Hearts and Minds

Bill O'Reilly: 'We Can't Kill All The Muslims... So We Wanna Win As Many Hearts And Minds As We Can'

Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Video, Oreilly, Terrorism, Bill Oreilly, Fort Hood Shooting, Fort Hood, Hearts and Minds, Muslims, Nidal Hasan, Bill O'Reilly, Muslim, Media News

Bill O'Reilly believes that the US effort to win the popular support of Muslims around the world is based on the notion that the US cannot kill every ...

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Death by Drone: A Policy That Gets Results?

Kit Gallant | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan, Hearts and Minds, Assassination, Targeted Killlings, Insurgency Afghanistn, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Kit Gallant

Counter-insurgency experts and military officials have an oft-noted tendency to focus excessively, to obsess, really, on killing or capturing a single pivotal individual.

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Losing the People: The Cost and Consequences of Civilian Suffering in Afghanistan

Erica Gaston | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hearts-and-Minds, Civilian Casualties, Victim-Compensation, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Erica Gaston

For the last year, I have been living in Afghanistan interviewing civilians harmed in the conflict for the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict.

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Ten Reasons Why We Don't Need an Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

John Brown | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Smith Mundt Act, Public Diplomacy, Hearts and Minds, State Department, Propaganda, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, World News
John Brown

The dozens of reports that have appeared since 9/11 on public diplomacy have come to a similar general conclusion: the State Department's public diplomacy has failed miserably.

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