French General Challenges Military Transformation  Annotated
tags: ncw, transformation

A new book by a serving French Army general argues that military transformation is largely irrelevant to future conflicts, which are likely to be waged against irregular fighters in cities, and in which adaptability, not planning, will deliver the political prize of stability.

Wait, how is the identification and adoption […]

Silobreaker: Cable havoc leaves Egypt and India off the Web
Two separate incidents on undersea cable networks led to the disruption of up to 70% of Internet services in Egypt and India on Wednesday, affecting businesses and financial transactions.   
From quickly browsing the stories aggregated at Silobreaker, it sounds like it was a rogue […]

French General Challenges Military Transformation  Annotated
tags: ncw, transformation

Oh look, like so many "experts" in the U.S. defense community, the French do not seem to "get" transformation or network-centric warfare either.  It’s a pattern in military thought that I have noticed over and over and over again in my research into the role of science and technology […]

Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better  Annotated
tags: scholarship2.0

What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?
That’s the question being posed by an unusual experiment that begins today. It involves a scholar studying video games, a popular […]