Category: Bullets

Always the sucker for a postmortem or a lessons learned, we go back to Afghanistan and Foreign Affairs with Why Afghanistan Fell: An Insider’s Account of What Went Wrong. Ultimately, there was not a single thing that led to the Afghan collapse to the Taliban. The article

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I hate it when my real job gets in the way of my rather time-consuming hobby…Today we are playing catch up from nearly a week away from the keys. There are so many important articles and podcasts today and we cannot chose them all so why not begin with War of the Rocks’:

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If Mao Zedong, “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed” or Carl von Clausewitz in On War, “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means” are correct then a contributing factor to the Taliban conquering

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China dominates as Taiwan comes squarely in focus but first we go to The Modern War Institute with an Afghanistan Postmortem in: How Not to Build a State. There is so much here that you really need to read the whole thing. The article ultimately concludes, “The experience of

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Since the abrupt fall and dramatic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Great Power Competition and China have dominated the headlines. The last few days and this weekend catch-up have been very different in that there is no central theme, and the news is coming from all

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A mixed bag as we are all over the place in today’s daily dump. While frustration is not necessarily conveyed in the article I can imagine steam is blowing out someone’s ears somewhere as the U.S. bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul – activists – Reuters.

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Today we go back to Afghanistan and discuss the two sides of war and the complexities of conflict. In rural Afghanistan, a family welcomes Taliban rule, the BBC interviews a family living in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, Helmand Province, the area that was witness to

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Lots of Podcasts in today’s post but there is one in particular that I would like to bring your attention to: There’s More To Life Than Lethality,  a throwback to 2019 from the U.S. Army War College’s, A Better Peace. In this episode they discuss how a myopic view on

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China dominates our headlines as reporters and environmental activists track down the nearly 300-ship Chinese fishing fleet off of the coast of Darwin, South America. The must-read article of the day goes to the AP’s Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s

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A couple deep dives today as we start off with War Room’s: To Keep Pace With Rivals, Analyze The Competition Space. Understanding the human geography is vitally important in any conflict and some could argue that this lack of understanding was a major US failure in both Iraq

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