Threat Part 6: Intent- Needs, Desires, and Fears
What the threat wants to achieve is a function of desires, needs, and fears: Intent = ƒ(desires, needs, fears) There is a theory that if people and nations just understood each other and could clearly see their motive, needs, and…
USDS Resignation Letter
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Thoughts on Ukraine Part 11: New Equilibrium
Figure New Equilibrium Issues The figure above starts as a section of the New Equilibrium portion of the Conceptual Framework developed in Part 1. I have added elements based on developments over the last week. As the central question…
Reconstructing History, Part 4: Multiple Punctured Equilibriums
The re-creating history got very complicated, with a series of punctuated equilibriums (see Path Breaking Strategy, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) before a new equilibrium could coalesce. The diagram above shows the complex series of events. This part…
