Marc | January 26, 2009
I am begining to think I have a rubber arm – Mike Innis just convinced me to fill in for him for a couple of weeks over at the CT Lab and, for some reason, I agreed. If you are not familiar with the CT Lab, you should check it out. While still somewhat of [...]
Marc | January 26, 2009
The past several days have seen more publications come out on the Human Terrain System. I want to focus in on one in particular that shows up, of all places (!), in Men’s Journal: Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds by Robert Young Pelton. The simplest way to describe Pelton’s article is as [...]
Marc | January 14, 2009
There is a very interesting round-table discussion going on over at Chicago Boyz on Clausewitz (with a big hat tip to SWC colleague and friend Zenpundit). Possibly the most interesting (to me at least) entry so far is on Military Genius by Nathaniel T. Lauterbach. Outside of it being a truly great post, it carries [...]
Marc | January 13, 2009
In the past couple of posts, I have been jotting notes, as it were, about how people view ways in which we, as a species, simulate our perceptions of objective reality and then pass on our understandings of how best to operate within these perceptions. All well and good but, in an age when we [...]
Marc | January 10, 2009
I wanted to post a quick follow-up to the example I used in my last post regarding conceptualizations of space and time. In it, I noted that “For the irhabi, the Area of Operations (AO) is glocal while for much of the Western military the AO is local (i.e. geographically limited)”, an observation I stand [...]
Marc | January 9, 2009
One of the more interesting activities that humans come up with is games (loosely construed). Back in the day, aka before the Methodist onslaught destroyed play as a serious activity in the 17th century, games and play acted as educational and/training events for people. We can see this in activities as varied as cossak (or [...]
Marc | January 4, 2009
No, I’m not going to the Carribean – I only wish! I’m heading down to DC for a quick trip to meet up with some friends and colleagues there and to take part in a presentation with my friend, Rob Thornton. Rob has been spearheading a case study looking at the US security force assistance [...]
Marc | January 2, 2009
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus. Janus’ imagerery of looking back and looking forward stems from his association with the mid-winter festival and, in part, gives rise to why we place our year starting on January 1st (there are other reasons, too). Personally, I have never been a big fan [...]
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