Winning the Peace (Ch. 3)

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Past being prologue, it is not likely that either the Department of State or CIA is going to beat back the onslaught of Salafism. The intent here is to provide leadership with a notion of the type of Foreign Area Officer (FAO) required to develop and implement strategy. The current “strategy,” whatever it may be, is not a strategy in the traditional sense of the word – that is an idea or set of ideas for employing national power in a synchronized and integrated manner that concludes in our side winning the peace. Our current “strategy” seems to be designed to make Iraq a vassal state of Iran while spending over a trillion dollars to improve the infrastructure in Afghanistan before turning it back over to the Taliban.

Winning the peace begins with completely overhauling the training and development programs for FAOs, and reconsidering their roles and missions. Their current foreign language training is probably great if we want our FAOs sitting inside nondescript buildings all day everyday listening to foreign language radio and governmental intercepts for clues as to the order of battle of the Soviet military; however, it is inadequate to the task of developing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills that allow a FAO to operate unilaterally in foreign nations. 

If a FAO and his counterpart routinely speak English (a practice that is all too common) to each other, then be assured that the FAO’s foreign language skills are worse than the English skills of the foreign national. Let me say this in another way, if the counterpart’s English is barely intelligible to you, then be assured that the FAO’s command of his target foreign language is even worse; because if not, they would both be speaking that (foreign) language. In this case the counterpart is not practicing his English, he is simply trying to facilitate communication. On the other hand, if the FAO is speaking his counterpart’s language and the counterpart is responding in fluent English and there appears to be a fluid conversation taking place, our FAO is probably fluent. In too many cases FAOs’ language skills are inadequate for the current mission, let alone an expanded mission that may actually support strategy development, implementation, and victory.

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    1. It seems people only discover this type of brilliance after the innovator is dead and unable to reap any earthly rewards. The Green Berets would push back on this because it would upset their apple cart and put a spotlight on their incompetence.

      America is too stupid to live.

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  2. “America is too stupid to live.”

    Individual Marines going after Tucker Carlson last week on Twitter, from an official account, when he’s asked a perfectly reasonable question; with no corrective from “Mother Green”, makes me wonder where the Corps is headed….Sorta scary.

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      1. “it is all careerism now. The warriors abandoned the military after Benghazi.”

        With ample reason….Any signs that they’ll (the services) find the way back before the CCP comes calling?

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      2. Why should they?

        I hear all young enough to still have any get up and go, so to speak, are now living in Angeles City enjoying the fruits of their labor.

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      8. Apparently, the military is now telling people that Catholics and Evangelical Christians are religious extremists, and belong in the same category as the KKK and Islamic terrorists. I will try to get a link.

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      9. It is now surprise. Obama started this in his first term. Now in his third term, he is cancelling Christians because their higher power is now or never the god of wokism.

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      13. Christians intersectionality meets and is no lower than mohammedans? Imagine my surprise!

        Well, that is rather pleasant shock to my system.

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      15. Actually, I take that back: they put all Christians in the same category as hardened Islamic terrorists. Run of the mill Muslims are presumed innocent, of course.

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      17. They want to fill the military with women and transgenders who have nothing but contempt for the American people. Then they want to take our guns away, so that these gay “soldiers” are the only ones who will be armed. They won’t succeed, but they will wreak unbelievable havoc, and they will create openings for our foreign enemies. But I don’t need to tell Simon any of this, he already knows. I am just thinking out loud.

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  3. I know how this is going to sound but I will say it anyway. No one can implement this program as well as I would be able to. Others could and would improve on it better than I would because of many reasons, such as outside looking in and forest for the trees.

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  4. We should have started a program like this in Mexico +10 years ago when I first proposed it to my Commanding General. Our State Department would rather not offend any foreign nations’ leadership by suggesting they have a problem.

    On the other hand, America’s threats are mostly internal now. We have lost the window of opportunity. I would rather fight the bad guys in their neighborhoods. It is just stupid (ergo what we will inevitably do) to invite them into your house to brawl.

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