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Tag Archives: Counterinsurgency
The Afghan Withdrawal: A Receding American Imperium
Dr. David Petraeus isn’t the sole authority or executor for the “Iraqi Surge”, Fredrick W. Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute had a major share in the restoration of the American threat deterrent by strengthening the application of policy oversight. … Continue reading
Dr. Brendan Simms: Strategery
I’ve always loved how the experts, the specialized mandarins and policy wonks ridiculed Bush for his malapropisms. The overly specialized development of precise language does have its flaws, if only exposed in the caldron of the mundane. Where else is … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Central Asia, International Relations, Islam, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Bismark, Brendan Simms, Bush, COIN Doctrine, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, de Gaulle, Idolization of Ephemeral Technique, Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Lord Alfred Thayer Mahon, Offshore Balancing, Realism, Roosevelt, Russian Revolution, Security Studies, Southwest Asia, Strategery, Three Victories and A Defeat: Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
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The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters
Fredrick W. Kagan along with Fouad Ajami and Bernard Lewis were the primary ideological agents that gave fortitude to the Bush administrations push to surge in 2006 under Dr. David Petraeus. Kagan’s expertise in asymmetrical warfare is incomparable to any … Continue reading
Posted in Frontier, International Relations, Near East, Pakistan, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Tagged Afpak, Bernard Lewis, Counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, Fouad Ajami, Kagan, Petraeus, sleep of reason breeds monsters
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The Folly of Elites at Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is another anachronistic institution whose ties to monolithic liberalism is rendering itself obsolete in our present age of digital revolution. This is a sad state of affairs given this nations need for clarity of purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism
Tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, COIN, Counterinsurgency, Pakistan, Pashtun, Petraeus, Richard N. Haass, Sanctuary, Statecraft, Strategy, Tactics
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General David Petraeus Ph.D., Icon Of Counterinsurgency & The Ideals Of Mao Tse-tung & Sun Tzu
About fifteen years ago Nien Cheng (author of ‘Life & Death In Shanghai’) gave the commencement address at Marist College in New York. I was unaware of her life and her relation to Mao Tse-tung, she was best friends with … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, China, Sun Tzu, Uncategorized
Tagged 1980's Central America Civil War, Afghanistan, Afpak, Art of War, Central Asia, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Father Luke McCann, Guatemala, Joe Biden, Mao, Marist College Commencement, Napoleon, Nicaragua, Nien Cheng, Pakistan, Philippines, Sun-Tzu
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The New Wiseman: Informed Critics Of Afpak Strategy
Decades ago Washington insiders always spoke reverently about the need for any President to have a ‘wise man’ continuously informing and constraining the President’s policy options: Roosevelt had Hopkins, Truman had Acheson, Kennedy had Macmillian. Today’s President either arrives into … Continue reading