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So we are still working on our description of the strategic environment a little more feverishly as our bosses have seemed to like the direction we are going. While there hasn’t be a change to our stability indicators, we have strived to build more objective interdependency indicators. I think we are on to something. A sample […]
November 4, 2011
Day 2 of the mind meld between my colleague at Thinking Like A Cheetah (ivy leaguer) and I (state schooler). Again we are trying to creating a model of the strategic environment to help forecast capability requirements. The chart here represents the data being applied to the theory. Using the evaluations of stability and interdependence cooperation a quadrant […]
November 3, 2011
The picture here represents the mash-up of Ivy league smarts and State school grit. Well not rocket science but at least the start of a political science dissertation. My colleague at Thinking Like A Cheetah (ivy leaguer) and I (state schooler) spent our afternoon creating a model of the strategic environment to help forecast capability requirements. Using the […]
August 26, 2011
New York Times August 26, 2011 Pg. 1 U.S. Widens Role In Mexican Fight By Mark Mazzetti and Ginger Thompson WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has expanded its role in Mexico’s fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to stage cross-border drug raids from inside the United States, according to senior […]
July 5, 2011
Think Again: Failed States – By James Traub | Foreign Policy.
July 5, 2011
Think Again: Failed States – By James Traub | Foreign Policy.
July 5, 2011
Counterterrorism: What the new White House strategy document leaves out – By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense.
June 20, 2011
Capabilities, not clothes Distinctions between military and civil services are unnecessary BY CMDR. MICHAEL HALLETT via AFJ, June 2011 Talk about the whole-of-government or comprehensive approach to complex operations such as post-conflict reconstruction often emphasizes that lasting success requires capabilities beyond those provided by the military. Indeed, a comprehensive approach is based on not only […]
June 11, 2011
Johann Hari’s contribution, “The Dark Side of Dubai,” continues the journalistic style survey of a the grayer side of globalization’s opulence. In an era of cheap and abundant credit, Dubai, a Shangri-La of the Middle East was build on a few decades of “ecocide, suppression, and slavery.” Hari describes a opulent oasis and adult Disneyland […]
June 11, 2011
SUBMITTED BY NIGEL ROBERTS Via Blogs of the World Bank I came to the World Development Report with years of field experience in conflict- affected countries, but I learned some startling things from the exercise. One is that violence today is very different from the violence of the Cold War era. Another is that how to […]
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November 16, 2011
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