Local Dynamics of War Scholars Program

While attending the US Army Command & General Staff College, I was fortunate to have been selected to study in a special scholars group. The Local Dynamics of War program was a select group of scholars chosen to study challenging academic concepts in a multidisciplinary fashion.
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On the periphery of complex systems lies simplicity. Embrace the complexity and thrive in chaos.
Craig Parson's 4 core logics. All political science arguments can be categorized into 4 x distinct types.
Illustration of the "Indirect Approach" in the Philippines; Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines. Designed by MAJ Arnel David, taken from thesis.
Using Operational Design to frame the problem and define the environment. -Arnel David
Invitation to our hookah party to celebrate the completion of our theses.
Instead of deductive or inductive reasoning, the military practitioners should use retroductive (abductive) reasoning to analyze ill-structured or wicked problems.