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LOLOL - And at least the "nobility", and since you're from Canada, that means the colonial aristocracy crowd (ah, for the good old days...:rolleyes:), had the good sense to know when they should...

Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnum misericordiam tuam

If you prefer the prettied up, doctrinal version, it's here
and here

Because the NVA (or their allies) hadn't hit a part of the US? Because the Soviets said "Do it and we'll hit back"? Honestly, I don't know the exact reasons why.

Both Dresden and Tokyo (and...

Hey Bill, all part of the evil Canadian plot to make everyone think we are polite :D.

Hi Bill,



I think that a really good description, and I like the driving analogy.



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Hi Bill,



No worries ;). Yes, I know that they are different, but that wasn't my point. I probably should have spelled it out better, but what I was trying to say was that a change in focus,...

Hi Bill,

The point being illustrated can also be made using the phrase "growing uncertainty", which is in the Foreward.

Sure you could if you had a significant justification for it. Posit a scenario where Iran puts a nuclear device on a ship and blows it up in New york harbour.

Hi Bill,



That might have to been the intention of the authors, however that intention is not clearly expressed or presented by using a progressive tense in their verbs - e.g. "is becoming more...

Neither do I Ken, which is why I raised the point. Just what does the concept of the military being subordinant to civilian control mean when the military is exercising powers, for whatever reason,...

Have you noticed that all of these areas / sources of uncertainty are political and not the purview of the military (with the possible exception of #3)? I'll also note that the uncertainty contained...

Still slogging through it, but I am getting increasingly frustrated by the way "uncertainty" is being used in such an uncritical, one might almost say "superstitious", manner.

I think one of the key phrases is in 3.26 "Commanders use design to ensure they are solving the right problem. [ emphasis added ]". Now, part of the problem with this comes right afterwards:


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Hi WM,



Of course, FM 1C-E hasn't been released yet, so what you will obviously need to do is to hire a doctrinal consultant (at 15k Selil says) to study the problem. Personally, I think that...

Hi Folks,

Bill Jakola has sent me a copy of the final approved draft of FM 5.0 for posting here. You can download it from here (NB: this is the updated location)
Cheers,

Marc

"Design" is more of a power word than "plan"; it conveys more of a "God like" height :wry:.

More seriously, I think it reflects the extreme engineering orientation of a lot of military doctrine. ...

Hi Bill,



Sounds good. Toss up the URLs just before they start up as a way of reminding people here that we call all get some input.

Cheers,

Marc

Hi Bill,

I'm certainly glad to hear that the conversation will be continuing ;). Do you have a list of the bloggers, yet, who will be there?

Cheers,

Marc

Hi Rob,





This is, of course, one of the most crucial things. I've already emailed Bill with a suggested POC from the CF who has done that for us (shoot me an email if you want same ;)).
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No disagreement there, Slap :D! However, if the KLM model were actually implemented, it would be a case of each general has to become a sergeant for a tour :eek:!

Hi Guys,





If you are looking for a private industry example of organizational change that makes more sense, take a look at the case of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in the late 1970's; it is a...

Hi Bill,



I'm going to play semantician for a minute, here. I think that one of the crucial problems many of us have had with this document and similar ones surrounds the use of the word...

Hi Wilf,



The scary part is that I don't disagree with you - then again, as Stan keeps saying, I'm a hopeless romantic :wry:.

Personally, I'm just assuming that the ALDS is (roughly) what I...

Hi Hacksaw,



I think you are quite right that "TRADOC presumes its monopoly / legitimacy to address these issue" and I certainly haven't seen anything that would indicate otherwise. Let me...

Hi Wilf,



A gut guess would be that they do believe it (whoever "they" may be ;)) for two reasons. The first is that the nice little mental state of "We Understand War" has been blown up...