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Slap, naw - I just mean in terms of the design which identifies operational objectives, develops an operational approach to meet those objectives (complete with what are decisive, shaping and...

Salp - I do think design theory can be used on any number of complex issues - I'd made a recommendation on the CAC blog (CAC had put up a blog about the reasons there may be a shortage of 04s) that...

Hey Marc - I know you are:D - I just thought it was great that we'd been working several angles and came back to a point you made earlier but one we did not fully explore at the time because we may...

I see allot of the last few posts leading back to Marc's desire to see a "grand strategy" that employed all the resources, not in raw sum, but in the right proportion to the objective(s). This might...

COL Jones is a smart guy, a valued contributor to the discussion and we are lucky to have him here (and back in uniform).

As to the point...



I'm just not sure. Sometimes I think we need a...

Hey JMM,
As with other Joint and Service pubs there are sometimes going to be some inconsistencies and disconnects. The original idea as a force employment concept was that it did not matter who...

I know from the interviews we've done (such as the Reid Pixler interview in the Mosul Case study) that military and civilian lawyers are playing a role in reconstructing legal systems, and in...

Marc, JMM - just wanted to chime in and say I like the discussion on law. Wrt institutional development in places where there may be multiple legal codes, where one may be formal and another...

Slap - its all good - this is a good environment to tug on stuff.

I was thinking about it later this morning and considered that given we have quite a bit of historical information and analysis –...

Slap - probably worth me addressing the use of functional:



In this case functional only meant addressing the functional capabilities required to support the development of sustainable...

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Here we do agree. Building sustainable capabilities and capacities of foreign security forces that do not represent a legitimate authority by may buy you some time, but...

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If it comes down to confusing FID with SFA ala wrenches, then I think we're missing the point. Recently some folks came up to participate in a BCBL experiment with the...

I think this is what design can do for you. It does not mean that it will, it just means that as a investigative, learning tool , design can help you more accurately identify points of friction,...

I'd made mention of these earlier. Here is the link to the UNCLASS functional design guide that came out of our support to OSD PA&E. Keep in mind this was done outside the context of the larger...

Marc - good points!



I would not characterize the use of the Hessians during the RW as SFA. The employment of a FSF is a differnet matter (although it must eb considered). If GB had gone over...

regardless of the tool
Slap observed:


I agree 100%. No policy tool should be a panacea for what ails ya! I think design, if done with the overarching policy OBJ in mind will shake that out....

Not to be cheeky - but the open door was the use of the word relevant. The cold answer wrt to legitmacy and how it affects sustainability may be one of having the will or means to resist. This is...

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I've always thought the thread must go where the thread goes - and that it is not a bad thing. Most of the time the discussions circle around because there was some point in the...

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I do not disagree. This is why I think design is the way to go. Now it may not change the nature of the policy, but it may provide the operational commander the analysis to...

Hi Marc:)

Keep in mind though that I was ref. CENTCOM's response to Peter's question - and it was oriented as you noted to the specific mission in Afghanistan. I do think it requires a regional...

If what GEN Petraeus articulated to Ralph Peters ref. Afghanistan were translated into a language of strategy (Slap, I concede there are more ways to look at it) it might look like this - end =...

In an effort to rope the other three threads together (Fundamentals of SFA, Plan, Train and Organize for SFA, SFA as an Individual Capability) I thought it’d be useful to start a thread on SFA as...