Dominic Johnson, a member of our Natural Security working group, has shown that the different selective forces acting on insurgents compared to US war fighters help to explain the relative lack of improvement in killing or capturing insurgents during the Iraq conflict [15].
Mr. Gates flew here Monday to the Air Combat Command, which oversees the service's fighters and bombers, to explain his decisions and give a pep talk to the pilots and crews.
Afterward, amid consternation and scuffling among soldiers and shabab — we saw a couple of other irate confrontations between the two groups — several fighters came over to explain that the man had been cleaning his gun with the barrel pointed toward himself, and somehow fired it when it jammed, shooting himself in his heart.
This is not the work of a renegade gunman resistant to central authority; it is the assessment of a skilled and experienced fighter and begins to explain how more than 400 Pakistani soldiers have been killed or wounded since August in Bajaur, the tribal district agency that is said to be the haunt of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
If you have a normal job while training for your career as a cage fighter, be prepared to explain all the bruises, black eyes and sprains that you come to work with.
In a noble if gauche grab at transparency, the promoters invited the judges to Friday's rules meeting to explain to the fighters what they would be looking for.
Once the scene was set, his final challenge was to explain to veteran fighters how to pose like "army men".
But the chief UN investigator said in an interview published on Thursday that the Syrian government had failed to explain how the rebel fighters might have obtained and delivered sarin.
The fighter raises his eyes and there is no need for him to explain more.
With 3,000-4,000 Saudi fighters in the Islamic State today, he advises of the need to "look inward to explain ISIS' rise".
