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This post originally appeared as a guest post at The Prying Eye “Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.” Eliot A. Cohen, “The Mystique of U.S. Air Power,” Foreign Affairs. January/February 1994. In the quote above, Cohen references in […]
December 7, 2012
General James Mattis (Author), MG John R. Allen (Author), MG Daniel Bolger (Author), Bevin Alexander (Author), John DeRosa (Author), Ralph Peters (Author), Michael Yon (Author), COL John Antal (Editor), PJ Putnam (Editor) Today, there is no more important issue to the warfighter than the topic of irregular warfare and, specifically, counterinsurgency. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military, partnered with coalition forces, is fighting the long war. The outcome […]
July 16, 2012
Part II of a reblog from Small Wars Journal Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II The Origin of MRAPs in DoD by Thaddeus L. Jankowski “Dear Mr. Secretary, thank you for your letter of June 27th 2011…As I noted when you were here in June you had my back throughout that time. More […]
July 9, 2012
Small Wars Journal published a very interesting and provocative article of a series focused on reforming the Pentagon Establishment. Hard hitting and worth the read. Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part I by Thaddeus L. Jankowski Introduction In 2006-2007 I was one of the first few officers within U.S. Central Command to initiate the comprehensive […]
July 6, 2012
A new post is in the hopper focusing on stability operations for a guest post at a new website on my blogroll: The Kabul Cable. It is a blog serving “as a portal into the current events affecting Afghanistan for scholars, students, researchers, diplomats and practitioners of war.” Readers of Pathfinder will be familiar with […]
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December 17, 2012
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