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... Kilcullen (I): Here's What Not to Measure in a COIN Campaign - Tom Ricks at FP's Best Defense. ... (one of my rules when I was an editor was to see if I could cut the first three pages of any long article), Kilcullen's first ...

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

... You can’t innovate and have a long term impact if you are only surrounded by like-minded people.  You must challenge ... like the Naval Post Graduate School instead of MIT in what is a very short term cost saving measure.   We limit their ...

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

... said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Al Qaeda number two guy that ... 9/11. And he talked ..." He then speculated that "If you ask Americans whether they think it's okay for us to waterboard in a ...

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

... an understanding of why this is so, we must first know what Venture Capital does and how such is already an analog for the 21st ... environment or to having made a poor COA selection, even if this means changing direction and cannibalizing assets. The fourth is a ...

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

... What Really Happened at Wanat - Kirk Ross, Proceedings . Some press ... only lesson learned. The leaders failed to recognize. If they were real leaders, then they would have quit rather than occupying that ...

Blog post - Jul 2 2010 - 3:19pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... are used to thinking, and embrace uncertainty for a bit. If any of the post-modern and highly abstract concepts offered in this article ... under which a rational actor model works satisfactorally. What one is left with is an increasingly complex search space for solutions to ...

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

... might think that out in the field we don’t notice what’s going on at Headquarters. You might think that we’re too ... me is that nothing I do matters or ever will. As if twelve years wasn’t enough of boring meaningless holes in the sky ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... the organization and reinvigorate its culture, but only if disruptive thinkers are willing to challenge the growing mantra in staff ...

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

... the best available information to make sense of what is known in order to construct an explicit and shared hypothesis of ... the deaths of an estimated 500,000 children. So, if the Iraq invasion was immoral, then liberal commentators opposed to it have ...

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

... (the west ) need to recognise that the strategic ends of what I term 'second-party counterinsurgency' (ie, 'interventionist' COIN) are ... point Dave and Excellent point Dave and agree. If policy directs to do nation building coin again it will be only us, the ...

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