Ben Zweibelson

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	Major Ben Zweibelson is a frequent contributor to Small Wars Journal concerning design thinking and strategy, and he has nearly 20 years of military service. Ben recently co-authored a chapter on design thinking with LTC Grant Martin in Dr. Christopher Paparone's recent design book, "The Sociology of Military Design: Prospects for Postinstitutional Military Design" by Continuum Publications. Ben is a graduate of the U.S. Army's School for Advanced Military Studies.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

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

  

  
  

                
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Posted On September 21, 2011 09:18 AM | Comments(38)

  

  
  

                

	Defining differences between design theory and design planning


  

		  
  

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

  

  
  

                
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Posted On August 7, 2011 12:30 PM | Comments(83)

  

  
  

                

	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

  

  
  

                
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Posted On June 30, 2011 10:20 AM | Comments(16)

  

  
  

                

	Cartel Next: How Army Design Methodology Offers Holistic and Dissimilar Approaches to the Mexican Drug Problem
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This paper is a theoretical...


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
To Design or Not to Design: In Conclusion

  

  
  

                
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Posted On May 9, 2011 05:57 PM | Comments(25)

  

  
  

                

	To Design or Not to Design: In Conclusion
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Is Design a necessary methodology for the U.S. Army? By codifying...


  

		  
  

                
To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)

  

  
  

                
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Posted On April 15, 2011 05:58 AM | Comments(34)

  

  
  

                

	To Design or Not to Design (Part Five):
Doctrine and Design: How Analogies and Design Theory Resist the Military Ritual of Codification
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To Design or Not to Design (Part Four)

  

  
  

                
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Posted On April 5, 2011 09:57 AM | Comments(34)

  

  
  

                

	To Design or Not to Design (Part Four):
Taking Lines out of Non-Linear; How Design Must Escape 'Tacticization' Bias of Military Culture
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