McMaster on war (merged thread)

[davidbfpo]

In The Sunday Telegraph (London) today is a short article based on an interview of an Iraqi colonel in Fallujah. Nothing too startling, but interesting.

The link is: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ixnewstop.html

[davidbfpo]

There are numerous hits on 'McMaster' and he appears to have four threads and they will be merged, with a new title.

When the US army, at the request of Colonel H R McMaster, set up small military bases within the Iraqi town of Tal Afar during 2006, he pioneered a new strategy of bottom-up leadership. In his talk at TEDxWarwick 2011, Tim Harford, Economist and senior columnist for the Financial Times, suggests that the success that followed was not just due to the bottom-up approach, but was also based in Colonel McMaster's ability to recognise and react to local problems and challenges.

Which ends with:

Other businesses are also decentralising their management as they acquire new technology, with a realisation that there is no substitution for political knowledge of time and place. This, Harford states, is the management lesson of the war in Iraq and one that we all can learn from.

Link:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/...04/timharford/