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		<title>Army Operating Concept 2016-2028</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Training and Doctrine Command. TRADOC Pam 525-3-1, 19 August 2010. http://www-tradoc.army.mil/tpubs/pams/tp525-3-1.pdf Excerpt: This pamphlet revises the conceptual and operating focus of the Army from major combat operations to that of operational adaptability employing full-spectrum operations under conditions of uncertainty and complexity. TRADOC Pam 525-3-1 describes how future Army forces conduct operations as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Coll. The New Yorker, 15 February 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2010/02/strategic-withdrawal.html Excerpt: I have also heard it suggested, however, that the big and visible Helmand operation is being conceived as a sort of “demonstration project” of joint U.S. and Afghan security and governance capabilities &#8211; that “clear, hold, and build” there will be constructed as a sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative to COIN: It’s time to adapt our security strategy to leverage America’s conventional strengths</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard I. Finel. Armed Froces Journal International, February 2010. http://www.afji.com/2010/02/4387134 Excerpt: A fundamental challenge in devising a strategy for the use of American military power is that the world has literally never seen anything like it. The U.S. today has military capabilities at least equal to the rest of the world combined. There is virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something from Nothing: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. Boston Review, January/February 2010. http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/rosen.php Excerpt: Perhaps McChrystal’s most crucial assumption—also endorsed by Obama—was that the failure to create a unified, centralized state in Afghanistan will lead to al Qaeda’s return. This claim is widely contested. Al Qaeda is already ensconced in Pakistan, where it is better protected from the United States than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Action Report—General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret)  Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistian – 10-18 November 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry R McCaffrey. McCaffrey Associates, 05 December 2009. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/0911McCaffrey.pdf Excerpt: Most Afghans are also dismayed at the injustice and corruption of the government (in particular the ANP) compared to the more disciplined and Islamic Taliban. Twice in recent months we have seen battalion sized units of Taliban fighters conduct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conceptualizations of Insurgency and its Effects on the Counterinsurgency Policy Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam L. Silverman. Sic Semper Tyrannis, 12 November 2009. http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/11/conceptualizations-of-insurgency-and-its-effects-on-the-counterinsurgency-policy-process.html Excerpt: Given the reality that the US faces in Afghanistan; the historic lack of functional centralized government, exceedingly high number of societal elements, many of which are geographically isolated or semi-isolated, the illegitimacy of the current Afghan government, and the fact that groups we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning in Afghanistan: A Message from Ambassador Eikenberry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl E. Eikenberry. Embassy of the U.S.A., Kabul, 08 November 2009. http://static1.firedoglake.com/37/files/2009/11/Winning-in-Afghanistan.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 2009. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fixing_failed_strategy.pdf Excerpt: &#8230;the International Coalition, with its limited resources and diminishing popular support, should focus on its core interests: preventing the Taliban from retaking Afghan cities, avoiding the risk that al-Qaeda would try to reestablish sanctuaries there, pursue a more aggressive counterinsurgency strategy in the North, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Iraq, Lessons for the Next War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alissa J. Rubin. New York Times. 31 October 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01RUBIN.html]]></description>
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		<title>Private Military Contractors and U.S. Grand Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Isenberg. PRIO, 15 October 2009. http://www.prio.no/sptrans/-1720057691/Isenberg Private Military Contractors PRIO Report-2009.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Go Big or Go Deep: An Analysis of Strategy Options on Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel L. Davis. U.S. Army (unofficial and unclassified), 14 October 2009. Hosted on the Sic Semper Tyrannis Website. http://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/go-deep-_14-oct-09_.pdf Excerpt: In 2009 Afghanistan today, conditions on the ground are nothing like that of Iraq of early 2007 and there is little reason to believe the tactical success achieved by the Iraq surge could be repeated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The key issue in Afghanistan isn’t the number of troops we send, it’s the mission that they’re given – and that’s why the military doctrine and strategy of “counterinsurgency” is totally inadequate as a guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Vega. The Democratic Strategist, 12 October 2009. http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/_memos/tds_SM_Vega_Afg.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Strategists: Translating National Strategy into Theater Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek S. Reveron and James L. Cook. Joint Forces Quarterly, October 2009. http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-55/4.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gian P. Gentile. Parameters, Autumn 2009. http://www.public.navy.mil/usff/documents/gentile.pdf Excerpt: Population-centric COIN may be a reasonable operational method to use in certain circumstances, but it is not a strategy. Editor&#8217;s Comment: Agreed! COIN is a collection of tactics. What is missing in Afghanistan is a strategy with any credible chance of success &#8230; despite the lip-service to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Stanley McChrystal, Commander ISAF, Speech on Afghanistan to IISS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Stanley McChrystal, Commander ISAF, speech on Afghanistan to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 01 October 2009. http://www.iiss.org/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=31537&#038;type=full&#038;servicetype=Attachment]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Security Cooperation Agency: 2009-2014 Strategic Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), DoD, 29 September 2009. http://www.dsca.mil/programs/CPO/DSCA_StratPlan_2009-2014.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Alien: How Operational Art Devoured Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Kelly and Michael James Brennan. Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College, 16 September 2009. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=939 Excerpt: Recent western military exploits in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and East Timor, all represent, if not strategic failure, at least failures of strategy. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether this weakness is endemic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mullen&#8217;s Strategic Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Lynch. The New ForeignPolicy.com, 31 August 2009. http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/31/mullens_strategic_communication]]></description>
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		<title>Commander&#8217;s Initial Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanley A. McChrystal. NATO International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan, 30 August 2009 (unclassified). Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/090830mcchrystal.pdf Excerpt: NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) requires a new strategy that is credible to, and sustainable by, the Afghans.]]></description>
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		<title>United States Government Integrated Civilian – Military Campaign Plan for Support to Afghanisitan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl W. Eikenberry and Stanley A. McChrystal. Embassy of the U.S.A. Kabul and U.S. Forces Afghanistan. 10 August 2009 (printable .pdf file). Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute Website. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/0908eikenberryandmcchrystal.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Media Conference Call: Stephen Biddle on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presider: Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrid Threats: Reconceptualizing the Evolving Character of Modern Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank G. Hoffman. Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, April 2009. http://bsu.ase.ro/oldbsu/anexe/lectures2010/SF240.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Security in Afghanistan: Crafting an Efective and Responsible Strategy for the  Forgotten Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Sean Duggan. Center for American Progress, March 2009. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website (printable .pdf file).]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of an Afghan Counterinsurgency Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derrick Crowe. Daily Kos, 12-17 January 2009. Part 1: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/13/683402/-The-Myth-of-an-Afghan-Counterinsurgency-Strategy Part 2: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/15/684255/-The-Myth-of-an-Afghan-Counterinsurgency-Strategy,-Part-II Part 3: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/17/685455/-The-Myth-of-an-Afghan-Counterinsurgency-Strategy,-Part-III]]></description>
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		<title>Think Again: Counterinsurgency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gian P. Gentile. Foreign Policy, January 2009. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4631]]></description>
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