Recommended Reading
Well…..I didn’t quite get the time I expected this weekend to do much posting but I’ll see what I can manage in the next few hours.
Top Billing! CTLab Review - Notes Toward a Theory of Asymmetric Warfare (Dr. Tyrell)
My CTLab colleague Marc Tyrell, also a SWC member, is high on my list of mil theorists. CTLab itself is sporting a new look as the site moves toward “formal” roll out (in September, if I recall correctly).
Thomas P.M. Barnett - What reviving Cold War will end up costing us
I’m in sync with Tom on this subject - legacy thinking is a form of national security escapism to get around the hard thinking needed to craft a foreign poolicy toward Russia that deals with frictions and opportunities.
On “Hybrid Wars”:
Dr. Erin Simpson - Thinking about Modern Conflict: Hybrid Wars,Strategy, and War Aims
Frank Hoffman - Lessons from Lebanon: Hezbollah and Hybrid Wars and How Marines are Preparing for Hybrid Ears
( hat tip to Dave Dilegge writing from SWJ Blog and CTLab)
Jesserwilson’s Blog - Social Software Use in the Intelligence Community: Interview with Mr. Chris Rasmussen
This link is a couple of months old but, I think, of interest to many readers who are into Web 2.0 and/or IC issues.
Good Lord! Kent’s Imperative is back !! - Unintended learning objectives
I’ve never been in a formal intel program that KI describes but the “disease” of which KI speaks has deeply infected the field of history and the humanities for years. A result partly of cultivated dogmatism and partly from a longstanding decline in the frequency with which students are required to critically assess one another’s reasoning, their own - and that of their instructor - for errors of fact, logic, context and proportionality. Michael Tanji has his say too.
John Hagel - Stupidity and the Internet
Hagel never writes a bad post and this one is spot on.
Open the Future - Thinking About Thinking
Adapting ourselves (literally) to cognitively master changing environments
Foreign Affairs - The Next President’s Daunting Agenda by Richard Holbrooke
A possible future SecState takes a partisan swing at grand strategy and quickly drifts into diplomatic mechanics, pet causes and what appears to be a thinly veiled but longwinded campaign commercial for Barack Obama.
That’s it!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
[…] is unable to sustain a Cold War. People who believe in a new Cold War with Russia are guilty of legacy thinking. We are not dealing with the politically bankrupt Empire built on the blood of peasants on workers: […]