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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 - 7:37pm - 83 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 entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 11:30am - 79 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 entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 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 entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... and the ISI/Army; Lebanon and Hezbollah; etc.). Such thinking creates functional sancuaries for bad actors and relieves weak actors ... understandable and even acceptable as long as there is no new catastrophic attack on the US. This seems to me to be a short-sighted ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs ... should consider using existing emergency powers and/or new legislation to temporarily suspend some of the procedural impediments to ... areas? What have they done for that? I was thinking they have a similar legal system and may have some of the same ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... not the enemy. Focusing on enemy networks limits your thinking and often ignores the real problem: the threat. The sum of the Combat ... a staff might do MDMP out of order, skip a step, add a new step, go back to a previous step, then jump to a yet undiscovered step, and ...

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

... is assessed not by binary logic, but with patterned thinking -- the idea of "thinking along continua" is one way to portray ... on the interiority-it addresses what it knows, and relates new (unknown knowns) through historical internalizing. "This conflict is just ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments

... 1SG right out of his or her company and show him a new desk and chair in the 3-shop where he or she can lay on land & ammo for ... look up the reasoning behind the Army banning them. I was thinking maybe something along the lines of people getting injured in them due ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments