Surfing Netflix served this little gem up for me.
It wasn't so much a documentary expose but more of a slow, darkly humourous 'tour of duty' of things going wrong at the pace of treacle flowing downhill. You see the bad things slowly unfolding but everyone is either powerless or too disassociated to bother to intervene.
Disaster duly runs its course:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine_(film)
I did not know whether to laugh, but felt my heart slowly sobbing for most of the movie. Things ain't moved on since Alexander' The Greats time!
The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns.
Showing posts with label Afganistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afganistan. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 April 2019
Saturday, 2 June 2018
Lessons Learned and more importantly Not Learned from the Afghanistan Experience
https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-18-48-LL.pdf
302 pages later ... are we any the wiser?
:(
302 pages later ... are we any the wiser?
:(
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Afganistan,
Books,
Connections UK,
Stephen Downes-Martin
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Great 3 minute TED Talk: Complexity, Simplicity, Data Visualisation and Afganistan
Three minutes, stay with it to the end, it is worth it (click link below):
https://www.ted.com/talks/ eric_berlow_how_complexity_ leads_to_simplicity#t-200431
Also see Conections UK 2017:
http://professionalwargaming.co.uk/ModelingHumanTerrain.pdf
https://www.ted.com/talks/
Also see Conections UK 2017:
http://professionalwargaming.co.uk/ModelingHumanTerrain.pdf
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