theorywatch

Had the pleasure of attending an informal talk yesterday at the Schusterman Center where Dr. Max Manwaring of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, best known for his so-called “Manwaring Paradigm” regarding “small wars” and other forms of low-intensity conflict, spoke about all the intelligence difficulties surrounding the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran, related military knowledge management problems (and, yes, he notes that hierarchical managerial mindsets are a huge part of the difficulty, at just about all levels of command.) Anyway, I had the opportunity to sit next to Dr. Manwaring during lunch and chat with him a bit about both “actionable intelligence” (which is my summer research project, as I’ve mentioned before) and about libraries (he recalls his time as a teaching assistant in political science based at the University of Illinois library with great fondness, by the way.) So here’s a digital library for all you wannabe defense intellectuals….