enhanced_deficit
06-25-2014, 01:03 PM
One facet of Afgan freedom war:
Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter
Jun 24, 2014, 10:21 AM ET
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Blotter/HT_jim_gantmar_14062320110823_13_16x9_992.jpg
Then-Special Forces Maj. Jim Gant stands with former Washington Post journalist Ann Scott Tyson near the village of Mangwel, Afghanistan in August 2011.
A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.
His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jim-gant-top-green-beret-officer-forced-resign/story?id=24266710
Related
http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/major-jim-gant-with-children-600x450.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=V8GJYLBOtVLavM&tbnid=qzkrzplvdt9uRM:&ved=0CAgQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fagora.stevenpressfield.com%2F2010 %2F01%2Freturn-to-one-tribe-at-a-time%2F&ei=9x-rU87OKZeryATxjoDoCw&psig=AFQjCNECSDjfY57snWne8fwpfgj1rFQDVg&ust=1403810167771650)
Guest Blog: We are One Tribe – and Live in The Society of Intervention
Date: 13 May 2010
A critique of intervening half-education, in reply to Major Jim Gant’s much-read blog and paper ‘One Tribe at a Time’. By Prof. Michael Daxner (*)
Important notice for the readers: it is unusual for blogs to annotate them with references from scientific literature. However, I will use some special terms that may raise your interest and require further reading.
Major Jim Gant’s blog One Tribe at a Time (Gant 2009, see here (http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/)) drastically supports some basic assumptions on societies of intervention (term is explained in Bonacker at al. 2010). We can learn a lot about such societies in the text. It is a report by a highly decorated US officer who served in 2003-4 and again in 2009 as commander of Operation Detachment Alpha 316 (ODA 613) (Special Forces) in Afghanistan, in the provinces of Helmand and Kunar – places of heavy fighting. The report’s frame is set rather concretely as a section of the story of ODA 613 (p. 4) and its commander; it is a narration of their relationship with the tribe of Malik Noorafzal (Gant sometimes also writes Noorafzhal and calls him ‘Sitting Bull’…) in Kunar: ‘My unit and I became family members…’. (I am not sure whether Gant means a tribe or a clan or a family, which would indeed make some difference for the interpretation).
http://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/guest-blog-we-are-one-tribe-and-live-in-the-society-of-intervention
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/rohrabacher-250x198.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=oEMTczOTfMT9ZM&tbnid=QlxifohyVGf9NM:&ved=0CAgQjRw4Ew&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwonkette.com%2F470655%2Fcongressm an-dana-rohrabacher-r-the-taliban-gets-no-respect-from-afghanistan&ei=kR2rU8bSFYyxyASS94GwDQ&psig=AFQjCNHYJH0iyd0SlKPn61dv1g2tB9FV_g&ust=1403809553419932)
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-The Taliban) Gets No Respect From Afghanistan
http://wonkette.com/470655/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-r-the-taliban-gets-no-respect-from-afghanistan
Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter
Jun 24, 2014, 10:21 AM ET
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Blotter/HT_jim_gantmar_14062320110823_13_16x9_992.jpg
Then-Special Forces Maj. Jim Gant stands with former Washington Post journalist Ann Scott Tyson near the village of Mangwel, Afghanistan in August 2011.
A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.
His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jim-gant-top-green-beret-officer-forced-resign/story?id=24266710
Related
http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/major-jim-gant-with-children-600x450.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=V8GJYLBOtVLavM&tbnid=qzkrzplvdt9uRM:&ved=0CAgQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fagora.stevenpressfield.com%2F2010 %2F01%2Freturn-to-one-tribe-at-a-time%2F&ei=9x-rU87OKZeryATxjoDoCw&psig=AFQjCNECSDjfY57snWne8fwpfgj1rFQDVg&ust=1403810167771650)
Guest Blog: We are One Tribe – and Live in The Society of Intervention
Date: 13 May 2010
A critique of intervening half-education, in reply to Major Jim Gant’s much-read blog and paper ‘One Tribe at a Time’. By Prof. Michael Daxner (*)
Important notice for the readers: it is unusual for blogs to annotate them with references from scientific literature. However, I will use some special terms that may raise your interest and require further reading.
Major Jim Gant’s blog One Tribe at a Time (Gant 2009, see here (http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/)) drastically supports some basic assumptions on societies of intervention (term is explained in Bonacker at al. 2010). We can learn a lot about such societies in the text. It is a report by a highly decorated US officer who served in 2003-4 and again in 2009 as commander of Operation Detachment Alpha 316 (ODA 613) (Special Forces) in Afghanistan, in the provinces of Helmand and Kunar – places of heavy fighting. The report’s frame is set rather concretely as a section of the story of ODA 613 (p. 4) and its commander; it is a narration of their relationship with the tribe of Malik Noorafzal (Gant sometimes also writes Noorafzhal and calls him ‘Sitting Bull’…) in Kunar: ‘My unit and I became family members…’. (I am not sure whether Gant means a tribe or a clan or a family, which would indeed make some difference for the interpretation).
http://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/guest-blog-we-are-one-tribe-and-live-in-the-society-of-intervention
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/rohrabacher-250x198.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=oEMTczOTfMT9ZM&tbnid=QlxifohyVGf9NM:&ved=0CAgQjRw4Ew&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwonkette.com%2F470655%2Fcongressm an-dana-rohrabacher-r-the-taliban-gets-no-respect-from-afghanistan&ei=kR2rU8bSFYyxyASS94GwDQ&psig=AFQjCNHYJH0iyd0SlKPn61dv1g2tB9FV_g&ust=1403809553419932)
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-The Taliban) Gets No Respect From Afghanistan
http://wonkette.com/470655/congressman-dana-rohrabacher-r-the-taliban-gets-no-respect-from-afghanistan