October 2021, The Cognitive Warrior Project

Medical

Burns: Lessons Learned from Long Term Care

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 29, 2021

I hate burns, always have. They hurt and it is difficult to get relief when treating them. As a former Special Forces Medic (18D) who still occasionally teaches Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), I don’t know many medics/corpsmen or anyone else really who likes to

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Daily Dump: The Comprehensive Take on Great Power Competition, Going it Alone in Afghanistan and So Much More – October 13/14, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 15, 2021

Over the last couple days, I have been trying to get this out and I cannot quite get through all of the sources to put together a ‘complete’ Daily Dump but there are so many really good, really important articles that I thought I should post at least something. We are only

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Daily Dump: Why Afghanistan Fell, The Taliban and Governance, al-Sadr’s Victory, A Demographic Crisis and More – October 12, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 12, 2021

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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Daily Dump: Spoiling for a Fight, Terror, Pakistan, India, China, Dip and More – October 11, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 11, 2021

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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Daily Dump: War is Politics, The Haqqani Network, West Point, No Conquest, No Defeat, Water Wars, A 2,700-year-old Toilet and More – October 6, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 6, 2021

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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Daily Dump: An Afghanistan Postmortem, The Day After Overthrow, China’s Military Interventions, Reading Beyond Headlines, Taiwan and More – October 5, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 5, 2021

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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Daily Dump: Searching for a Theme, The Bahamas, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Planning to Fail and More – October 4, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 4, 2021

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

Month: October 2021