Category: Book Discussion
Our Friday book discussions will take deep dives into an authors perspective to further develop understanding of new cutting edge concepts in war fighting.
Inspired by the Cognitive Raider Initiative, The Cognitive Warrior Project has put together a daily list of diverse articles that can easily be chosen from to play a part in developing a more mentally agile warfighter that embraces the adaptation required for tomorrow’s
Book Discussion: The Dragons and The Snakes: Part 4 – Chapter 5: China
This chapter has solidified my belief that China is THE adversary in the Great Global Competition. With all of their foreign investments, one belt one road and the new maritime silk road initiative has China created a vulnerability to strategically targeted advancement of
Book Discussion: The Dragons and The Snakes: Part 3 – Chapter 4 and the Importance of Self-awareness
Our book discussion continues on David Kilcullen’s latest book, The Dragons and The Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, today we will discuss chapter 4. If you need to get caught up, Part One of the discussion can be found here and Part Two can be found here. We
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes, Part 2 – Chapter 3
I should have known better than to try to cover two Chapters at a time in a Kilcullen book…grumble. For the second installment of our book discussion on David Kilcullen’s latest book, The Dragons and The Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West we will discuss Chapter
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Chapters 1-2.
The intention was to have this out on Friday but due to life type stuff I was just not happy with the article that I wrote so I didn’t publish. Mother’s Day and other activities kept me away from finishing it but I think we are all better for the delay. The hardest thing
Book Discussion: The Plan for Kilcullen and The end of war as we know it
I have been looking forward to this since the idea for this blog came into my head. I did not want to write a book review, everyone does that. I wanted to host a book discussion where I and others could talk about the book, work through questions and concepts that were not
Book / Paper Discussion: Best Practices in Counterinsurgency
The plan for this book review space is to provide a more detailed discussion on a specific book or in this case paper than a review. If we are reading a book, I would like to discuss it chapter by chapter to better understand the content. That way we can try to note
Friday Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes by Dr. David Kilcullen
This project is getting off to more of a rocky start that I would have anticipated. I am still able to keep up with all of my fatherly and husband duties…the kids are still fed but man the launch has not been as smooth as I would have hoped. The intent is for this book