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  • Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste

    Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste Related articles Iraq Reconstruction Failure (jameskennedy911.wordpress.com) Iraq’s Electricity – sign of a frail infrastructure (britishiraqi.wordpress.com) Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism (safehaven.com)

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  • Learning a second language

    What’s the secret to learning a second language? By Bonnie Tsui, Pacific Standard, salon.com Studies reveal it’s more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us A FEW YEARS AGO, Cap­tain Emmanuel Joseph decid­ed to learn Ara­bic before his deploy­ment to Iraq. “At first it was…

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  • The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

    Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com. Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the…

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