Influential Operations
by tdaxp ~ November 16th, 2008
If you haven’t been reading The Committee of Public Safety, you are missing out. There are too many interesting threads to mention (you can easily browse the archives to read thoughts on Howard Bloom, John Boyd, the financial crisis, and other topics), but for now I’ll simply link to the CSP’s take on the xGW Model of War.
Also now’s a good time to give a shout out to HG’s World, which celebrates one year of blogging this month. Happy anniversary!
November 16th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
A bit reminiscent of Arherring’s Left of Boom-Right of Boom [1].
[1] http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2007/10/xgw_left_of_boom_right_of_boom.php
November 17th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I will check out the link.
The Pure Kinetic / Pure Info continuum is interesting. Perhaps it might be a better fir then non-kinetics (dispersed kinetics) / Kinetic continuum.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The conceptual difference between kinetic/information and kinetic/nonkinetic is that “pure information” is only one form of “pure non-kinetic” / “completely dispersed kinetic” warfare. If this is a useful distinction, there should be some form of struggle that is completely dispersed but completely non-information-based.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Correct/good point
November 19th, 2008 at 9:17 am
What could such a non-kinetic non-information form of warfare be?
Or is it a question on whether non-kinetic is really just mostly information, but that the term information is more precise?
Hmm…
November 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
That is what I was thinking when I first commented.
It might be a better way to express the concept.
Let me think. What else is non-kinetic and not-information? Economic or trade warfare? Yeah goods move around…but prices and market fluctuations are really just information.
Lawfare? All information based.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:55 am
The Committee today discusses behavioral economics, which was also mentioned on MSNBC so it must be making the rounds. As I wrote at CPS:
[1] http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/an-intimacy-with-pain/