Wicked Smart MacChrystal Article on Networks

In late February 2002, SAIC convened a workshop in Mclean Virginia to discuss how to dismantle the Al Qaeda network. Howard Aldrich, Kathleen Carley, Richard Harrison, and I (the organization scholars) tried -- and failed -- to explain that to defeat a network you needed to be a network. Message received, finally (perhaps).

Here's the breakthrough insight from General MacChrystal in Iraq.

It's embedded in a larger and fascinating article in Foreign Policy.