A general enters the war room. In his left hand: a 250 page document outlining a strategy to decapitate ISIS leadership. He had four months and countless aids to collaborate with. I, however, am not as fortunate. I only have the cadet sleeping beside me, a blue Expo marker, and "five-ish" minutes. In fifteen lessons I have failed to solve world hunger, failed to defeat ISIS, and failed to re-win the Vietnam war.
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| An MSS200 cadet scoffs at the US inability to solve the Middle East |
Every class has a few cadets (we're looking at you, Greg) who really are exceptionally brilliant in the art of military strategy. There is one cadet who still has a 0-buzz cut that claims the key to stopping ISIS is to use "airpower" to bomb their oil. Nobody really knows what this means. Yet the class nods in unity; the cadet leaves class convinced he has solved the middle east. We salute you, C3C Sun Tzu.
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| The CARVER Model |
At least I have memorized all of Clausewitz's buzzwords. I have mastered the art of the OODA loop. I have learned what may startle you: winning without fighting is the best approach. War is foggy, somehow. Every war is different but still elegantly OODA looped. What really pisses me off is how war changes all the damn time. Fun fact: Hitler was taken down with only the DIME model. If only he were alive to ask himself the five-whys.
This level of thinking could have been mastered by a 10 year old fresh off his first prestige in Call of Duty. You just can't make this stuff up. So the next time you sit down to plan out your weekend using everybody's favorite DIME, CARVER, and root COG analysis models, remember: us MSS warriors get 3 credit hours for doing it.
Buzz on warriors.
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