by zen | Jun 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Adaptive Leadership Handbook: :Law Enforcement & Security by Fred Leland & Don Vandergriff The Adaptive Leadership Handbook is an unusual book. It is a work about thinking for men and women of action. It is an...
by zen | Jun 3, 2014 | Monitor
I am falling way behind in my linking efforts to The Bridge’s outstanding blogging event – the best round table the strategy-blogosphere has produced in years! Here are several recent contributions: Adam Elkus – Social Choice: A Personal Theory of...
by zen | May 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] In an incisive post, Rich Ganske makes use of one of the most unknown great American strategists, Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie: Joint Action: A Personal Theory of Power What is Jointness? Joint action, or jointness, is the...
by zen | May 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Mikhail Grinberg tackles a topic too often neglected in defense thinking, one that obsessed commissars and worried kaisers, translating economic production into military power and geopolitical influence: Defense Industrial...
by zen | May 21, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] Chet Richards had an intriguing post at Slightly East of New on the implications of developments in quantum mechanics for Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop which was itself rooted in Boyd’s explorations of physics:...
