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... Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War An ... comes onto the scene combined with a few innovative new officers at the lower levels who figure out how to do counterinsurgency by ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 8:37pm - 83 comments

... teach doctrinaire procedures, not critical, creative thinking.  They focus primarily on the tactical employment of forces ... a monthly syllabus designed to foster creative thought and new avenues of discovery.  We call it Disruptive Thinkers , and it has ...

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

... the administration and stated that waterboarding is "not a new phenomenon" and that it had "been pinned on President Bush ... but this has ... cause, the end does not justify the means. That type of thinking leads directly to tyranny and war crimes such as Abu Garieb. It ...

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

... generalist, the VC melds unconventional, non-linear thinking with traditional finance and business models so as to realize a ROI ... model. This bottom-up style of economic entanglement, new industry and job creation, is exactly what VC specialize in. The ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 56 comments

... with too much philosophy, abstraction, and unorthodox thinking, I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason ... marketplace of ideas. Indeed, old ideas get resurrected in new theories. Platonism becomes Neoplatonism. Scholasticism becomes ...

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

... is doing. Well, we aren’t. When I was an FNG [ New Guy ], all I cared about was sounding good on check-ins, staying visual, ... that about the MiG-29? I don't. I remember people thinking it was a good airplane and being relieved when we got our hands on one ...

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

... strategic reset and retrenchment, during which disruptive thinking is required in order to challenge the status quo and effect a ... provides some diversity, this hardly brings disruptively new ideas to the classroom from disparate fields of experience.  In all, ...

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

... I think the Design guys and gals should spend some time thinking about the intellectual history of the DOD and the military and how and ... That was in 2009. More recently, in July 2010, the New York Times reported: In the frantic last hours of Gen. Stanley A. ...

Blog post - Apr 18 2011 - 8:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions.”  ... If we continue to plug and play the latest "new" idea to tame a problem, then we will just muddle along and only make ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... that gave this child of hardworking Chinese immigrants a New York education and opportunity to live the American Dream.  He was a ... on right now in the Army: learning, resiliency, creative thinking, etc. Counseling, mentoring and getting to know our Soldiers and ...

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