Today’s post is our vacation catch-up and will focus primarily on professional development. Hopefully, we will get caught up on news and other interesting reading tomorrow.
Inspired by the Cognitive Raider Initiative, The Cognitive Warrior Project has put together a daily list of diverse articles that can easily be chosen from to play a part in developing a more mentally agile warfighter that embraces the adaptation required for tomorrow’s battlefield. Our intent is to create a space where you can choose one or two articles a day (about 10 minutes) instead of mindlessly scrolling social media.
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August 7, 2021
Creating a Strategic HR Capability: Four Steps to Accelerate the US Army’s People Transformation – Modern War Institute
How to Integrate Competition and Irregular Warfare – Modern War Institute
Podcast: The Iraq War in Retrospect – MWI
Canada’s Arctic Problem – Modern War Institute
Podcast: Land Forces, Irregular Warfare, and a New Strategic Landscape – Irregular Warfare Project
Georgetown Security Studies Review Volume 9, Issue 1 Available for Download – Georgetown Security Studies Review
PANDEMICS AND THE ARMY: WEIGHING THE RISKS – WAR ROOM
CONSERVATIVE VS. BOLD THINKING IN SPACEPOWER THEORY? – WAR ROOM
Podcast: FREE OF BIAS? ARMY OFFICER EVALUATIONS – WAR ROOM
MILLENARIAN GROUPS AND THE WINNING PARADOX – WAR ROOM
#Reviewing Scharnhorst: The Formative Years, 1755-1801 – The Strategy Bridge
#Reviewing Some are Always Hungry – The Strategy Bridge
Guidance for Teaching Media Literacy in Schools – RAND
Internet of Bodies: Our Connected Future – RAND
Taliban takes full control of Nimruz province, seizes capital – Long War Journal
Taliban assassinates senior Afghan media official – Long War Journal
Taliban ‘martyrdom’ unit attacks Afghan defense minister’s home in Kabul – Long War Journal
Al Qaeda group claims bus bombing in Damascus – Long War Journal
Analysis: Iran escalates maritime conflict against Israel – Long War Journal
Taliban, Afghan forces battle for control of Helmand’s capital – Long War Journal
Taliban advances on Herat City – Long War Journal
Podcast: Ep. 54 — What Shabaab Wants – Generation Jihad
Podcast: The Long Goodbye – Horns of Dilemma
Podcast: (Dis)Integrated Deterrence? – Net Assessment
Podcast: A Promising Past? – Horns of Dilemma
Is NATO Land Operations Doctrine Aiming Too High? – War on the Rocks
How an International Order Died: Lessons from the Interwar Era – War on the Rocks
Warning Signs: Qassem Musleh and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces – War on the Rocks
Are We Asking the Right Questions? – War on the Rocks
Enabling the Fifth Column and the Relevancy of Unconventional Warfare – Small Wars Journal
Troubled Succession: what leadership decapitation means for Rio’s militias – Small Wars Journal
Iraq, the United States, and the “New” Middle East – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Modernizing Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance to ‘Find’ in the Era of Security Competition – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Personal Ties: Measuring Chinese and U.S. Engagement with African Security Chiefs – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Watch: Russia’s Private Military Companies – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Connect: Evolving Technologies: Innovation, Competition, and Change – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Why the Quad Alarms China: Its Success Poses a Major Threat to Beijing’s Ambitions – Foreign Affairs
The Tunisia Model in Crisis: The President’s Power Grab Risks an Authoritarian Regression – Foreign Affairs
Iran’s War Within: Ebrahim Raisi and the Triumph of the Hard-Liners – Foreign Affairs
The Right Way to Split China and Russia: Washington Should Help Moscow Leave a Bad Marriage – Foreign Affairs
China reportedly converted civilian ferries for amphibious assault operations – Defense News
As Biden Prepares to Finally Leave, Iraq Faces a New ‘Existential Crisis’ – Haaretz
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