- FM 3-0 Now Online
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... that the updated Field Manual 3-0 (Operations) is now available online . The updated version of Joint Publication (JP) 3-0 Joint ...
Blog entry - Feb 28 2008 - 1:00pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- WikiLeaks, Round Three (Updated 29, 30 Nov, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Dec)
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... 'Hastily Run' Execution - CNN News Iraqi FM Calls WikiLeaks 'Unhelpful' - Associated Press Israel ... Post opinion Re: WikiLeaks, Round Three (Updated 29, 30 Nov, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 About Fake wikileaks: ... Re: WikiLeaks, Round Three (Updated 29, 30 Nov, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
Blog entry - Dec 6 2010 - 7:10am - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)
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... not confine the definition of Design to 15 pages in an FM which is not exclusively focused upon design. "Instead, military ... in practice? In my limited experience, Design gets about 30 minutes at the start of any planning process, and the remainder of a 5 or 8 ...
Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments
- COIN Metrics: What Not to Measure
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... American operations in Afghanistan. It is time for FM 3-24 to be deconstructed and put back together in a similar way as the ... SWJ use its uniquely fertile open format to convene an online conference about alternatives to not only waging war but finding new ... OK, SWJ. The ball is now in your court. Re: COIN Metrics: What Not to Measure This is ...
Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments
- A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan)
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... recognizes that telling a military leader that the past 30 years of their experience is not going to help (and will actually hurt) them ... failed in Af Spent much of the day reading the new FM 5-0 and must confess that most of the droopy eyelid time was in the design ...
Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments
- To Design or Not to Design (Part Three)
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... 'ill-structured problem' but this series of articles takes FM 5-0 to task because they inserted it constantly in the doctrine. Hence, my ... pursue a ontological approach at transforming a system...now, I am not saying design has no role at the tactical level, but if SOD has a ...
Journal Article - Mar 18 2011 - 7:00am - 55 comments
- The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare
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... ââ¬Â¢...it took the Irish Republican Army 30 years to progress from command wire bombs to remotely triggered devices. "By ... wants us to be "versatile". Even our capstone doctrine, FM 3-0 Operations, focuses on Full Spectrum Operations. All of these terms are ...
Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments
- Breaking Barriers to Deeper Understanding: How Post-Modern Concepts Are ‘Value-Added’ to Military Conceptual Planning Considerations
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... limited trappings of ‘Design Doctrine’ such as FM 5-0 The Operations Process and FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency. [1] ... you need to assemble it to gain the ability to ride. [30] While it is easy for those that already have the concept of a bicycle ...
Journal Article - Sep 21 2011 - 8:18am - 38 comments
- America's Flawed Afghanistan Strategy
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... costs. Consider the following: 1. According to FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency, "1-134. Insurgencies are protracted by nature. ... national security strategy speech of May 5th (link at my 30 Aug, 8:26 PM comment above): "We are in a race between the forces of ...
Blog entry - Aug 11 2010 - 3:47pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments
- MRAP Future Discussion Paper
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... New Missions in Future Conflicts). In accordance with FM 3-0, "by 2015, well over half the worlds population will live in urban ... purchased and that South Africa and Rhodesia had used 30 years earlier. Those solutions though, were not invented here and thus were ...
Journal Article - Feb 11 2011 - 7:00am - 20 comments


