by zen | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor
The always interesting John Hagel tweeted a link recently to an old post at Mill’s-Scofield Innovanomics, a blog run by a business strategist and consultant with a science background, Deb Mills-Scofield. Summer’s Trump Cards ….Culture Trumps Strategy:...
by zen | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
SWJ Blog has a new post up with an important and all too timely article on transition operations whose authors include an amigo of mine, Pete Turner, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Turner will also be one of the featured speakers at the Boyd & Beyond...
by J.ScottShipman | Sep 4, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command, by Jon Tetsuro Sumida As of August 2012 this is the best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Professor Sumida brings a potentially dry topic to life making Alfred Thayer Mahan relevant in the...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Since the original post of “No one is really listening, they are just pretending,” there are indications that pretending may actually be doing institutional harm. The US Naval Institue recently sponsored the Joint Warfighting...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The First Battle, Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam, by Otto J. Lehrack, Lt.Col., USMC, Ret. This is an older book, but important. A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a good friend, Bruce. Bruce is a Vietnam...