In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

What is “leadership”?

Marc | August 30, 2009

This is a question that has been gnawing at me for some time now.  Recently, two totally different events came together for me, and I wanted to take some time to reflect on what it might be.

Lexical tyranny and the misuse of concepts

Marc | August 23, 2009

I got back two days ago from the TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference, and I am still mulling over the implications of what I saw there.  I have a rather peculiar way to “mull things over” – I set part of my mind in semi-autonomous mode and let it pick away at it until something “appears” [...]

Blogging moved for the week

Marc | August 17, 2009

I probably will not have a chance to blog this week since I will be off at the TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference and blogging from there.  The posts will be going up over at the Small Wars Journal and SWJ and TRADOC are both hoping for a lively exchange of ideas and questions from the [...]

Lynddie England and Free Speech

Marc | August 15, 2009

Yesterday, Friday August 14th, was to have seen a talk given by Lynddie England at the Library of Congress on her new biography Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs That Shocked the World. The talk, however, sparked a very strong reaction from Morris Davis, a veteran and employee of the Library of Congress [...]

More on the HTS

Marc | August 7, 2009

John Stanton has a new article on current HTS realighnment over at the Intelligence daily.  If accurate, and while I haven’t seen the Statement of Work I have no reason to believe that it isn’t accurate, I believe that there are some serious problems in a whole slew of areas.

TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference II

Marc | August 4, 2009

In keeping with TRADOC’s commitment to embracing new communications technologies, this announcement was just posted at the Small Wars Council: SWJ / SWC’s Dave Dilegge, Robert Haddick and Dr. Marc Tyrrell will be attending the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Senior Leaders Conference II, 18 – 20 August. All three will be live-blogging [...]