Catching Up

A couple articles worth reading:

LTC Gian Gentile, "Eating soup with a spoon," Armed Forces Journal, Sept. 2007 (subsequent discussion at the Small Wars Council here).

Andrew Bacevich, "Sycophant Savior," The American Conservative, Oct. 8, 2007

George Packer, "Planning for Defeat," The New Yorker, Sept. 17, 2007

Rick Atkinson, "Left of Boom: The Struggle to Defeat Roadside Bombs," The Washington Post online

David Rohde, "Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones," The New York Times, Oct. 5, 2007

Joe Biden and Leslie Gelb, "Federalism, Not Partition," The Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2007

Robert Kaplan, "Modern Heroes," The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4, 2007