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“Who experts were—professional background, status, and so on—made scarcely an iota of difference,” Tetlock concludes. “Nor did what experts thought—whether they were liberals or conservatives, realists or institutionalists, optimists or pessimists.” But “[h]ow experts thought—their style of reasoning—did matter.” The critical variable turned out to
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
Peter McCabe and Paul Lieber’s edited volume, Special Operations Theory (McCabe 2017)
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
McRaven, William H. Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1995.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (Conflict Classics)
Quelle idée pouvait bien se faire de lui-même un soldat réduit à porter des boutons d’uniforme en plastique ? Comment pouvait-il se battre ? À qui pouvait-il faire peur ? Qui avait eu l’idée de remplacer le laiton brillant par de la merde moulée à la louche ? Certainement pas le haut commandement, plutôt un connard de pékin chargé de réduire les
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
it’s far more cost effective to create better soldiers than it is to create better equipment.107