by zen | Nov 26, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea, the interviewer par excellence of Small Wars Journal, steps up with an interview with COIN guru and former USG senior adviser Dr. David Kilcullen: Future of Warfare in a Post-COIN Conflict Climate...
by Lynn C. Rees | Nov 23, 2013 | Monitor
[recompiled by Lynn C. Rees] Following up on Scott’s Mark’s post from yesterday: more information about J.C. Wylie, who you’ve probably never heard of but should have. The following follows J.C. Wylie Wikipedia article but leaves out debris...
by zen | Nov 21, 2013 | Monitor
Grip, the post by Lynn Rees generated comments linking to two further posts on the topic of Rear Admiral Joseph Caldwell (J.C.) Wylie, Jr. and his Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control which I suspect are of interest to many readers here:...
by zen | Sep 17, 2013 | Monitor
Adam Elkus alerted me to an insightful op-ed by Dr. Antulio Echevarria of SSI: Op-Ed: Is Strategy Really A Lost Art? …. Instead, we need to rediscover the value of strategizing relative to the outcome, the product, an individual strategy. The hard truth is that...
by zen | Sep 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Octavian Manea and SWJ are on something of a roll lately. Colonel T.X. Hammes (ret.) PhD is the respected author of the excellent The Sling and the Stone. If you have never read it, you should. The Fallacies of Big...
