Working Through the BookLog

September 8, 2007

Organic Design for Command and Control

Filed under: combat,strategy,warfare — workingthroughthebooklog @ 5:58 pm

Organic Design for Command and Control

A short piece by Boyd on command and control. References quite a few famous generals and military thinkers and comes to the conclusion that command must be strong and in evidence, but control must be invisible and diffuse to be effective.

August 3, 2007

Shared Situational Understanding

Filed under: paper,strategy,warfare — workingthroughthebooklog @ 10:45 pm

Shared Situational Understanding[pdf]

A short article at criticizes the current military’s manufacturing emphasis instead of human emphasis, where people are treated as equivalent and process is the highest good. This is really just preaching to the choir, though, because anyone who should learn these concepts would need more background info than this article provides. Those who understand generally already believe.

June 20, 2007

FMFM 1A, Fourth Generation Warfare

Filed under: history,strategy,warfare — workingthroughthebooklog @ 5:07 am

FMFM 1A, Fourth Generation Warfare[pdf]

A quick primer on fourth generation warfare by the Defense and National Interest website, as well as other types of warfare and how they differ from eachother. If you’ve heard of fourth generation warfare, but don’t really understand what it means and how it differs from the others, this is a nice intro text.

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