by J.ScottShipman | Oct 10, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] This is worth the 20 minutes. Strategy without clarity, isn’t. There is no clarity or strategy to our current problems in Afghanistan. “We have killed all the slow and stupid ones. But that means the ones that are left are totally...
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 zen | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw Columbia University Press just sent me a review copy of Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw, an assistant professor of IR/Security...
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...
