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Before we do the wrap-up of the week, we have a new opportunity for The Bridge Community. LtGen Graeme Lamb has agreed to let us crowdsource interview questions for him…this is your opportunity to address questions to him, including:

• Iran
• leadership
• strategic thinking
• security topics
• team building
• intervention policy

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Now, here’s who you might have missed this week on The Bridge…

The #Monday Musings of Eric Murphy:

But from my earliest memory his was the Socratic voice in my head that always paid me the compliment of intellectual equality and demanded more — read, challenge everything, read, take a position and defend it, read, learn something new every day and worry about its utility later, and then read.

Brett Friedman talks strategy and history with his post, “The Battle of Salamis: Themistocles and the Birth of Strategy”:

If a strategist must have a gift for long-term planning, then Themistocles was a born strategist. As a child, he reportedly fostered friendships with well-born children despite rules against such liaisons in pre-democracy Athens. When Themistocles was born in 524 BC, there was little chance he would one day achieve political power or have any opportunity to make use of those friendships. Themistocles as a child could not have known exactly how such connections would benefit him.

Dave Mattingly reviewed three books on ISIS and synthesized a way forward in “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: What, Who, Where, When”:

The administration’s ambiguous policy statements and its delay in reacting to ISIS operations has placed the U.S. and its allies in a quagmire without a good strategy to defeat ISIS, bring peace to the region, or foster democratic governments rooted in human rights and rule of law. To develop a strategy to win a war, planners and policymakers — as Sun Tzu advised — “must understand the enemy” and form a strategy based on this knowledge and the knowledge of their own capabilities.

And Professor Renata Keller of Boston University analyzed the shift of Mexico’s security situation post-Cold War in “Mexico: From Cold War to Drug War”:

While the specter of the communist guerrilla haunted the pages of the Mexican press and the speeches of the country’s leaders, it was actually the government that escalated the violence of Mexico’s Cold War and unleashed terror upon its own citizens. Soldiers and special agents assassinated political activists like Rubén Jaramillo, they massacred untold numbers of student protesters in Mexico City’s Plaza of Tlatelolco in 1968, and they tortured, ‘disappeared,’ and murdered thousands of residents of Guerrero in the 1970s. The hidden, undeclared nature of the Cold War made secrecy a priority for all sides. Opposition groups and government agents alike operated in a clandestine world of shifting loyalties and secret agendas.