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Learning to Apply the Principles of Counterinsurgency Part One: Introduction...
Soviets Enter Afghanistan Note: This is the First Part of a Series which I will be writing on Afghanistan and Counterinsurgency strategy in that country. Part of this will be a review of various...
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Padre Steve’s Military History and Theory Articles
I am not normal, ask anyone who knows me. I am a Priest who is also a military history and theory “wonk.” I guess part of the reason for this as that I did not begin life as a clergyman. In fact way...
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Goodbyes and Prayers: Sending Friends off to War
My little war within the war, Christmas with the Bedouin Yesterday I was honored to be at a pre-deployment ceremony for a number of my shipmates from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center about half of I...
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Fighting a World Wide Insurgency: The Problem Fighting Revolutionary...
Taliban Insurgents “Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions political, economic, psychological; military that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its...
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Failing to Learn from History: The Lesson of the First Anglo-Afghan War and...
“The Americans in Afghanistan are Demons. They claim they burned Korans by mistake, but really those were “Satanic acts that will never be forgiven by apologies.” Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai It...
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Dien Bien Phu: The Soldiers and the Lessons Forgotten and Unlearned 65 Years...
Dien Bien Phu Today It was an epic battle in a tragic war and most people neither know or care what happened in the valley where a small border post named Dien Bien Phu became synonymous with...
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“I Imagined it Would Be Different” Passing the Baton on my Last 9-11 on...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, September 11th is a day that always makes me more introspective. It brings back so many memories, some that I wish I could forget; but I cannot get the images of that...
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Dien Bien Phu, Bad Strategy, Bad Assumptions, & Defeat: COVID 19 and Worse...
Dien Bien Phu Today Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Sixty-six years ago the ragged and starving remnants of a French expeditionary Force was dying an excruciating death at Dien Bien Phu. They were the...
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