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Center for Galactic Lessons Learned | The Angry Staff Officer

This past weekend, I spent some time re-watching Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI, or as I call them, Star Wars. Watching them with a critical eye towards leader development, tactics, and strategy, I was struck by a number of critical flaws on both sides that could have been fixed with some basic organizational…

This past weekend, I spent some time re-watching Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI, or as I call them, Star Wars. Watching them with a critical eye towards leader development, tactics, and strategy, I was struck by a number of critical flaws on both sides that could have been fixed with some basic organizational fixture for lessons learned. While some might call this type of analysis a “nerdgasm of epic proportions,” Star Wars is an ideal tool for professional development; because of its status in popular culture, most people tend to have a working knowledge of it, versus an obscure historical military campaign (I still love those, but it takes a while to teach Soldiers the background).So what are the lessons learned that can be distilled from Star Wars? If there was a Command and General Staff College for the Imperial Fleet or the Rebel Alliance, what could they pass on to students?

Source: Center for Galactic Lessons Learned | The Angry Staff Officer

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  1. Tarl

    Imperial Accountability Office Report 15-2344:
    Imperial Weapon System Acquisition Reform Needed to Avoid Costly Losses, Defeats
    The recent loss of the multi-trillion credit Death Star highlighted the need to identify and eliminate easily exploited vulnerabilities during Critical Design Review… Engineering studies revealed that a simple system of baffles would have prevented enemy torpedoes from penetrating from the exhaust port to the reactor core… Clearly the problem of major weapons systems having a single point of failure has not been corrected since the destruction of a control ship neutralized an entire droid army during the fiasco on Naboo…

    Members of the Imperial Senate questioned the cost-effectiveness of the Death Star, which involved an enormous procurement expenditures as well as the employment of thousands of personnel, when the need to destroy entire planets rarely arises. “It would have been less wasteful, and probably more effective, to drop asteroids on Alderaan’s cities, destroying them one by one until Princess Leia provided truthful information,” said an unknown source.

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  2. Casey Tompkins

    Gee, that guy doesn’t like the F-35 very much, does he?

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  3. LT Rusty

    You know, Brad, my free time is a finite resource. A zero-sum game, if you will. When you give me interesting links to look at, it actually means that I have LESS time to spend reading YOUR stuff, and LESS time to spend playing World of Warships in a division with you. 🙂

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