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Manea interviews Kilcullen at SWJ

by | Nov 26, 2013 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea, the interviewer par excellence of Small Wars Journal, steps up with an interview with COIN guru and former USG senior adviser Dr. David Kilcullen: Future of Warfare in a Post-COIN Conflict Climate...

America’s Defense Amnesia

by | Nov 1, 2013 | Monitor

(by Adam Elkus) Over at The National Interest, Paul Pillar diagnoses America with an “amnesia” about intelligence. The US, like Guy Pearce’s amnesiac character in Memento, does not perceive that it is caught in a larger oscillating cycle: Attitudes...

Chewing Qat with a spork?

by | Sep 9, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — a popular catch-phrase fumbled ] . ** TE Lawrence was an original. The “second senior official” either has a poor memory for quotations, or wishes he were an original, sad in either case. Hat-tip to the Small Wars Journal...

Octavian Manea Interviews General David Petraeus

by | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea has had an excellent series of COIN  interviews at SWJ and this is one of the more important ones: Reflections on the “Counterinsurgency Decade”: Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H....