Brief Reminder: Was 9/11 a transformational event?

Early Office of Force Transformation slide to explain the profundity of 9/11.

Consists of three questions:

1. Does 9/11 serve as an existence proof for the concept of System Perturbations as a new form of crisis?
2. Do System Perturbations thereupon serve as the new ordering principle for U.S. military force structure?
3. Do super-empowered individuals and transnational networks become the dominant trigger agent of system perturbations?

Working these ideas publicly back in 2002, you can see how my stuff dovetailed with John Robb's thinking on "global guerrillas."

Scale on right suggested how far "transformation" had to go to account for this new form of crisis/warfare.

Comments

[louis Heberlein]

And the recent crazy economic boom/bust will produce a domestic and international economic and political transformation.