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The Osama Tale: Stranger and Stranger
by Eric Margolis
My Pakistani security intelligence sources told me five years ago that Osama bin Laden was hiding in an urban area in Pakistan.
If I, a humble journalist, had a good idea where OBL was, why did it take CIA so long to find one elderly man who had brazenly set out to defeat the mighty American Imperium?
The whole Osama bin Laden saga keeps getting more and more bizarre and incredible. I am reminded of the ending of the film the Wizard of Oz, wherein the fearsome wizard is revealed as a frightened old man with fake scenery and a terrifying noise box.
Just when we thought US-Pakistani relations could not get more poisonous, America's most hated was finally discovered in lovely, downtown Abbottabad, Pakistan, a mere stroll from that nation's military academy. The Saudi Dr. Fu Manchu was living in a run-down villa, not the "luxury mansion" described by over-excited reports.
Furious US government officials and legislators accuse Pakistan of duplicity, treachery, and betrayal. Ordinary Americans are enraged against Pakistan, a staunch ally since the 1950's.
In a recent WikiLeak, a US diplomat actually branded Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, "a terrorist organization."
The same ISI that was our comrade in arms during the 1980's war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is well and truly in the dog house. The feeble Zardari government in Islamabad and Pakistan's military face charges they were either incompetent or duplicitous over bin Laden. A tough choice.
India, Pakistan's bitter foe, is crowing; so are the Afghan Communists and drug lords.
Those American yahoos we saw cavorting with joy in the streets at the news of bin Laden's assassination seem totally unaware the almost decade-long US jihad against him cost American taxpayers a staggering $1,283 trillion, and left the US stuck in 2.5 wars.
Interestingly, that $1,283 trillion is roughly what the US currently owes China. Annual interest on the US debt alone runs around $450 billion.
Bin Laden's oft-stated primary goal was to overthrow the Muslim world's western-backed dictatorships and drive the US from the region. He vowed to do so back in the 1990's by bankrupting and "bleeding" the US. Thanks to a lot of help from Wall Street's flim-flam financers, that goal is well on its way.
Washington's triumph was quickly undermined by its shifting claims over the rubout of the unarmed bin Laden, and by the dumping of his body in the sea, a form of cadaverous disposal much favored by the New Jersey mob. The attempt to posthumously humiliate the retired revolutionary by airing pathetic home videos of him backfired, arousing more sympathy than scorn outside North America.
Now, the US says it wants to interrogate bin Laden's wives, who are in Pakistani custody. If information about bin Laden is wanted, why didn't the US grab the unarmed bin Laden and whisk him away for thorough interrogation? After which, he should have been sent for trial at the UN International Criminal Court in the Hague, as was mass murderer, Slobodan Milosevic and his henchmen?
Still, it's hard to believe Pakistan didn't know the world's most wanted man was living in quiet retirement a short stroll from its military academy. CIA certainly found out.
The failure of Pakistan's air defenses to detect low-flying US helicopters in the hilly terrain raised two key questions: did Pakistan's military finally give the US a green light to go after bin Laden? If so, how much did this "laissez-passer" cost?
More important, could the US or India stage a similar lightening air assault to destroy Pakistan's nuclear arsenal? Though these weapons are dispersed, they look vulnerable after last week's daring US raid using new stealth helicopters optimized for nape of the earth missions.
Washington claims it found bin Laden by following one of his couriers. But some of my sources say that bin Laden's compound was actually located by Afghan intelligence, which remains dominated by Tajik agents of the old Communist KHAD intelligence service, an arm of the Soviet KGB. Bin Laden, who killed the Tajik's hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, a covert Soviet ally, was their number one target for revenge.
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Musings on Adventure Path Structure
When 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons was released, it also gained a series of eight adventures that took a group of adventurers from levels 1 to 20. Starting with the Sunless Citadel and continuing through to Bastion of Broken Souls, it demonstrated something that previous editions hadn't provided: a complete "Adventure Path" series that went the full range of levels. However, players only familiar with the Paizo Adventure Paths would likely not recognise the structure of this original series.
The adventures were mostly stand-alone, to begin with, with only a couple of links between them. Yes, you got a (very) few references to Ashardalon and Gulthias, names that would become important in later adventures, but this wasn't like – say – Tyranny of Dragons or Kingmaker where everything is part of one connected story. It was very easy to take one of the adventures and just play it; you didn't need to play those that came before or after, because each adventure was self-contained. At $9.95 each for 32-pages of adventure, they were pretty neat.
The structure of the Sunless Citadel path reminds me most of the structure of many late-1E and 2E campaigns: one where the DM would throw together a bunch of unrelated published adventures because they looked fun. Certainly, this is a style that I've played in and employed (many times), with a few adventures hinting it at a later threat, because the DM has looked ahead and seen what the later adventures will hold. The design is "standalone first, connections later".
So, when I ran my original 3E campaign, we started with The Sunless Citadel, moved through the next couple of adventures, and then wandered off into adventures of my own design – only coming back for a dip into Deep Horizon. And I'm not even sure it was the same campaign… for most of the last 16 years, I've been running 2 (or 3) campaigns, sometimes on a weekly basis. And Deep Horizon happily didn't reference anything else in the other adventures.
Towards the end of 3E, Paizo started publishing Adventure Paths. These covered levels 1-20 to begin with (later fewer levels, due to the poor experiences people had at the highest levels). They've continued doing so, using their Pathfinder system. At present, I can see over one-hundred volumes on my shelf of their AP releases – it's something like 20 Adventure Paths, including their initial releases in Dungeon Magazine.
These are ongoing stories. You start at the beginning, each adventure directly leads into the next, and by the end you've played an entire campaign that is (mainly) one story. However, they have a major problem to deal with. The problem isn't that they're bad or repetitive (although both could be true), but rather that the periodical release of the adventures – plus the underlying system – causes them to be relatively linear in form. One of the features I encountered when running 3E (over many, many sessions) is that two or three levels gained makes the monsters that were a challenge at the original level now utterly under-powered at the new levels. This is quite unlike how most of 5E plays – it takes a lot longer for monsters to become nonthreatening.
So this has a particular effect on adventure design: each section of an adventure must be set for a particular narrow set of levels. Once you exceed those levels, you need to proceed to the next section lest things get dull. When you add that these adventure paths are published as six chunks, the adventure thus has a straight line pointing in the way to proceed. Players can have a little freedom in each section, but the arrow inevitably points on to the next volume.
Now consider the new Wizards adventures for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. There's only one of them that could be published as a Paizo Adventure Path – and that's the Tyranny of Dragons duology. (Even that does interesting things with the form, but it is the most linear and could be broken into more chunks if necessary).
Every other adventure presents an adventure environment. Storm King's Thunder comes closest to the Paizo form – but could you imagine Paizo printing an AP instalment where you only use 1/5th of the adventure and ignore the other parts? That's the structure of the Giant Strongholds in SKT. Curse of Strahd and Princes of the Apocalypse are primarily sandboxes, allowing the players to encounter threats in any order (though there are hints as to the best way to encounter things). These are only presentable in a single-book format. Out of the Abyss spends the first half as a sandbox, before wandering into a more traditional quest structure (while still allowing the DM and players the ability to use it as a sandbox if they really feel like it…)
The "bounded accuracy" of 5E makes these sandbox/environment adventures far more interesting than in 3E; the various locations stay relevant for a larger range of levels. Ogres? Yes, you could encounter those from levels 1-10, and they're likely to still be relevant at all levels, though the nature of the encounter still changes. They could hurt you even when you're high level – a far cry from the power curve in 3E.
One of the reasons I've been so excited about the 5E adventures is because they're trying new things in their form, something aided by their presentation as single hardcover adventures. They don't all appeal to everyone, but there are new things being tried, and we're seeing a lot of exploration of the possibilities of adventure design and presentation. It's a very exciting time to be reading and running Dungeons & Dragons adventures!
Oh, and Happy New Year! I hope you have a fantastic 2017!
Print-on-Demand versions of classic Dungeons & Dragons titles
Wizards of the Coast and OneBookShelf have enabled print-on-demand for a initial range of titles on the DMs Guild.
This is fantastic news for people who want hard copies of those older products. However, it does come with a few caveats…
The main thing to consider is that those products won't be printed exactly like the original printing. A single softcover or hardcover book? That's easy. Poster maps? Urgh. Not so good. Detachable cover? Well, only if the glue isn't that good…
I'd be surprised if the maps for old adventures (like Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure) were printed on the inside of the cover rather than on separate pages in the book as well.
The notes for the Hollow World Campaign Setting indicate that instead of 3 books and four maps, "this print edition combines the Dungeon Master's Sourcebook, Player's Book, and Adventure Book, plus the maps, into a single softcover tome."
So, if you want the books in their original format, you're probably still better off trying to find second-hand copies. However, if the format doesn't matter so much to you – especially for the original hardcovers and adventures – this is going to be pretty good.
My experience with the Elemental Evil Player's Companion is that the printing is going to be good, though not to the level of the standard line of non-POD books from Wizards.
The initial list of offerings:
- Den of Thieves (2E adventure)
- WG5: Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (1E adventure)
- Hollow World Campaign Setting (D&D Basic)
- I10: Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill (1E adventure)
- SJS1: Goblin's Return (2E adventure)
- AC1: The Shady Dragon Inn (D&D Basic accessory)
- Beyond the Prism Pentad (2E adventure)
- Dragonlance Adventures (1E hardcover supplement)
- Dreams of the Red Wizards: Scourge of the Sword Coast (D&D Next adventure)
- X2: Castle Amber (D&D Basic adventure)
- L1: The Secret of Bone Hill (1E adventure)
- Draconomicon (3E hardcover accessory)
- Uncaged: Faces of Sigil (2E accessory)
D&D Adventure Review: Shadows of the Last War
I was recently asked if I had written reviews of the adventures set in the Eberron Campaign Setting. The answer is yes, I reviewed the original three adventures. This review was originally written in 2004; I've revised the original text to make it more applicable to today's audience.
Once upon a time, Wizards – and, before them, TSR – produced adventures on a regular basis for D&D. However, because of the small profit margins on adventures, during the 2000s they mainly left the production of adventures up to 3rd-party publishers (using the OGL) and Dungeon Magazine. Every so often, however, they did publish the odd adventure, mostly to support a new campaign setting.
Shadows of the Last War was the first full-length adventure published to support Eberron, a setting drawing inspiration from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Maltese Falcon, which also included more than a few elements we might now call steampunk. Shadows is the sequel to the short adventure The Forgotten Forge found in the core Eberron book; two more adventures would follow it in 2005 to form a series.
You could use Shadows of the Last War as a stand-alone adventure, and you could adapt it to another setting, but I do feel that you would be cheating yourself if you used it that way. It works well as part of the series.
The adventure takes characters across the continent of Khorvaire and into the mysterious Mournland, with the characters on a mission to find artefacts in a ruined artificer's workshop. The adventure was written by the creator of Eberron, Keith Baker, and it throws you right into one of the biggest mysteries of the Eberron setting: What happened on the Day of Mourning? (Not that it answers the question, but travelling through the Mournlands provides ample opportunity to reflect on the question).
Much as in a good pulp/noir book or movie, the characters are opposed by other factions, and a chief joy is seeing how the group deal with forces more powerful than them who they can't challenge overtly. It really made me want to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Maltese Falcon again just to get into the right spirit of things. It is a solid adventure to begin with, but played with the factions in mind, should become exceptional.
The adventure does require reference to the Eberron Campaign Setting for a number of elements; in particular, the setting book contains the map of the wilderness and descriptions of magic items. The adventure offers a variety of wilderness, city and dungeon adventuring, although some elements of the module are not quite as fleshed out as you might expect. The basics of the adventure are very well done, but the DM will need to improvise if the players move too far from the outlines.
The module is somewhat short at 32 pages. Keith Baker estimates that it should take two sessions (or about 8 hours) to complete. The design is not of a dense dungeon crawl, but of several different acts in different location. I think the variety is excellent; it's not a monotonous dungeon crawl!
In addition to the adventure itself, the package includes 16-page short-story booklet: Death at Whitehearth by Keith Baker. This describes events in the main adventure location (Whitehearth) during the Last War. I greatly enjoyed this story; it helps you understand the world of Eberron and the backstory behind the adventure. I would encourage players to read the story before playing the adventure, so they have a better understanding of the setting and adventure location.
There are many things to admire about Shadows of the Last War: It has interesting traps and tricks, a variety of encounter locations, lots of role-playing opportunities and intelligent opposition. Don't discount that last – it's hard to write well or effectively.
One concern I have is the linear quality of some of the story. There are opportunities for differences in player approach, but the final dungeon really feels like "Do A to get to B which allows you to do C to get to D."
The biggest problem with the module are assumptions that certain NPCs will survive. It's unlikely that the players will be able to kill then, but we've all seen what happens to quite well-thought out plans once players get involved…
The final encounter is where things could become completely unstuck: although it makes some provisions for different player behaviours, there is one assumption it makes that is utterly unwarranted, and could seriously derail further adventures in the line.
Physically, the module is moderately attractive without being stunning. It is very nice to see portraits of all the main NPCs in the module, although I do not personally like the style they were drawn in.
I was especially pleased with the maps: they're aligned to a grid, and the grid uses a sensible scale. The one problematic map is that of the Broken Anvil Inn – why is most of it aligned diagonally compared to the grid?
Although the font for the bulk of the module is fine, I am not so pleased with the italic text which is mainly used for descriptions to be read to the players – I found it a little difficult to read easily.
Despite those niggles, I do consider this a worthy adventure, and a good continuation of the Eberron line.
Wacky Stuff with D&D – The Dragon Turtle Incident
I've played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons over the years. Every so often, the players do something extremely awesome and unexpected.
There was once a time in my game where the characters had spent a session negotiating with the Sea Princes of the World of Greyhawk setting and they were now on their way home.
Because just getting home would be boring, their ship was soon attacked by a Dragon Turtle. In the ensuing combat, one of the player characters was grabbed by the turtle and was soon in a very poor state, trapped in its jaws and unconscious.
We were using the 3rd Edition of D&D and ranged healing spells were something of a rarity; no-one in the group knew any. However, they had picked up a quiver of arrows of healing. Instead of inflicting real damage, they healed whatever they hit! The archer of the group decided that shooting them at the PC stuck in the dragon turtle's jaws was that character's only chance of surviving.
Not that it was a good chance. Lots of penalties to the attack roll loomed.
It was at this point that the player of the entrapped PC reminded me that he'd picked up a cursed item – a shield of missile attraction. I hasten to point out that the shield didn't attract missiles to itself – instead it attracted them to the bearer and meant that any arrows would automatically hit him. Being cursed, the character in question couldn't discard it. Normally this would be a big problem.
In this case, it was an advantage: the archer fired healing arrow after healing arrow at the trapped PC, and thanks to the cursed shield, they all found their mark and healed the character enough that the party were able to slay the dragon turtle and rescue him.
See, there are times that cursed items can save you!
A Short History of Monster Stat Blocks
Including monster statistics – stat blocks – in adventures is a challenge. The earliest adventures – the Giant adventures by Gary Gygax – listed the name of the monster and its hit points and nothing else. It's a little hard to tell if this was an aesthetic choice or one born from the fact that the rules were still somewhat in flux (the AD&D Monster Manual was out, but the adventures had been written for original D&D). The advantage of this format is that the text isn't interrupted by a lot of extraneous text. This makes the adventure easier to read and prepare, but more difficult to run. An even shorter variant leaves out the hit points – this is the way that Wizards does it in their current adventures, with (potentially) the full monster descriptions appearing in the back of the book or in the Monster Manual.
Hill Giant stats from G1: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, the first (official) AD&D adventure module, published in 1979.
There's another article that will look at how the choice of formats affects adventure layout, usability and readability, but for now I'm going to look at the major variations of D&D stat blocks through the ages.
During AD&D and Basic D&D, stat blocks typically included enough details that you could run the monster without referring to the rulebook, except in the case of special abilities. This was simpler because of how Hit Dice worked: attacks and saves were directly tied to the monster's Hit Dice or Level, and DMs would typically refer to the DM Screen.
NPC stats and those of monsters with special abilities might get a little longer, but you'd rarely get a full description of a special ability; instead just a reminder that it existed. You'd have to look up the monster in the rulebook for a full description.
Pit Viper stats from B4: The Lost City, published in 1982.
Undead Scribe stats from Die Vecna Die! published in 2000.
Between these two stat blocks, not all that much has changed. The late 2E block is slightly more complete, including Intelligence and Size, but you can see the similarities. The late-2E form of the stat block was then used as the basis for the 3E block. However, 3E had more statistics.
This meant that the stat block got longer. A lot longer. The advantage of this stat-block was its completeness. Compared to what came later, it also wasn't so space-hungry, but it still wasn't that short. As an aside, having to include Saving Throw modifiers, Skills and Ability Scores really does add a lot of text to each stat block.
Mercykiller Soldiers, from Lord of the Iron Fortress, published in 2001. This is actually one of the shorter stat-blocks in this adventure!
Although the 3E stat block was longer than that of AD&D, it was fairly compressed and hard to read in play. Thus, during the 3.5E years, Paizo and Wizards developed a clearer version of the stat block. Which was incredibly space-hungry, but did split up the stats so that it was a lot easier to find relevant information.
One of the bigger problems of these stat-blocks is that they'd often include a lot of information that wasn't actually needed during play. Do I need to know the monster has a "Keen Sight" ability that adds 4 to its Perception skill checks? Not when that's already included in Perception! But 3E was the era of tinkering with monsters according to the rules, so Paizo tended to include a lot of detail. As I recall, the end boss Kyuss in the Age of Worms campaign took two-and-a-half pages to cover. Yes, that's just a little too much space for my liking.
The format saw some adjustment from product to product. Here's an example of a late-3.5E stat block from Wizards. You'll note that it now divides the stats into various sections: basic information, defensive information, offensive options, and then attributes, feats and skills. This format made it much easier to find various abilities, at the cost of slightly more space.
Kundarak Blockguards, from Eyes of the Lich Queen, published in 2007.
The 4E stat block took the late 3.5E stat block as a base, and slimmed it down. The biggest change was in the nature of attack powers in this edition. A monster having a +5 bonus to hit and dealing 1d8+2 damage was unusual – most attack powers were far more complicated. So, they consequently took up more space on the page. On the other hand, the 4E designers didn't want long stat-blocks, so monsters just weren't as complicated.
Another major design consideration in 4E was that they wanted to have as few references to other books as possible. If you examine the 3.5E block above, you'll see Combat Gear, Feats and Special Abilities that aren't explained. This changed drastically in 4E monster design, and especially as 4E monsters didn't use spells as we understand them. Instead their abilities were included in full; there wasn't the option of just listing "magic missile." This reaction is entirely understandable, as it was getting harder and harder to "just run" 3.5E stat blocks, but the simplification probably went a bit too far – some spell-casting monsters really lost versatility as a result.
Draconic Wraith Souleater, from P3: Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress, published in 2009. I may have chosen a Shawn Merwin adventure not entirely at random, although it's not his strongest.
Another, more subtle change of this edition was that there was no difference between a 4E stat block and a 4E monster manual entry. This was a very significant change: the Monster Manual entry was now a stat-block, and is something that 5E uses as well.
5E monster design restored spells (and a central spell list) to monsters, allowing more variety, and the Monster Manual monster entries draw very clearly on the late 3.5E and 4E versions of the stat block. Of course, Wizards doesn't actually provide these stats in-line in the adventure! Instead, a line will reference 5 goblins, with the monster reference being drawn out in bold text; you'd then go either to the appendix or the Monster Manual to find out the stat blocks. No hit points are given (unlike G1), mainly because of the standardized hit points for most monsters.
So, in theory we have a stat block that takes up a moderate amount of space on the page and is pretty clear to read, but most Wizards' adventures don't use in-line stat blocks.
The Merfolk stat-block from the D&D Basic Rules – it's one of the shorter blocks, in fact!
However, just because official 5E products do one thing doesn't mean that third-party publishers need to do the same. We've seen a lot of various versions of shortened stat-blocks (the better to have on the page), as well as publishers having stats in the back of the book. Necromancer Games spent quite a bit of time debating the issue after its first Quests of Doom adventure compilation – and yes, I had some input here – so the Quests of Doom 2 book uses a stat-block which is a hybrid of AD&D and early 3E versions: most of the information you'll need is in the stat-block, with reminders of more complicated abilities, although you'll need to look at the full monster entry to see what those do. The stat blocks appear in the encounter descriptions.
– the Necromancer Games format
When I'm writing adventures for my home game (yes, I do have a game that isn't a D&D Adventurers League game!), I tend to use a shortened stat-block in the text. Here's a couple of stat block from the last session I ran:
Grotesque Golem: AC 11, hp 120, 2 slams +6 (2d10+6 plus weakness DC 16), magic resistance, golem immunities, immune non-magic weapons, Str +6, Con +5. CR 5.
Horrible Machine: AC 18, hp 170, blade +7 (3d10+5), resists weapons.
I tend to assume any ability score not listed is +0 (even if it isn't, if it is close I like saving space). Or make something up on the spot… the Horrible Machine would require a longer block if I was intending the adventure to be published!
The purpose of including a monster stat-block in the text is to simplify the job of the DM: they can run the encounter without needing to reference an appendix or another book. However, it has implications on how the adventure is written, which I'll deal with that in a future article.
Meanwhile, in Pathfinder-land, they use a combination of monster references (for common monsters) and in-line stat-blocks for unique monsters, with their stat-block format being a variation of the late-3.5E format they developed. There's not just one way of doing things!
A couple of interesting releases on D&D Classics…
Wow, didn't expect these this week:
The AD&D Player's Handbook is one of the true classics of the Dungeons & Dragons line. Gygax wrote it to update and consolidate the system after the original D&D books had spawned a number of (occasionally contradictory) supplements and new classes in magazine articles. The result is brilliant. Although the DMG is praised more highly, for my money, the original Players Handbook is the much tighter-written book. Of particular interest are the later sections offering advice on adventuring, which offer a lot of insight into the early days of D&D.
A couple of oddities exist in the text, thanks largely to the way the system was written: at no point did Gygax ever have a "finished" AD&D as he was always tinkering with the system, and so the Players Handbook introduces AC 10 – no armour was AC 9 in both the original game and the Monster Manual – and the Monk is described as attacking as a thief; this was upgraded to attacking as a cleric in the DMG.
There are also quite a number of references to modifiers for parrying, initiative from encumbrance and the like that are never spelled out in the DMG, but have spawned numerous house rules over the years.
The book isn't perfect, but it's worth picking up for a look at one of the best expressions of the game. (It still has my favourite take on the Illusionist class, by the way!)
The other new release of note is the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook from 3E. This is likely to never be described as the best book of the D&D line, but my group had a lot of fun with it. It gives you something to spend your money on: a stronghold. The stronghold could be anything: a keep, a fortress, a house, a tower, a hidden thieves' guild…
What the book gives you are a lot of ideas for what goes in the stronghold: armouries, barracks, guest bedrooms, laboratories and the like, and a system for determining how much all of it costs. After selecting the elements, you have a rough idea of how much space it takes up so you can map it out and then build it!
The book doesn't cover any of the later play that revolves around a stronghold (such as defending it from attack or the like), but the cool things you can build were enough to keep my players entertained and fuelled an entertaining portion of the campaign as they sought to make their dreams reality. There's little rules-specific material here, so I'd have little problem using it in my 5E game – although I might need to adjust the costs a little. I haven't really looked at how much the 3E and 5E economy differ yet!
Sale of D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG!
Until February 22nd, 2015, there's a sale of Wizards' D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG.
The discounts are variable – The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting (AD&D 1E) is $8.49, down from $9.99, while the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (D&D Basic) is $4.99, down from $9.99. Every title is at least 15% cheaper.
Note that the "cover price" is the price the book was originally published with; a lot of the books tend to sell cheaper than that as pdfs.


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Capilano University was founded by the school boards and residents of North Vancouver, West Vancouver and Howe Sound through referendum in 1968.
Classes that first year were held in a small building on the grounds of West Vancouver Secondary School.
Initial enrolment that first year was 784 students. Today, Capilano University has blossomed into a publicly-funded learning institution that serves 8,300 students in for-credit programs and 3,300 in non-credit courses annually. The University has more than 1,000 employees.
In 1973, Capilano University opened its permanent 13.76 hectare (34-acre) campus in the Lynnmour area of North Vancouver. That same year, the University also established a regional centre in Squamish to serve the Howe Sound communities of Squamish, Whistler, Mount Currie and Pemberton. In 1977, Capilano University opened the Sunshine Coast campus in Sechelt to serve the communities of the Sunshine Coast.
In 2008, the provincial government changed Capilano College's designation to Capilano University.


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To treat Psoriasis of the scalp apply the Clinical UG Exfoliator Creme to the scalp on the affected areas and leave overnight to act. (Use an old towel to avoid contact to bed linen) Next morning rinse off with plenty of luke warm water and shampoo using Beaute Pacifique Shampoo For Fine Hair, to avoid drying of the scalp. It is crucial to avoid the use of aggressive shampoos that will irritate the scalp and worsen the Psoriasis condition.
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Pacific Princess, one of two small ships in the Princess Cruises fleet, offers a more personal perspective as you enjoy a wonderfully relaxed ambience.
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Arby's Buys Pharrell's Grammys Hat, Rides #Oscars Buzz With Timely Tweet
Arby's garnered lots of attention with a tweet to Pharrell on Grammy's night asking for its hat back. Turns out Pharrell put the now famous Vivienne Westwood creation on eBay for charity in February. In serendipitous — though more likely brilliantly strategic — fashion, the auction ended at 5 PM Pacific Time on the day of the Oscars.
Pharrell sent out a thank you tweet to the auction winner. Arby's quickly tweeted back with proof it was the auction winner and wished Pharrell luck at the #Oscars in the contest for Original Song.
.@Pharrell You're welcome. We're HAPPY to support a great cause & get our hat back. Good luck at the #Oscars tonight! pic.twitter.com/2oA7qDPX9z
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While the tweet didn't hit the level of Grammys night, which topped more than 80,000 retweets and nearly 50,000 favorites, the brand has received more than 7,000 retweets and 5,500 favorites for its Oscars night nod. Not bad for an evening dominated by Ellen's record-setting selfie tweet.
Josh Martin, Arby's social media manager, told Marketing Land back in January that the team had been discussing ways to extend the social buzz from their Grammys Twitter exchange with Pharrell and had reached out about using the hat in future promotions. Now that the hat is in their possession, we'll have to see what else they have planned for their social media lucky charm.
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A free online public procurement course designed to help smaller firms bid for the £220 billion of public sector contracts awarded each year was today launched jointly by Small Business Minister Lord Davies and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne.
The course, 'Winning the Contract', shows participants how to identify business opportunities to supply goods and services to the public sector, explains the public procurement process, and demonstrates how to submit tenders. It has helpful hints and tips to guide and inform businesses on the bidding process, and where to find public sector contract opportunities.
Trade, Investment and Small Business Minister Lord Davies said:
"Small and medium-sized businesses already sell their goods and services to the public sector, but many more could do so. Opening up public sector procurement to a wider range of suppliers provides new opportunities for small businesses as the UK economy heads towards growth."
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Bryne, MP said:
"Small and medium-sized businesses are the engine-room of our economy. We want them to harness the spending power of government to grow their businesses and create jobs. This new free course will help those businesses to compete effectively for government contracts, locking in the recovery and strengthening businesses throughout the country."
Winning the Contract is a nationally available online training course which all businesses, regardless of size and sector, can access free of charge. It is part of a series of joint initiatives by the Office of Government Commerce and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aimed at making the procurement market clearer and simpler.
Businesses can register to access the 'Winning the Contract' course by clicking through to learndirect on the Business Link website at www.businesslink.gov.uk/procurement. The course, developed by Government and hosted by learndirect, takes a maximum of 3 to 4 hours and can be taken section by section as time allows.
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These photos don't really illustrate today's story, but later on you may be glad of that.
The longer I write this blog the more I realise that I am constantly scanning my life to see if the tide of fortune is running in my favour or not.
This week it seemed like not. A few things happened, the most disappointing of which was that Sean Connery didn't want to give me any money (he has a trust fund to help people seeking further education), the other thing of note was that a light lit up on my dashboard on Monday night.
It looked quite nice - it actually looked like a queen's crown. I read the car manual and discovered that I was required to top up my coolant. "Can do!" I thought to myself. I even had made up coolant in the boot. I topped it up. The light went off, I hoped this was the end of the story.
The next day the light went back on. I put the rest of the coolant in. The light went off. The light came back on. I got more coolant - with literally the last £12 in my bank account. I poured it in. I looked under the car. I saw it dripping out the bottom of the car. Damn it sir. I had just poured my last £12 onto the road. Probably bad for the environment too. Not my biggest concern at the time.
I never had a car for 38 years so I know how to be without one. One thing I'm damn sure of, I don't want to be without one. I love my car. Was fortune going to take away my car? I couldn't get near a garage until Saturday so I booked it in at my local Citroen garage for this morning, praying that it wasn't going to turn out to be something big. The best case scenario was a bit of a hole in one of the hoses.
Saturday being my long run day I figured I'd dump off the car at the garage early, then get the train to Musselburgh and run to North Berwick, via the beaches, get the train home and I'd be home in plenty of time to pick up the car if it was fixed.
There was forecast to be a bit of an easterly, but nothing too much, and I'd much rather run from the relative nastiness of the road through Musselburgh and the Pans etc. towards loveliness that run in the opposite direction. It's such a heart-sink running from East Lothian back towards Edinburgh. Things get less and less appealing and then you're home!
I caught the 8.39 train to Musselburgh by the very skin of my teeth and thought the omens were looking good. Running through Musselburgh I saw a blue piece of litter with the queen's face on it...the queen's face on it! I stopped and went back Sure enough, there lying on the road was a fiver. Nice one! That was nearly my train fares paid for right there.
I ran on in a great mood, quite sure the gods were smiling on me. It was an exceptionally beautiful morning. The Pans swished by without incident. At Port Seton I stopped for a coffee and a pastry and thought how nice the world was.
By Longniddry I wasn't feeling so good though. The easterly had sprung up and it was sharp and cold. I was wearing my Inov8 race rucksack which is nice and light but not very breathable, so if you sweat your back gets all wet and stays wet. My t-shirt was soaked through and the wind was making me cold. My stomach started to hurt.
By Aberlady I really wasn't feeling very well. All the hairs were standing on end on my arms and I was getting waves of cramps through my stomach. I was breaking out in a cold sweat from this which was just adding to my t-shirt being wringing wet and making me colder. With regret I decided to stick to the road and just get to North Berwick as fast as I could rather than going round the coast.
About a mile beyond Gullane I suddenly realised I would need to utilise some bushes. I climbed over a wall and found myself in a nettle plantation just behind the targets where the titular archers of archerfield must go and do their archery practice. Not the safest place to be, but there was no sign of anyone and I was desperate. You, I and Paula all know that running can cause GI distress. I had a bout of GI distress. That's as nicely as I can put it. And sacrificed a pair of pants to the clearing up of this distress. I felt a bit better and came back out of the woods. I tried jogging for a while but that wicked cold wind just brought the feeling back. As the road forked for Dirleton I thought I would stay on the main road and throw myself at the mercy of my fellow man. I felt really bad.
So I tried hitch-hiking - without any hope really. I don't think I would pick up a hitch-hiker any more - not near a big city - so I didn't see why anyone else should. Unless they realised that I was really near to North Berwick and I was just in a t-shirt and shorts and I wouldn't be trying to hitch a lift unless something was wrong. Lots of posh cars swooshed by. Someone even honked on their horn at me. Presumably some kind of abuse. I was well beyond caring. I was feeling sick and frozen and really wanted to get on that train. At last a lovely woman pulled up in a 4 by 4 and took me to the train station. She apologised for all the other traffic that hadn't stopped. She was so damn nice and I told her so. At the station (train due in 3 minutes, the tide of fortune turning again already) I had to surreptitiously nip down a lane and vomit on a grassy bit as tactfully as I could. When I got on the train I found a seat in a pool of sunlight and started to feel better. By the time I got back to Edinburgh the hairs on my arms were lying back down again and I felt much better. I ran down the road and managed to make my mileage up to 18 miles.
Then I phoned the Citroen garage and it was the best case scenario. A hole in one of the hoses. It cost me less than £50. I didn't want to spend £50 but compared to how it could have gone it was a result.
Having eaten and drunk and dressed up nice and warm I am back to feeling that the god's are smiling on me.
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Police and the fire service have launched an investigation to establish the cause of a building fire that has claimed the lives of two adults and a baby.
Derbyshire Constabulary confirmed a man, a woman and a baby girl died following the blaze at a block of flats on North Street, Langley Mill, after the fire was discovered about 4am, today, Sunday, June 21.
Fire crews from Heanor, Ilkeston, Eastwood and Ripley were called out to the incident with a high-rise ladder from Ascot Drive station, in Derby.
Neighbours have claimed there had been desperate attempts to rescue the casualties from the three-story building and unconfirmed reports have suggested a car fire may have spread to the property involved.
A police spokesman said: "Several neighbouring properties have been evacuated as the fire caused a gas leak. Police understand engineers are working to fix the leak."
John Dunkley, a watch manager with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, has also tweeted: "Terrible night shift. Thoughts with all personnel from all emergency services involved at Langley Mill this morning."
A fire service spokesman said two people from the property affected by the fire and a further three residents from adjacent flats had managed to escape the blaze.
A Derbyshire fire service spokesman said: "Our thoughts and sympathies go out to the family and friends of the deceased."
Derbyshire police and Derbyshire fire service have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire and arson has not been ruled out.
Anyone with information should call police on 101.


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Everyone has the capacity to rise above even the most difficult of circumstances — and to learn, to adapt and to grow.
At Aspen we believe that sustainable change is only possible when individuals, families and communities take charge of their own decisions. Commitment to lasting change comes from personal buy-in, not direction from others, no matter how well meaning.
Aspen Family & Community Network partners with clients, program participants, funders, donors and community organizations to unlock potential and transform lives. Here, people discover their dreams, their goals and their unique talents, and receive meaningful, ongoing support to overcome challenges and create sustainable positive changes.
Aspen Family & Community Network is about People First, Community Always. See how partnering with us can make a difference for Calgary and area youth, families and community.


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Care Ministry provides support for members of our church body. We care for the needs of:
- newborns and their parents
- people who are hospitalized, terminally ill, or shut-in
- people grieving
- women dealing with post abortion issues
For more info please contact June Lawrence at 479-530-1452 or ford.lawrence1973 [at] gmail.com
This ministry is for New Heights' members who, because of health issues, are unable to attend Sunday services. The team takes the Lord's Supper to these people and spends time in fellowship, prayer and scripture reading. Contact Michael and Anita Blanton (479) 527-2761
Cooking Ministry offers care to those in need by setting up meal schedules for congregation members who have had a baby, have been hospitalized, or have severe illnesses. Contact Becky Garrett (479) 263-1384
Cradle Care welcomes our newest members into our church family. This ministry has a group of people who sew special cloths for newborns. Contact Emily Garrett (479) 409-6658
We at New Heights cherish and respect all life, and we have a ministry that is designed to support women who have lost a child during pregnancy and to assist in the healing process. This ministry hosts a Fall memorial service in the Fayetteville Prayer Room for women and their families who want and need more closure. Contact June Lawrence (479) 530-1452 or Andrea Benson (901) 592-8706
Funeral Care assists families with funeral needs (providing meals and support according to the requests of the family). Contact June Lawrence (479) 530-1452
Greetings with Love is a card ministry. Cards are sent to our members to communicate God's love and care as they encounter life. Contact Larry Russell (479) 287-0126 or Ashley Keylor (479) 283-2133
This ministry provides hospital or home visits to those in our church family who are not actively involved with a New Heights community group. Contact John or June Lawrence (479) 530-1452


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TACO is supported by the prayers and financial gifts of individuals, churches and foundations who share our passion to reach the hearts of Muslim people.
TACO's workers each raise their own personal financial and prayer support. Short termers too cover their own costs. However there are considerable expenses not covered by individual's personal support : additional travel costs, sound and other equipment, the van to transport the equipment and people, printing materials, producing CDs, etc.
We welcome all occasional gifts, but even more important to sustaining our work are individuals with a heart for this ministry who will commit to regular gifts, be that monthly, quarterly or annual gifts.
In addition to general donations we ask you to consider the following:
Make a gift in memory of a loved one who has passed away.
Arranged during your lifetime but not available until sometime in the future, a Legacy gift enables your dream of supporting creative outreach to Muslims to live on. Legacy gifts are not just for the wealthy. Even people of modest means can make a meaningful contribution to TACO.
Some families contribute a tithe on the estate of a loved one to a specific project. This is another way to support the ministry of TACO.
Celebrate a special occasion in the life of a friend, family member or colleague with a donation to Taco on their behalf. Or if you are celebrating a special occasion, invite guests who wish to honor you, to contribute to Taco rather than giving you an actual gift.
The TACO team is comprised of people from various organisations, with many coming via Operation Mobilisation. OM is happy to receive donations on our behalf, bless them! Please visit OM's giving page here.


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Mugwump Boutade
It might be premature to bestow classic status on Mugwump's balmy and winsome "Boutade." It's only four years old, but for a handful of diverse admirers, including dance-music chronicler Bill Brewster, cheeky Mancunian selector Mr. Scruff, singular London talent Andrew Weatherall, and International Feel Records, the verdict is in. For the latter at least, the passion for "Boutade" is so strong that the label is now re-releasing it, flush with an extended and techno-leaning remix, a more meditative dub mix for the digitally inclined, and another previously limited release, "God Is Gracious."
"Boutade" first hit the market on Ewan Pearson's sparsely populated Misericord label in 2008. Nonetheless, despite that limited initial exposure, the song's cinematic, jazz-boogie fusion has endured. The soundtrack to a sun-soaked stroll along an international boardwalk, the track is a swirling tide pool of orchestral string arrangements, dramatic timpani bombast, and Detroit-inspired bass that chugs along while enjoying the calming massage of spaced-out atmospherics. It's textbook Balearic goodness that's also exemplary of the Mugwump sound, a disco-techno mish-mash that's become the trademark of Geoffroy "Mugwump" and Kolombo (a.k.a. Olivier Grégoire).
Updated to provide a more utilitarian alternative for DJs and fans of all things sprawling and hypnotic, "Boutade" is thickened up with the dancefloor in mind on Mugwump's "2013 Techno Redux." As sturdy kicks, sharp handclaps, and rhythmic digital giggles unfold, each component of the track is given room to stretch out and poke around. The bassline evolves with heavily acidic undertones and electro-funk grit, while strings that were once well-behaved streak and skitter every which way, having been tweaked until almost they are unrecognizable. A mid-song hush teases fans of the Balearic anthem with the return of the melody in its original form, but it's not what it seems, as the track's second half is actually a musical tug of war where each variation struggles to play the lead role. The digital-only dub mix delivers what it promises, a stripped-back interpretation that focuses on "Boutade"'s newer components—heavier drumming, a brawny beat, and acid tweaks—while toning down the playfulness between the redux and the original and simply offering a straight-ahead, late-night tool.
Though "God Is Gracious" has received less fanfare since it surfaced earlier this year on the Treasure Hunting compilation for Parisian label Astro Lab, the song's inclusion here is a worthy continuation of Mugwump's flare for the exotic. The Belgium-based production duo has described its style as "a space odyssey into trans-genre music," and "God Is Gracious" goes a long way toward solidifying that claim. Eastern-tinged, analog, and with a new-wave electro vibe, the track is a moodier counterpart to "Boutade," especially when its haunting synths creep into the mix. Showcasing a darkly cosmic funk of sorts, the song adds balance to its high-spirited counterpart.


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A 21st Century Thanksgiving: Acknowledging Your Life as a Techno Miracle and Embracing the Chance for More!
November 26, 2013
Hosted by Helen Hillix, Todd Benton and Chris Reese
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Whether you're a healthy person enhancing your life, or a disabled person transcending physical limitations, technology can be miraculous. Communication, music, information, physical wellbeing, what isn't supported by technology today? But high tech can also challenge or intimidate us. Are we taking full advantage of what technology has to offer? What ideas, habits and beliefs block us? How can we shift our attitudes to embrace this new world? Let's hear from two who are grateful for technology. One is Christine Benton, a smart, healthy 40-something woman who loves technology and all the learning and connecting it facilitates for her and her family. The other is our host, Beth Green, a woman who has struggled with chronic illness and disability her whole life, but who can be with people even when housebound and compose music even when too crippled to play. Thanks to technology! Share your own techno miracles, and let's celebrate a 21st century Thanksgiving with a "Thank you Geeks Day."
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Derek Gregory Contextualizes Post-9/11 Warfare in "Deadly Embrace: War, Distance, and Intimacy"
Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Political Geography at the University of British Columbia, continued the Eisenberg Institute's fall programming with the lecture, "Deadly Embrace: War, Distance, and Intimacy." In addition to a formidable body of groundbreaking work in the discipline of geography, Professor Gregory has reached audiences both inside and outside the academy with lectures and publications relating to post-9/11 warfare. He launched his blog, "Geographical Imaginations," in July 2012. The talk took place in 1014 Tisch Hall.
University of Michigan account holders can access an audio recording of Professor Gregory's talk.
Professor Gregory's lecture was part of the Institute's Thursday Speaker Series, which presents lectures relating to the current biennial theme, "Taking Place: History and Spatial Imaginations".
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Over at WriteToDone last week, Eric C argued that before you can break the rules, you have to know the rules. Thelonious Monk knew how to play harmonious music, he choose not to. Pablo Picasso knew hot to paint photo-realistically, he choose not to. James Joyce certainly knew how to use quotation marks, he chose not to.
The last Executive Officer I worked for coined the phrase, "doctrine is not dogma." Because he was a SAMS (School of Advanced Military Studies, the Army's premier planning course) graduate, he knew Army doctrine. He knew the rules so, like any artist, he knew when he could break them.
I loved this. Returning to the home of Army doctrine--US Army Training and Doctrine Command, the parent organization of the Military Intelligence Career Course--shocked me after my time on staff at the ROCK. Too many Commissioned Officers, NCOs, Warrant Officers, and contractors forget that guidelines are not rules, that doctrine is not dogma, and that the science of war cannot replace the art of war.
Of the above problems, the worst mistake is turning guidelines into rules. In other words, the Army creates well meaning guidelines to help plan and conduct operations, but over time those guidelines become rules. Rules become constraints. Fight under too many constraints, and you will lose.
Here is an example: a Cold Warrior (Cold Warrior means those officers who trained heavily under Cold War force-on-force, US-vs-Russia doctrine) recently told me that you always use your weapons at their maximum effective range. In practice, this means if you are occupying a battle position, you should have a couple hundred meters in front of your position. This is a good guideline. Who doesn't want a few more shots at the enemy that an extra couple hundred meters provide? As a rule, though, it stinks. Ambushes rarely use weapons at their full maximum effective range, but they are devastatingly effective. Machine guns work as well at close range as at long ranges.
As a guideline, the rule above is great. As a rule, it is limiting. Through repeated planning exercises, yearly training rotations and the re-use of old products, guidelines became rules. Because of tradition or lack of creativity, rules became dogma.
Definitions. A guideline is a good rule of thumb. It is something you should follow most of the time, but doesn't apply in every situation. A rule is something that if you violate it, the results will usually portend disaster. The distinction is subtle, but huge.
The great commanders of history all had exceptional knowledge of the art of warfare, the science of warfare, doctrine, and military history. Based on this knowledge, they knew all the guidelines, and used that to their advantage. Think about General Patton. He understood his enemy and his doctrine. When he faced Rommel he threw that doctrine right back in his face. Is the US Army today more like General Patton or General Rommel? If we obey doctrine to the letter, will the enemy use this to his advantage?
As we slowly transition to a post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan world, the guidelines-turned-rules will return from their ten year hibernation. We must relegate them back to their status as guidelines; good advice but not absolute laws. This post, I acknowledge, is vague on details. Over the next few weeks, I am going to debunk a few of these guidelines that have become rules.
The "Art" vs. the "Science" of War
Over at WriteToDone last week, Eric C argued that before you can break the rules, you have to know the rules. Thelonious Monk knew how to play harmonious music, he choose not to. Pablo Picasso knew hot to paint photo-realistically, he choose not to. James Joyce certainly knew how to use quotation marks, he chose not to.
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I never would have expected this classic writing/art rule to apply to war, guess I never thought about it.
Expect more on this, as we said, but not a "series" per se, we tend not to do well with those.
TRADOC sucks, they´re more about molding soldiers into what the Army wants soldiers to be than about actually setting the pace for Army doctrine, but TRADOC is largely responsible for institutionalizing the structural / cultural problems you mentioned within the Army in your last post.
If its best to start engaging your enemy at the maximum effective range, then why is the Army issuing carbines as the standard weapon for most combat units? For urban combat and inside vehicles a carbine makes much more sense. I think this has a lot to do with the Army becoming comfortable and used to a Standard Operating Procedure, and rarely if ever reevaluating it to critique its effectiveness.
@ Chris C – I love your bluntness.
Anyways, On Friday I'm reviewing Generation Kill, as per your recommendation.
Yes I will agree with you Chris C that TRADOC is part of the problem. Or almost the entire problem. But so is the regular army. The best word for it is groupthink.
Michael C,
Great post. You are so right, guidelines guidelines guidelines. The best thing young PVT Williams was ever taught was that the Infantry Bible, FM 7-8 was a guideline. I was taught to know how to execute the battle drills found in the back of the book by muscle memory. However, I was also taught how to think outside the box and use the lessons and basics of those drills to adapt, fight and win in any situation. That is perhaps the most important thing you can teach any young soldier, how to be flexible and adapt to any situation.
And therein lies the problem with the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. Now there are something like 30 different Warrior Battle Drills and Tasks that everyone is expected to know. But guess what experienced professional Non-Comms are teaching their soldiers? Those good 'ol FM 7-8 Battle Drills. Now, instead of React to Contact and React to Ambush (Near and Far) we have React to Contact(mounted) React to Contact (dismounted) React to Ambush (Mounted and dismounted) React to IED React to Contact in a MOUT environment. I meant, come on!?
How can we expect Soldiers to learn all of these different drills to the point where they become reactionary instead of the few basic ones that can be adapted to any situation they might find themselves in?
That brings me to Army Suicide Prevention training. Suicide rates are at an all time high in the Army. How does it make sense to force ALL soldiers to sit through a couple of extra hours of PowerPoint slides and cheesy videos to prevent more suicides? The common Soldier would actually WANT to kill themselves after all that.
Instead, Senior NCOs and Senior Officers need to get better at DEVELOPING Junior NCOs and Junior Officers at being caring compassionate leaders while still maintaining tough and exacting standards.
So I guess the bottom line here is that our Army is getting away from the Bottom Up approach to developing training that had made it the best Army in the world. Generals shouldn't be telling us what to and not to train on. Sergeants and Lieutenants should be training their Soldiers based on their knowledge and experience without straying too far away from basic small unit tactics and doctrine.
Sorry, a little random. But I hate how policy changes in the US Army since 2003 are just CYA type functions. Knee-jerk reactions to shitty things that are happening instead of looking at the root of everything. From suicide prevention, to changing our basic tactics so they resemble TTPs for our CURRENT wars instead of our current wars+future wars we may or may not be in.
The term SOP (Standard operating procedure) is slightly annoying to me because it assumes that most combat situations will be fairly similar. We have SOP for the EMS field for how to run an emergency call based upon the information known prior to arrival. But not every call is the same and those very same rules that are designed to help on scene can come to inhibit your ability to transport a patient quickly. That's why I like you focus on terms Michael, because having a guideline is not the same as an SOP. An SOP can lead to legal issues even when followed exactly, but a guideline is a recommendation and not a standing order.
I really enjoyed this discussion, both the post and the comments… but rather than going on an on about some of the points like "suicide" and "not looking at the root of things"… I think I might send you something per E-mail, Eric.
You guys mentioned the desert fox in your post. I think it's rather interesting what kind of a person he was and how he once in a while had the guts to do what he knew was right.
On the other hand it's so clear how it brought him down, that on the whole he just wasn't quick enough to realize what was going on and that he had ended up on the wrong side, because he was so bloody naive and stupid!
One of the points we need to highlight is that our grasp of doctrine as guideline is based in how we teach that guideline. I'd assert that that the more depth we teach of why the doctrine says what it says and how it was intended to interact with reality (environment, threat, etc.) then produces a richer understanding of the doctrine and almost naturally leads to better judgement in application. The flip side to doctrine as dogma is the mentaility to "throw away the book" or "think outside the box"—all without first really knowing why the book says what it does, what experiences or theories underwrite the "books," or whether "thinking in the box" might really work if applied as intended. This is where education and critical thinking are fundamental to subsequent training. Semper Fi
@Phil- excellent point, I completely agree.


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