John Robb is hard at work on Book II which will be about the building of ” Resilient Communities”. He’s batted a few comments about on twitter and worked up a series of posts on the RC theme at his “formal” site. Here are a few samples to give the flavor of his enterprise:
Journal:COIN without a model for Resilience is Futile
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The Resilient Community
THE THERMODYNAMIC CRISIS
JOURNAL:Why use the thermodynamic crisis as a framework
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES
“Resilience” is a particularly intriguing concept with multiple meanings though John is honing in on those related to Newtonian physics and complexity theory ( one source in the last post, Ilya Prigogine ,was a significant influence on John Boyd ). I particularly liked this bit by John:
The modification of thermodynamics necessary to accommodate this observable fact was formulated by the Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine in...
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Some years ago I visited two villages near Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Both were small and poor. Both were inhabited by members of Rodhi caste, the Sinhalese version of untouchables. But there, all similarity ended. In the first, families of five and six lived in palm-leaf huts just large enough for them all to lie down in. They made their living begging, which I’m told is the traditional livelihood of the Rodhi. They had no running water, no toilets, no access road, and no school. Most were illi... more
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My schedule recently did not permit much in the way of my normal, extensive, blogsurfing that is the genesis of my regularly scheduled Recommended Reading posts. I would however, like to highlight Matt Armstrong’s recent, in depth, post on AFRICOM . Much like 7-Up, if the vision pans out, AFRICOM is to be “The Un-Combatant” Command. Sys Admin from the inception, interagency “jointness” in conception. But will that actually happen in the real world?
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Via John , I noted that James Fallows has some posts citing Chuck Spinney of DNI and generally injecting 4GW and John Boyd’s OODA Loop into his political analysis of the Democratic primary battle.
Sweet! Kinda wish I’d thought of that myself. ... more
Tom appears to have really rattled somebody’s cage at The White Wouse with his profile of CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon in Esquire Magazine .Â
The Man Between War and Peace by Thomas P.M. Barnett
The money quote from the magazine article that probably caused political WWIII:
Last December, when the National Intelligence Estimate downgraded the immediate nuclear threat from Iran, it seemed as if Fallon’s caution was justified. But still, well-placed ob... more
Usually, when I link to Democracy Project it is to highlight some important problem that my friend Bruce Kesler attacking head on. Today, Bruce has invited another friend, Matt Armstrong of MountainRunner , to share the spotlight in a special guest post in an area of expertise - the crisis of American public diplomacy:
U.S. Tongue-Ties Self In Talking To World
To begin with, we must accept that the romantic days of the United States Information Agency are gone. So many ... more
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