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		<title>Fighting Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/09/fighting-myths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Marlow]]></category>
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There are a few myths that are repeated but never questioned.  Ann Marlow dispels one such myth in her Wall Street Journal article The Truth About Who Fights for Us, 9/27/11.
Excerpts:
Indeed, the Heritage report showed that &#8220;low-income families are underrepresented in the military and high-income families are overrepresented. Individuals from the bottom household income quintile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than Mere Tactics</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/more-than-mere-tactics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossadegh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley McChrsytal]]></category>

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At an industry meeting last week at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO, the first speaker on Monday, May 2,  was General Stanley McChrystal.  Given the killing of Bin Laden the day before he changed his topic from one of leadership to speak about the special forces and the situation in the middle east.
He touched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if the Mission Failed?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/what-if-the-mission-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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President Obama made a presidential decision, both to remain focused on the pursuit of Bin Laden and on the crucial decision to bend the rules to send Special Forces in on the ground and kill him.  He deserves credit for the success of the mission.
Such operations demonstrate the incredible ability of our elite forces, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Change</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/fighting-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iceland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>

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When I learned, for example, that the Pentagon had been spending $225 million every year to maintain our forces in Iceland, I sent a memo to Powell recommending that we make a change.  I pointed out that our aircraft originally had been stationed in Iceland to track Soviet subs in the North Atlantic.  Now that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumsfeld’s View</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/5534/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleeza Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>

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I have admired Rumsfeld. He seemed intelligently clear in his press briefings and was able to use humor appropriately.  Yet many in the military were scathingly critical of him and pushed for his resignation.  He was deemed to squelch criticism and dissent, and ignore basic principles of war in spite of warnings.  It was my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective on Casualties</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/01/perspective-on-casualties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[405,399364,51113,2839,5567,099
405,399- U.S. military fatalities in WWII
364,511 – Military fatalities in the Civil War
13,283- U.S. military fatalities in the Mexican War
9,556- Total U.S. military deaths during the PEACETIME of 1980-83
7,099 total U.S. military deaths during the first four years of the Iraqi War from 2003 – 2006
Also since 1998 5.4 million people have been killed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The More Disproportionate the Better</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/12/the-more-disproportionate-the-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israel is often criticized for disproportionate response to their terrorist foes.  Yet any successful military solution is disproportionate.   It is the only humane way to fight a war.  A war is not a field game designed to be fair and equal, to minimize the game spread. It is meant to defeat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shortest Distance a Bullet Need Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/08/the-shortest-distance-a-bullet-need-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/08/the-shortest-distance-a-bullet-need-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[from
Looking for TroubleAdventures in a Broken Worldby Ralph Peters
&#8220;Intelligence officers worry too much about dead facts and too little about their antagonist&#8217;s delusions.  What men believe about themselves is often more important than their reality- and certainly more useful, if you must fight them.  Measure the difference between an enemy&#8217;s mundane existence and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Ops Panty Hose</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/06/special-ops-panty-hose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When some of our special ops soldiers met up with the Northern Allaince in Afghanistan they had to quickly adapt to horseback to cover their operational territory. Saddles sores became so severe it became a disability. They requested hundreds of pounds of vaseline.
But the fine dust of the region mixed with the vaseline and turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Secret Weapon</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/04/americas-secret-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2008/04/americas-secret-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Peters, a critic of the Rumsfeld fiasco period, is high on Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his selection of soldiers&#8217; soldiers to run the war. The article, Gates&#8217;s Grand Slam.
General Robert Patraeus will take over US Central Command.
Lt General Ray Odierno will take over as head of the forces in Iraq.
Lt. General Peter Chiarelli [...]]]></description>
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