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Ben Zweibelson

Major Ben Zweibelson is an active duty Infantry Officer in the US Army with over 17 years of combined service. He has a Masters in Liberal Arts from Louisiana State University, a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences in Theater Operations from the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), and a Masters in Military Operational Arts and Sciences from the United States Air Force (Air Command and Staff College Program). A veteran of OIF 1 and OIF 6, Ben is currently deployed to Afghanistan where he is serving as an Action Officer in the Commander's Action Group (CAG), NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A).

What is Your Narrative, and Why?

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On October 15, 2011 07:47 AM | Comments(1)

How the Media, the Military, and the World Struggles with Telling the “Real Story” in Afghanistan

Breaking Barriers to Deeper Understanding: How Post-Modern Concepts Are ‘Value-Added’ to Military Conceptual Planning Considerations

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On September 21, 2011 08:18 AM | Comments(38)

Defining differences between design theory and design planning

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On August 7, 2011 11:30 AM | Comments(81)

How does your organization think, and how does it not think?

Cartel Next: How Army Design Methodology Offers Holistic and Dissimilar Approaches to the Mexican Drug Problem

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On June 30, 2011 09:20 AM | Comments(16)

Cartel Next: How Army Design Methodology Offers Holistic and Dissimilar Approaches to the Mexican Drug Problem by Ben Zweibelson Download the Full Article: Cartel Next This paper is a theoretical...

To Design or Not to Design: In Conclusion

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On May 9, 2011 04:57 PM | Comments(25)

To Design or Not to Design: In Conclusion by Ben Zweibelson Download the Full Article: To Design or Not to Design: In Conclusion Is Design a necessary methodology for the U.S. Army? By codifying...

To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)

by Ben Zweibelson

Posted On April 15, 2011 04:58 AM | Comments(35)

To Design or Not to Design (Part Five): Doctrine and Design: How Analogies and Design Theory Resist the Military Ritual of Codification by Ben Zweibelson Download The Full Article: To Design or Not...