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Assumptions
Links to my assumptions series: Assumptions: Desire Assumptions: Adaption Assumptions: Control Assumptions: Power Assumptions: Complex Adaptive Systems Assumptions: OODA Loop Assumptions: Orientation … more →
The Committee of Public Safety
Politics Redux
josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: T. Greer asks: I am curious as to your definitions of “politics” and “policy.” In the original Germa … more →
Assumptions
josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: Links to my assumptions series: Assumptions: Desire Assumptions: Adaption Assumptions: Control Assum … more →
Grab Your Boyd While You Can
josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: (props Shloky) Defense and the National Interest is shutting down. For those that don’t know, … more →
The Myth of Grand Strategy?
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josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: The common modern taxonomy of war used in these United States has four levels: Political Strategic O … more →
Promised Land, Crusader State: Liberty, or Exceptionalism, or the Division Between Heaven and Hell
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josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: The first principle Walter McDougall proposes as part of his “Old Testament” of American … more →
Promised Land, Crusader State
josephfouche wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m a big fan of historian Walter McDougall. In my opinion, McDougall is in the midst of writi … more →
Pull Out a Gat and Fetch My Fukuyama Bat
josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: If Francis Fukuyama didn’t exist and hadn’t ever written The End of History and the Last … more →
Don't Talk to the Monkey
josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Why does anyone pay attention to the monkey? Pay attention to the organ grinder. Pay no attention to … more →
America's Grand Strategy Deficit...Solved!!!
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josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Eye of a Needle America now has a single, unified, cohesive grand strategy. It turns out that even a … more →
Three Posts and the Continuity of Strife
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josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Yo Joe!!! Three recent items raise three questions: First, Kotare takes exception to random string o … more →
Interesting OODA Loop
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josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Came across this interesting version of the OODA loop that contains the full Boyd but keeps it simpl … more →
Assumptions: War
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: War is a strategy intended to make the enemy conform to your desires when doing so is contrary to wh … more →
Assumptions: Tactics
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Tactics is the fifth and final software control loop on the adaptive stack. Like culture, politics, … more →
Assumptions: Operational Art
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: The operational control loop is the fourth highest level software layer on the adaptive stack. Like … more →
Assumptions: Strategy
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Strategy is the third highest software control loop on the adaptive stack. Like culture and politics … more →
Assumptions: Politics
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Politics is the second highest control loop in software on the adaptive stack. Like culture, politic … more →
Assumptions: Culture
josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Culture is the highest software control loop on the adaption stack. Culture is an OODA loop. Culture … more →
Assumptions: Decision
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josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Decision Decision takes an orientation and subjects it to a more deliberate, structured, iterative, … more →
Assumptions: Orientation
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josephfouche wrote 3 months ago: Orientation is the most important stage in the OODA loop. Orientation is where most internal diversi … more →
