Sublime

The Task Force still had ranks and each member was still assigned a particular team and sub-sub-command, but we all understood that we were now part of a network; when we visualized our own force on the whiteboards, it now took the form of webs and nodes, not tiers and silos. The structure that had, years earlier, taunted us from our whiteboards as

After an all-night session, Eisenhower cabled Marshall that he had the utmost confidence in Murphy’s “judgment and discretion and I know that I will be able to work with him in perfect harmony.”

restive.

This strategy of co-option, coercion, and concealment integrates a range of cultural, economic, technological, and military efforts. What makes this strategy potent and dangerous, not only to the United States and the free world but also to China’s citizens deemed a threat to the party’s ambitions, is the integrated nature of the party’s effort acr

the next-most-important element is how to divide time usage and schedule the presentation of subject matter.

What helped tamp down this risk—that of insubordination and continued whisper guidance informed by the unit-level narrative—was the fact that McChrystal himself would become personally responsible for approving and considering new nominations for liaison roles. This was not only helpful in ensuring that the individuals selected held the right perso

Fox Conner had long-recognized the importance of Allied “unity of action.”

Autonomous and swarm attacks threaten to force our citizenry to live in fear reminiscent of that which Londoners experienced during the Blitz in World War II from V1 and V2 rockets, first-generation drones launched by Nazi Germany.