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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| 'On Failure' by Dan Maurer |
| 2017-04-07 |
| [Modern War Institute] Most of you reading this essay, I speculate, have a dim regard for failure. To you, failure is like that "friend of a friend" who showed up at your party, brought bad beer, made inappropriate jokes, and vomited in your bathroom. He’s not particularly welcome, but you did not have much choice in letting him in, and the extent of his exasperating conduct was not completely foreseeable. Your dim regard is not surprising. That, of course, is what the military wants and expects from you. You have learned (or been indoctrinated) to expect success from yourselves. Failure is not listed among the Army’s doctrinally designated attributes or competencies of effective leadership. I will argue, however, in knowing distortion of Clausewitz’s famous theory: failure is the mere continuation of success by other means. Failure, thus respected, should be an open and explicit component to those same doctrinal ideals. Do not 'fail' to read on. |
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