Without context this is meaningless.

I agree with John, for those who did not attend, this blog post means nothing.

Specific examples of what is being studied (not broad generalizations like operational art, strategy, policy, decision making and interagency cooperation) need to be provided to tie the concepts mentioned back to reality and also provide those who did not attend an idea about what is being studied and discussed.

Examples of “buzzword bingo lingo” would also be helpful.  As would an example or two from the Q and A.

“buzzword bingo lingo”: simply look at the title bar of CDR Salamanders blog…most of them should be there.

Rick – are you asking what the General spoke about? If so, the specific topic is irrelevant to my point. The point is not the subject so much as the fact that he provided senior officers with a canned command brief. That’s a waste of 220 personnel x 1.5 hours, or ~300 man hours going over things that they either already know or aren’t relevant to them.

My admonition is, if you are going to take 300 manhours to do something, make it relevant, interesting, and informative. Not canned.

I should also add the following:

In otherwords, your original post is guilty of the same problem you accuse the so called “canned speech” which is a failure to identify the audience and their context.

Last time, I checked the USNI blog readers are not all senior officers immersed in JPME II.