Recommended Reading
A larger than normal edition. Some commentary by me here and there.
Top Billing! Wizards of Oz – Decisionmaking
This was a great post by Shane that I did not comment on at the time as I was…. drinking fine whiskey in Shane’s kitchen shortly after he posted it. A wonderful mash-up of Civil War history, von Clausewitz, Boyd, intuitive vs. conscious processing, information and organizational theories.
Selil Blog – The Socratic compass: Giving students directions not answers
The Socratic method is one of the best but seldom used tools in education – underused because it demands much from instructor and student alike and shatters beloved ideological cocoons
Austin Bay – UPDATED: Hugh Hewitt Program Today: More on Strategic Overwatch
More on this in another post next week.
Mark Tapscott – Commentary – There they go again, stifling free speech ( Hat tip Bruce Kesler)
Open Left – Following up on Capuano and House Web Restrictions (Hat tip to Jeremy)
The above gents are 180 degrees apart politically yet in complete agreement regarding Rep. Capuano’s proposed new rules for controlling the use of internet platforms by Congressmen.
Bruce Kesler – Take HBO’s “Generation Kill” With Grain Of Salt (Update from WaPo Review)
I so do not watch television anymore that I was not even aware of this major HBO series before about an hour ago.
The Glittering Eye – Pandering, Indeed
Smitten Eagle – SE’s Reading Program
Reading programs are wonderful intellectual tools – another one that has fallen into disuse among educators outside of grad school seminars.
Thomas P.M. Barnett – A war that nobody wants but everybody needs
David Ignatius – An Army That Learns ( Hat tip SWJ Blog)
LTC Nagl must be smiling.
James Joyner – Obama Plunges in Newsweek Poll!
Abu Muqawama (Charlie) – Women in COIN (Dept. of Shameless Self-promotion)
Charlie highlights a good bio piece on rising COIN experts like McFate.
Insurgency Research Group – COIN Inside the Wire – Jihadist Rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia
A must read post.
CTLab ( Chesney) – The Tension Between Prosecution and Gathering Intelligence
I’m very impressed with the the aggressive team-building at CTLab. More on this next week.
Fabius Maximus – The most expensive psy-war campaign – ever!
Batting clean up today. 🙂
July 14th, 2008 at 1:35 am
My now-empty bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel thanks you. 🙂
July 14th, 2008 at 3:05 am
So Bruce Kesler wrote a review about a show he hasn’t seen and a book he hasn’t read. I just emailed him asking why.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Hi Shane,
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Still working on the obliques as a result 😉
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Hi Jeffrey,
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Heh. My guess is that it is a Marines thing. If the series pans out and gets up into "Rome" or "Band of Brothers" territory I’ll rent it when it hits Blockbuster