>>833816
So young, so angry. Damn that rap music (coming from Hollywood it sounds like a creepy insider line now, doesn't it).
To geeky maths sorts, '17' is an in joke from the Hampshire Math Programme (you can pick any random number, so you always pick 17 and everyone laughs).
Might be a long shot, but there are a lot of cryptographers around. This was true back in the early Reagan years - not sure now.
That's the Rich Higgins memo, for those who don't recognise it.
tl;dr - FEDGOV adopted a term Software Engineers will recognise 'Design Thinking', to replace COG theory. I'm not kidding. You couldn't make this up if you tried.
Since this is a research thread - for those who want a deep dive on COG thinking and how it evolved since the Clinton Administration:
Here is a decent introduction by RAND:
(review) https:// libertasintel.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/vulnerability-assessment-method-pocket-guide-a-tool-for-center-of-gravity-analysis/
(the free 'tool' - a PDF booklet) http:// www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/tools/TL100/TL129/RAND_TL129.pdf
The revival of the concept (Clausewitz) is mostly due to Joseph Strange[2], and
continuing critique by the late Eikemeier:
http:// www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/eikmeier.pdf (2004)
http:// citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.176.3933&rep=rep1&type=pdf (2009)
http:// ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-68/JFQ-68_108-112_Eikmeier.pdf (2013)
http:// ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-83/jfq-83_109-115_Eikmeier2.pdf?ver=2016-10-19-102203-410 (2016)
Moar interesting discussion.
http:// www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/cog2.pdf
Here is a GREAT introduction to the concept, along with related ones (JOSS, JIPOE) by the Naval War College
https:// www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/Departments—Colleges/Joint-Military-Operations/NWC-4111H-21-Jan-08-Final.pdf.aspx <- Must Read
One problem with COG is that it is being displaced, in US military doctrine, by, of all things, Design Thinking. Now, if you are in software design, you can hardly fail to have heard of the buzzword, 'Design Thinking'. This leads to incoherence overall, as several different non-workable concepts are melded together into an even moar unworkable doctrine. This is the core of Eikmeier's critique, as well as his attempts at mitigating the damage.
Is USGOV really using Design Thinking to design military campaigns, nation-states, and define operational strategy? Uh-Huh. You get a bunch of geeks together, and the software developers take charge (see also, Mencius Moldbug), and start doing silly shit like putting coloured post-its on whiteboards. You just know this happens at the Pentagon too.
http:// fortune.com/2017/05/24/why-design-is-a-healing-art/
Bombing a Nation into the Stone Age is a 'Healing Art'? Like Diversity and Tolerance and stamping down Microaggression? Is it Herbal and Homeopathic I hope?