I discussed this issue with Nick before he made the above post. I think it will make for an interesting paper and would ask that any so inclined give him a hand with what he is trying to do.
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Nick - not sure if you ran across this yet. http://www.statecraft.org/chapter15.html
Scroll down about 1/3 down page. This might give you an idea at least what the mil is looking for when they select. Then you need to investigate how well the actual service members fit the "ideal"
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I had not but this is exactly the type of thing I had been looking for, mostly anything that referances to studies done on the psychology of SOF. Most things I had found were very generalized and about regular military. Thank you.
Okay guys and gals, working on a project for my irregular warfare class. I'm trying to come up with something that is somewhat outside of the box. The topic I'm considering pertains to the Mexican drug cartels and how they are fighting each other and the government for control of natural resources. The kicker is that said natural resources are the smuggling corridors into the U.S. Any thoughts suggestions or critiques on this idea are appreciated. I should have a draft on here in the next couple of days.
I wouldn't consider it a natural resource since the routes and corridors, which naturally occurring, are not resources that diminish or replenish like, say, oil or diamonds.
Spit its become a fight like those of the old west over things like water rights.
Disagree. It's more like a "proper" war that's fought over geography.
What definition are you using for "natural resource?" I tend to agree with Spitty that the war is over control of key terrain, not over natural resources.
For several years I've been toying with the idea of recommending some major changes to the five-paragraph OPORD. One of my friends and I are going to co-author an article about it, and I'm looking for input, specifically what the standard basic OPORD (i.e. the format from ROTC and/or IOBC) is now, and any OPORD-related articles currently in existence. UNCLASS preferred, FOUO is OK, nothing classified. PMs welcome.
I have to write a short (5-7 pages )leadership paper on the decision to go into Iraq in 2003. I'm going to start looking for sources tomorrow, if anyone has some good ones off the top of their head, please let me know what they are. Thanks.
I believe some of the backup for the decision making is still classed well above FOUO
Gee Dub's autobio would be a good source.
There were some interesting bits and pieces in General Tommy Franks Book.
Good; that means my professor won't be able to contradict me if I'm wrong ;)
I'm just looking for open-source stuff for this paper.
Attached is the paper I wrote about the war in Iraq. Thank you for the book recommendations, I ended up using Decision Points (which is where I derived the title of my paper), In My Time, and Plan of Attack as primary sources. I also used a lot of magazine and newspaper articles.
When I first starting writing this paper, I had in my mind that while the decision to go into Iraq in 2003 turned out to be a bad one, that anyone in the same situation would have made the same decision. The more I read and the more I looked at the available evidence, however, I came to a different conclusion.
I ended up doing a massive re-write on this paper the night before it was due, in part because of the ultimate conclusion I came to and in part because I wanted to do a really good paper and impress the professor. The result, however, was not my best work. There were a couple of things I could have expanded, and a couple of places where I went off on a bit of a tangent. I also got kind of pissed off towards the end of the paper when I started thinking about all the waste and loss of life in Iraq, and that anger crept into what I was writing.
Nonetheless, the sources I cited might be useful to anyone if they have to write something on this topic in the future, or if you want to take a look at the same evidence and make up your own mind.
When I first starting writing this paper, I had in my mind that while the decision to go into Iraq in 2003 turned out to be a bad one, that anyone in the same situation would have made the same decision. The more I read and the more I looked at the available evidence, however, I came to a different conclusion.
I ended up doing a massive re-write on this paper the night before it was due, in part because of the ultimate conclusion I came to and in part because I wanted to do a really good paper and impress the professor. The result, however, was not my best work. There were a couple of things I could have expanded, and a couple of places where I went off on a bit of a tangent. I also got kind of pissed off towards the end of the paper when I started thinking about all the waste and loss of life in Iraq, and that anger crept into what I was writing.
Nonetheless, the sources I cited might be useful to anyone if they have to write something on this topic in the future, or if you want to take a look at the same evidence and make up your own mind.
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