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... attempted to frame the problem in this essay and you will be able to find all the "disruptive thinker" essays at ... Adaptable strategy requires the ability to consider everything, not merely one thing.  The beginning of such thought is a ...

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

... 9/11. And he talked ..." He then speculated that "If you ask Americans whether they think it's okay for us to waterboard in a ... you have to be able to bow.'" He told his interrogators everything they wanted to know including the truth. They rarely stopped. In ...

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

... Irregular Warfare: Everything yet Nothing by Lieutenant Colonel (P) William Stevenson, ... Warfare: Everything yet Nothing Glenn, thank you for your words of wisdom. They were much more diplomatic than what I ...

Journal Article - Dec 16 2008 - 5:51pm - 6 comments

... and leadership, particularly in early phases when everything is opaque and uncertain. It is also important to note the best ... to jobs) are drivers for the conflicts there, and I think you have yet to make a case that this will contribute to defeating the ... I patrolled the villages surrounding Kabul and the people wanted two things, deeper wells and jobs. We didn't deliver either. We spent ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 50 comments

... solutions to complex problems. How's that working out for you ? I wrote a lengthy reply, and I wrote a lengthy reply, and the ... our thinking so that we seek a technological solution to everything. There is some validity to this- we deeply believe that the future ...

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

... aboard a ship whose captain is running it aground? You might think that out in the field we don’t notice what’s going ... buy in the entire FYDP [ Future Years Defense Plan ]! Everything I see indicates that senior leadership doesn’t understand, or ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 35 comments - 0 attachments

... are often a bit of a B-team, and they know it.  When you add all of these factors together, the dynamic within these headquarters ... is to encourage people to be critical thinkers, question everything. If you're brilliant enough to come up with a better approach out of ...

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

... InTheKnow: Hazing is by definition abusive and for you to defend "good" hazing as opposed to "bad" hazing is akin to saying some ... don't know, I was not there so I cannot assume to know everything that NCO did at the time, what his thinking as to how this would ...

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

... tribal disputes ”. Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster You have extensive experience on the ground at a PRT in Afghanistan. Does ... it all on their own. I think the days of us doing everything on our own are pretty much gone. The Afghans have more ... tech militates against all three. P.S. I've always wanted to go on the Kokoda track. What group do you guide for? Gian, I ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

... excerpt follows.   I don’t know everything – I know very little.  I know I know very little. But I ... ask the stupid questions and get things wrong (as many of you are referencing now…).  All the while I’m learning, ...

Blog post - May 2 2012 - 5:06pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments