Strategic thinker, part II

Posted by lex, on March 19, 2007

Last week I shared the first few notes and thoughts I’d collected on strategic thinker T.P.M. Barnett. Picking up where we left off:

Barnett notes that there are two different mental models for future warfare, Network Centric Warfare and 4th Generation Warfare. The Navy has been heavily investing in the NCW until recently, when we nodded in the direction of the alternative strategy by standing up the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. Fans of Richard McKenna’s book “The Sandpebbles” (or the movie starring a young Steve McQueen, will recognize that shift as going “back to the future.”

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex