Sunday, September 04, 2011

Hrm.

From a few years ago...

"The lack of serious discussion about war that goes on leads to a great deal of compromise, lack of intellectual rigor, and a lot of mushiness, and a tendency of strategy by slogan, or strategy by acronym, or strategy by buzzword and not to talking about the actual philosophy behind this is. When people start dialoguing about this at this level, then when they get to 3-star and 4-star, they actually have some concept or philosophy to fit in a new environment."
- Brian McAllister Linn, guest speaker at the US Army Command and General Staff College
about The Echo of Battle, his 2007 book about the U.S. Army's schools of thought.

I see what's out there in military literature lately, and I am not sanguine.

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