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Self defense is indeed recognized universally as a just cause for violence. Tactically, its a good answer - and in answer to JMM's post I hope the facts, once known, show that the Troopers on the...

Actually, I think that practical application is the best place for applying theories - when they are right, as I believe thie one is. As for the "our might makes us right" argument, well, that...

Great post! In mature normative ethics, the actors on either side of an action don't make a difference. If we believe it is wrong for actor A to commit action X against actor B, then it doesn't...

"nobody seemed to think it was a problem as far as I know"

This seems to me to be exactly the problem. How on earth do we know why someone might be picking this stuff up? Are they simply some...

I think we should remember that the current levels of war were birthed in the Napoleonic wars and matured in the WWI and II. They are, then, tuned to wars of attrition and manuever. This is not a...

Goesh,
Thank you for your response, though admit it troubles me. SOD does indeed acknowledge the reality of uncertainty in ways that other methodologies do not. That is, perhaps, its greatest...

I know this is an older thread, but I would love to hear opinions on why the IDF failed to use SOD in it's assault on Lebenon...and to hear what folks think the use of SOD might haveresulted in had...

Nope, not the Coscom, though it sounds as if your experience was similar to mine. The irony it that there were important things to plan and do...but getting past the nonsense to do them was a...

OE,
Yep, it's on my nightstand. It seems disingenuous of us, as the Army, to be saying that we are short officers when we have CPTs assigned managing one or two powerpoint slides for some BUB. ...

After spending some time at a corps level staff to remain unnamed, I would say that we do not have a shortage of mid-level officers so much as we have created too many positions in bloated staffs. ...