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Top Billing! Information Dissemination<\/strong>\u00a0Guest Post Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Galrahn<\/strong> needs to be commended for organizing this excellent series and also the top-notch contributors who participated, including a sitting Member of Congress. A first-rate blog event!<\/p>\n

Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.<\/a>, Captain USN –Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Andrew Exum<\/a>\u00a0–What should the US Army be contributing to AirSea Battle?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan Van Tol<\/a>\u00a0–When matching the strategic objective of preventing war to resources, can the US Navy prevent war in the 21st century, and if so, how?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep.\u00a0\u00a0J. Randy Forbes<\/a>\u00a0(R-Va.) –What is the potential and what are the challenges the Navy faces in fielding a UCLASS to the fleet?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feedback and Discussion<\/a><\/h3>\n

SWJ Blog \u00a01. (Octavian Manea)\u00a0The Russian COIN Campaign in North Caucasus<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How different is the ranking of priorities in the Russian COIN compared to the Western pop-centric approach? In what kind of missions and priorities were the main resources invested?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I assume you\u2019re referring to doctrinal approaches here. It\u2019s important to point out that there are still plenty of Western analysts who believe that heavy \u201cenemy-centric\u201d approaches are more effective than the \u201cpopulation-centric\u201d approaches upon which our doctrine is based. Western doctrinal COIN approaches start with and revolve around \u201csecurity\u201d \u2013 for the government as well as the local population, whereas you can see from the chart in my book on page 201 that the Russian approach considers security of the local population a much lower priority. In the Western approach, it is important to start trying to gain the support of the indigenous population through a number of means (security, economic, civil affairs projects, diplomatic, etc), while the Russians initially put these types of activities way at the bottom of their list (although Ramzan Kadyrov has placed a much higher emphasis on those types of activities since he has assumed the presidency).\u00a0 The Russian Main Effort has always been focused on the general Russian population within Russia proper, as opposed to the indigenous peoples of the North Caucasus.\u00a0 And as an enemy-centric approach, they have emphasized killing the enemy over building support for themselves among the local population. All in all, I\u2019d say the Russian and Western priorities are generally very different.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

2. (Alex Verschoor-Kirss) Foucault and Fourth Generation Warfare: Towards a Genealogy of War and Conflict<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inclusion does not equate with my endorsement. \u00a0Frankly, there’s a cocked-up misunderstanding of historical methodology (and the field of military history) and hero-worship of Michel Focault; <\/strong>however, <\/strong>the piece\u00a0is certainly thought-provoking as it is a critique of 4GW<\/strong> coming way out of left field and worth a read.<\/p>\n

Abu Muqawama (Kelsey Atherton) –Guest Post: Learning from Greece the Hard Way<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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….At the beginning of the current system is America\u2019s involvement by proxy in the Greek Civil War. Following an awkward post-war realization that maybe arming every faction fighting against the Nazi occupation was not the wisest run in the long term, the Allied powers (initially the United Kingdom) decided to disarm as many partisans as they could in the immediate outbreak of peace, while shoring up support for the royalist government. \u00a0Not all partisans were agreeable to being disarmed or towards the ancien regime, and Greece developed a communist insurgency. \u00a0In 1947, the UK decided they could no longer afford their investment in the Greek government, and in their stead Truman decided to shoulder the task of providing military assistance in their stead. He did this through the\u00a0American Mission for Aid to Greece<\/a>\u00a0“outside and independent of the embassy at Athens and of Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh.\u201d Inevitably, the Greeks observed that Griswold controlled the resources, so they bypassed the Ambassador and dealt directly with him. The \u00a0Ambassador\u2019s authority diminished, and a conflict within the Embassy emerged.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

PARAMETERS (Ralph Peters) –In Praise of Attrition<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Von –Do We Have the Educational Infrastructure to do Major STEM Education?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Diane Ravitch –Bill Gates Turns His Attention to Higher Education<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eide Neurolearning Blog –Education for Misfits and Neurodiversity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Steps of Creativity – Early Crowd sourcing and Prototyping<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Slavin –A Call to Arms for Education Innovation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chicago Boyz – (Ginny)\u00a0Taylor 1: Liberal Arts Purpose to Leave Our Selves Behind<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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