Crispin Burke

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	Captain Crispin J. Burke is qualified in the UH-60 Black Hawk and LUH-72A Lakota helicopters, and has served as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, a battalion S-3 at Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras, and as a company commander in the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.  He currently serves as the lead Observer/Controller-Trainer (O/C-T) for Unmanned Aerial Systems at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels, Germany. 



	He blogs at Small Wars Journal and at his own blog, Wings Over Iraq. 

	 

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay deadline extended to 21 October 2012

  

  
  

                
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Posted On March 24, 2012 07:57 AM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	From Defense.gov:

		The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act established Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay (RSLSP), providing $500 for each month/partial month served in stop loss status....


  

		  
  

                
Listen, learn, lead:  Gen. Stanley McChrystal on TED

  

  
  

                
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Posted On February 7, 2012 02:24 PM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	General Stanley McChrystal on leadership, courtesy of TED. (H/T Voo Tatico)

	 

	


  

		  
  

                
World Politics Review: Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN Era

  

  
  

                
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Posted On January 24, 2012 04:40 PM | Comments(8)

  

  
  

                

	Be sure to check out World Politics Review's "Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN World", featuring Steven Metz, Bing West, Michael Mazaar, Crispin Burke, and Andrew Exum.  (...


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
Thoughts on the Profession of Arms, by General Peter van Uhm

  

  
  

                
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Posted On December 4, 2011 01:50 PM | Comments(5)

  

  
  

                

	An excellent talk from General Peter van Uhm, Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff, on the meaning of the Profession of Arms.

	 
	


  

		  
  

                
Drone Wars?  Not Quite.

  

  
  

                
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Posted On October 11, 2011 02:04 PM | Comments(9)

  

  
  

                

	I'll be the first to admit it:  drones are quite the rage.

	In 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates hinted that the F-35 Lightning II might be the last manned fighter ever fielded....


  

		  
  

                
An American Hipster in Kabul Talks Turbanicide

  

  
  

                
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Posted On September 25, 2011 09:30 AM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	An "American Hipster in Kabul" had this to say about the recent assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani this week:

		[ISAF] is killing off or capturing any and all mid-level and...