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... Where Is Our Kilcullen? - LtCol Michael D. Grice, Marine Corps Gazette . ... the same? The answer, unfortunately, is that we do not. The Marine Corps has not invested in the education and development of ...

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

... members.  We educate them in the art of war, but do so with a focus on mere tactics.  We educate them when they are well ... considered a leisurely billet with plenty of time off where little studying need be done.     Harvard Business ...

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

... of what it is to be an American. We live at a time where Americans, completely uninformed by an incurious media and enthralled by ... of anything that's foul that our enemies are doing or may do, but because you grasp comprehesively that we Americans have the moral ...

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

... essay in the New York Times's "At War" series entitled Where Did God Go in Afghanistan? Ten thousand feet over Fort Benning, ... believe in the same god as CPT Cummings; many of us do not believe in any gods. I'm not sure why this is news to him. Re: Where ...

Blog post - Nov 7 2010 - 4:23pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... ROI and smaller degrees of Risk & Uncertainty. Where all the many layers of investors above are focused on improving the ... not benefitting at all. It is in these places where we do VSO, places walled or partially walled off from globalization, where the ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 55 comments

... deterministic don't know any more about physics than they do about social and behavioral science. In either case, the heuristics ... requirements be undertaken without the "deepest combat" where solutions might fall outside the traditional understanding of ...

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

... ORIs, AEFs, IPUG, BMC, when in the end nothing that I do seems to matter? To put it another way, why should I put service before self ... (I'm sure a pilot will know the correct technical name) where dust stops rising up thermals and saturates the airspace. Despite what ...

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

... real! Re: Here we go again.... Well Jason, how do we know "we're not that good at COIN?" We only gave it 10-years last ... not likely see another situation like Iraq or Afghanistan where we overthrow a regime and practice nation building under fire in the near ...

Blog post - Sep 26 2010 - 6:57pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... the mission and to highlight some specific problem areas where disruptive thinking is needed and some solutions have already been ... for an inefficient, uncompetitive status quo.  Why do we need disruptive thinkers?  We need disruptive thinkers to challenge ...

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

... ( dare I say most) our stargeic interest has nothing to do with nation building and everything to do with the maintenance of some form ... - it is military doctrine after all..). And here is where we get to the core problem. While FM 3-24 is , occasionally, 'what is ...

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