Comments on: Thoughts on Brains and Counterinsurgency http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/09/09/thoughts-on-brains-and-counterinsurgency/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Herschel Smith http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/09/09/thoughts-on-brains-and-counterinsurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-22773 Herschel Smith Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:47:00 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/09/09/thoughts-on-brains-and-counterinsurgency/#comment-22773 Dominique, you are far too kind. Your views on insurgency and religion, as well as mine, are far too complicated to discuss over a blog. We'll get together some time when you are in the states over a beer or four and discuss this. I wish I kept up with my faithful readers more than I do. I should try harder. I am so busy. Trust me, though. I study every word you write. S/F Dominique, you are far too kind. Your views on insurgency and religion, as well as mine, are far too complicated to discuss over a blog. We’ll get together some time when you are in the states over a beer or four and discuss this. I wish I kept up with my faithful readers more than I do. I should try harder. I am so busy. Trust me, though. I study every word you write.

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]]> By: Dominique R. Poirier http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/09/09/thoughts-on-brains-and-counterinsurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-22770 Dominique R. Poirier Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:44:39 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/09/09/thoughts-on-brains-and-counterinsurgency/#comment-22770 Herschel, you are not “old fashioned� at all, so far. For, the Captain’s Journal is written as many “said-to-be� journalists and columnists would like to; and, from military techniques to diplomacy and as far as I could see, it covers with journalistic professionalism a range of matters unseen anywhere else, on the web as on printed media.

At this last regard the scarcity of critics I witnessed gives me reason.

Though relating to military affairs and warfare and, as such, addressing to military personnel the Captain’s Journal yields neither to vulgarity, nor to political correctness, nor to partisan opinions, nor to intellectual snobbery, nor to casual and purposeless monologue.

The Captain’s Journal deserves the price of excellence in the war-blogs category and beyond, in my own opinion; to the point that I express some difficulty to consider it as a “blog,� a term which I see as somewhat reductive, not to say pejorative, given the relatively poor level of quality and carelessness too often encountered in this last category.

Herschel, some weeks ago, I fiercely challenged your opinion on something David Kilcullen stated. Nonetheless, I have been retrospectively impressed by your courage not to cautiously yield to general implicit consensus and to the trend of the moment, as it is practiced elsewhere when it comes to military matters.

The Captain’s Journal does not hesitate questioning, challenging, and wondering. It thinks, and it invites its readers to do the same; all this wrapped up in an ever objective and gentlemanly manner. Such attitude is very, very, very rare, today!

The Captain’s Journal is an excellent, and possibly the best, publication dedicated to the study of insurgency in Iraq, in my own opinion. I learned from it more than any other blog, website or printed publication of any sort taught me about.

Congratulations!

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