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Christopher Paparone

Chris Paparone is a retired US Army Colonel who is now serving as a US Department of the Army civilian. While on active duty, he served in various command and staff positions in war and peace in the continental United States, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Bosnia.

He is a graduate of the US Naval War College and received his PhD in public administration from The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.

Strategy: Quad Conceptual Reasoning

Abstract: The ends-based, rationalist model of strategy has dominated institutions of professional military education to…

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Two Faces of Critical Thinking

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Strategy as a Dead Metaphor

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The Sociology of Military Science: Prospects for Postinstitutional Military Design

Author: Christopher Paparone, Contributing authors (Ch. 6): Grant Martin, & Ben Zweibelson Abstract: This groundbreaking work challenges modernist…

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Thinking in Fours (Quad-Conceptual Reasoning)

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It’s About Time

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