Excellent piece on platoon level dynamics in this week's New Yorker magazine. Registration required to read the full text.
The Kill Company
Did a colonel's fiery rhetoric set the conditions for...
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Excellent piece on platoon level dynamics in this week's New Yorker magazine. Registration required to read the full text.
The Kill Company
Did a colonel's fiery rhetoric set the conditions for...
This may or may not be of interest to this audience, but there is a very interesting discussion going on right now over at my blog regarding the use of game theory to understand the current dynamics...
And for those that do not know, Tim Stevens maintains a very interesting blog at http://ubiwar.com
I highly recommend it!
I got some additional information on the conference for those interested
An interesting note from Fed Biz Ops this morning regarding an academic conference on foreign fighters.
More here
I recently completed research on the relationship between the use of deadly force and the duration of terrorist hostage events. The abstract is below:
The full paper is available here. I...
Just a heads up, what Sean finds is actually a very old result that is well-known in social science. In fact, it was first discovered about sixty years ago by a meteorologist.
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The application of game theory to micro-level conflicts, I think, is a open and burgeoning research area. There are, however, some outstanding pieces currently out there:
The Political Economy of...