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		<title>Downrange: An Informal Report of a trip to Afghanistan with Marine Gen. James N. Mattis</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/03/downrange-an-informal-report-of-a-trip-to-afghanistan-with-marine-gen-james-n-mattis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Part Four of Four]
COIN doctrine, counter-insurgency theory, says “protect the people” comes before “kill the enemy.&#8221; In meeting after meeting we heard all the right things from officers and civilian leaders who were earnest, brave, well-intentioned, smart, sincere, hard-working and absolutely decent and ethical.  We heard about construction projects and rules of engagement and mitigating<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/03/downrange-an-informal-report-of-a-trip-to-afghanistan-with-marine-gen-james-n-mattis/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Downrange: An Informal Report on a trip to Afghanistan with Marine General James N. Mattis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Part Three of Four]
It’s more than a little weird, participating in one of these PR walkarounds. Self-congratulation is the inevitable theme. The bubble can get pretty thick. For me, at least, it&#8217;s almost impossible to grok the street reality. Are things going great or are we all lining up to drink our own Kool-Aid?  For<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/03/downrange-an-informal-report-on-a-trip-to-afghanistan-with-marine-general-james-n-mattis/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Downrange: An Informal Report on a trip to Afghanistan with Marine Gen. James N. Mattis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Part Two of Four]
6. Kabul is a Third World city, squalid as mud and dirty as hell. Every building that&#8217;s above the level of the people is built like a fortress; compounds with high walls topped with razor wire, AK-toting guards out front and security cameras atop Y-shaped posts. At the airport, guard towers are<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/03/downrange-an-informal-report-on-a-trip-to-afghanistan-with-marine-gen-james-n-mattis-2/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Downrange: An Informal Report on a trip to Afghanistan with Marine Gen. James N. Mattis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One of Four
1. Jim Mattis is a four-star Marine general. He doesn’t go out of his way to be quotable; he just can’t help himself.  Here, from Iraq 2004, are his instructions to the Marines under his command on how to conduct themselves with the natives they will encounter.
Be polite.  Be professional.  But have<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/03/downrange-an-informal-report-on-a-trip-to-afghanistan-with-marine-gen-james-n-mattis/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Gen. James Jones, National Security Advisor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[This week has been a rough one for our troops in Afghanistan--and a contentions one among policymakers here in the States.  I'm going to interrupt our ongoing interview with tribal chief Ajmal Khan Zazai to post this open letter.  The same note was sent by e-mail two days ago to the parties below.]

TO: Gen. James<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One Tribe at a Time&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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The thoughts and I ideas that I will put forward in this paper are mine alone. Although I credit the U.S. Army Special Forces for the training I have received and the trust of [its] commanders, nothing in this paper reflects any other person&#8217;s or organization&#8217;s ideas.

This is the opening author&#8217;s note from Maj. Jim Gant&#8217;s<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/one-tribe-at-a-time-1/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Part #1</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-an-afghan-tribal-chief-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[The blog is out of town this week.  Here is a re-boot of our first post in this ongoing series. See you Monday!]
This will be the first of a multi-part conversation with Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai of Paktia province, Afghanistan. Let&#8217;s plunge right in.
SP: Chief Zazai, this summer you were elected to the paramountcy of eleven<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-an-afghan-tribal-chief-part-1/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mea Culpa: Coming Attractions coming a little late</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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They say that every enterprise, from D-Day to a kitchen remodel, takes three times as long as you think and costs three times as much. I must apologize: our two new series have run afoul of this same syndrome. Here&#8217;s the latest:
We will launch, for sure, next Friday, with a reconfigured site.
Series #1: A multi-part,<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/mea-culpa-coming-attractions-coming-a-little-late/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Mashup—9/14/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This past Friday marked eight years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
 
Looking back over the last eight years, Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken” comes to mind:
 


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both 
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/monday-mashup%e2%80%9491409/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing When to Stop, or Learning How to Win?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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A guest blog by Michael Brandon McClellan
[Mike McClellan is a graduate of Yale and Georgetown Law and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. His articles on politics and foreign policy have appeared in the WSJ, the Weekly Standard and on TCS Daily.  It's our pleasure to welcome him as a contributor.]

A few months ago I<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/knowing-when-to-stop-or-learning-how-to-win/">More >></a>]]></description>
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