{"id":4416,"date":"2011-10-20T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:01:14","slug":"a-multi-disciplinary-approach-coerrs-the-eagle-and-the-bear-outline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"A Multi-Disciplinary Approach?: Coerr’s The Eagle and the Bear Outline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is something for the learned readership to chew on.<\/p>\n

As you are probably all aware, in the hard sciences it is common for research papers to be the product of large, multidiciplinary, teams with, for example,\u00a0biochemists working with physicists, geneticists, bioinformatics experts, mathematicians and so on. In the social sciences and humanities, not so much. Traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodological conservatism often prevail or are even frequently the subject of heated disputes when someone begins to test the limits of academic culture<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why this has to be so for any of us not punching the clock in an ivory tower.<\/p>\n

The organizer of the Boyd & Beyond II Conference<\/a><\/strong>, Stan Coerr<\/strong>,\u00a0a GS-15 Marine Corps, Colonel Marine Corps Reserve and\u00a0Iraq combat veteran,\u00a0several years ago,\u00a0developed a\u00a0very intriguing analytical outline of thirty years of Afghan War, which I recommend that you take a look at:<\/p>\n

The Eagle and the Bear: First World Armies in Fourth World Insurgencies<\/em> by Stan Coerr<\/strong><\/p>\n

the-eagle-and-the-bear-11.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many potential verges for collaboration in this outline – by my count, useful insights can be drawn by from the following fields:<\/p>\n

Military History
\nStrategic Studies
\nSecurity Studies
\nCOIN Theory
\nOperational Design
\nDiplomatic History
\nSoviet Studies
\nIntelligence History
\nInternational Relations
\nAnthropology
\nEthnography
\nArea Studies
\nIslamic Studies
\nEconomics
\nGeopolitics
\nMilitary Geography
\nNetwork Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m sure that I have missed a few.<\/p>\n

It would be interesting to crowdsource this doc a little and get a discussion started. Before I go off on a riff about our unlamented Soviet friends, take a look and opine on any section or the whole in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is something for the learned readership to chew on. As you are probably all aware, in the hard sciences it is common for research papers to be the product of large, multidiciplinary, teams with, for example,\u00a0biochemists working with physicists, geneticists, bioinformatics experts, mathematicians and so on. In the social sciences and humanities, not so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,262,216,527,361,46,20,146,234,33,126,471,215,586,147,118,483,272,87,521,178,425,51,239,78,199,336,47,89,460,125,499,210,39,367,270,376,14,372,502,187,66,247,91,131,558,85,10,127,530,31,605,658,211,13,335,375,312,612,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-4gw","category-academia","category-afghanistan","category-america","category-analytic","category-coin","category-cold-war","category-communism","category-consilience","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-culture","category-dime","category-diplomatic-history","category-empire","category-extremists","category-feedback","category-foreign-policy","category-geography","category-geopolitics","category-government","category-history","category-ic","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-intelligence","category-international-law","category-io","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-national-security","category-network-theory","category-networks","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-primary-loyalties","category-reader-response","category-russia","category-security","category-social-science","category-soviet-union","category-state-failure","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-synthesis","category-tactics","category-terrain","category-terrorism","category-theory","category-totalitarianism","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-tribes","category-usmc","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}