Mar.07.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#30 Leadership – First follower
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We continue to discuss the idea of “team of leaders.” This video well worth your time. Thanks to John Robb at Global Guerrilllas. See his site for comments.
But let’s take this one step further into the context of “What kind of war” determination as impacting how we [...]
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Feb.21.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#29 “What Kind of war” – Lawyering up – the killing of Hamas’ Mahmoud Mabhouh
See Targeted for death - the killing of Hamas’ Mahmoud Mabhouh. (See background report on the operation itself)
Los Angeles Times’ Marjorie Miller sought the views of an array of military and human rights lawyers on the legality and legitimacy of targeted killings.
So what kind of war or warfare or confrontation or conflict against non-state actors is [...]
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Feb.11.2010
by Ed Beakley
“On a White Horse” – Charlie Wilson 1933-2010
Someone who changed history….
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Jan.27.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#27 “What kind of War?” – First Addendum – The Post-COIN Era is Here
Making war upon insurgents is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. T.E. Lawrence
In a new think piece, one of the best writer/thinkers on line, Mark Safranski at Zenpundit in “The Post-COIN Era is Here; Learning to eat Soup with a Spoon Again” -provides not only more detail on the COIN (”or not”) [...]
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Jan.18.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#26 An Essential ELEMENT of Information: “So, What Kind of War and Warfare Is It?” – So far
Miranda Rights, IEDs, Counter -Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, “reasonable doubt,” Counter Insurgency, cyber war, Geneva Conventions, enemy combatants, gang warfare and Drug wars, etc., etc, are all elements that must be considered in defining or even just establishing boundary conditions in a search for “what kind of war.” While certainly this series has not [...]
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Jan.12.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#25 “What kind of war” – continued (11 of ?) – Science, defence and strategy… and John Boyd
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Without strategy the science of war overtakes the art of war
The human decision-making process, Boyd argues, deals with this conundrum through a constant dialectic of creation and destruction of mental patterns and perceptions in response to a changing and complex observed reality. We cannot escape from [...]
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Jan.12.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#24 “What kind of war” – continued (10 of ?) – Definitions or Targets
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( From The Counter Terrorism Puzzle; A Guide for Decision Makers, used with permission of the author, Dr. Boaz Ganor, the Associate Dean of the Lauder School of Government, at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, and the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism [...]
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Jan.12.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#23 “What kind of war?” -continued (9 of ?) – Square Pegs, Round Holes vs. “War Amongst the People”
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There seems to be a trend toward treating events of terrorism as if they were specifically a law-enforcement problem , rather than enemy operations in the context of war and warfare. Both require application of force “but for force to be effective the desired outcome of its [...]
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Jan.10.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#19 “What kind of war?” – continued (5 of?) – Boundary Layers
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A ”lesson in aerodynamics” might be of interest as painting- hopefully- a useful “picture” of the period from shortly before the September 11, 2001 8th hour, 46th minute, 40th second impact of American Airlines Flight 11, on through the remainder of the day as initial reaction and response took [...]
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Jan.08.2010
by Ed Beakley
EEI#18 “What kind of a war” – continued (4 of ?) – War? What War?
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As stated previously this site is not specifically focused on war and warfare, and most specifically, it has never been intended as one providing political commentary. The “kind of war” – as essential element of information- series is being extended because today’s war, how we define it, and [...]
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Nov.30.2009
by Ed Beakley
EEI#16 “What kind of war” – continued (2 of ?) – On War, On Crime – the Intersection
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“At this stage, the drug cartels are using basic infantry weaponry to counter government forces,” a U.S. government official in Mexico said. “Encountering criminals with this kind of weaponry is a horse of a different color,” the official said. “It’s not your typical patrol stop, where someone [...]
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Sep.13.2009
by Ed Beakley
EEI #13 Stories of the DAY: Managing a Crisis Before It Becomes a Crisis – The Rick Rescorla Story
On September 11, the evacuation was real. A fireball erupted in the nearby tower, and all of Morgan Stanley’s employees were making their way down and out of the other tower. By the time the second hijacked airliner hit the south tower at 9:07 a.m., most of the company’s employees were out. But Rescorla’s work [...]
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Aug.08.2009
by Ed Beakley
EEI #10 Thinking about War – Mitigating and Accepting Risk
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This is the second in several planned posts under EEI discussing the impact on how we fight in future war and conflict as a function of pending decisions related to mission definition, policy, and force structure . (The first post: EEI #6 discussing the F-22 cancellation)
Airliners flying into skyscrapers [...]
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