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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... our future largely in the hands of people whose single greatest characteristic is that they are bewildered by the present ...

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

Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... what is good and what is bad, your system necessitates a greatest good, G, or worst bad, B, such that there is at least one B which is ...

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

America's Greatest Weapon

... America's Greatest Weapon By Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF and Lt Col John Nagl, USA Where would one find the U.S.'s greatest weapon? Try traveling to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the home ...

Blog post - May 22 2008 - 12:16pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... interests which need be arbitrated. One of the greatest strengths, if not the single greatest, of the Venture Capitalist is ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 61 comments

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... years ago or that we think that our pilots are really the greatest. It means little to me. All it takes is practice to get good and a ...

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

Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... the system uncomfortable. General Grant is perhaps the greatest example of this; "Once an Eagle" perhaps the greatest fictional case ...

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

Disruptive Thinkers: A Response

... Ben Kohlmann posted a lengthy reply to his critics at the Disruptive Thinkers blog .  A short excerpt follows.   ... world leader in the private sector. After all, the Greatest Generation that parented the baby boomers had to walk 20 miles to ...

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

Disruptive Thinkers: Intrapreneurship vice Entrepreneurship – Why this Distinction Matters

... is an essential tool in advancing our military to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century. In order for this to be a ... among the ranks, one is in turn championing the greatest risk takers of all. When observing the generation of young leaders who ... respective organizations. To match a growing German air threat in 1943, Lockheed Martin authorized the young Kelly Johnson to set up a ...

Journal Article - May 10 2012 - 4:55am - 16 comments

Empire at War: The Effects of the War on Terrorism on the American Middle Class

... Guns or butter, the age-old question. Editor's ... than a few hours of lives lost to terrorism on 9/11. The Greatest Generation came home to live in small "little pink houses for you and ...

Blog post - Apr 23 2012 - 12:04pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

This Week at War: Losing Faith

... My Foreign Policy column discusses the strategic implications of this week's massacre in Panjwai, Afghanistan. ... march into the wilds of western Pennsylvania his greatest humiliation as a soldier. I should have made that clearer. I don't ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments