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...possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used to reduce crime rates in the 1990s...
...According to Lieut. Colonel John Nagl, author of a recent book on counterinsurgency warfare called Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, "The tipping point comes when the residents trust you enough to tell you where the bad guys are rather than telling the bad guys where you are." coin, then, requires two things that armies are traditionally not very good at: sophisticated person-to-person skills and patience. It also requires a very specific sort of training...
...value freedom of speech, but as the wife of a sailor who just came back from a six-month deployment, I think it's about time we started looking at both sides of the coin. I am proud of my husband for defending the country and the Constitution, and I am even more proud to live in a country in which political dissent is not viewed as treason. The Dixie Chicks were foolish, however, if they didn't expect repercussions for alienating their core audience by insulting the President while performing in a foreign country. Country-music listeners are well...
...passage to the nature of the Darfur issue. “It’s just a situation that can’t exist,” CERF Chair Jerry Sagnella said. “There’s no argument...for it on the other side of the coin.” Sagnella emphasized that it was important for divestment not to become a political tool in split issues. “You’ve gotta be careful on issues like that because you’re setting yourself up to be like an arbitrator and an umpire...
...person picked by the lottery of birth possibly embody a whole nation? What can a constitutional monarch like Elizabeth II, prohibited from exercising any real power, actually do to justify her country's steady devotion - the crowds who line up to cheer when she passes, her face on each coin and bill and postage stamp, a national anthem that beseeches God to save her? What does she really do to earn something for which respect is way too small a word...