Author: Patrick Lang

The Right Idea Too late?

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Michael Ware of Time magazine told Christopher Matthews this evening that after next week’s election in Iraq the US policy will be to force the inevitable government of Shia clients of Iran to...

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Counterinsurgency – a Re-Discovery?

by Patrick Lang (bio below, with a must-read update) Someone wrote to me today to inform of the ongoing debate in Washington’s “circles of exalted brooding” with regard to the “discovery” on the...

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The Propaganda of the Word

by Patrick Lang (bio below) There are Public Information Officers (PIOs) and then there are propagandists. The two are not the same. PIOs have the job of releasing what is thought to be the truth to media outlets. The...

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Ah! It’s an IRAQI Rebellion! Ah!

by Col. Patrick Lang (Ret.) (bio below) I listened to President Bush’s speech at Annapolis. The thing with the Midshipmen and the Academy Band and a predictably warm reception is amusing. If he really wanted to hear them...

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Re-Training Support People?

by Col. Patrick Lang (Ret.) (bio below) On Meet the Press yesterday we learned that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Peter Pace USMC says that the armed forces can cope adequately with its impending crisis of personnel...

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