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Doctrinal Insights Command Economies - Understanding Sustainable Economic Incentives at the Tactical Level

This article was published in Culture and Conflict Review (Fall 2011), v.5 no.3"US military doctrine, while recognizing the importance of promoting economic activity, does not provide tactical commanders with a method to build understanding beyond that of broad considerations. A recent publication contracted through the RAND Corporation to fill identified gaps in these publications provides more substance to a commander's concerns of the economy and an initial understanding of how his influence can disrupt local economic activities. However, this document fails to provide tactical level commanders the necessary insight to properly assess, in order to positively influence, the economy in their operational environment. In other words, these publications principally cover the 'what' of a local economy not the 'how' or 'why.' Therefore, leaving it largely to the commander's intuition or influence of other governmental or non-governmental agencies whose presence at the tactical level is often non-existent, or very limited. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to help fill this gap. By applying a synthesized iterative systems model approach and the principles of a socio-cultural system developed by Jamshid Gharajedaghi, a commander's effort to build an understanding of the economic environment he is operating within will be greatly improved. This enhanced understanding will empower commanders to better perform their stability and reconstruction task to 'Provide Support to Economic and Infrastructure Development'. This paper offers several case studies to illustrate their potential application.

Toward intersectional history

In this thesis, I introduce a theoretical approach called Intersectional History (IH). IH is theorized by bringing together a critical approach to intersectionality with a postmodern approach to the study of the past. The purpose of bringing these two domains together is to provide a theoretically-informed way to focus on revealing intersectional based privilege and marginalization in historical accounts of organizations. A primary focus of IH is to consider how categories of identity are constructed and reproduced within organizational materials from the past, over time. In particular, IH is concerned with the ways that those powerful constructions of categories of identity overlap and reinforce systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism, and colonialism, within organizational contexts. Another key purpose of IH is to reveal the stories of those at the intersection of overlapping, marginalized categories of identity and re-centre their experiences and contributions in organizations. I demonstrate the potential of IH through an analysis of the Australian Airline, Qantas, with a specific focus on how women and Aboriginal Australians are constructed within the organizational material, over time