David Dixon with “Blood or Treasure” on the migrant crisis in Europe

“So what is Europe to do with the the fact that Muslim youth often feel adrift and unwelcome in their adoptive European homes and the unfortunate trend of rising radicalism? This is where Europe must decide how it will pay the bill for the refugees — in treasure or blood. This will not be cheap nor easy given the state of budget and unemployment across the continent.”

Holly Hughson with “Warfare by Spoiler: #Reviewing Team of Teams”

“Something’s happening to power. Failure to take this pulse and your combat unit, government, or company starts to flail. Failure to check yourself and your organization, ask the tough questions about whether you are trying to preserve the static known at the expense of the agility you need to survive, and you probably won’t.

The pace of technological change and scale of information instantly available have fostered a world dis-order where chaos and disruption are force multipliers.

Iconoclasts in, old guard out.”

Dave Blair with “Convergence and Governance”

“[Convergence] is the ‘dark side of globalization.’ This is where low-level illicit actors of all sorts make use of common global information and transportation architectures, and hence begin to emulate and even partner with each other….Altogether, the convergence literature has given us a foundation for solving this problem, as well as for considering broader issues of governance amidst a spectrum of terror, insurgent, and criminal threats.”

And, Robert Mihara with “Good Strategy, Moral Strategy, and the Presumption of Ways”

“…what determines the morality of our methods? Is it the morality of the actions themselves, or is it the thin hope of preserving an opportunity for indigenous reform through turning a blind eye to heinous traditional practices? The choice is dissatisfying to say the least, but the threshold to sufficiency for social engineering is high. Cultural reform puts the reformer in charge of refashioning a given society. Failure to finish the process leaves the subject society a ghost of its former self and compromised to infection by malign external actors.”