Yemen: Opening A New “Front” in the Long War Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts by Chuck Spinney Recent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has [...]
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Yemen: Opening A New “Front” in the Long War Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts
Posted in Boyd, Strategy, tagged 4th Generation Warfare, Franklin C Spinney, John Boyd, War on Terror, Yeman on December 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Gaza War: A Tactical Success, Strategic Draw, & a Grand Strategic Disaster
Posted in Boyd, Strategy, tagged John Boyd and Strategy, U.S. Strategy, War in Gaza on December 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The American strategist and military reformer Colonel John Boyd argued that nations and groups should shape their domestic policies, foreign policies, and military strategies so that they: pump up one’s own resolve and increase one’s own solidarity, drain away the resolve of one’s adversaries and weaken their internal cohesion, reinforce the commitments of allies to [...]
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!-Top 10 Reasons to Kill Senate Health Care Bill
Posted in Learning Organizations, tagged Health Care Bill a sham, Losing our individual freedoms, Middle Class getting destroyed in U.S., Reasons to Kill Senate Health Care Bill, US Government grows larger on December 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I got this from a friend who works on budget issues in Congress, and he/she assured me the reasons are accurate — that is all I know, but if true, this list would explain Insurance stock just rose to all time highs. We are getting taken for a big ride. As my friend Al Gill [...]
Best Describes our Nation Today-Tiger Woods Person of the Year!
Posted in Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM), Leaders of Character, Tiger Woods on December 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The below article best describes what is wrong with our nation today! I agree totally with it. We love facades, pretty faces, glowing resumes-filled with fancy places with degrees, and work experiences all over the globe. As I keep saying, “Where have all the leaders gone?” You want real leaders, then you got to be [...]
Honored by Brave New War author and future expert John Robb…
Posted in Adaptability, How to develop adaptability, tagged Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM), Brave New War, John Robb on December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/ DON VANDERGRIFF: On Adaptive Leadership Posted 15 Dec 2009 10:29 AM PST Obviously, warfare and conflict in the 21st Century present new challenges. It’s not only hideously complex, mercurial, and lightning fast — it’s an environment where missteps or brain dead actions of an individual or small group can unwind the work of an [...]
Congressman Ron Paul Dear Friend of Liberty-Rand Paul for Senate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rand Paul, Ron Paul on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congressman Ron Paul is one of the few strategic leaders we have in this country. He won every Republican primary debate, but was shut out by the establishment controlled media. His son, with similiar views, is running for Senate in Kentucky. These few leaders is the only hope our country has left for limited government [...]
Biggest threat to U.S. is here not over there…
Posted in Strategy, tagged 4GW in Mexico, 4GW in our own backyard, Mexican drug wars on December 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As I have said before, Mexico’s drug wars and their impact on the US is our problem. My fellow citizens stupiditly use the stuff creating the demand and the violence. Now the attached pieces demonstrate the evolving penetration of Mexican criminal gangs in the US, particularly among our corrupt politicans. While we are wasting spirit, blood and treasure [...]
12/04/2009 ON WAR #324: O = W by William S. Lind
Posted in Strategy, tagged 4th Generation Warfare, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, William S. Lind on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My friend Bill Lind is exactly right about the decision to go into Afghanistan through a new “surge” as those who run the military through think tanks and key generals are calling the reinforcement of the campaign. But, it is really about lack of strength of character or the moral courage to do what is [...]
“a Nobel Prize — for evil.”
Posted in Strategy, tagged Corruption on Wall Street, Decline of the United States due to greed, Obama the false reformer, The United States and Rome 4AD on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As my good friend Al Gill says, “they are stripminning our country.” He is right, we are addicted to greed, and for a few, it is very good, fuck the rest of the country, its long term health means nothing. We are in a decline, one that without strong leadership, the people going to the [...]
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