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Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong (continued) (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

emmineb — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:57:53 GMT

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Boyd's OODA Loop (PowerPoint)

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:36:34 GMT

orient observe decide act. this must be about the only military powerpoint in the world that's not totally meaningless.

Change Management

emmineb — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:55:37 GMT

D-N-I review: Science, Strategy & War

emmineb — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:26:35 GMT

Boyd’s answer, the Discourse, is a set of roughly 300 charts, and Osinga has set himself the task of guiding his readers through them. It is a formidable assignment. Boyd, you see, did not intend the briefings of the Discourse to be read on their own. For years, he would not give out copies until after the presentation, and it had to be the “whole brief or no brief.” It may seem obvious, but it was in briefing format not so much in tribute to Sun Tzu – although The Art of War is, like the Discourse, a set of bullet points – but simply because he didn’t feel that there were enough readers inside the Beltway to make it worthwhile.

D-N-I: FMFM 1‑A Draft Manual on 4GW War

emmineb — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:44:21 GMT

EagerEyes

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:32:00 GMT

Feynman's Talk: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:57 GMT

This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission. Information on the Feynman Prizes Links to pages on Feynman For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992. I imagine expe

FON

emmineb — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:01:41 GMT

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Global Guerrillas

emmineb — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:38:06 GMT

THE ROLE OF CITIES - Within the context of emerging theories of system disruption, that are emerging as this war slowly ramps-up, cities play an entirely different role. As the events in Baghdad are proving daily, cities can be engineered to radiate instability rather than dampen it. This is accomplished through acts that leverage three attributes of modern cities. These include: * Extreme mobility and interconnectedness (ie, high rates of automobile and cell phone ownership). * Complete reliance on high volume infrastructure networks. * Complex and heterogeneous social networks that are held together under pressure. Blitzing the system The key to unlocking the disruptive potential of cities within this new form of warfare, is to attack key points (systempu

Global Guerrillas: TERRORIST NETWORKS: Advanced Topics 070216

emmineb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:02:12 GMT

The media term "amorphous terrorist network" doesn't provide much for us to work with. That changes when you apply advanced network theory to the topic. A recent paper by the student Mitch Stripling called, "Embodying Terror Networks: How Direction Creates Structure" (PDF) is a great example of this. The paper starts with a strongly written review of how network theory has been applied to this topic. This review starts with the early work by Arquilla and Ronfeldt (Networks and Netwars) and their simplistic chain, star, and all-channel network topographies and continues to the highly connected hubs (which embodies both the vulnerability and resilience of this type of network topology) and power-law distributions of scale-free networks (for more, read the bri