Comments on: Of Moral Resilience and Technical Resilience http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/of-moral-resilience-and-technical-resilience/ Strategy, Systems Thinking and Military Affairs. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:12:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Wiggins http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/of-moral-resilience-and-technical-resilience/#comment-120 Thu, 25 May 2006 09:35:56 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/of-moral-resilience-and-technical-resilience/#comment-120 I was not making any such claim. I alluded to Blitzkrieg as an example of a cohesive doctrine that successfully linked organizational structure with technology. I wasn't making a call for bringing it back, I was using it as an example of the type of synthesis we need. You ask an interesting question, though, and my off-the-cuff response is that 4GW theory <i>is</i> too immature for organizational implementation. I mean, we still get wrapped around the axel arguing about what the damn concept even means (Hammes portraying it as evolved insurgencies, Lind saying Hammes misses the boat and it's all about state legitimacy, ...)! If someone where to pull together a netwar doctrine as coherent as maneuver warfare doctrine, then I might change my mind (and maybe someone has... Beuller? Beuller?). Then again, given the distributed and self-organizing aspects of 4GW, such an explicit document/ body of work might be antithetical to the nature of 4GW. Cheers, Wiggins I was not making any such claim. I alluded to Blitzkrieg as an example of a cohesive doctrine that successfully linked organizational structure with technology. I wasn’t making a call for bringing it back, I was using it as an example of the type of synthesis we need.

You ask an interesting question, though, and my off-the-cuff response is that 4GW theory is too immature for organizational implementation. I mean, we still get wrapped around the axel arguing about what the damn concept even means (Hammes portraying it as evolved insurgencies, Lind saying Hammes misses the boat and it’s all about state legitimacy, …)! If someone where to pull together a netwar doctrine as coherent as maneuver warfare doctrine, then I might change my mind (and maybe someone has… Beuller? Beuller?). Then again, given the distributed and self-organizing aspects of 4GW, such an explicit document/ body of work might be antithetical to the nature of 4GW.

Cheers,
Wiggins

]]> by: Dan tdaxp http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/of-moral-resilience-and-technical-resilience/#comment-119 Thu, 25 May 2006 07:35:19 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/of-moral-resilience-and-technical-resilience/#comment-119 Is your call for Blitzkrieg (3GW) a judgement that Netwar (4GW) and Secretwar (5GW) are premature or inappropriate for organizational implementation? Is your call for Blitzkrieg (3GW) a judgement that Netwar (4GW) and Secretwar (5GW) are premature or inappropriate for organizational implementation?

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