by zen | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
SWJ Blog has a new post up with an important and all too timely article on transition operations whose authors include an amigo of mine, Pete Turner, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Turner will also be one of the featured speakers at the Boyd & Beyond...
by zen | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw Columbia University Press just sent me a review copy of Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw, an assistant professor of IR/Security...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The First Battle, Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam, by Otto J. Lehrack, Lt.Col., USMC, Ret. This is an older book, but important. A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a good friend, Bruce. Bruce is a Vietnam...
by J.ScottShipman | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The Twilight War, The Secret History of America’s Thirty-year Conflict with Iran, by David Crist When President Obama made a heartfelt opening, a smug Iranian leadership viewed it as a ruse or the gesture of a weak leader. Iran spurned him....
by zen | Jun 29, 2012 | Monitor
Adam Elkus directed my attention today on Twitter to a new piece by William S. Lind, “the Father of 4th Generation Warfare” at The American Conservative: Unfriendly Fire ….The Soviet army focused its best talent on operational art. But in...
