Tom Rieger’s Breaking the Fear Barrier Video
Breaking the Fear Barrier and Creating a Culture of Courage. Breaking the Fear Barrier Video of NSI’s President Tom Rieger giving a barrier presentation to a large government organization. In his presentation, Tom discusses typical barriers due to fear from organizational issues such as low engagement, turnover, performance management system not working, etc. Most of […]
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Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators
Identifying Predictive Gray Zone Indicators Through People’s Values. Speaker: MacNulty, C. (DoD Consultant). Date: July 2016. Christine MacNulty has forty years experience as a consultant in long-term strategic -planning for concepts as well as organizations, futures studies, foresight, and technology forecasting, technology assessment and related areas, as well as socio-cultural change. For the last twenty […]
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Risk and Ambiguity in the Gray Zone
Risk and Ambiguity in the Gray Zone. Author | Editor: Wright, N. (University of Birmingham & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Risk and ambiguity are central to activities in the Gray Zone. Policymakers can manipulate risk, and use it as a tool for deterrence or escalation management. They can also manipulate ambiguity. In the Gray […]
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Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge
Managing the Gray Zone is a Gray Matter Challenge. Speaker: Monroe, M. (Army University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies). Date: July 2016. From 03/28 to 06/03/2016 15 students participated in a nine-week Command and General Staff College Red Teaming elective. In the final exercise the class spent seven days studying gray zone concepts and […]
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Countering Adversaries without going to War
The Power to Coerce: Countering Adversaries without going to War. Speaker: The Honorable David C. Gompert (Naval Academy, RAND). Date: July 2016. The Honorable David C. Gompert is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy, Senior Fellow of the RAND Corporation, and member of several boards of directors. Mr. Gompert was Principal […]
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Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone
Strategic Communication and the Gray Zone: The Holy Trinity of Narrative, Ideology and Framing. Speaker: Ruston, S. (Arizona State). Abstract Date: June 2016. Arizona State University’s Center for Strategic Communication conducts research on strategic communication challenges in the public sector, and has a long history of contribution to USG and DOD efforts in understanding narratives […]
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Cognitive Maneuver in the Operating Environment
Cognitive Maneuver. Speaker: Warburg, R. (USASOC). Date: June 2016. COL(Ret) Robert A. Warburg retired on 10/01/2014 after 30 years of service. He is currently the Director, G-9, (Concepts, Experimentation, Science and Technology and Capability Integration and Analysis Directorate’s) at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The G-9 Directorate manages the […]
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Specifying and Systematizing the Gray Zone
Specifying & systematizing how we think about the Gray Zone. Author | Editor: Bragg, B. (NSI, Inc). In their continued work on the changing nature of the threat environment General Votel et al forecast that the majority of threats to US security interests in coming years will be found in a ‘gray zone’ between acceptable […]
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The Economics of China’s Competitive Strategy
The Economic Elements of China’s Competitive Strategy. Speaker: Brig Gen (Sel) Rob Spalding (Joint Staff). Date: June 2016. Brig Gen (Sel) Rob Spalding is the Chief, China, Mongolia, Taiwan Division, Deputy Directorate for Politico-Military Affairs – Asia, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. As Division Chief, he directs activities and […]
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Perspectives on Greatest Threat of ISIS Loner
Greatest Threat is ISIS Loner. In the June 13, 2016 The Journal Gazette Dr. Kuznar discusses his view of the ISIS threat. In the wake of the tragic mass shooting incident in Orlando, and the reported shooter’s pledge to ISIS immediately before the attack, it is a good time to take stock of how ISIS […]
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