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Below are Pat's recent press releases, interviews, and news stories, beginning with the most recent.
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 Pat
Deploys to Iraq
27 August 2009
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Pat will deploy this week with the 4th Infantry
Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), 1st Infantry Division. Pat's
unit will conduct security force assistance in Northern Iraq. To
see the full story in the
1st Infantry Division
Post,
click here.
If you would like to post a message for Pat as he leaves, you
can do so at his
FaceBook page. |
- Interview
with 1st Infantry Division
Post.
15 June 2009
“At every level and with
everything that we're doing...we're partnering with the Iraqi Army, who
is using a different language and tactics that we're not used to," said
Maj. Proctor He also said the Soldiers have to learn how to interact
with a force they can't always coordinate and talk to due to language
barriers, but at the same time learn how to integrate themselves with an
army of a completlely different culture.”
During his deployment to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin,
Pat sat down for an interview with Shantelle J. Campbell for the 1st
Infantry Division Post. In the article, Pat shares his thoughts on the
training and his unit's upcoming mission in Iraq. To see the online version,
click here.
"'Proud Americans'
partner with security forces at NTC"
- Interview
with High Desert Warrior.
12 June 2009
"Realistic training prepares 4th Brigade combat team of the
1st Infantry Division"
- Pat's new page at
PublishersMarketplace.com.
29 December 2008
Pat now maintains a page with his recent and current projects at
PublishersMarketplace.com! Check out
Pat's
PublishersMarketplace page.
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The Other Napoleonic Wars published at
ArmchairGeneral.com.
18 November 2008
“As
the US military fights two grueling counterinsurgencies in Iraq and
Afghanistan, these other Napoleonic Wars, in Italy and Spain, deserve
new attention. Though they happened two centuries ago, they can
tell us much about why normal people take up arms and oppose powerful,
modern armies. The lessons the French learned through success in
Italy and failure in Spain are as relevant today as they were in the age
of Napoleon.”
For more, click here.
- The Mythical Shia Crescent published in
Parameters.
25 April 2008
“Sometime in late 2006,
America awoke to the realization that, by deposing Saddam Hussein and
toppling his Ba’athist regime, it had inadvertently removed a major
obstacle to Iranian dominance in the Middle East. Assessments of the
associated events reached hyperbolic levels. Dire warnings of a growing
Iranian hegemony began to surface. Sunni leaders such as Jordan’s King
Abdullah II began to warn theWest of an emerging “Shia Crescent,” led by
Iran and encompassing Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.1 The idea caught fire in
American media and became the dominant narrative in discourse on Middle
East policy”
For more, click here.
- Pat's new page at FaceBook.com.
15 April 2008
Pat now maintains a page with calendar events and updates at FaceBook.com! Check out
Pat's
FaceBook page.
- Pat's new page at MySpace.com.
1 December 2007
Pat now maintains a 'blog and community at MySpace.com! Check out
Pat's
MySpace page.
- Interview with Elisabeth Bumiller of the
New York Times.
13 October 2007
“Another major said that
young officers were engaged in their own revisionist history, and that
many had believed the war could be won with Mr. Rumsfeld’s initial
invasion force of about 170,000. 'Everybody now claims, oh, I knew we
were going to be there for five years and it was going to take 400,000
people,' said Maj. Patrick Proctor, 36. 'Nobody wants to be the guy who
said, ‘Yeah, I thought we could do it.’ But a lot of us did.'”
Pat recently participated
in an interview with Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times
during her trip to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The article
focuses on the critical thinking going on at the Command and General
Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies concerning the
planning for and conduct of the Iraq War. The article is available
both online and on the front page of the Sunday, 14 October 2007 edition
of the New York Times. To see the online version,
click here.
"Blunt Talk About Iraq at Army School"
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