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For want of a nail …
According to a story on BBC.com, the radar observatory at Arecibo may have to cancel its mission to observe the asteroid Apophis. Times are tough, I hear you say. And indeed they are. But there’s...
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Count me in Tim Heffernan’s camp
With many thanks for the kind mention in his Politics Blog at Esquire.com, dated September 2, 2010: Drones Do Not Win Wars … Drones are just one of our tools. You can argue their practical merits and...
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Do your enemy’s job for him
Isolate yourself. Tom Barnett has a nice post on this topic, using Boyd’s framework, at Time Magazine’s Battleland. Filed under: Afghanistan, Boyd's Theories
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Tom Barnett endorses Romney
Unexpected, to say the least, because Tom usually describes himself as a Democrat. His reasoning is interesting: The sad truth about a second Obama presidency Tom is quite familiar with Boyd’s work,...
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Zen Pundit on American Spartan
Mark Safranski has posted his review of American Spartan, Ann Scott Tyson’s story of US Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant in Afghanistan. Read it. Here’s my review of Mark’s review. As Mark notes, the...
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Centers of gravity — Do they still matter?
Decisively defeating al-Qa‘ida will involve neutralizing its CoG, but this will require the use of diplomatic and informational initiatives more than military action. LTC Antulio J. Echevarria II, USA...
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Shaping and Adapting
While leading his company in Afghanistan, Marine Major Paul Tremblay was ordered to clear a much larger Taliban force that was defending an area of rugged terrain. Ordinarily, such terrain would favor...
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Not just theory: Operating inside the OODA loop
“Operating inside an opponent’s OODA loop” is Boyd’s primary device for dealing with opponents (he has other recommendations, primarily at the grand strategic level, for relationships with our own side...
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