#56 Bob Jones on Governance

<span style="font-weight: 400;">During this thought provoking episode,</span> <strong><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-jones-36059423/">Mr. Bob Jones</a></strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">asserts that governance is a critical and often overlooked source of destabilizing tensions within societies. Simultaneously, governance is the solution for managing irregular warfare. Our discussion centers around a recent article that Bob authored called: “</span><strong><a href= "https://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SMA-Invited-Perspective_Strategic-Influence_Jones_FINAL.pdf">Strategic Influence: Applying the Principles of Unconventional Warfare in Peace</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Bob reviews his framework which helps visualize how governance affects populations (see show notes link or article for the diagram itself). Additionally, we discuss irregular warfare as a continuum which includes revolution-democracy-tyranny, the imperative for the United States to remain as the leader of the international rules-based system, and the critical feedback he has received from various national security stakeholders.</span> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11161" src= "https://information-professionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Governance-is-Causation-and-Cure.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p> <p><a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-56"> <strong>Link to full show notes and resources</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Guest Bio</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Mr. Robert Jones is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel; a former Deputy District Attorney; a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), and the Senior Strategist at U.S. Special Operations Command.  Currently serving as a member of the SOCOM J5 Donovan Group, Mr. Jones is responsible for leading innovative thinking on the strategic environment and understanding how it impacts factors critical to national security, such as competi