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Leadership's problem is that it is an enigma. We know it exists, but what it is and how to teach it is as clear as Turner's London. We have a hard time describing what it is but we know when som...

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10 years ago I was in the western desert of Kuwait, a tank platoon leader unsure if I would have to lead my men to war or not. I fully supported going to war at the time. I didn't much care about...

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Just a couple of quick notes. First, I want to apologize for the addition of captcha to the comments. We have been inundated with spam lately. I thought that the filters had been getting it, but ...

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THE VIOLENT IMAGE: INSURGENT PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW REVOLUTIONARIES By Neville Bolt Columbia University Press In The Violent Image Neville Bolt , a Teaching Fellow at Kings College Lond...

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Excerpted from a Wall Street Journal editorial, 10 January 1963, entitled "War Without Will": > And perhaps we should all realize that there are certain things the > U.S., for al...

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During my third tour in Iraq, as a staff officer, I spent the preponderance of my non-working time reading. It was an ideal situation to read if only because there was not much else to do. In my ...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-love-books.html

Before getting to the meat of this post I should make two statements. First, is that I neither like nor dislike General Petraeus. I do not think he was as successful and great as many say he was ...

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Lt Col Jill Long, an Air Force officer and student at the Army War College, wrote "What is War? A New Point of View" that was published at the Small Wars Journal. In this piece, Long attempts to...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/12/our-definition-of-war-is-pretty-good-as.html

I've been waiting for things to calm down a bit before commenting on GEN Petraeus's resignation. We're not quite there yet, but I think there is an important element of this discussion not being ...

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To all who serve, and all who sacrifice - thank you.

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I've written on these pages before about questioning the expertise of anyone claiming to have expertise and that arguments should be weighed as they stand. Most recently, I hit on IAVA for talki...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-rank-hypocrisy-of-veterans-on-opsec.html

Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge  co-written by a team of researchers. The paper is pretty good on discussing the current securi...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-failure-of-light-footprint.html

In the acknowledgements to his latest history, TheSecond World War , Antony Beevor says that he wrote this comprehensive tome on one of the biggest events in human history because he wanted to f...

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On Monday, John Arquilla published a critique of the U.S. Military Academy's "top ten military classics" – content and title both sourced to Tom Ricks  – in which he proposed a "suppleme...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/09/military-reading-lists-take-1000000.html

I haven't been writing much on anything other than veterans issues lately and for good reason. This has been the result of my increasing interest in the problems facing veterans and the policies ...

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Last week I wrote about a handful of Senators attempting to block the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012 - a bill that would have put a lot of veterans to work and would also make it easier for fut...

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The Department of Labor released August employment data late last week. Yet again, 9/11-era veterans have significantly higher rates of unemployment than the population at large - nearly 3 percen...

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post disdainful of a new reality show that I felt was taking advantage of America's current love affair with its veterans. That same week, friend-of-the-blog Andrew Exu...

http://tachesdhuile.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-gi-bill-and-veteran-gap-in-cmr.html

This is your fault America. When television producers were looking to cut costs and introduced low-budget fare to the public in the form of reality television, you gobbled it up. It did not matte...

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The Ohio military voting issue that surfaced within the past week has raised some ugly politics and views. While reticent to wade into what is primarily a domestic political concern, this confron...

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NOTE: I feel the need to introduce this post with a reiteration of the usual disclaimer. I'm not representing anyone else's views or analysis here but my own. I can't imagine why you would have a...

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Seriously. Any observer of the Iraq War should readily acknowledge the deleterious effect L. Paul Bremmer III had as the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Specifically his de-...

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Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34.1: Military Police in Support of the MAGTF states: > The MP mission and capabilities include support for AT/FP > operations, maneuver and ...

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> n all-volunteer military is not expected to differ significantly > from the present mixed force in its size, composition, and relations > with civilian society. Its sub...

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