S&L Posts - International Center for Security and Leadership

Note #3. North Korean Missile Firings-Time for Smart Pressure

Pyongyang’s firing off of two more short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, and the seizure of the Wise Honest

Paper #2. The US National Security Strategy Needs Combined Effects

Strategic leaders blend theoretical and applied thinking to realize goals. Competitive strategy is a creative process that rearranges ways and

Note #2. Strategy Leadership: Rearranging Ends, Ways and Means

Operations are difficult and dangerous, but too easy. It's too easy to get distracted from thinking about how to lead

Note #1. Theoretical Thinking is Applied Critical Thinking

Winning complex competition and warfare requires both theoretical and applied thinking. Critical Thinking Thinking critically about assumptions, logic and evidence

Paper #1. Tactics of Strategy and Strategy of Tactics: Winning and Losing in Complex Competition and Warfare

Smart competitors are using tactics of strategy to achieve broader-than-military objectives, while US policies produce strategies of tactics that deploy