- The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers
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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment? ... and events which shaped world history. We were asked to question decisions by key figures in history and make our own determination as ...
Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General ... between humanity and hatred. It would leave you to question the meaning of what it is to be an American. We live at a time ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... we fail to fully grasp how all these operations fit into a functional whole. This is due to the fact we have yet to add one critical ... This is one article/study of many that call into question the hypothesis of more jobs reducing the impact the insurgency. ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 61 comments
- A Question of Command
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... A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq SWJ ...
Journal Article - Oct 10 2009 - 4:28pm - 5 comments
- A Question of Super-Empowerment
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... WikiLeaks, Media, and Policy: A Question of Super-Empowerment by Adam Elkus and Captain Crispin ...
Journal Article - Sep 29 2010 - 7:01am - 18 comments
- Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up
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... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. Editor's ... fast enough or his strafe has knocked you out . The question of using a MANPAD on the departing aircraft is a joke. The dropping ...
Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
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... An attempt to answer the question: What problem are we trying to solve? ... Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers,” struck a chord like no other essay published recently in the Small Wars Journal ...
Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter Army doctrine, or ... than in the psychologies of Machiavelli and Hobbes. The question, one might pose, is whether postmodern social science offers any ...
Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference
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... itself. This will put current content into a more appropriate context and nuance in general, and address the primary ... agenda? How then do we proceed? Bill C. This is a question Bill C. This is a question you have frequently asked, and no ...
Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan
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... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle ... actually serious about leaving the station. Therefore the question must be artfully posed in such a manner as to guarantee a resounding ...
Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments


