As this board is full of former and current active duty military personnel, I have a question for you:

As you go about the profession and practice of war you encounter many ideas, some are full-blown theories, that purport to reframe, define or comprehensively explain, the nature of battle.

How, if at all, have these theoretical exercises - NCW, 4GW, EBO, Three -Block War, Global Guerillas, PNM - or classic works like On War, Art of War and so on- impacted what you do ? Do you value these intellectual paradigms relative to your personal experiences, if at all ? How could theorists, historians and other scholars be of more use to the warfighters ?