I dig Arkin’s blog, even if I’m not so keen on Arkin:
As The Post reports today, President Bush is facing pressure to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan. The military is undertaking a strategic review similar to the review that resulted in the “surge” in Iraq, and commanders in Afghanistan are calling for more [...]
The following appeared in Of Interest, a Strategic Studies Institute publication, 8 November 2007. There is mch to like, and as much to dislike:
THE STRATEGY OF TEACHING STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Gabriel Marcella
The U.S. Army War College Experience.1
There is nothing equal to the intellectual delights of mutual discovery via the Socratic give-and-take [...]
Our friend in Washington is the de facto interim editor. I am publishing his quick take on the Scales article preceding as I received it–a great read:
Well, there he goes again. Here’s another propaganda piece (attached) from Bob Scales concerning the need for the nation to concentrate on how to perform close combat better—and get [...]
AMERICAN INFANTRY AND NATIONAL PRIORITIES
Armed Forces Journal December 2007
By Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales (Ret.)
The progress of war, like other forms of human endeavor, is defined in terms of epochs, cycles of periodic change that sweep through and shape the course of Western civilization. Political scientists recount the advance of governance in terms of theocracy, [...]