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Do. There Is No Be.

josephfouche wrote 3 days ago: Everyone should have their own Boyd page. The Full Boyd … more →

Tags: boyd, Strategy, War

Boyd

josephfouche wrote 3 days ago: Boyd. Boyd. Still here? Boyd. … more →

Tags: boyd, Strategy, War

Original Sin

josephfouche wrote 5 days ago: I own most of noted British military historian John Keegan’s books except a few. Keegan has wr … more →

Tags: Songs of the Distant Past, Civil War, Clausewitz, Keegan, Military History, War

CAPTCHAS Suck2 comments

josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: The Mighty Curtis Gale Weeks, He Who Has Tasted Internet Death and Laughed, comments: You and Peter … more →

Tags: 4GW, 5GW, Military History, Strategy, War, xGW

Dominoes Through the Generations1 comment

josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been following Kotare’s examination of the Generations of War (4GW) framework over … more →

Tags: 4GW, dave rondfeldt, Military History, Strategy, Taleb, War, xgx

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 →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, Clausewitz, how zen, James Burnham, law of the jungle, Machiavellians, Politics, Power, red in tooth and claw

Assumptions

josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: Links to my assumptions series: Assumptions: Desire Assumptions: Adaption Assumptions: Control Assum … more →

Tags: Learning to Live With It, one ring to rule them all, adaption, Assumptions, boyd, Control?, CPSOT stack, Culture, full stack

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 →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, boyd, OODA Loop, Politics, Power, Strategy, War

The Myth of Grand Strategy?1 comment

josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: The common modern taxonomy of war used in these United States has four levels: Political Strategic O … more →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, boyd, Grand Strategy, Oper, Operations, Politics, Power, Strategy, Tactics

On the Rectification of Names2 comments

josephfouche wrote 1 week ago: The Rule of Names is a short story by Ursala K. Le Guin I read in junior high English class. A synop … more →

Tags: Politics, Power, Strategy, War, war for dummies, Wylie

Promised Land, Crusader State: Liberty, or Exceptionalism, or the Division Between Heaven and Hell1 comment

josephfouche wrote 2 weeks ago: The first principle Walter McDougall proposes as part of his “Old Testament” of American … more →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, Songs of the Distant Past, Strategy, War, walter mcdougall, Diplomacy, red in tooth and claw, America Rising, law of the jungle

Promised Land, Crusader State

josephfouche wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m a big fan of historian Walter McDougall. In my opinion, McDougall is in the midst of writi … more →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, Learning to Live With It, Strategy, GeoPolitics, walter mcdougall, Diplomacy, America Rising, America Falling, Foreign Affairs

Advice on Afghanistan From an Expert

josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: Know when to hold them. Know when to fold them. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. Never coun … more →

Tags: Strategy, War, war for dummies, red in tooth and claw, law of the jungle, Afghanistan

Mercy to the Guilty is Cruelty to the Innocent

josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: (via Isegoria) Porphyrogenitus had this interesting post On Asymmetric Warfare: The Sources of Insur … more →

Tags: Power, Politics, Strategy, War, Diplomacy, war for dummies, red in tooth and claw, law of the jungle, Control?

Xenophon Roundtable: Politics in a Bottle

josephfouche wrote 1 month ago: Carl von Clausewitz famously asserted that war is the continuation of political intercourse with the … more →

Tags: Songs of the Distant Past, Power, Politics, Clausewitz, Strategy, War, Xenophon, xenophon roundtable

Luttwak on Stupidity and Other Things1 comment

josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: NerveAgent over at Visions of Empire has made some recent posts worth reading: The Benefits of Stupi … more →

Tags: Power, Politics, Clausewitz, Strategy, War, Military History, war for dummies

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 →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, Monkeys, the end is near, Power, Politics, War, Diplomacy, east is east west is west, war for dummies

America's Grand Strategy Deficit...Solved!!!3 comments

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 →

Tags: one ring to rule them all, Learning to Live With It, Power, Politics, Strategy, GeoPolitics, war for dummies, red in tooth and claw, America Rising

Xenophon Roundtable: The Shadow of Herodotus

josephfouche wrote 2 months ago: Cunaxa is an interesting counter-point to the three traditional pillars of Herodotus’s Histori … more →

Tags: Songs of the Distant Past, Anábasis, law of the jungle, Politics, Power, red in tooth and claw, Strategy, War, Xenophon


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