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H. Thomas Hayden: Article Archive
H. Thomas Hayden: Article Archive

 

About the Author

H. Thomas Hayden recently concluded over 35 years of service, which included the Agency for International Development, the Marine Corps, defense industry and the Pentagon. His specialties are Intelligence, Counterinsurgency Operations, Counter-terrorism, and Joint Concepts Development and Experimentation. His Marine Corps assignments have included command of two separate battalions; AC/S G-2, 4th MARDIV & AC/S G-2 FMFEurope; Branch Head, HQMC, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC); Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for SO/LIC; and, Senior Program Analysts at HQMC with the Joint Staff and DoD at the Pentagon. Overseas assignments included Vietnam, Japan & Okinawa, Europe, Central America, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Somalia, Singapore, Philippines, and Colombia. He has an MBA (Pepperdine) and an MA in International Relations (University of Southern California). He has written two books and is working on a third.

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August 29, 2005: Able Danger

August 12, 2005: US a Paper Tiger?

July 29, 2005: Suicide Bombers Are Not New

July 11, 2005: What's Next for the USA?

June 30, 2005: China Rising While US Distracted in Middle East

June 24, 2005: Iraqi Insurgency Not Going Away

June 6, 2005: Civil-Military Campaign Plan?

May 19, 2005: Classic Counterinsurgency Not Working in Iraq

May 12, 2005: Overreaction: Panic in D.C.

April 29, 2005: A British Perspective

April 7, 2005: Cognitive Transformation

March 23, 2005: Taliban Reveals Weaknesses

March 11, 2005: Counter-Terrorism Starts at Home

February 28, 2005: Gulf War Remembered

February 10, 2005: Careful What You Ask For

February 4, 2005: Advisors and Trainers

January 28, 2005: Dirty Bomb: Where, Not When

January 21, 2005: Elections During Insurgencies

January 12, 2005: Time to Strike Syria?

January 4, 2005: Female Combat in Iraq Is No Social Agenda

December 27, 2004: Intelligence is Not the Problem

December 16, 2004: More Soldiers, Not F-22s

December 9, 2004: Sunni Suicide

December 2, 2004: If Tehran Thinks It Won -- We Lost

November 29, 2004: CIA and Covert Ops

November 22, 2004: Insurgency Is Not Over

November 16, 2004: Challenges for the President

November 3, 2004: Vietnam Vets May Have Made the Difference

October 28, 2004: Intelligence: Overwhelmed with Technology?

October 19, 2004: Failure Is Not an Option

October 13, 2004: The MV-22 Osprey

October 4, 2004: Measuring Success in Iraq

September 21, 2004: The Road to Success in Iraq Starts with Falluja

September 16, 2004: We Haven't Lost in Iraq But We Are Losing

September 7, 2004: What Happened at Abu Ghraib?

August 28, 2004: Reorganize the CIA and the FBI

August 16, 2004: USAF 1st Division

August 11, 2004: Gen. Tommy Franks -- American Soldier

July 29, 2004: Osama bin Laden's Revenge

July 22, 2004: Suitcase Nukes

July 12, 2004: World War IV

July 6, 2004: Summer Reading (For the Professional)

June 28, 2004: Sex, Lies, Politics & The Commander-in-Chief

June 21, 2004: U.S. News Media Did Not Help Paul Johnson, Jr.

June 16, 2004: Bob Woodward & His Struggle to Understand Warfare

June 4, 2004: A Matter of Honor

June 2, 2004: No Trip to Spain or France This Summer

May 26, 2004: The World War II Memorial: Lasting Tribute to the Greatest Generation

May 21, 2004: Shock and Awe - Iraq, No DoD

May 12, 2004: The French Connection

May 6, 2004: The Fog of War at Home

April 27, 2004: First Reports are Generally Wrong!


April 15, 2004: 9/11 Commission Too Political


April 5, 2004: Sons of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda


March 29, 2004: Who's Watching the Back Door?


March 22, 2004: Lies, Distortions & Exaggerations - Politics, No; The U.S. News Media!


March 15, 2004: Terrorist Bombs: Can It Happen Here?


March 9, 2004: Will Canceling the Comanche Save the Taxpayers’ Money?


February 26, 2004: Post-Deployment: Everything Has Changed


February 23, 2004: Delay of Iraqi Transfer of Power a Big Mistake


February 9, 2004: Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe - They are Neither


January 29, 2004: Final Tragedy from 9/11/01 - Greedy Lawsuits Against the Government


January 23, 2004: The Forgotten War on Terrorism: Narco-Terrorism


January 15, 2004: Has The Washington Post Become Irrelevant?


January 9, 2004: When All Else Fails...There is the Black Art of Counterinsurgency

December 25, 2003: Sea Basing: The Wave of the Future?


December 22, 2003: Winning Hearts and Minds - Not


December 15, 2003: Saddam's Capture Still Leaves Many Unanswered Questions


December 5, 2003: Classics for Iraq and Afghanistan

December 2, 2003: Stability Operations

November 18, 2003: Counterinsurgency not Occupation: Part 2

October 30, 2003: Counterinsurgency not Occupation

September 15, 2003: Terrorism Speech to Rotary




 



 



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