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Mark Moyar

Type: Person

Name: Mark Moyar

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

The L-Word in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, legitimacy comes more from the just use of power than it does from transparent elections. With that in mind, the United States should move beyond the country's disputed election and send the soldiers and resources that the war's U.S. generals ... [Foreign Affairs - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Taliban, United States, Legitimacy

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 2 Documents

A Moyar Report -- By: John J. Miller

My podcast today is with Mark Moyar , a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University and author of the just-published book, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq . We talk about how to win in Afghanistan, why the ballyhooed ... [National Review - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Mark Moyar, John J Miller, Counter-Insurgency, Marine Corps University

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 2 Documents

John Kerry

The Kerry Approach

John Kerry - fresh from his trip to Afghanistan and flush from his success with Karzai - comes down between the counterinsurgency of McChrystal and the counterterrorism of Biden:... although he leaned far closer to McChrystal than to Biden. Kerry dismissed ... [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, John Kerry, Mark Moyar, Counter-Terrorism, Afghanistan

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 2 Documents

Afghan villages to get aid

KABUL ? U.S. and Afghan officials have agreed on a new nationwide strategy that will funnel millions of dollars in foreign aid to villages that organize "neighborhood watch"-like programs to help with security. OFFICIAL: Obama wants his Afghan war options ... [USA Today - 11/12/2009]

Entities: United States, Mark Moyar, Hamid Karzai, Mohammad Arif, Marine Corps University

First Reported 11/13/2009 - Updated 11/13/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Barack Obama

Obama's Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor (The Christian Science Monitor)

Quantico, Va. As President Obama decides on a strategy option for Afghanistan, he's said to be mulling over four options, with a province-by-province analysis of local Afghan leaders at his disposal.Members of his national security team rightly stress ... [Yahoo! News - 11/13/2009]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents

Hamid Karzai

U.S. to dole out aid to anti-Taliban Afghan militias

KABUL ? U.S. and Afghan officials have agreed on a new nationwide strategy that will funnel millions of dollars in foreign aid to villages that organize "neighborhood watch"-like programs to help with security. AP REPORTS: U.S. envoy said to object to ... [USA Today - 11/12/2009]

Entities: Anti-Taliban, United States, Mark Moyar, Hamid Karzai

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Video: Violence explodes in the Middle East

Oct. 26: Monday marked one of the deadliest days for American troops in the entire eight years of fighting in Afghanistan. Morning Meeting’s Dylan Ratigan talks with author Mark Moyar of the Marine Corps University and the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart ... [MSNBC - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Mark Moyar, Marine Corps University, Jonathan Capehart, Dylan Ratigan

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents

Mark Moyar: Lessons of Iraq

Mark Moyar holds the Kim T. Anderson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the Marine Corps University. He is the author of the revisionist history Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, now available in paperback. T The occasion of this post ... [Power Line - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Mark Moyar, Iraq, Counter-Insurgency, Afghanistan

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents

COIN at the Political Level

Yesterday, I wrote the following in an op-ed which ran in the Daily Beast: The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could use to affect the composition and behavior of the next Afghan government. As long as Afghanistan’s ... [Abu Muqawama - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, United States, Mark Moyar, Afghanistan

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

Leadership-Centric Counterinsurgency

Over at Kings of War, of Mark Moyar's book on leadership in counterinsurgency, 'A Question of Command.' According to Broadwell's reading (I haven't read the book itself), Moyar presents an alternative to the dominant population-centric approach to COIN, ... [World Politics Review - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, Mark Moyar, Insurgents

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents

Newsweek, we have a problem

HERE is a chart from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that shows global yearly mean temperatures over the past century. It was used in a November 2nd article by Jeffrey Ball in the Wall Street Journal.Quick quiz: according to the chart, ... [The Economist - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Vietnam, Mark Moyar, Richard Lindzen, Vietnam War

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents

Surge Or Trickle?

Afghanistan: There are two models for turning things around in what Democrats once called 'the good war.' One is the successful Bush surge used in Iraq. The other is the disastrous incrementalism applied in Vietnam. CBS News reports that President Obama ... [Yahoo! Canada - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Vietnam, Iraq, Mark Moyar

More Content

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The L-Word in Afghanistan [Foreign Affairs - 11/17/2009]
Obama's Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor [e-Ariana - 11/17/2009]
Obama's Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor ... [Yahoo! News - 11/13/2009]
Obama's Afghanistan plan: the warlord factor [Christian Science Monitor - 11/13/2009]
U.S. to dole out aid to anti-Taliban Afghan mil... [USA Today - 11/12/2009]
Afghan villages to get aid [USA Today - 11/12/2009]
Security plan looks to Afghan villages in fight... [USA Today - 11/12/2009]
Surge Or Trickle? [Yahoo! Canada - 11/11/2009]
Newsweek, we have a problem [The Economist - 11/10/2009]
Leadership-Centric Counterinsurgency [World Politics Review - 11/02/2009]
A Moyar Report -- By: John J. Miller [National Review - 10/27/2009]
Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afgha... [The Washington Independent - 10/26/2009]
Video: Violence explodes in the Middle East [MSNBC - 10/26/2009]
Counterinsurgents Grapple With Next Afghanistan... [The Washington Independent - 09/23/2009]
A Bad Vietnam Lesson for Afghanistan [Consortium News - 09/17/2009]

Blogs

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COIN at the Political Level [Abu Muqawama - 10/28/2009] Yesterday, I wrote the following in an op-ed which ran in the Daily Beast: The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could ...
Mark Moyar: Lessons of Iraq [Power Line - 10/28/2009] Mark Moyar holds the Kim T. Anderson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the Marine Corps University. He is the author of the revisionist history Triumph Forsaken: ...
A Moyar Report -- By: John J. Miller [The Corner on National Review Online - 10/27/2009] My podcast today is with Mark Moyar, a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University and author of the just-published book, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency ...
The Kerry Approach [The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 10/27/2009] John Kerry - fresh from his trip to Afghanistan and flush from his success with Karzai - comes down between the counterinsurgency of McChrystal and the counterterrorism ...
Friday's comment from the papers in... [Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG - 09/04/2009] Today in Times comment Melanie Reid: We turn our backs on Baby P’s who survive Frank Skinner: The relief of the short-distance runner Hugo Rifkind: ...

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