Post Tagged with: "Military"

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  [Mood Riffs] Esprit De—Cough!

  Steven Coughlin, a former epidemiologist in the CDC and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, says he quit the VA when he realized officials “purposely manipulate or hide data” to prevent paying costly benefits to injured veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Combat Ban Lifted: How Did the “Controversial” Become “Common”?

  “Pentagon Lifts Combat Ban on Women” seemed like a major story last week (Jan. 23). But just a few days later it seems, well, like last week’s news.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Social Psychology Shapes Military Action

  “Many of those who want to rush the country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don’t know anything about war.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] “Questioning the Brass”

  Even as General David Petraeus joins the political ranks of disgraced old white guys, broader doubts are rising about the errors of military leaders.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Vacation Ahead for Daddy Warbucks?

  Society’s appetite for war fluctuates in response to social mood.
   
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  [Article] What Socionomics Says about the Timing of the Next World War

  If EWI’s outlook is correct, then, World War III is unlikely to commence until after…
   
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  [Article] Military and Political Leaders Need a Socionomic Perspective

  Guest contributor Michael Flagg asserts that even the best military and political analysts tend to commit a cardinal sin of forecasting. In this discussion, Michael explores the errors of conventional analysis and explains how socionomics gives a better context for understanding geopolitical and corporate conflict.
   
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  [Audio] Air Force Major Writes About Socionomics and America’s Economic and Military Future

  Maj. Tyson Hummel of the Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base has written a fascinating report that applies Socionomics to an analysis of America’s economic and military future, titled “Is the Science of Socionomics Able to Portend a Change in the United States’ Economic Might?” […]