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Irregular Warfare and Adaptive Leadership

... Irregular Warfare and Adaptive Leadership by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling, ...

Journal Article - Apr 4 2009 - 4:27am - 5 comments

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

... related to problems of complex operations and asymmetric warfare ? MAJ Zweibelson talks of detailed planning as "teleological" - but ... a game field with continually changing direction and many irregular factors.” P 95. Again, this non-western position emphasizes ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

An IW "Bottle of Scotch" Challenge

... by a team of guys trying to tackle a thorny issue - Irregular Warfare: Everything yet Nothing by Lieutenant Colonel (P) William ...

Blog entry - Dec 19 2008 - 6:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments

A Populace-Centric Foreign Policy

... The admonition to be more population centric (as if warfare isn't and that soldiers and politicians don't know that it is) is akin ... of sanctuary as a critical component of deterrence of irregular threats. This must also be coupled with changing our perspectives to ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare

... The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare by Lieutenant General Michael A. Vane Download the full ...

Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments

Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War

... it to happen any time soon. The term "open source warfare" doesn't explain anything. It's a description, not an explanation. ... nations because we're overly focused as a force on irregular warfare. Folks from my background make their living and always have ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Two)

... something of deep institutional value (conventional warfare with a peer military IOP perhaps?)- the organization lashes back and ... threats we'll need to continue to evolve; however, for irregular warfare we should consider using other government agencies and ...

Journal Article - Mar 11 2011 - 9:14am - 72 comments

The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory

... Revisited: How the USAF Should Adapt to 21st Century Irregular Warfare . Show Author Info?:  ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments

The Death of the Armor Corps

... F. Owen. Predicting the end of war or of a type of warfare is even older than I am. Everyone including Omar Bradley was wrong... ... the problem away with notions of a future filled mostly of irregular warfare and on the notion that learning and adapting leaders can ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments

This Week at War: End of the COIN Era?

... the U.S. military -- masters of high-tech precision-strike warfare -- should prepare to taste that bitter medicine, which could be ... more on our opposition's technology than large scale irregular warfare. On a smaller scale irregular threats such as terrorists will ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments