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 [...]
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 [...]
Marc | July 17, 2009
The folks at SWJ have been talking about this for a while, and now the preliminary announcement has come out. This is a great opportunity for people to put together 3,000 – 5,000 words on one or both of the topics. The prizes are not shabby either: US $3,000 for the winner in each category [...]
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 [...]
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