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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... to improve institutional performance rather than just break the institution down - the self-actualization of brilliant individual ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... you alone and find a guy they can more easily bully and break and use. Not for information, but to control. Stockdale, McCain, and the ... for cooperation. The whole process combined is designed to break the will and sanity of the captive. To reduce a man to an insane wreck ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret

... Fifty percent of these fail, and forty percent only break even. This leaves ten percent of companies funded to realize the critical ... tales for self-consumption. I don't want to break into a I don't want to break into a discourse on the matter, but ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 56 comments

BREAK, BREAK...

... training, education or doctrine writing. Re: BREAK, BREAK… Good on yer, mate! A sane voice in an insane world. ...

Blog post - Nov 1 2007 - 7:26pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up

... outside the limited range within which the Chinese can break them. I see no reason to assume that we'd be duking it out with the ... ain't stupid nor passive. I think they will be able to break ships and planes far beyond ranges we think they can in ways that will ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

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

... position on the purpose of war phenomena. But what if we break free from this preferred logic? What does war become, if it does not ... me on Jomini and his 'principles'); but we cannot even break free from these concepts because they appear to choke out any critical ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem

... need disruptive thinkers to challenge this status quo, to break its inertia, and to fight for the much needed cultural and institutional ... “Protect the institution.”  To break up these dysfunctions, we need not focus on an entrepreneurial mindset in ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference

... existing government. Separatist - (varies in nature) to break some distinct region from the whole to form a new state. Resistance – ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

Prison Break

... Prison Break: Maybe the Army's Not So Hidebound Afterall by Fred Kaplan at Slate ... Post transcript. Prison Break: Maybe the Army's Not So Hidebound Afterall by Fred Kaplan at Slate ...

Blog post - May 11 2008 - 7:53am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan

... on a single part of the equation. That may serve to break the Prussian lines at Jena, but such focus might well be counter ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments