Episode Details

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 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.

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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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