(AFGHANISTAN LESSONS) BEYOND DESEGREGATION: THE ARMY AND RACE IN THE VIETNAM ERA…AND TODAY Posted by Donn Hill Posted in Afghanistan Lessons, Podcasts Tags: Afghanistan, Military Strategy and Campaigning, OEF, SFAB, SFAC, access, advisor, fellows, presences, security force assistance, train advise assist 2 Comments on SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE: BUILDING ARMIES ![]() MG Hill shares insights on how the Army’s security force assistance brigades are taking best practices to armies around the world and what is now codified in the forthcoming update to FM 3-22, Army Support to Security Cooperation. Army has learned about security force assistance, building balanced and sustainable foreign security forces, and operationalizing the lessons learned from Afghanistan. Army War College Fellow LTC Ranjini Danaraj and MG Donn Hill, the Commander of Security Force Assistance Command, have a candid discussion on what the U.S. This is the first of a three-part series on Afghanistan and its lessons. The United States spent over 20 years in Afghanistan and while a lot has been written about the missteps, there is much to be written about the solutions that would have lent to better outcomes. Posted by Nelly Lahoud Posted in Podcasts Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Military Strategy and Campaigning, Strategic Leadership, al-Qaeda, bin Laden, culture, intelligence, strategic communication, terrorism 2 Comments on UNMASKING THE BOOGEYMAN: THE BIN LADEN PAPERS SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE: BUILDING ARMIES The information gleaned from this incredible undertaking paints a picture of a man and a network that, after the 9/11 attack, were confined, restrained and not very successful. She’s in the studio to discuss her book, “The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family” with host John Nagl. Nelly Lahoud and her team sorted through some 97,000 files and 6,000 pages of declassified documents, all in Arabic, to discover the truth about bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network. Once the mission was accomplished, the SEAL team conducted sensitive site exploitation and gathered up and returned with all of the materials and equipment they discovered in the compound. military conducted a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan that killed Usama bin Laden. “Call the press conference,” Bannon urged Trump while telling the ex-president not to listen to guidance from Ingraham or Graham, “and let’s play the tape from Georgia.Twelve years ago last week, on May 2, 2011, the U.S. “And fire half the people down there, by the way!” “He needs to stand up for himself,” Navarro continued. “Trump, Trump, Trump,” Bannon interjected. “The person who should be holding a press conference tomorrow, above anybody, pounding on the frickin’ table-particularly given cesspool in Georgia, the cesspool of Arizona-is Donald John Trump,” Navarro complained, referring to the surreptitiously filmed videos that fueled the baseless allegations of widespread fraud even in Republican-leaning states. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to nix the counter-programming. However, further reporting from Axios later revealed that the ex-president was pressured by several informal advisers, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Sen. ![]() “In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the Jan 6 Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, Jan 15, in Arizona-It will be a big crowd!" Trump wrote in a statement. The event was set to be held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, but was suddenly canceled on Tuesday afternoon.
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