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...Iraq. "Much of what the American Army ended up doing in Iraq under General Petraeus was as a result of lessons learned largely from the British," says Nagl, who helped Petraeus revise the U.S. counterinsurgency manual. "My own evaluation of how the British army adapted to the demands of counter-insurgency in Malaya had some role in influencing how we thought about the importance of building an adaptive learning organization." (Read a TIME cover story on Petraeus...
...Peter L. Knudson’s direction of ire towards Harvard’s alcohol education policies is misguided at best and pernicious at worst. First of all, his sophomoric assessment that “DAPA can preach until they are blue in the face” runs counter to the organization’s reputation. Although AlcoholEDU is tedious, it serves as an introduction to healthy drinking habits for the many freshman teetotalers entering Harvard. Mr. Knudson argues that harsh penalties would better control binge drinking, but he is looking myopically at the short term. What happens to students...
...apartment (which thankfully had a bulletproof door), I still couldn’t sleep. The next day, I refused to leave the apartment. The day after, I ran out of a grocery store convinced that the 60-year-old grandmother who had been standing at the meat counter next to me was only biding her time before jumping me. For several weeks, my irrational paranoia led me to believe that any stranger within two miles of me was almost certainly a sociopath waiting to pilfer my vintage Nokia. For the rest of the summer, I only visited the ATM wearing...
...people of the North Caucasus are well-accustomed to Moscow's iron fist. They have been at the center of Russia's Islamist insurgency for decades, and the return of massive "counter-terrorist operations" seems to be treated like a storm that hadn't passed in a while. "People here are mostly calm. They're used to it. They're staying inside," says Yulya Yuzik, an author who is researching her book, Brides of Allah, in the regional capital of Dagestan. "Around those forests you can hear the blasts from up in the mountains. But it sounds like it might...
...used to classical ballet—you follow the beat, you have your accent on that counter note,” said Skal, who added that she had been apprehensive about performing a piece using such an unfamiliar method...