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Tag Archives: Maj. Jim Gant

Gifts of Honor: A Tale of Two Captains

By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 18, 2010
[Friends, with apologies, a stomach virus has laid the blog low.  Here's a re-run of a post that has been a reader favorite. We'll be back on Wednesday!] June 22nd, the Washington Post ran an excellent article by Greg Jaffe, titled “A Personal Touch in Taliban Fight.” The piece is about a young Army captain, Michael [...]
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One Tribe At A Time #4: The Full Document at last!

By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 29, 2009
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 [...]
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One Tribe At A Time #3: The “How” of Tribal Engagment

By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 19, 2009
[The blog is "on the road" this week, so I'm going to re-run last week's One Tribe At A Time post.  I actually wanted to do this anyway, just because it produced so many interesting comments and questions.  We'll have the full free downloadable .pdf of Maj. Jim Gant's One Tribe At A Time next Monday. [...]
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“One Tribe At A Time,” #1

By Steven Pressfield | Published: September 28, 2009
The thoughts and I ideas that I will put forward in this paper are mine alone. Although I credit the U.S. Army Special Forces for the training I have received and the trust of [its] commanders, nothing in this paper reflects any other person’s or organization’s ideas. This is the opening author’s note from Maj. Jim Gant’s [...]
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