Lawrence of Arabia on Tribes
By Steven Pressfield | Published: June 18, 2009

Maj. Jim Gant, ODA 316, with Malik Noor, Mangwel, Konar Province
I like very much Gen. McChrystal’s idea for a new Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell (cited in Max Boot’s article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal). This entity would be an ongoing “corps of roughly 400 officers who will spend years working on Afghanistan,” even when they are not actually in-country. (more…)



















