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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... another fad, and indeed, a philosophy of fads. Read the latest public comments of CG TRADOC to get a sense of where this is leading. ...

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

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... 30-40 different WGs, huddles, pre WGs or whatever the latest buzz word is. Everyone "senses" that something is wrong but the ...

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

Where Is Our Kilcullen?

... . War is dynamic, changing, and unpredictable. The ongoing war in Iraq is no different; it has seen a fundamental shift in how ... they do extra reading. This included a pass around of the latest insurgent TTP battle videos that a number of the Officers refused to ...

Blog post - Dec 12 2009 - 5:54am - 40 comments - 0 attachments

COIN Metrics: What Not to Measure

... how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political anthropologist/COIN guru is at ... a statistical picture of their battlespace. In the latest effort by Ricks, there's really nothing new here. Since 2003, the ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

WikiLeaks, Again (Updated)

... military documents from Iraq war operations is shameful, the Pentagon press secretary said tonight. "This is an extraordinary ... News Opinion Mixed on Significance of WikiLeaks' Latest Revelations - Globe and Mail WikiLeaks Continues to Face ...

Blog post - Oct 24 2010 - 5:45am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct ... wicked problems.  If we continue to plug and play the latest "new" idea to tame a problem, then we will just muddle along ...

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

Hazing is Simply Intolerable

... to our values and is prohibited."   The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan ... 2) homosexuals in the military, 3) anything that is the latest knee-jerk flavor of the month (suicide, hazing, etc.), 4) Army and ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 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. ... the same request. The Panjwai murders are just the latest in a long string of similar grievances Karzai has expressed to U.S. ...

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

How Afghanistan Ends

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... why and it is a judgment call on my part. I'll let your latest stand. You of all people should understand the tight-rope we walk at ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

Language, Culture, and Army Culture: Failing Transformation

... transformational approach to promoting language skills in the force.  Is it possible to turn the failure around? ... areas in Second Life, where they speak and type in the latest indecypherable slang. The little nuances you pick up like that can be a ...

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