PERHAPS THEY SHOULD CALL IT “THE SMALL WARS CONVENTION”
The always excellent Small Wars Council has burst it’s bonds and expanded. Great work guys!
UPDATE:
Thank’s to Isaac’s comment, I’d like to call your attention to “Fourth-Generation Warfare and Network-Centric Warfare” by Capt Richard J. McLoughlin. One of the many new items up at the SWC this morning.
UPDATE II:
See also Curtis Gale Weeks – ” Toward A Better Understanding of 4GW“
UPDATE III:
The horizontal-thinking Dan of tdaxp -“5GW Tactics and Counter-Tactics in Hockey“
January 25th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
It is a good thing. The site offers an excellent balance of points of view, quick jabs vs. long academic posts, and military vs. civilian experience. I was just checking out the expanded forums and found this, “Military Theorists & Futurists Theory & Nature of War, 4GW through 9GW, Transformation, RMA, etc.” Man! 9GW?! Ambition bites the nails of success…
January 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Thanks for the link! But credit has to go to Catholicgauze, who wrote the post and also maintains a great blog.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks for the shout-out, Mark. Too bad I don’t blog – a link from Zenpundit would send me up the ladder. I intend to get into the post by Capt. McLoughlin over at Small Wars, but let me throw a few things out there. If you overlay the two opening quotes, you get a description of something a lot like Robb’s Global Guerrillas. (I know that’s inviting criticism from some quarters) Capt. McLoughlin states, “4GW includes strategic, operational, and tactical innovations that have yet to be employed or historically demonstrated.” I’d have to disagree with that. The basic principles (moral-sphere victory, light infantry, etc.), as described by Lind in FMFM-1A, were pretty well borne out by Hezbollah last summer against the IDF. There’s lots more to talk about – check the thread over there later.
Thanks again, and congrats on your recent Chicagoization.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Mark
a short thing by Kahneman…
nutshell: evolved cognitive biases systematically favour ‘hawks’, blundering into conflict, and neglecting stop losses etc.
it’s short and the specifics won’t be new to you but it may still spark some interesting ideas. re my last message, i think links between people like DK and military/decision-making are going to explode, especially as the fMRI and successors keep growing with their own moore’s law…
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3660&print=1
cheers
dominic
January 26th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Another big H/T Mark – as always thanks for the link.
P.S. – LTC John Nagl just posted his first entry on the SWJ Blog…
Best,
Dave D.