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democracyarsenal.org - 3/23/2009
The Future of the US Military
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Dr. Steven Metz, who teaches at the Strategic Studies Institute has a really important post at Small Wars Journal about some of the flawed assumptions driving current US military strategy. According to Metz , he was attending a recent DoD symposium and reports that “everyone nodded when a ...
pr.thinkprogress.org - 3/19/2009
Iraq -- Six Years Of War In Iraq
— pr.thinkprogress.org — IRAQ Six Years Of War In Iraq Six years to the day have passed since President Bush... launched the invasion of Iraq, a preventative war of choice based on "intelligence fixed around the policy ." The purpose, according to Bush, was " to disarm Iraq , ... (more) Iraq -- Six Years Of War In Iraq

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ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 3/31/2009
Iraq: the unraveling?
— ricks.foreignpolicy.com — I thought some of the surge-era deals in Iraq would unravel but I didn't think that would... begin happening this quickly. It's only March 2009, and already Awakening fighters are fighting U.S. soldiers in the streets of Baghdad. Anyone who tells ... (more) Iraq: the unraveling?

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The Anniversary Party
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 3/19/2009
The Anniversary Party
— attackerman.firedoglake.com — photo by jamesdale10 It's eerie and uncomfortable and inappropriate that there isn't much notice that six years... ago today the U.S. invaded Iraq. Maybe that's natural now that the Obama administration is ending the war. Maybe it's an indication ... (more) The Anniversary Party

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Matthew Yglesias:  The Virtue of Unfought Wars

Newshoggers.com:  COIN? Just Say No

The Washington Note:  Guest Post by Michael Cohen: The Trouble with Counter-Insurgency

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The Virtue of Unfought Wars
Matthew Yglesias — ... Michael Cohen makes the excellent point that it’s necessary to get U.S. strategic thinking outside the “counterinsurgency vs. big army” dynamic that has us—or, rather, the military and military-affiliated organizations—stuck debating whether in the future we should be fighting a lot of counterinsurgencies or fighting a lot of conventional wars against medium-sized countries. As he puts it with admirable brevity: ...

COIN? Just Say No
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Guest Post by Michael Cohen: The Trouble with Counter-Insurgency
The Washington Note — ... As I've written before, I'm not much of a fan of counter-insurgency doctrine and two events over the past several days lend compelling evidence as to why. Quite simply, it's the politics, stupid. ...

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