Grant Martin

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	Grant Martin is a U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant-Colonel and commander of D Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), also known as "Robin Sage", the last phase of the Special Forces Qualification Course.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
Design is Dead!

  

  
  

                
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Posted On November 26, 2012 05:30 AM | Comments(13)

  

  
  

                

	Design is to MDMP as the universe is to apples. All we can do now is apples.


  

		  
  

                
Carl von Clausewitz,  Meet Albert Einstein and Max Planck

  

  
  

                
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Posted On October 3, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(24)

  

  
  

                

	One of the reasons, if not THE reason, that we struggled to accomplish our objectives in Afghanistan is that we applied an industrial-era approach to the way we conceptualize planning and...


  

		  
  

                
The COiNventional Wisdom

  

  
  

                
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Posted On August 9, 2012 05:03 PM | Comments(54)

  

  
  

                

	 

	Will we “learn” the same lessons we learned after Vietnam again? (…and, by the way, what were those lessons?)


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
Disruptive Thinkers:  The Disruptive Poets Society

  

  
  

                
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Posted On April 18, 2012 04:59 AM | Comments(15)

  

  
  

                

	 

	How The Dead Poets Society Advocated Disruptive Thinkers, Why DoD Shouldn't Encourage More Disruptive Thinkers, and 10 Principles for Those That do Think Disruptively


  

		  
  

                
On Counterinsurgency: Thoughts on the Re-write of Field Manual 3-24

  

  
  

                
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Posted On March 12, 2012 05:02 AM | Comments(24)

  

  
  

                

	Grant Martin offers his thoughts on the rewrite of FM 3-24 and more realistic and sustainable COIN efforts.


  

		  
  

                
Finding Petraeusism in Naglandia

  

  
  

                
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Posted On November 10, 2011 07:12 PM | Comments(5)

  

  
  

                

	Population-centric COIN should only mean you understand the people—not that you necessarily do anything for them.