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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... in ventures like a joint Harvard Business School/Naval War College degree program.   Yet, in reality, the very word ...

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

Three Cups of BS? (Updates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

... Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times ( Investigation throws 'Three Cups of Tea' author ... Mortenson's books are the foundation upon which the small war's principle of treating people with respect and courtesy rests. That is a ...

Blog post - Apr 18 2011 - 8:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

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 ... the Navy SERE program for the first time since the Vietnam War, we incorporated interrogation and torture techniques from the Middle East, ...

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

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

... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. After eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability ...

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

The Rising Dominance of the Information Revolution within RMA Thought

... The Rising Dominance of the Information Revolution within RMA Thought ... Revolution most radically redefined the western way of war. In War Made New , Max Boot masterfully addresses the phenomenon of ...

Journal Article - Oct 12 2010 - 12:56pm - 7 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 ... as you term it. I think providing a conflict like the Gulf War and draw comparisions from each side on how they seemed to be thinking. But ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 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 ... thread and irrelevant to the point. In that same Korean war, attempts at 'Strategic Bombing' wer broadly ineffective and UN air ... at this point than any military threat. The need to live within our means and scale our values and ambitions to those means has to be ...

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

Understanding Iraq: Initial Assessment (Update Three: Model: Small Wars and the Theory of Games)

... The real Civil War is about to begin Assessment ... Cultural Anthropology is only one study within the field.  There are many others with opposing viewpoints.  ...

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

Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... thinkers of this ilk that flow into the Army in times of war and make the warfighting force tremendously successful, but who largely ...

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

Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... Separatism, and Resistance).  Insurgencies range from war to civil emergency and often occur in a blend of types, or morph over ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments