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    Is Cyber a new warfare? Debate (catch all)

    Given the recent manifesto by VADM's Card and Rogers in USNI Proceedings
    ("The Navy's Newest Warfighting Imperative") regarding the criticality of
    cyberspace to the Navy's future, done in...
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    It can be - but the most efficient system is also...

    It can be - but the most efficient system is also the least resilient - it has single points of failure everywhere.

    Fair criticism on the bridge argument - poorly considered in retrospect.


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    In the context I'm using to analyze the JOAC, you...

    In the context I'm using to analyze the JOAC, you in essence have a matrix - along the vertical axis you have domains, on the horixontal axis you have missions. A given mission may incorporate...
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    I hear you Slap, but the Services remain, and...

    I hear you Slap, but the Services remain, and feel as though they "own" their "base domain". I make the analogy to the Army in the WWI era when you had infantry corps, cavalry corps artillery corps,...
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    Joint Operational Access Concept discussion

    Reposted from RFI section above:

    The "Joint Operational Access Concept"was recently released:

    Link

    It's been the subject of a fair amount of criticism, some of it deserved, some not.

    It...
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    Sorry, "Joint Operational Access Concept" Link...

    Sorry, "Joint Operational Access Concept"

    Link

    It's been the subject of a fair amount of criticism, some of it deserved, some not. I will start a discussion thread under futurists and theorists...
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    REgarding Human face of war - I picked up the...

    REgarding Human face of war - I picked up the kindle edition for 15$.

    Great suggestion - I really enjoyed it. Found myself really thinking about why some of the criticisms of assumptions raised...
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    JOAC SME request?

    I'm working on putting together a forum on the undersea 'domain' (I know its not officially one...) and wondering who to invite to talk about the JOAC - preferably someone involved in the writing?
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    Brant, Don't get discouraged. There is only...

    Brant,

    Don't get discouraged. There is only so much time to comment on things and I this case I think Mike hit most of the points in his article. Though a few things continue to go unchallenged...
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    More blaming the OODA loop...

    This Article

    lays blame for a number of planning problems at the feet of Boyd. I guess its easier to blame a dead guy, than the entrenched oradoxy of the metric-ified MDMP...and proposes to fix...
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    Office of Naval Research massive multi-player game delayed...

    Moderator's Note: for background to ONR project:http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2011/04/darpa-uses-the-crowd-to-solve/

    Because response was too...massive?


    PAXSIMS, a great blog on training...
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    Of course the Chinese always try to do us one...

    Of course the Chinese always try to do us one better. Theirs has a port inside!
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    You mean like...(see attached) This is a...

    You mean like...(see attached)

    This is a grunch of oil platforms welded together to make a floating air field big enough for the Air Force to luv ;)
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    I do need to correct myself on "heavyweight...

    I do need to correct myself on "heavyweight torpedoes" being the principle sub weapon. They also carry ASCMS and long range strike weapons.

    They are extremely limited however in the use of these...
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    Some thoughts on Lind's chapter. Blue water vs...

    Some thoughts on Lind's chapter.

    Blue water vs green/Brown water - This is a weakness of the navy and the primary impetus for the bi- and rimodel navy constructs. It is not however a "trade blue...
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    Aircraft are unique signatures against an...

    Aircraft are unique signatures against an uncluttered background.

    Mobile ground targets, as we are finding in Libya look pretty much alike signature wise makig them needle in a haystack problems....
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    Since most consider them obsolete becasue of...

    Since most consider them obsolete becasue of their vulnerability, i take it you think that hte idea of a mobile airfiled (which is what a CV is) is what is obsolete? Is it the mobility is no longer...
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    Thanks for the replies! Effectiveness vs...

    Thanks for the replies!

    Effectiveness vs efficiency is one of the issues with our current fleet design - and the CVs in particular as Ken points out. Supercarriers are very efficient, and have...
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    Future Naval Air contribution to "small wars"

    The CV is once again obsolete, "long live the CV!".

    Or should it?

    Aircraft were going to make surface ships obsolete, or so Billy Mitchell argued. Tac nukes made fleets obsolete in the late 60s...
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    Not every thing that is in the phone is available...

    Not every thing that is in the phone is available from the provider, particularly "app-based" data that is where a lot of the social network info content (not just connections) reside.

    To me the...
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    I'll let my missive above stand as my position on...

    I'll let my missive above stand as my position on this thread and give you the final word - whenever your power company gets its Rings inorder ;)
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    Part III

    Because it does.

    And to be responsible stewards of the taxpayers money, ALL ‘xxx-power” advocates need to start with WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF TODAY and argue for the evolution (or occasional...
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    Part II

    Where the 5 Rings framework gets on shakier ground is the argument that Return on investment is related to the centrality of the rings, and the time over which they are engaged. This assumes that...
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    The thread seems to be playing itself out into...

    The thread seems to be playing itself out into some related but disparate topics so it may be time to at least review the bidding on the arguments to date as influenced by the wonderful exchange...
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    I'll get back to you later tonight on the other...

    I'll get back to you later tonight on the other thread, but I've never questioned that systems - theory inspired solutions are not very valuable ;)

    Back to cell phone forensics - and large scale...
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