Double tap will bring one down, burning it with fire will keep it down :wry:
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Double tap will bring one down, burning it with fire will keep it down :wry:
No doubt all parties involved will have twelve months to work that out. I have my metrics set for 2013, anyone know the number for the betting office in Kabul? :D
At first I made the mistake of assuming Karzai was referring to his porous borders and the ISI.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/14/us-afghanistan-karzai-security-idUSBRE90D0AP20130114
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I bought The Prince and Sun Tzu when I was 15, been reading both once a year ever since, along with CvC and Thucydides. Still have not found many books that are not reiterations of these four...
The pain is nothing compared to finding a career/job. 18 months in and still nothing.
Where do I sign up Bob's World?
Globalization is an artifact of a neo-liberal agenda :cool: In...
Hard to explain, but I believe if I can develop a comprehensible toolkit/conceptual framework that will allow for a clearer separation of signal to noise and enhance our ability to connect the dots,...
Reality is the best measuring stick for theory.
In a sense that is partly what I'm talking about. I appreciate that to literally compress time and space is still a concept in words only,...
The future signal to noise ratio: compression of time and space/drones/cyberwarfare/sub-orbital space warfare/human biomechanical evolution/human biological evolution/targeted...
In short, World War 2 lasted from September 18 1931 to September 2 1945. At the peak of the Cold War it would have taken less than a day to destroy the entire planet. This is what I mean by the...
Primarily warfare at the operational level, specifically the time/space/assets it takes to break the will of the opposing forces to fight eg: cabinet warfare->napoleonic warfare->nuclear...
Back on deck for the 'Asia-Pacific Century', I volunteer to go on point :)
Question: What impact has the compression of time and space had on the level and intensity of violence during and between...
I'm having trouble trying to find a date as reference for my thesis. When was the exact day and time that the Europeans defeated the 'Native Americans'?
J. C. Wylie :)
Ha, and here I was thinking I was the only person who had read and still uses Wylie. His work really opened up and leveled the conceptual playing field for me when I was working on...
Thanks for the imput.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=11715
See post #16 for an outline of what I am trying to pitch for.
Question: Why does the level and intensity of violence change within a war and between wars in different time periods?
NVM: I just have a slow connection...
Slight change to thesis: A study of classical strategic theory focusing on Carl Von Clausewitz's, 'On War', and Mao Zedong's interpretation of 'Sun Tzu'. The thesis sets out to test the conceptual...
After four years I have finally nailed down a thesis:
The Way Of War
A study of classical strategic theory focusing on Carl Von Clausewitz's, 'On War', and Mao Zedong's interpretation of 'Sun...
Good point. This goes towards what is the dynamic nature of the trinity during the phases of a war. Prior to roling the iron dice a good strategist should be able to identify all of the primary and...
I thought it was Edward Luttwak. He has written the most about the 'levels'.
Policy->Grand Strategy -> Strategy-> Operations-> Tactics-> Technical
This reminds me of an anecdote from On War:
A colleague wrote to CvC wanting advice on the final exam he was drafting for junior officers. The questions set for the exam included a number of...
Colin Gray's Maxim 12:
"The strategist is in the business of currency conversion, in a context that lacks a stable rate of exchange. He or she must determine what kind of military threat or...
And so the superior military cuts down strategy.
Its inferior cuts down alliances.
Its inferior cuts down the military.
The worst...
Strategy is the bridge between policy and operations.
CvC was building on his proposition that war is a continuation of politics by other means through an observational account of the historical transition from 'cabinet wars' (territorial) to...