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It’s funny how things work
The importance of understanding “the why” (purpose) has occupied much of my thinking lately. One of my projects at work is to develop a training module on infrastructure reconnaissance. One of the themes I’m trying to emphasize in the module … Continue reading → […]

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Collapse Of Araby
Surprise!Check a bit of interesting chiz from a bona fided "Run away! Run away!" cat (He certainly didn't think like this in his ancient readable thing filled up with paper LOL)Anywrought - Arab League is like totally kaput - and true and faux regional unArabic hegemons are sweetly circling overheadThe Arab Spring has unleashed the Arab Coll […]

Rethinking Security

Administrative Shift
Over the next week, there will be some big changes at Rethinking Security. First, I will be moving this blog to Tumblr. I've been blogging for five years now, and have been learning about the business as I go along.... […]

Mountain Runner

Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #62
Courtesy of Bruce Gregory, here is the latest update on resources that may be of general interest for teachers, students, and practitioners of public diplomacy and related courses and activities. Suggestions for future updates are welcome. Bruce Gregory is an adjunct professor at George Washington University and at Georgetown University and a pre-eminant fon […]

Abu Muqawama

I Got 200 Million Problems, But Multicollinearity Ain't One
When even David Brooks, Herodotus of the Bobos, is waxing lyrical about data and empiricism you know that data science has become mainstream. Drew Conway is right that the phrase is rather clumsy, but so are many other things in social science. If the mad awesome/state of the art work Conway does is the data equivalent of the mouth-watering Chinese restauran […]

Long War Journal

More Palestinian kidnapping plots thwarted by Israel
Israeli authorities announced the arrest of 14 Palestinian terrorists from two separate terror cells operating near Hebron. One cell, which was tied to Hamas, had nine members and was planning a kidnapping operation. The other cell, affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, had five members. […]

Real Clear World

Federalism Could Ease Iraq Pressures
Hassan Hassan, The NationalThere is a certain power to the word taqseem in Arabic. It means any form of partition of a country, and has a cloud of connotations that can invite memories of colonial times and conspiracies by western-backed religious or ethnic minorities. That is why it is interesting to observe that the idea of decentralisation is, for the fir […]

Army Learning Concept 2015

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Posts Tagged ‘Decentralized Operations’

Commanders Matter Again: Mission Command

January 5th, 2011 by Centurion

I just finished reading General Martin Dempsey’s article on Mission Command. I feel heartened that the Army is moving forward to encourage operational adaptability. Mission Command is a crucial step in recognizing that war is fundamentally a human endeavor. That is to say when we had Command and Control and Battle Command as terms we [...]

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