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... Less is Often More? The Paradoxical Impact of Force and Resource Constraints ...

Blog post - Jun 21 2011 - 9:27am - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... as they are published . For my generation, there is one profession that captures our imagination more than any other:  ... their own apparent isolation or desperation. In a less dramatic sense but as equally important is the velcro iPad mapping cockpit ...

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

... said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Al Qaeda number two guy ... who can expect humane treatment from his captors is much less likely to fight to the death than someone who believes he will suffer a ...

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

... returning us to our Irregular Warfare roots. However, it is not the IW of the Cold War but rather the IW of Globalization. And there are ... it means stability and growth. Historically, less than ten percent of companies reviewed receive VC investment. Fifty ...

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

... way, why should I put service before self when my Chief is systematically dismantling my service? To use a perhaps appropriately joint ... You might think that we’re too busy doing more with less, coping with the administrivia of yet another ancillary ground training ...

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

... I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter Army doctrine, ... of formal, final, efficient and material causes - much less how they might be related to problems of complex operations and asymmetric ...

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

... Benjamin Kohlmann’s essay, “The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers,” struck a chord like no other essay published ... the throat of the problem.  Perhaps a better analogy is that his was a marking round lobbed in the general vicinity of the ... and begin to rely more on accumulated resources and less on clever business design. ...  They will lose the discipline of ...

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

... The real Civil War is about to begin Assessment Given ... infrastructure with the Fedayeen and others who more or less ensured to be loyal to the regime. I don't doubt he was preparing to fight ...

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

... type of ideology, or status of parties. #3: COIN is a domestic operation :  Limit COIN to domestic operations (unless ... responsibility, more appropriate military roles,  and less operational surprise. #6:   Human Nature :  Appreciate ...

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

... 600-20, Army Command Policy, states "hazing is fundamentally in opposition to our values and is prohibited." ... members of his platoon (a platoon he had been part of for less than 70 days), has brought to the forefront the issue of hazing in the US ...

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