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	<title>Steven Pressfield Online &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Gifts of Honor: A Tale of Two Captains</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2010/01/gifts-of-honor-a-tale-of-two-captains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Tribalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Friends, with apologies, a stomach virus has laid the blog low.  Here's a re-run of a post that has been a reader favorite. We'll be back on Wednesday!]
June 22nd, the Washington Post ran an excellent article by Greg Jaffe, titled “A Personal Touch in Taliban Fight.” The piece is about a young Army captain, Michael<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2010/01/gifts-of-honor-a-tale-of-two-captains/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Full Document at last!</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[One Tribe At A Time]]></category>
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Download Major Jim Gant&#8217;s &#8220;One Tribe At A Time&#8221; to your computer, or view it right now.



[Because of the extraordinary response to Maj. Jim Gant's paper, One Tribe At A Time, I've decided to leave it up all week in the "Number One Slot."  My ongoing interview with Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai will pick again<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Warlords and Taliban</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[An Interview with an Afghan Tribal Chief]]></category>
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[The blog is "on the road" this week.  Here is a re-run of the most clicked interview so far.  See you next week!]
Welcome back, Chief Zazai, after last week&#8217;s break in our ongoing, multi-part interview. As you know, we took that space last week to post an open letter to Gens. Jones, Petraeus, McChrystal and<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Gen. James Jones, National Security Advisor</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/</link>
		<comments>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/#comments</comments>
		<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>Tribal Engagement Teams</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-2-tribal-engagement-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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Last week in our first excerpt from Special Forces Major Jim Gant&#8217;s paper, &#8220;One Tribe At A Time,&#8221; Maj. Gant laid out the concept for a specialized type of American unit&#8211;a Tribal Engagement Team. Such teams would be small, highly trained and motivated, and granted broad latitude in the means of pursuing their mission. They<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-2-tribal-engagement-teams/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: Warlords</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-part-2-warlords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: Welcome back, Chief Zazai, for this second installment of our multi-part interview. As our readers know from last week, you are a paramount chief of eleven tribes in your home district, the Zazi Valley in Paktia province. Your father fought the Soviets and the Taliban and was assassinated in 2000; you yourself have fought<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-part-2-warlords/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One Tribe at a Time&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/one-tribe-at-a-time-1/</link>
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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>Mea Culpa: Coming Attractions coming a little late</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/mea-culpa-coming-attractions-coming-a-little-late/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/monday-mashup%e2%80%9491409/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/knowing-when-to-stop-or-learning-how-to-win/</link>
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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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