Center for Strategic Communication

Boyd and Beyond Local DC Event

[by J. Scott Shipman] Jim Hasik’s White Board Outline   At the suggestion of Adam Elkus, we were privileged to host our first “local” Boyd and Beyond event on 15 December. We had 14 attend, and five speakers. Logistically, we turned our family...

Turning Away From Strategy

It appears that the Pentagon no longer intends to educate the most talented members of the officer corps to think strategically. I say this because the status of the premier professional military education institutions – the war colleges and NDU – have...

Venkat on Positioning vs. Melee Moves

Blogfriend, Dr. Venkat Rao had an intriguing post at Tempo (his other blog) on which I want to make a few, relatively disjointed, observations: Positioning Moves versus Melee Moves  My general philosophy of decision-making de-emphasizes the planning/execution...