Wednesday NatSec Roundup
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You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.
- Utterly fascinating article by Claude Berube about Presidents and military service. It describes some of the major gaps (beginning of the 20th century, beginning of the 21st), the big gap between Army and Navy, and lots of other stuff. Well worth your attention.
- Dan Little reviews some of the literature on high reliability organizations. Long story short, it is extremely difficult to construct organizational rules that prevent accidents, but there are some practices that matter on the margins.
- Frank Hoffman reviews Culture of Military Organizations, where I have a chapter…
- It looks as if the United States will in fact procure new F-15s, after quite a delay. The product line has remained open because of foreign sales. The F-15 remains useful because it’s a big, fast plane that can carry lots of stuff.
- I don’t really understand what’s going on in Libya right now, but apparently Turkey is stuck in the middle of it.
- The ins and outs of access denial technologies and strategies, from the always terrific Michael Kofman.