Publications

2 June 2017
Design
Gray Zone
Mixed methods approaches
Reflective learning
Reflexive thinking
Reflexivity
Researcher
US Armed Forces

Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone

Author: Grant Martin Abstract: As a rule-following organization, the military both suffers and benefits from bureaucracy. One…

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2 June 2017
NATO
Practitioner
Researcher
US Armed Forces

Carl von Clausewitz and the Invention of the Conservative Nation-State: Retrieving Instrumental Reflexivity in the Strategic Tradition

Author: Philippe Dufort Abstract: The necessity to innovate and profoundly reform the State was a shared concern…

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2 June 2017
NATO
Researcher

Design: an Ethical and Moral Project. Conscious Intention for the Cybernetician

Author: Francis Clermont Abstract: Military literature pertaining to systems thinking and design has not yet addressed…

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2 June 2017
Canadian Armed Forces
NATO
Researcher

Design in Civvies: The Promise of Creating Degrees of Freedom in Government

Author: Alex Ryan  Abstract: Both military and civilian design can be measured by the degrees…

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2 June 2017
Israel Defence Forces
Researcher

Self Disruption: Seizing the High Ground of Systemic Operational Design (SOD)

Author: Ofra Graicer Abstract: Systemic Operational Design (SOD) is the postmodern incarnation of Soviet Operational…

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2 June 2017
NATO
Researcher
US Armed Forces

Blending Postmodernism with Military Design Methodologies: Heresy, Subversion, and other Myths of Organizational Change

Author: Ben Zweibelson Abstract: The emergence of postmodern thinking in 21st century military practice, theory, and education…

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