I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments.
America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion.
I draw extensively from Mike Mazarr’s brilliant examination of the Iraq debacle.
I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could spark and encourage competent martial imagination. Moral courage is necessary to tell the flag officer dullards and their Senior Executive Service (SES) necromancers that the emperor has no clothes.
Recommended Listening:
Recommended Reading:
Michael Mazarr Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
Williamson Murray The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
Frans Osinga Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)
Stephen Robinson The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
Christian Madsbjerg Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
Johnson and Abbe Developing Strategic Empathy and Perspective Taking in Military
Zachary Shore A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind
Dave Snowden Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World
US Army Center of Military History
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