Category: Bullets

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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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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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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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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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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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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I hate it when my real job gets in the way of my rather time-consuming hobby…Today we are playing catch up from nearly a week away from the keys. There are so many important articles and podcasts today and we cannot chose them all so why not begin with War of the Rocks’:

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If Mao Zedong, “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed” or Carl von Clausewitz in On War, “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means” are correct then a contributing factor to the Taliban conquering

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China dominates as Taiwan comes squarely in focus but first we go to The Modern War Institute with an Afghanistan Postmortem in: How Not to Build a State. There is so much here that you really need to read the whole thing. The article ultimately concludes, “The experience of

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Since the abrupt fall and dramatic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Great Power Competition and China have dominated the headlines. The last few days and this weekend catch-up have been very different in that there is no central theme, and the news is coming from all

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