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Tag Archives: Afghanistan
One Tribe At A Time #4: The Full Document at last!
Download Major Jim Gant’s “One Tribe At A Time” to your computer, or view it right now.
[Because of the extraordinary response to Maj. Jim Gant's paper, One Tribe At A Time, I've decided to leave it up all week in the "Number One Slot." My ongoing interview with Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai will pick again [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, One Tribe At A Time Also tagged Maj. Jim Gant, One Tribe At A Time, tribal mindet, Tribalism, tribes 106 Comments
Interview with a Tribal Chief #4: Warlords and Taliban
[The blog is "on the road" this week. Here is a re-run of the most clicked interview so far. See you next week!]
Welcome back, Chief Zazai, after last week’s break in our ongoing, multi-part interview. As you know, we took that space last week to post an open letter to Gens. Jones, Petraeus, McChrystal and [...]
An Open Letter to Gen. James Jones, National Security Advisor
[This week has been a rough one for our troops in Afghanistan--and a contentions one among policymakers here in the States. I'm going to interrupt our ongoing interview with tribal chief Ajmal Khan Zazai to post this open letter. The same note was sent by e-mail two days ago to the parties below.]
TO: Gen. James [...]
One Tribe At A Time #2: Tribal Engagement Teams
Last week in our first excerpt from Special Forces Major Jim Gant’s paper, “One Tribe At A Time,” Maj. Gant laid out the concept for a specialized type of American unit–a Tribal Engagement Team. Such teams would be small, highly trained and motivated, and granted broad latitude in the means of pursuing their mission. They [...]
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Gifts of Honor: A Tale of Two Captains