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2014/04/252014/04/30

Berto Jongman: Small Arms Trade + Peacebuilding Strategy + State Out of Date

Three items that complement each other. Small Arms Trade: A Disturbing Visualization Countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa are witnessing a surge in violence. But as this astonishing interactive infographic reveals, many of the countries trying to curb this violence are also the ones making it possible by selling small arms and …

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2014/04/112014/04/12

Rob Dover & Robert Steele: Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence – Seven Barriers to Reform

PDF (15 Pages): Dover Steele PSA April 2014 Dover, R & Steele, RD (2014) Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence: Seven Barriers to Reform, Paper presented the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester (14 Arpil 2014). ROBERT STEELE: An Open Source Agency would be helpful but I was naive to expect the US IC …

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2014/03/142014/03/14

Review: The Direction of War – Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

Hew Strachan 5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Book Ever — But Misses the Core Point, March 14, 2014 I love this book — absolutely required reading the war colleges as well as the civil service colleges. Perhaps its greatest value is in setting the stage for professionals to refuse illegal orders and begin the …

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2014/01/312014/01/31

Danielle Villegas: Content Strategy

Content Strategy practices are not hard! EXTRACT: Content strategy, at its core, is really easy. It’s all about organizing information in a way that it can be easily searched and retrieved. It’s about labelling files and folders so that they make sense. Val Swisher’s analogy about content strategy being like one’s closet still stands at the …

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2014/01/022014/01/02

Marcus Aurelius: Rosy Assumptions for Shallow Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014

Worth a close read. Rosy Assumptions: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014 EXTRACT: A handy rule of strategy-making is to first list the assumptions that undergird the strategy’s logic and to identify any risks that might interfere with those assumptions. And this document attempts to do just that. With violence in Afghanistan just as high as …

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2013/11/292013/11/29

Marcus Aurelius: SSI Monograph on Known Unknowns – Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development

Ladies and Gentlemen: You may want to check out US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute paper at link below and attached: Read with a view to some of the strange things that have been ascribed to FEMA. KNOWN UNKNOWNS: UNCONVENTIONAL “STRATEGIC SHOCKS”IN DEFENSE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT Nathan Freier Strategic Studies Institute, November 2008 EXTRACTS:

2013/10/28

Chuck Spinney: Strategy? Or Stupidity on a Grand Scale?

Professor Brenner gave me permission to distribute and post the attached essay. Without saying so, he describes a way that seems tailor-made to systematically violate just about all the criteria for a sensible grand strategy. Chuck Spinney The Blaster 27 OCTOBER 2013 NSA DOES THE GRAND TOUR by Michael Brenner, PhD Professor of International …

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