Comments on: Powerpoint: How to win in Anbar Province in 18 easy steps

By: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:11:52 +0000

Gen. Petraeus speaks…

“It is not in our power to turn back the clock to the day before the al Askaria Mosque was bombed. We can, however, in partnership with our Iraqi colleagues, help improve the security situation and enable the Iraqi……

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Fort Apache, Fallujah

Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Fort Apache, Fallujah — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:38:32 +0000

[...] Another great one from INDC Bill about the difficulties of building a civil police force inside a war zone. There’s heroism to spare among the local Iraqis — as one Marine says, “Would people back home come back to work the next day after being shot in the head?” — but they need more American advisors. (Some cutting-edge biometric identification technology wouldn’t hurt, either.) Bill himself is ambivalent about whether it’s going to work or not, although he suspects if success does come, it’ll come when Fallujans accept the Patriquin plan. [...]

By: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:47:41 +0000

The Patriquin Plan–now in video…

Must-watch — Mary Katharine Ham has brought the Patriquin Plan from Power Point to YouTube: Background here, here, here, here, and here, and here. Contribute to the Patriquin Family Memorial Fund…….

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Judgment day in Fallujah

Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Judgment day in Fallujah — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:38:02 +0000

[...] Patriquin was killed with Maj. Megan McClung, but not before helping to popularize the plan they’re now using in Ramadi. [...]

By: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:09:40 +0000

“The way ahead will be neither quick nor easy.”…

That’s what Lt. Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning. It needs to be underlined and it is up the Commander-in-Chief to bolster national will moving forward. That’s what the troops repeatedly and candidly told us…..

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » The AP reports (again) on Maliki’s “change of heart”

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:09:03 +0000

[...] I’ll leave you with some good news from an unlikely source about the border town of Husaybah, where the only thing that’s exploding is the local economy. It’s part of Anbar province, but the locals have gotten things largely under control and the Marines are hoping to pull out of the area entirely within months. How’d they do it? You know how. [...]

By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » Assessing Iraq: Malkin and Preston Return From Iraq

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:25:30 +0000

[...] In Washington, counterinsurgency theory (COIN) is a neat, elite intellectual abstraction. Since coalition forces simply can’t catch and kill every insurgent lurking in the populace, the theory goes, it’s up to the military to persuade the Iraqi people to turn on the insurgents, join the political process, and help themselves. (See also the Patriquin Powerpoint and The Theory of Counterinsurgency in Six Easy Paragraphs.) At FOB Justice–former headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless military intelligence unit, the site of the dictator’s execution by hanging, and home to the Dagger Brigade 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division–COIN is a vivid, hands-on reality fleshed out. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » “Dramatic, unexpected” increase in Iraqi police recruits in Anbar

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:41:25 +0000

[...] U.S. commanders attribute the sudden increase in police applicants to the support of local tribal leaders and a deepening rift between Sunni tribesmen and extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq… [A.k.a. the Patriquin plan. — ed.] [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Interview with a Jacksonian

Hot Air » Blog Archive » INDC in Iraq: Interview with a Jacksonian — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:13:51 +0000

[...] Yeager insists they’re making progress in Fallujah. CBS says they’re making progress in Ramadi, too — thanks to the Patriquin plan. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Must-read of the day: INDC in Fallujah

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Must-read of the day: INDC in Fallujah — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:19:43 +0000

[...] How do you reclaim a country that’s so dangerous, firefighters are afraid to emerge from their station? Bill considers that question in his new piece for the Examiner. The can’t-miss, though, is the post he’s put up at INDC to complement it, an interview with a local civil servant named “Yusef” about the protection rackets being run by the jihadi mafia to fund the insurgency and what locals can do to stop them. Answer: follow the Patriquin plan. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: RIP, Maj. Megan McClung

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: RIP, Maj. Megan McClung — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:39:17 +0000

[...] Thanks much to Ken Noland of DVIDS, the public affair arm of the Third Army and Centcom, for pointing us to this. Many of you will know her name from her correspondence with Patterico in late November about the airstrike-that-wasn’t in Ramadi. Two weeks later, on December 6th, she was killed by an IED along with Army specialist Vincent Pomante and Capt. Travis Patriquin, whose name should also be familiar. Michael Fumento knew her and Patriquin and wrote about them, memorably, here. [...]

By: The Ritz

The Ritz — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:44:30 +0000

How do we get this on the White House Bat Line before Bush goes out and announces his “fresh eyes” approach?

By: Halley

Halley — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:59:53 +0000

Gee, and I thought we had to kill the bad guys. Silly me.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:51:55 +0000

Lehuster… Castro was in the mountains, and was supported by other groups, who were not as active, in the cities….

He was armed and supplied from there.

My point is that there is PROOF of arms coming from Iran, and money from Saudi Arabia, which is adding fuel to the “sectarian violence”. Stop that supply of cash and arms, disarm the militias, and you will have a much more stable Iraq.

By: def Sparse(Matrix): » Blog Archive » The Path to Victory in Iraq

def Sparse(Matrix): » Blog Archive » The Path to Victory in Iraq — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:12:35 +0000

[...] Stick figure style. [...]

By: KelliD

KelliD — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:16:13 +0000

Godspeed Capt Trav. Thank you.

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:36 +0000

In the ironic moment of the day CPT Patriquin was killed in a IED explosion on Dec. 6. Go to Michael Fumento's blog for the details.

By: Lehuster

Lehuster — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:14 +0000

no Insurgency in history has succedded without a safe haven and source of supply OUTSIDE the combat zone…

Cuba in the late 1950s.

But yeah, denying sanctuary is basic.

By: Reaps

Reaps — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:46:24 +0000

Good point; I Recall Michael Yon snapping a few photos of Iraqi border troops… doing their best Bob Marley impression, if you know what I mean. Hopefully things have improved since then..

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:12:04 +0000

The socialists won’t let us control OUR OWN borders, why under Heaven would they let us control the Iraqi borders? Of course it’s the right thing to do, but victory is not an acceptable option for the cut-and-run crowd, so any policy which might actually move us in that direction is verboten.

By: EFG

EFG — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:03:34 +0000

There is a lot of wisdom in those 18 slides.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:10:38 +0000

V5 … no Insurgency in history has succedded without a safe haven and source of supply OUTSIDE the combat zone…

Put 50,000 US Troops on the borders of Jordan, and Iran, and seal the borders….

Insurgency would be over inside of a year.

BUT our stinkin Politicians won’t let us do what is needed…

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » How to Win in Anbar: An Idea with Proven Results

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:19:00 +0000

[...] There’s one here. It’s a Power Point presentation . . . with stick figures. And it’s very powerful. (Via Allah.) [...]

By: frankj

frankj — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:44:36 +0000

That had some wisdom to it and made me laugh… but I laughed a lot less when I heard what happened to the Captain. God rest him.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:16:20 +0000

Machiavelli and I prefer “cruelty well used.”

Kralizec on December 11, 2006 at 8:18 PM

Oh, so do I, and I’m a Christian…