Newsletter 12-18
September 2012
Understanding Afghan Culture
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- Strategies for Developing and Practicing Cross-Cultural Expertise in the Military
Louise J. Rasmussen, Ph.D. and Winston R. Sieck, Ph.D.
- Battered Spouse Syndrome: How to Better Understand Afghan Behavior
Col. Erik W. Goepner, U.S. Air Force
- Understanding and Communicating: Neutralizing the Arghandab River Valley Insurgency
LTC Michael J. Simmering
- A Failure to Engage: Current Negotiation Strategies and Approaches
MAJ Aram Donigian, U.S. Army and Professor Jeff Weiss
- Toward a Better Way to Engage: Insights from the Field of Negotiation
MAJ Aram Donigian, Professor Jeff Weiss, and Mr. Petitti
- Influencing the Population: Using Interpreters, Conducting KLEs, and Executing IO in Afghanistan
CPT Michael G. Cummings
- Combat Advisor 101
CPT Matthew Swain
- The Real Challenge in Afghanistan: Toward a Quantum COIN
A. Lawrence Chickering
- TAQIYYA: Protective Dissimulation Practiced by Afghanistan’s Ethnic Groups (Taqiyya–Dissimulation or Plain, Right-out Lying)
Tribal Analysis Center
- Mad Mullahs, Opportunists, and Family Connections: The Violent Pashtun Cycle
Tribal Analysis Center
- Religious Leader Engagement in Southern Afghanistan
Alexs Thompson
- A Patchwork Strategy of Consensus: Establishing Rule of Law in Afghanistan
Mark R. Hagerott, Thomas J. Umberg, and Joseph A. Jackson
