Marc | October 15, 2009
The 2009 Army Capstone Concept will be released on Dec. 21, but until then, Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster, director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center’s Concepts Development and Experimentation Directorate, invites the public to preview and provide feedback for the draft copy on the Small Wars Journal blog.
Source: Draft Army Capstone [...]
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.
Marc | July 10, 2009
Q: Since when are university regents “administrative officials performing functions analogous to those of judges and prosecutors” (quoted here)?
A: Since July 7th, 2009.
Marc | September 30, 2008
One of the nice things about being a pessimistic romantic is that one can still have a sense of wonder about everyday things. That sense of wonder kicked in again today upon reading a very nice, plain English exposition by Cobalt on why Anthropologists working with the US military can be unethical (actual, “a dick”; [...]
Marc | September 25, 2008
Galrahn over at Information Dissemination, just produced another brilliant piece on the realities of 21st century networks called The Challenges of the 21st Century Conversation. While the subject of the post is US Naval “evangelists” (“Champions” in business terms), the post itself examines the complex interplay between narrative, myth, discourse control and the role of [...]
Marc | September 15, 2008
“The question comes down to how we can as artists make the case to Canadians that the arts deserves healthy vigorous funding,” S. Randy Boyagoda, a novelist and a professor of literature based at Ryerson University, said on Thursday.
Source CBC.ca
Canada seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Arts. On the one hand, certain arts [...]
Marc | July 3, 2008
In a recent blog entry, Matt Armstrong draws on the recent thread on Information Operations at SWC and on some of my posts on the topic and, towards the end, asks some really good questions.
are we simply recreating stove-pipes?
Is IO strategic, operational, or tactical?
Where does IO, for example fit in with Countering Ideological Support for [...]
Marc | June 29, 2008
In my last post, I laid out what I consider to be the start of developing a theory of Information Operations (IO). Most of that post deals with an attempt to crate a definition of IO. In the end, the definition I came up with was
Information Operations are a) actions taken by actors, [...]
Marc | June 21, 2008
The (potential) role of Anthropology operating with the military has been a topic of rather heated discussion for some time. In some cases, the reactions by Anthropologists have been close to witch hunts, while in other cases they have been quite positive. The latest foo-forah comes with the revelation that Montgomery McFate may [...]
Marc | June 5, 2008
I just finished reading two interesting pieces – one by Sam Lisles called Education Paradigm and the other by Matthew Reisz called Hits and Misses. Both deal with crucial questions about what is “scholarship” and “education”, albeit from quite different angles, and what reciprocal effects exist between society and the education system.
Reisz’s piece concentrates [...]
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