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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... say, an iPhone .  Or, an intellect that recognizes how secondary and tertiary networks are often more valuable than first-order ...

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

... elsewhere, Village Stability Operations are returning us to our Irregular Warfare roots. However, it is not the IW of the Cold War but ... the resource development is done, we fail to fully grasp how all these operations fit into a functional whole. This is due to the fact ...

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

... How to Fix USAID by Joshua Foust, The Atlantic . BLUF: "A broken aid agency helps ...

Blog post - Jul 7 2011 - 7:48pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... How does your organization think, and how does it not think? ... or become a step within a planning process… to think about Design requires us to think from a different perspective - a ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... focus on bureaucratic minutiae.  They question how they can be trusted so completely in a combat environment, but are treated ...

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

... Policy, states "hazing is fundamentally in opposition to our values and is prohibited." ... and inculcate military values in officer aspirants, how can anybody take seriously any Army regulation that prohibits it? ...

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

... positive alternative. But what is the alternative and how do we realise it? Who? – the educated professional elite ... is centre of mass for success. The insurgents have access to sustainable funding through the taxation of opium. The Afghan government ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront ... community to rethink the existing assumptions and relearn how to counter insurgencies. [5]   Moreover, over the past decade, ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Motto: “ The ability to simultaneously have an affinity for and sensitivity to the people and their ... of a far vaster political contest and that, no matter how expertly it is fought by competent and dedicated professionals, it cannot ...

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