mudvillegazette.com - 3/11/2009
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Registan: The Army’s Woeful IT Policies Poison the War Effort : BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTAN — In January, when I first arrived here, I made an alarming discovery about the state of IT in the Army. Practically all of the blogs and other online tools I use to stay informed and connected to my ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 3/7/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
With Clinton we got high taxes (bad) but
balanced budgets imposed by the spending caps in Congress...
(good). With Bush we got tax cuts (good) but deficits (bad). With Obama we get tax hikes (bad) and astronomical deficits (bad). Two notes: We are not ...
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Bad/bad
michaelyon-online.com - 3/12/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
12 March 2009 There is dispute whether the
testimony to the British House of Commons regarding the...
Afghan National Army is correct. Part of that testimony was published on my site yesterday. Colonel Bill Hix emailed to me from Afghanistan with an ...
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Afghan Army
longwarjournal.org - 3/7/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
Iraqi and Coalition forces Order of Battle as
of January 31, 2009. The March 2009 updates to...
the Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle are now available at the ISF OOB homepage . The significant changes to the Order of Battle ...
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Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle Update: March 2009
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... Wednesday, 11 March 2009 Registan: The Army s Woeful IT Policies Poison the War Effort:BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTAN In January, when I first arrived here, I made an alarming discovery about the state of IT in the Army. Practically all of the blogs and other online tools I use to stay informed and connected to my colleagues (see here, for example) did not work. Many other blogs are talking about this - theres a compilation in the Dawn Patrol. Given the great strides forward... read ...
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