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Parameters Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy	The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations.
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Vietnam December 2005 Lewis Sorley	The Abrams Tapes The once-classified tape recordings of General Creighton Abrams' staff meetings provide an unparalleled window into the inner workings of MACV headquarters.
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IEEE Spectrum March 2006 C. A. Fowler	Asymmetric Warfare: A Primer The armed forces of United States are the most capable military ever assembled. Are they designed, however, to handle a determined insurgency? Here's a look using famous engineer Frederick W. Lanchester's Mathematics in Warfare as a guide.
Parameters Spring 2006	Commentary & Reply Komer, CORDS, and Pacification: a reader commentary to Blowtorch: Robert Komer and the Making of Vietnam Pacification Policy... The Author Replies: Robert Komer and his US colleagues were not the only ones who perceived pacification chiefly as an internal problem...
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Parameters Summer 2005 William M. Darley	War Policy, Public Support, and the Media Perhaps no element of the current conflict in Iraq engenders more emotion and acrimony within the military than debate concerning the role and influence of the news media on public opinion and national policy.
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