Targeting

[slapout9]

Emphasis added.

Too true. I think of that as common sense, but then I realize that I learned it through the trial and error of experience. Carrot and stick, coerce, influence, and negotiate.

Great article Slap. The author is one of my big-brained classmates. She was picked up as part of Patraeus' Dream Team in Iraq.

Mike

Hope after all, there is a thread on here somewhere from a few years ago where I recommended doing that based upon what Warden taught on how to target leaders inside companies with the 5 rings method and then influence them. It is called triangulation.

[davidbfpo]

There is a live exchange on SWJ entitled 'The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD', which IMO should be linked, if only as Slapout is in his element and this thread has his earlier contributions.

SWJ Link:http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/201...a-and/#c022455

[slapout9]

And somebody is doing a pretty good job against Iran on this one...of course we don't know who is doing this


http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...r-against-iran

[ganulv]

And somebody is doing a pretty good job against Iran on this one...of course we don't know who is doing this

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...r-against-iran

That one seems pretty loud for something executed by SAD or Mossad types, though even the monkey falls from the tree from time–to–time. I suppose those or similar organizations might have meant to send an unmistakable message. But my personal preference is the stiletto rather than the bludgeon whenever possible (figuratively as far as my own actions go, of course ).

[bourbon]

That one seems pretty loud for something executed by SAD or Mossad types, though even the monkey falls from the tree from time–to–time.

Not that loud. Took the guys head off but left his limbs and torso intact; little damage to vehicle, driver died in the hospital.

[slapout9]

That one seems pretty loud for something executed by SAD or Mossad types, though even the monkey falls from the tree from time–to–time. I suppose those or similar organizations might have meant to send an unmistakable message. But my personal preference is the stiletto rather than the bludgeon whenever possible (figuratively as far as my own actions go, of course ).

It is like the old style Mafia, they were sending a message along with the attack.

[ganulv]

It is like the old style Mafia, they were sending a message along with the attack.

Bibi likes people to think, “That guy’s just waiting for an excuse to knock my front teeth out.” A useful survival strategy where he’s from (by which I mean Philadelphia).

[bourbon]

It is like the old style Mafia, they were sending a message along with the attack.

The Israeli message here is: we can’t pull-off an airstrike to take out your nuclear program, and we can’t convince the Americans to do it for us – so we are just going to provoke you into retaliation so the Americans will attack you.

[slapout9]

The Israeli message here is: we can’t pull-off an airstrike to take out your nuclear program, and we can’t convince the Americans to do it for us – so we are just going to provoke you into retaliation so the Americans will attack you.

Yes, a very dangerous game going on here