Spinning For Tonkin
Bill Roggio lays out the case for Iran running the Karbala attack:
This raid required specific intelligence, in depth training for the agents to pass as American troops, resources to provide for weapons, vehicles, uniforms, identification, radios and other items needed to successfully carry out the mission. Hezbollah’s Imad Mugniyah executed a similar attack against Israeli forces on the Lebanese border, which initiated the Hezbollah-Israeli war during the summer of 2006.
SWJ Blogroll
Looks like the Small Wars Journal blog roll needs to be revamped. There’s a large chunk of irrelevant, broken or dead links. One day I’ll get through Mark’s incredibly long roll. (The good news is most of the good ones are already in my reader.)
OSD On The Doom Loop
Wiggins nailed the Doom Loop to the OODA Loop a while ago and I simply forgot to point it out.
As Chet Richards has eloquently described, the same organizational characteristics that allow effective military forces to operate within an adversary’s OODA loop can allow private companies to successfully innovate and profit in the market. Both need to be relentlessly focused upon reality and results, both need to find ways to harness the passions of individuals, and both depend upon self-motivated people. The overall focus needs to be on finding the best answers, not on winning a debate or proving that the CEO or General was right all along.
Absolutely. Along the same lines: There is a reason the private and public sector’s thinking is tied together. The time for different rulesets (if there was one) is over.
Watching Iran Propaganda?
Is anyone doing for Iran what Maximus did for Iraq’s endgame?
Something along the lines of a list of recent US/Iran face offs/rattling of sabers/strong talk like the incidents detailed in this USNews article:
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, voiced such concerns in Senate testimony last week, saying that “we know that Iranian-supplied and -made weapons are on the streets of Baghdad killing our troops.”
Ad Generator
This is just funny. Truly conveys how meaningless classic advertising really is.