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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... the very word entrepreneur is met with blank stares by career servicemembers– and in some cases, viewed as an anathema. ... will play a major role in the future of warfare, thus-the numbers of boots on the ground in warfare will be reduced; yet the capabilities ...

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

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... were used to form the interrogation techniques used by the US army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What was not mentioned in ...

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

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... on Investment. And in a world now driven almost solely by economics and finance we need look outwards to this community for a ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... Air Force Maj. Monica M. Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The effort is part of a larger plan to protect service members and other DOD ... is one of the first offered towards comprehensive reform by Gregory Conti, Dominic Larkin, David Raymond, and Edward Sobiesk in SWJ ...

Blog post - Apr 3 2011 - 10:51am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... plan B on the table. Our force was humiliated and betrayed by the shameful and disingenuous capitulation written by the Chief and ...

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

... The real Civil War is about to begin ... intervention.  At most, we can contain the violence by blocking the borders, but we should not pick a winner in this fight. ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... whether postmodern social science offers any better tools by which expected and actual outcomes of one's own actions may be measured ? ...

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

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... manual.  All lessons learned on COIN are corrupted by the policies and purposes of the times they occur in, but provide insights ...

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

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... past October after being physically and verbally abused by up to 8 fellow members of his platoon (a platoon he had been part of for ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... Virtually every political force or actor actually driven by its own internal interests and vision (vice a mere desire to live lazily off ...

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