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To supplement this personal experience, he undertook a program of study examining both historical and contemporary conflicts. From the Second Anglo-Boer War, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, and the German guerrilla campaign in East Africa, he learned many of the basic principles of guerrilla warfare regarding organization, intelligence, operations,
... See moreA. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Leadership
Riko Ishibashi • 1 card
The U.S. geopolitical leadership has shown two faces to the world. One was the U.S. interest in building law-based multilateral institutions, including the global institutions of the UN system and regional institutions such as the European Community (and later European Union), of which the United States was a champion from the start. The other was
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
U.S. SPECIAL MISSION UNITS
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Robert Rogers led his rangers through unimaginable hardships in the wilderness war in North America. A generation later during the Revolution, Nathanael Greene lost virtually every pitched battle he fought, yet he kept coming at Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats to distract them and create new and better opportunities for his dispersed guerrilla for
... See moreJohn Arquilla • Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits
Fred Pushies’s formulaic overview of MARSOC since then is one of the few solid books available on the newly formed marine SOF units (Pushies 2011).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Peacetime CEO works to minimize conflict. Wartime CEO heightens the contradictions.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Leadership
Shane Smith • 14 cards
The Special Night Squads, deployed in Palestine, included many of the features Gubbins advocated: intelligence, initiative, deception, and strong leadership.