It is a good thing. The site offers an excellent balance of points of view, quick jabs vs. long academic posts, and military vs. civilian experience. I was just checking out the expanded forums and found this, "Military Theorists & Futurists Theory & Nature of War, 4GW through 9GW, Transformation, RMA, etc." Man! 9GW?! Ambition bites the nails of success...
 

Thanks for the link! But credit has to go to Catholicgauze, who wrote the post and also maintains a great blog.
 

Thanks for the shout-out, Mark. Too bad I don't blog - a link from Zenpundit would send me up the ladder. I intend to get into the post by Capt. McLoughlin over at Small Wars, but let me throw a few things out there. If you overlay the two opening quotes, you get a description of something a lot like Robb's Global Guerrillas. (I know that's inviting criticism from some quarters) Capt. McLoughlin states, "4GW includes strategic, operational, and tactical innovations that have yet to be employed or historically demonstrated." I'd have to disagree with that. The basic principles (moral-sphere victory, light infantry, etc.), as described by Lind in FMFM-1A, were pretty well borne out by Hezbollah last summer against the IDF. There's lots more to talk about - check the thread over there later.
Thanks again, and congrats on your recent Chicagoization.
 

Mark

a short thing by Kahneman...

nutshell: evolved cognitive biases systematically favour 'hawks', blundering into conflict, and neglecting stop losses etc.

it's short and the specifics won't be new to you but it may still spark some interesting ideas. re my last message, i think links between people like DK and military/decision-making are going to explode, especially as the fMRI and successors keep growing with their own moore's law...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3660&print=1

cheers
dominic
 

Another big H/T Mark - as always thanks for the link.

P.S. - LTC John Nagl just posted his first entry on the SWJ Blog...

Best,

Dave D.