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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... a need and without consulting higher authority, simply go ahead and try to solve it.  Their very nature inclines them to disrupt the ...

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

... Killing Your Way to Control by William F. Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ...

Blog post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing " The Way Ahead in Afghanistan " featuring witnesses General John Keane USA (ret.), ...

Blog post - Jul 31 2011 - 1:04am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... Challenges Ahead in the Middle East by A. Lawrence Chickering Download the Full ... of the trappings of their present, more-traditional way-of-life and to adopt the more-modern way-of-life of we foreigners. This ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:18pm - 36 comments

... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... is a torture technique. Period. There is no way to gloss over it or sugarcoat it. It has no justification outside of its ... they represent a code of behavior that is leaps and bounds ahead of most of our enemies. Remember the Navy SEAL who just received ...

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... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. ... its members are more likely to put themselves in harms-way and less likely to use position to extort the people they are sworn to ...

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

... Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post . Dear Boss, I ... end nothing that I do seems to matter? To put it another way, why should I put service before self when my Chief is systematically ...

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

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... rather than building on the current one. Another way to look at it and Another way to look at it and I think reinforce some ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... the past decade, and who have seen so very little in the way of satisfying results in return, are puzzled by the self-assuredness of ...

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 ... allowed to exist in what are purported to be the preferred way to recruit and inculcate military values in officer aspirants, how can ...

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