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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 post - Nov 22 2008 - 8:21am - 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... Benjamin Kohlmann’s essay, “The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers,” struck a chord like no other essay published ... it was a wildly popular read.  For all the comments on the article, the one that rang truest with me came from commener “Null ...

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

... missions. Rhetorical and practical reliance on operational theory did not end with the Warsaw Pact. Military ... complex. Their dynamics are difficult to product and more characterized by nonlinearity. The Design critique of reductionism is that ... of Vietnam. Concepts such as Effects-Based Operations (EBO), Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO), and the expansion of Network-Centric ...

Journal Article - Apr 30 2012 - 4:50am - 9 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 - 7:23pm - 32 comments

... include: 1) Policymakers get 11th-hour second thoughts on the Joint Strike Fighter 2) Defense cuts will mean more risk. Is the Marine Corps the Pentagon's best hedge? Policymakers ...

Blog post - May 27 2011 - 1:49pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 8:50am - 57 comments

... describes the very thinking we are to expand and improve on.  Below is a synopsis of how a sampling of theorists and military ... Critical thinking and creative thinking require more than adherence to military doctrine, and the references to FM 5-0 as well ...

Journal Article - Sep 16 2011 - 9:22am - 3 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 - 8:37pm - 83 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 post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments