Recommended Reading

April 4th, 2011 by zen

…. The will to fight, the passion to be great, is an indispensable element of the Warrior Ethos. It is also a primary quality of leadership, because it inspires men and fires their hearts with ambition and the passion to go beyond their own limits. Epaminondas, the great Theban general, was the first to beat the Spartans-at the battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. …

GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD –Winning Pretty

Adam Elkus at Red Team Journal –Red-Teaming and Contingency

Seydlitz89 –The Libyan Intervention after the First Week, or a Nation Bushed?

SEED –Buddhism and the Brain

Russia Blog-Do Putin’s All-time Lowest Ratings Have Something to Do with Denouncing the Coalition’s Efforts in Libya?

Shlok Vaidya-Tennis Playing Flying Robots

John Hagel- Anticipating the Next Wave of Experience Design

PARAMETERS – Politics and War: Clausewitz’s Paradoxical Equation

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  1. tdaxp:

    April 4th, 2011 at 3:56 am

    Thanks for the shout-out!

  2. S. Anthony Iannarino:

    April 4th, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Thanks for inclusion on this killer list! Reading all of these posts cost me half my morning!Anthony

  3. The Lounsbury:

    April 4th, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Well, I am impressed that TDAXP has remained utterly nchanged over the years, and managed to write a review of a book I know well that so amply illustrates the phrase "fun house mirror."

  4. seydlitz89:

    April 4th, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Thanks Zen, btw Part II is up . . .

  5. J. Scott:

    April 5th, 2011 at 12:35 am

    The Hagel piece is quite good, however his treatment of scaling at the end seemed more statement of the challenge—-which is enormous. Like Seely Brown, he offers a gaming example—which is ok, I guess. I’ll quote from my Amazon review of a recent Seely Brown work: "Gaming is an excellent example of self-organized communities gathering to meet a challenge for entertainment, but in reality it is also a consequence free environment." At the end of the day, I don’t believe the missing link of scalability will be found in such an environment. Great list, thanks for sharing! 

  6. Ski:

    April 5th, 2011 at 3:29 am

    Not a huge fan of the Burke article, primarily because I don’t think he really understands what Design doctrine is all about. Most of the comments on Ricks blog are also ignorant of what Design doctrine is supposed to do and what it is not supposed to do.

    That is not a surprise since the Army decided to implement a greatly watered down version of Design in FM 5-0.

    Design is only really being taught at two schools within the Army – SAMS and the War College. Most of the instructors at CGSC/ILE were adamantly opposed to Design when I went through ILE in 2008, by the time I graduated from SAMS in 2010, the watered down Design doctrine had been implemented in FM 5-0 and many of the comments I’ve noticed over the last few months were predicted by many of my fellow SAMSters.

    Libya is a direct result of an interventionist foreign policy, nothing more, nothing less. Trying to Design a campaign plan and operational plan around airpower is folly, especially when the political and strategic objectives are so muddled and vague.

  7. tdaxp:

    April 5th, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    @Lounsbury, youch! I was actually reflecting on some things you had said a while ago… Could you share a little more of your thoughts?