smallwarsjournal.com - 10/15/2009
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An Interview with Peter Godwin
by John Noonan
Full article: An Interview with Peter Godwin
Sometimes the most effective COIN lessons are found in the strangest of places. Some time ago, while researching Zimbabwe’s staggering collapse under the Robert Mugabe regime, I stumbled upon When a ...
whitehouse.gov - 10/13/2009
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 2009 REMARKS BY...
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRIME MINISTER TSVANGIRAI OF ZIMBABWE AFTER MEETING Oval Office 4:04 P.M. ...
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The White House
americasfuture.org - 10/13/2009
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I’m guessing he wouldn’t answer that question, but
I hope his answer would be Morgan Tsavngirai, leader...
of a peaceful effort to bring democracy and human rights to Zimbabwe, which has been terrorized and impoverished by the Mugabe ...
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Who would Obama give the Prize to?
news.com.au - 10/13/2009
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The Democrat said he had contacted Mr Tsvangirai
"to share my deep concern for the way his...
supporters are being targeted by the regime, and to express my admiration for his efforts to ensure that the will of the Zimbabwean people is finally ...
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Obama in touch with Tsvangirai
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An Interview with Peter Godwin
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... Over at the esteemable Small Wars Journal, I sit down with lauded author Peter Godwin for a discussion on the COIN lessons-learned from the Rhodesian Bush War. Godwin was a patrolman with the British South Africa Police during the war, and later --as a war correspondent-- played a key role in exposing Robert Mugabe's ...
How Counter-Insurgency Works -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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An interview with Peter Godwin over at Small Wars Journal.
Sometimes the most effective COIN lessons are found in the strangest of places. Some time ago, while researching Zimbabwe’s staggering collapse under the Robert Mugabe regime, I stumbled upon When a Crocodile Eats the Sun - a deeply moving memoir of Zimbabwe’s corrosive rot, told by native Zimbabwean reporter, Mr. Peter Godwin. Godwin spun his tale with an enviably smooth narration, blending microcosmic personal tragedies with macrocosmic political and economic failures into a sad, powerful account of ...
Counterinsurgency, Not Counterterrorism
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... Over at Small Wars Journal, I sat down with Peter Godwin -- author, war correspondent, and veteran of the Rhodesian Bush War-- for a discussion on counterinsurgency tactics and strategy. Godwin's experiences with the British South Africa Police -- a Rhodesian police/paramilitary outfit -- were strikingly similar to the challenges faced by coalition forces in 21st century Afghanistan. Unsurprisingly, Godwin rejects the minimal footprint strategy (advocated by Vice-President Biden) and offers a sound reiteration of General McChrystal's population-centric approach to ...
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