Episode 021 "Strategic Deficit Disorder: National Malpractice and the Perils of the Death of Statecraft"

I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments.America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion.I speak to the tools and critical thinking modalities that could spark and encourage competent martial imagination. Moral courage is necessary to tell the flag officer dullards and their Senior Executive Service (SES) necromancers that the emperor has no clothes.Recommended Listening:On Strategic EmpathyRecommended Reading:Michael Mazarr Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy TragedyWilliamson Murray The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and WarFrans Osinga Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)Stephen Robinson The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of WarChristian Madsbjerg Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the AlgorithmJohnson and Abbe Developing Strategic Empathy and Perspective Taking in MilitaryZachary Shore A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's MindDave Snowden Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our WorldUS Army Center of Military HistoryMy SubstackEmail at [email protected]