The US Military Do It
From the Atlantic Monthly, September 2007: "The Plane That Would Bomb Iran" by Robert D. Kaplan. Just replace "conflicts" with "challenges" and "attack" with "arts-in-education intervention" ... insert teachers, administrators, and teaching artists ...
"... in future conflicts conventional assets like the B-2 and fast-attack submarines would be used in tandem with Predator drones, Special Forces A-Teams, and Marine Corps platoons.
... Such operations would require an exponential increase in complexity -- a greater variety of assets used in quick, symphonic offensives.
... Think of bees swarming together in a hive, and then flying off again ... That's the military formation of the 21st century -- lots of small joint air-land-sea configurations that combine instantaneously for a big attack and then separate out just as fast.
... The issue is no longer what an A-Team, or a submarine, or a Predator, or a B-2 bomber can do on its own; it's how these assets can be used in combination to leverage one another."
Labels: atlantic monthly iran b-2 a-team marine corps complexity bees swarming 21st century combination
posted by Mike Halverson @ 6:54 PM
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2 Comments:
this is crazy mike. you are right. coordinated military action 'ent so far from coordinated teaching artist/teacher, school partnership magic. and sometimes it is a work of beauty... and sometimes and falling down disaster.
Yes! and all the in between you cannot plan for. Artist Teachers and others who begin not to show up for the team (often those you would never expect) or sabotage from an uninterested player...It's hard to direct a smallish largish program like Rotunda when all the realtionships are so vital and personal and one player could really affect the big picture of the partnership. I try to keep all communications between all the players of each partnership in a public dialogue or it's just too stressed for me. I learned quickly not to be the only one with all the cards.
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