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Win, Learn, Focus, Adapt, Win Again

... articles published in ARMY magazine from October 2010 to March 2011, plus the speech he delivered at AUSA's 2011 Winter Symposium in ... against the insurgents was never really in question, just how long it would take. Still Malaya is an example of successful ...

Blog post - Apr 9 2011 - 6:48pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments

The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... 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

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

... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak ... in most articles was that SERE was designed to show how an evil totalitarian, enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If ...

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

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

... 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 Afghanistan Ends

... 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

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

... AEFs, IPUG, BMC, when in the end nothing that I do seems to matter? To put it another way, why should I put service before self when my ... AirSea Battle is a setback for the Air Force. Tell me how AirLand Battle, a linear, sequential, and attrition based doctrine in which ...

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

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

... 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

Understanding Iraq: Initial Assessment (Update Three: Model: Small Wars and the Theory of Games)

... The real Civil War is about to begin Assessment Given the ... and influence networks that pertain to the mission and how to act through them to take best advantage of the inherent situational ...

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

Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem

... 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

Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference

... key terms with an eye toward criteria that lend themselves to similar approaches for solving the problem.  Purpose for action and ... conditions of insurgency that exist in every society, how to relieve such pressure through good governance, and the critical ...

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