Strategic theorist Adam Elkus has the blues, the OODA blues. I can't say as I blame him. The reason Mr. Elkus is sad is because of a feature article in the most recent issue of the Armed Forces Journal. That article, "Goodbye, OODA Loop: A complex world demands a different kind of decision-making," by Colonels Kevin Benson (Ret.) and Steven Rotkoff (Ret.), argues that the … [Read more...] about The OODA Blues and a Pathology of U.S. Military Thought
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From the Listening Post… 11/04/2011
OODA Loop in Cyberspace tags: cyberwar OODA Twitter / @BarrettBrownLOL: The announcement: Just hou ... tags: Anonymous OpCartel … [Read more...] about From the Listening Post… 11/04/2011
From the Listening Post… 11/03/2011
OODA Loop in Cyberspace tags: cyberwar OODA Twitter / @BarrettBrownLOL: The announcement: Just hou ... tags: Anonymous OpCartel … [Read more...] about From the Listening Post… 11/03/2011
The “Tacticalization” of National Strategy; Or, the Dangers of Operational FIxes to Strategic Problems
Two weeks ago I posted a piece here addressing the question of whether or not network-centric warfare (NCW) is dead. Â Though the history of U.S. military thought, and in particular the role of the sciences in shaping U.S. military understandings of new information and communication technologies, has been the main subject of my research over the last eight years, I was still a … [Read more...] about The “Tacticalization” of National Strategy; Or, the Dangers of Operational FIxes to Strategic Problems
Daily Round-up 09/20/2008
Sometimes Google Isn't Enough: New Research Engine Searches "Deep Web" - ReadWriteWebtags: no_tagChuck Spinney: McCain vs. McCain - When Strategic "Genius" is Mortal Blunder....OR..."Only my buddies and me really understand the OODA loop." I'll have more on this later. I was trying to stay out of this because, quite frankly, it's ridiculous. However, I wondered how long it … [Read more...] about Daily Round-up 09/20/2008