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Daily Dump: A Porcupine Strategy for Taiwan, The Two Side of COIN, The Terrorists’ Marketplace, the Western Way of War and More – January 5, 2022

ByRon P. SchweryJanuary 5, 2022

Between the wife being extraordinarily busy and trying to get ready for the Holiday Season, I have almost completely unplugged for the last month or so and am trying to get caught back up. Today’s reading list focuses primarily on what you and I (mostly me) may have missed

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Daily Dump: A Holiday Push, An AOL Post on Ukraine, Catching-up, A Build up to War, Fire and Ice, Sand Trafficking and More – Nov/Dec

ByRon P. SchweryDecember 13, 2021

With the holidays upon us, time for writing has been limited to say the least. Today’s post will catch us up to December 6 and then I should be able to get us current either today or tomorrow. This is a very AOL post as the world has pretty much moved past the Ukraine story.

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Daily Dump: Seeking Strategic Clarity, Poison Frogs, Irregular Warfare in India, Illegal Fishing and More – November 18, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 18, 2021

Earlier this week I mentioned in passing the very good Net Assessment podcast: Richard Haass Is Here! in which Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discuss’ ‘what the United States has gotten right and wrong the last few decades, focusing

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Daily Dump: Looking at Great Power Competition from Different Perspectives – November 17, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 17, 2021

I struggled to find a theme in today’s headlines so I decided to take a broad look at Great Power Competition (GPC) or Strategic Competition if you are into the latest buzz words. An often used military component of GPC is Security Force Assistance (SFA), or strengthening a

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Daily Dump: Nagorno-Karabakh, Kashmir, Afghanistan and More – November 15, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 16, 2021

There are things that you want to talk about and things that you probably need to talk to about… We are still playing catch-up from our several weeks away (also a day late with one) and we are going to cover A LOT of ground in Today’s Daily Dump. Originally, I planned on a

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Daily Dump: Catching Up, Irregular Warfare, Great Power Competition, Guerrilla Diplomacy and More – October / November

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 12, 2021

Having been recently certified as an official instructor, I am playing catch up after almost a month away from the keys. While I was in class, I was still driving to work everyday so that made time for podcasts but not much else. With that in mind, today’s post will be very

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Re-post: Triage and Squeaky Wheel Medicine: Applying Order to Chaos

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 2, 2021

Just a few more days and I am back on track…Since I have not been able to regularly post here and since I am using this article for the final class that I have to ‘teach,’ the following is a re-post from almost a year ago… Looking back, I don’t think

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Burns: Lessons Learned from Long Term Care

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 29, 2021

I hate burns, always have. They hurt and it is difficult to get relief when treating them. As a former Special Forces Medic (18D) who still occasionally teaches Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), I don’t know many medics/corpsmen or anyone else really who likes to

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Daily Dump: The Comprehensive Take on Great Power Competition, Going it Alone in Afghanistan and So Much More – October 13/14, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 15, 2021

Over the last couple days, I have been trying to get this out and I cannot quite get through all of the sources to put together a ‘complete’ Daily Dump but there are so many really good, really important articles that I thought I should post at least something. We are only

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Daily Dump: Why Afghanistan Fell, The Taliban and Governance, al-Sadr’s Victory, A Demographic Crisis and More – October 12, 2021

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 12, 2021

Always the sucker for a postmortem or a lessons learned, we go back to Afghanistan and Foreign Affairs with Why Afghanistan Fell: An Insider’s Account of What Went Wrong. Ultimately, there was not a single thing that led to the Afghan collapse to the Taliban. The article

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