context.  It is a parable you see... I come from a cop family so I wouldn't buy that stereotype.  But many would.  That is part of the problem isn't it?

A very incisive parable that outlines the requirements of counter-insurgency.... in six paragraphs. http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/six_easy_paragraphs.htm This is certainly a topic worth thinking of and worth getting our minds around.  Whether we are fighting counter-insurgency or conducting...

The US had 61 Divisions in Germany at VE Day 1945.....  perhaps they didn't need any other security assistance?  In the end they governed through much of the existing civil apparatus regardless.  A thorough de-Nazification proved impractical. In Japan the US governed almost completely through...

buckahed, A review of counterinsurgency and nation building theories, doctrine, or history, would lead one to believe that it is much easier to operate through the mechanism of the existing state for reasons of legitimacy, lessening the appearances of occupation, etc.  Check out Steven Metz...

Sure enough Tomahawk... but when MGENs are turning down their third star and an important position in Iraq because they don't want to serve under Rumsfeld? 

Yes... it made getting to work a little more difficult this morning.

The hits keep coming on Rumsfeld.  First Eaton, then Anthony Zinni, and now this from MGEN Batiste: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201114_2.html

My understanding is that there were significant diconnects in the planning of the 11 Avn Regiments cross FLOT operation that resulted in SEAD and CAS no longer being synchronized with 11 Avn Regiment operation.  Bad int suggested also in article by GEN Crosbie Saint at link...

Tomahawk 6, I have all the time in the world for your opinion, and I appreciate your input here on this issue.  A couple of questions though.... and I am as pro- US military as they come in this line of work..... Was the SecDef f**king with the flow into theatre?  Most would agree he was...