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How Invanders Become RefugeesĀ 

According to the 1951 Geneva Convention a refugee is a person displaced by a well-founded fear of persecution due to their religious, political or ethnic affiliation. By this definition migrants fleeing war zones are not eligible to be admitted into the US under the Refugee Act of 1980. Yet According to the State Department, more … Continue reading How Invanders Become RefugeesĀ  →

By Request: Long-Distance Micromanagement of “Rules of Engagement” [ROE] Interferes with Carrying Out Battlefield Decision-Making, and Potentially Costs Lives

Change my civilian, military - particularly Marine - loving mind. Note: An engagement in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1992, described in _When the Tempest Gathers_ pages 46-61, first introduced me to the folly of "risk-aversion-to-the-nth-degree". But it is by no means the first, or last, example of such behavior.