{"id":3130,"date":"2009-06-12T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2009-06-12T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:41:20","slug":"slapouts-recommended-ssi-pdf-on-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Slapout’s Recommended SSI PDF on Tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downstream in the Pressfield post, Slapout<\/strong> from the SWC<\/strong><\/a> helpfully offered up this SSI<\/strong><\/a> PDF on tribalism, DIME and strategy by Richard J. Taylor<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0TRIBAL ALLIANCES: WAYS, MEANS, AND ENDS TO SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY <\/a><\/p>\n

It’s good. The perspective is current but integrated with historical examples, seeking to examine where tribal structures, which Taylor sees as complex social institutions, fit in with the entire spectrum of American strategic and operational goals. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

…Insights. Using tribal contributions as a \u201cmeans\u201d or a resource of achieving multinational operational<\/strong>
\nsuccess has advantages and disadvantages. One advantage of employing the organizational strength<\/strong>
\nof tribes is that historically they have provided valued assistance to intelligence, security and law<\/strong>
\n10<\/strong>
\nenforcement, combat arms, and civil affairs capabilities. Recognition of this \u201cmeans\u201d as a functional<\/strong>
\nsupport tool is not explicitly stated in the NMS. Considering the broad range of nations across the<\/strong>
\n\u201carc of instability\u201d that are comprised of ethnic-tribal units, one could implicitly deduce that tribes<\/strong>
\nare included as part of \u201cmultinational capability\u201d in the NMS. A second advantage to using tribes as a<\/strong>
\nresource provider (\u201cmeans\u201d) is that tribes bring unique cultural and physical geographic knowledge<\/strong>
\nto the success of any military operation. Tribes know the terrain, the language, and the culture; tribes<\/strong>
\ncontribute to the cultural learning of American military forces.<\/strong>
\nConversely, incorporating tribes as part of a multinational capability may not encourage democratic<\/strong>
\nor modernizing practices among the society as a whole. More specifically, U.S. associations with tribes<\/strong>
\nmay be interpreted as a silent agreement to practices such as discrimination against women or tribal<\/strong>
\nout-groups. Similarly, it is hoped that the sins (mandated settlement policies, land use restrictions, and<\/strong>
\nfailure to honor tribal treaty commitments) of colonial tribal policies are not carried forward into the<\/strong>
\n21st century by U.S. military commands. A distinct disadvantage in working with tribes as a \u201cmeans\u201d<\/strong>
\nto strategy success is fragmentation. Depending on geographic location, tribal connections among<\/strong>
\nmembers may not be as coherent as in the past.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downstream in the Pressfield post, Slapout from the SWC helpfully offered up this SSI PDF on tribalism, DIME and strategy by Richard J. Taylor: \u00a0TRIBAL ALLIANCES: WAYS, MEANS, AND ENDS TO SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY It’s good. The perspective is current but integrated with historical examples, seeking to examine where tribal structures, which Taylor sees as complex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,361,304,87,336,39,367,270,370,127,13,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-america","category-defense","category-foreign-policy","category-intellectuals","category-military","category-military-history","category-national-security","category-ssi","category-strategy","category-theory","category-tribes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}