Part 1: Is Your Culture Like a Railroad or a Multi-modal Transportation System?
Figure 1 Railroad Tracks, the New Replaces the Old There is a natural conflict between the new and the old. Sometimes, the new destroys the old and replaces it, as shown in Figure 1. At other times, the new…
The Bureaucratization of the Military, Part 3: Corporateness and Bureaucracy
Part 1 of this series introduced Samuel Huntington’s The Soldier and the State and discussed careerism and jobs. Part 2 discussed the declining trust the public has in the military and introduced the nutcracker using Huntington’s two imperative: functional and…
Thoughts on Ukraine, Part 3: Energy, the Critical Asset
When I served in the US European Command twelve plus years ago as the Deputy J5 and the J7, we had many concerns. But a key one, for me at least, was the European dependence on Russia for energy. We…
Reconstructing History, Part 7: Conflict, History, and the Future
Figure 1 The Punctured Equilibrium on the Path of History We come to the key aspect of why the education institution focuses on re-writing history. Education is the most important function in a republic in the Age of Knowledge.…
