- The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers
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... classmates who have traveled the world in entirely different capacities, and the synergistic effect of diverse intellects. ... indeed be encouragement for initiative. For a great read, please see "Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command..." by ...
Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... SEAL on Waterboarding - Winds of Change If You Read One Post About Waterboarding - The Plank ( The New Republic ) ... CWO Wright correctly points out, the current enemy are no different than others we've faced in the past. Most are swept up to fight for a ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... this program in 2002 it would most likely be an entirely different story, but few outside SF grasped the true character of the conflict ... community the simple and moral arguments are not enough (read: because life will be better and it is the right thing to do, does not fly ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... to think about Design requires us to think from a different perspective - a perspective that lacks the very things we hold ... Naveh post-mod Kool-Aid. One wonders whether he actually read the entire DeLeuze and Guattari book on design, for the parts he uses are ...
Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Read Different
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... Ret.), long-time friend of SWJ , enjoins readers to "read different" in the latest issue of Armed Forces Journal . Since ...
Blog post - Aug 3 2008 - 11:59pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up
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... I have no trust that AirSea Battle will end up any different. Why should I have any hope? Being a good joint team player, my ... as if we are just auxiliary members. Has my Chief ever read FM 100-20? What about the Key West Agreement? I’m accused of ...
Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
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... enemy fire. Whatever it was, it was a wildly popular read. For all the comments on the article, the one that rang truest with ... PME does not provide students with radically different outsider perspectives. While the attendance of different ...
Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments
- Understanding Iraq: Initial Assessment (Update Three: Model: Small Wars and the Theory of Games)
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... so off on his assessment of Casey it isnt even funny. I read the interview that Tom Ricks did with Casey in October 2008 and based on ... 2004 article Global Insurgency flatly stated there are 87 different Sunni groups---and surprisingly in 2010 a quantum physics project had ...
Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference
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... we mentored on their first day at Taji, asking who had read the FM. The average response was in the order of 5% of all present - and ... to occupy in both Iraq and Afghanistan(though we used different terms, and hastily stood up illegimate governments to largely ...
Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- Hazing is Simply Intolerable
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... was harmful to the unit or to one of the 10% (those of a different persuasion, capability level, race, creed, color, sexual orientation ... realistic training and all the other things I've read about in books. One thing it doesn't require is frat boy high jinks in ...
Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments


