US Armed Forces
10 November 2017
Educator
Practitioner
US Armed Forces

Preparing Army Leaders for the Next Call

USSOCOM Joint Special Operations University’s 2018 Design Lecture Series: “Explaining the 21st Century Military Design…

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6 July 2017
Researcher
US Armed Forces

How we fight: A critical exploration of US military doctrine

Author: Christopher Paparone Abstract This essay seeks to answer the question, ‘How can we understand…

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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
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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2 June 2017
Educator
US Armed Forces

Critical Military Epistemology: Designing Reflexivity into Military Curricula

Author: Christopher Paparone Abstract: The author recommends the discipline of the Sociology of Knowledge as…

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