GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster.

What wrong looks like…

This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective.

Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides, and endless Battle Update Brief (BUB) and Commander’s Update Brief (CUB) “battle rhythm events” didn’t beat a decentralized bunch of illiterate goat-herding Muslim jihadists.

The Taliban is one of the most successful Islamic insurgencies since the 17th century.

Steven Pressfield: “It’s the tribes, stupid.”

“It was only Mao who said, ‘there is no such thing as a decisive battle’ in guerilla warfare”

COL David Hackworth, About Face, page 611