Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux

Winning the Peace (WTP and/or WP ā€“ Willy Pete?), and the FAOs in the program are organized within each partner nation similarly to an infantry platoon reinforced. Platoon commander (O-5), platoon sergeant (E-8), corpsman, radio telephone operator (RTOs), squad leaders (O-4), fire team leaders (O-3), and grunts (enlisted advisors). The total number of individuals deployed … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux →

Winning the Peace (Ch. 3) Redux

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 ā€œstrategy,ā€ whatever it may be, … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 3) Redux →

Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 2)

Anyone who believes that we are winning the so called ā€œGlobal War on Terrorismā€ has not endured an airport screening lately. Winning the peace would mean that you could board a plane as stress free as you did before 9-11. No, what we see and feel in todayā€™s America is not what peace looks like. … Continue reading Plan Mexico: Winning the Peace (Ch. 2) →

Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!

There was a bereavement this week reverberating through L1 and all of the legacy sites.ā€‚And in the course of interacting online with the widow, I realized something: there are no (other) women posting on those sites. Dorothy Parker, as Iā€™m sure you know, was a famous wit, critic and poet in the 1920s. One of … Continue reading Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker! →