What do you do for a living?

[Nameless]

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.

And what is the topic of your master paper?

I just started after the new year and AMU had some course requirements I had to complete first so I haven't started my paper yet. I have put the program on hold during my deployment. I had been doing some research on the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful counterinsurgency throughout history. I may decide to go with this topic or a variety of it but I am also thinking strongly on the failures of nation building by the west from a military point of view.

And do you plan on focusing on a specific time period to compare the failed/successful counterinsurgency or you want to compare more or less some famous of these moments through history at large? That is an interesting topic indeed, let me know once you start to write it and at some point, I would be interested to read it, military history so to speak has always been one of my lecture's hobby.

[VictorCharlie]

I was going to use some examples throughout history.

Jewish revolts in the Roman Empire
American Revolution
Soviet experience in Afghanistan and Chechnya
IRA
Vietnam
Mexican rebels in Chiapas
U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq

maybe more, maybe less