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... the JFCOM staff with clear guidance and a new direction on how EBO will be addressed in joint doctrine and used in joint training, ... by Tomislav Z. Ruby entitled Effects-based Operations: More Important Than Ever . Whether effects-based operations (EBO) and ...

Blog entry - Nov 22 2008 - 7:21am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... Scholasticism becomes Neoscholasticism. And so on. Even disproven theories are valuable for the lessons they hold - some of ... of detailed planning as "teleological" - but only in the more modest sense that the "end" or "goal" of an operation is its purpose. ...

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

... range from smaller, lower-technology opponents using more adaptive, asymmetric methods to larger, modernized forces able to engage ... of both processes. I'd actually like FLYNN's opinion on the negatives of getting too caught up in network analysis vice seeing the ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... The United States Army (and Joint Community) has been on a Design path before. In 2002, the United States Air Force began its ... which are intangible and difficult to understand, are even more undesirable when they fall outside our current doctrine. One thing ...

Journal Article - Sep 20 2010 - 6:23pm - 32 comments

... read your commentary concerning David Galula's work on counterinsurgency and its applicability for today's COIN campaigns and you ... Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam , and more currently many of the writings of Colonel Robert Cassidy and others. ...

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

... Maybe they were from the Public Affairs office. On my side of the table a jumbled mix of staff officers from other sections of ... stop saying, the position seemed a little outdated. Any more efforts along those lines, I thought, would have meant sending all our ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... section is about metrics to be avoided... Continue on for "what not to measure in a COIN Campaign" at Best Defense. ... Come on. The stock mantra that Ricks highlights that the more civilians killed the more insurgents made and therefore the less pacified ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... that it has essentially become Army dogma. Most writing on the subject is overwhelming supportive. However, one officer has stood out ... and one hundred meter targets and sees targets that look more like conventional military adversaries with armor and artillery instead of ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... consequence. The manual's primary assumption appears on its first page: "[a]chieving victory...depends on a group's ability to ... Hardly a good answer. Of course it could be more helpful to have indigenous ANA "holders" who speak the same language as ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... (Part Two) Costello: "Well then who's on first?" Abbott: "Yes." Costello: "I mean the ... this may create conditions for design to become more relevant to practitioners. Re: To Design or Not to Design (Part Two) ...

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