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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... in the military and provided an appendix of the ages of generals across history at the time of their greatest achievements. The average ...

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

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... this earlier in the year, especially when former Marine Generals Krulak and Hoar rejected all arguments for torture . Evan Wallach ...

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

... General David H Petraeus: The General's Knowledge - Charles Sennott, The Sunday Times ... Both came intending to undo a series of mistakes by the generals and diplomats who preceded them and brought the war to the edge of ...

Blog post - Jun 28 2008 - 8:19pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... system that prides itself on justice will reward the generals that have presided over failure, whether at the operational and ...

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

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... This is not a KoolAid answer b/c there are good Generals and bad just like there are good NCOs and bad ones (People are people ...

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

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... was the key difference he enjoyed over the thousands of Generals on both sides of the Western Front. I dare say every last one of them ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... transformational approach to promoting language skills in the force.  Is it possible to turn the failure around? ... language and LPK skills enhancement; anyone who spoke with Generals McChrystal or Flynn about language skills and their operational impact ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... Ben Kohlmann posted a lengthy reply to his critics at the Disruptive Thinkers blog .  A short excerpt follows.   ... on combat deployments? Was Mr. Gates wrong, or did the Generals and Colonels really have systemic difficulties identifying ...

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

... The more things change...  A storied letter that keeps coming back. ... once again, and army at dawn, losing its edge and its knowledge until a new adversary bloodily forces the reforms that so many are ... (intentionally misspelled) trauma that comes from Generals and Admirals either developing and pursuing or (politically) ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... Editor's Note:  You can find all of the disruptive thinkers essays here as they are published. Business, ... as SOCOM itself as bodies are freed up from supporting generals and placed where they can best support operators. Time will tell how ...

Journal Article - Apr 11 2012 - 5:30am - 20 comments