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... gotten four of our junior officer Disruptive Thinkers to sit on a panel at a recent USNI/AFCEA conference and proclaim the gospel of ... solving, and decision making skills. The ability to sit down with a group of people and engage in these intellectual practices and ...

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

... because they used metal shackles to strap the victim down, and a tin flower pot sprinkler to regulate the water flow rate, but it ... are so concerned about the reputation of America; you who sit at your computer screen, sip your coffee and sanctimoniously defend the ...

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

... Beret alike, ROI is not derived from doctrine or from top-down thinking and applications of decisions and resources, but from empowering ... ideology, degrees and our comfortable lives and once more sit down in the dirt where our ancestors came from and find ways to help those ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... Taliban Two-Step: Can't Sit Down Yet - Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Newsweek Everyone's ...

Blog post - Nov 2 2008 - 11:34am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... I'm not worried about now, I worry about 8 and 10 years down the road. Nobody has to push money into aircraft. Just accept that if ... What about some of those 388 Taiwan fighters? Will Japan sit idly by after missiles hit their country? Allies are good. So are other ...

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

... out a desired end-state into the future, and we anchor it down with our logic that stabilizes for us how the world functions (principles ... same. Sure- we change slides, make little word changes; sit in meetings for hours listening to senior leadership argue over whether ...

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

... was massive pressure placed on Casey to "thin" down the troop presence in Iraq in 2006 so the NCA side could say that the ... up close and personal as a defense contractor allowed to sit in on several decision making meetings. It stuck me that he thoroughly ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... in an effort to position ourselves as a neutral mediator down the line. For some reason - I can't imagine why, but history might have ... be simple for a change? If one had a chance to sit down and have a conversation with a major insurgent leader---one first has ...

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

... going to help them defend themselves, they will sit out the conflict.  We have to enlist the community in its own defense ... and exploit the vacant terrain to our severe expense down the track. We seek comfort in what is complex and yet we see ... the higher ups can watch people closely and shut them down easily. Small wars, in my forever a civilian view, require ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

... as well. Or those pesky former Eagles now holding down their corner of the bureaucracy. (I should know, I am, after all, a former ... leadership "gets it". The problem is when you sit in staff meeting and walk them through the new breakdown of Mission Command ...

Blog post - May 2 2012 - 5:06pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments