{"id":2882,"date":"2008-09-26T02:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2008-09-26T02:24:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T02:24:18","slug":"foreword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"Foreword"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Barnett<\/strong> <\/a>posted up on his foreword <\/a>to\u00a0\u00a0The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War<\/em><\/strong><\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

…To truly think in grand strategic terms is hard because, in order to communicate concepts to the universe of relevant players, one needs a sort of “middleware” language able to traverse domains far and beyond the most obvious one of warfare. As America heads deeper into this age of globalization-a global order fundamentally of our creating-our need for such bridging lexicons skyrockets. In a networked age, everything connects to everything else, so most of what constitutes strategic thinking nowadays is really just the arbitraging of solid thinking regarding the dynamics of competition, leveraging the surplus of conceptual understanding in one realm to raise such understanding in others….<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barnett and Boyd shared a\u00a0teaching modality, “the brief”. Here’s a head to head comparison:<\/p>\n

Colonel John Boyd<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Tom Barnett posted up on his foreword to\u00a0\u00a0The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War: …To truly think in grand strategic terms is hard because, in order to communicate concepts to the universe of relevant players, one needs a sort of “middleware” language able to traverse domains far and beyond the most obvious one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,5,133,178,78,336,338,552,127,451,13,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-barnett","category-book","category-geopolitics","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-john-boyd","category-john-boyd-roundtable","category-strategy","category-ted","category-theory","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}