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  • What use is xGW?

    CGW has an interesting rejoinder to my suggestion for reforming xGW by doing away with the chronologic aspect. Curtis says something very striking in his post:

    If xGW is merely [My italics — YH] to be a system of categorization — of label-making — we would be freed to fight however we want without bothering to [...]

  • Reforming xGW

    Prior to attending RMC I was a strong proponent of xGW. Like so many of the military students I would meet over the next three years, I latched on to the latest and greatest. After a few months worth of study, I gained a wider perspective and became more critical of many aspects of xGW. [...]

  • Is the War on Scientology 4GW?

    Well, the gauntlet has been thrown down:

    Anonymous have been clashing with the CoS for a while now, attacking servers, defacing websites etc. Now it seems the pulling of this Scientology promotional video featuring Tom Cruise (something they have a history of)has put them over the edge. War has been declared. BUT, this time the war [...]

  • Boyd ‘07

    Looks like the Boyd conference went off without a hitch. Sure would’ve liked to have been there. The following CA blogfriends were there and some have already written reviews. I have linked to the reviews that are up already and will update this post when the rest come through I have linked to the reviews [...]

  • Swarm

    Swarm theory on National Geographic. Don’t worry, I already sent this to John Robb a few days ago.

  • Sketch of the future

    Well, that’s one less book on the pile. I finished John Robb’s Brave New War today. I really liked this book, it was fast-paced, concise, full of examples and most importantly rooted in realism.

    The book touches on all the stars: old theorists (Sun Tzu, Liddell-Hart); new theorists (Lind, Barnett, Hammes); journos (Friedman, Rashid, Hersh); even [...]

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