{"id":28082,"date":"2013-04-22T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=28082"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:12","slug":"strategic-implications-of-12-unasked-questions-in-response-to-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/04\/strategic-implications-of-12-unasked-questions-in-response-to-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan<\/a> (Foreign Policy, March\/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings<\/a> (April 2013) <\/i><\/p>\n

Checklist of questions<\/h3>\n

1. What questions have not been asked?<\/p>\n

2. Is any checklist of questions, asked and unasked, maintained as a source of collective learning?<\/p>\n

3. Who ensured that the unasked questions were designed off the table?<\/p>\n

4. What agenda is served by not asking particular questions?<\/p>\n

5. What pressures are applied to those endeavouring to ask those questions, and what penalties result from asking them?<\/p>\n

6. What is not addressed through the framing provided by the questions which are asked?<\/p>\n

7. Will providing a satisfactory answer to the questions asked resolve the issue — or will the issue re-emerge, perhaps reinforced, in a new form on a subsequent occasion?<\/p>\n

8. Does allocation of resources to the question asked ensure that no resources are allocated to those that are not?<\/p>\n

9. Do previous strategic challenges offer examples of ignoring uncomfortable questions — and failing to learn from them?<\/p>\n

10. Does the strategic focus on isolating (and eliminating) a primary cause serve primarily to assuage public opinion by enabling “Mission Accomplished<\/a>” to be declared?<\/p>\n

11. By addressing symptoms, does the quest for symbols of rapid closure through conventional strategies serve to avoid any need for rethinking on how to address more deep-seated systemic ills?<\/p>\n

12. How vulnerable is a society rendered, whether through failure to ask such questions or through the lack of higher orders of thinking it indicates as being necessary?<\/p>\n

A “13th question”, might well be: what are the questions to which no one in authority wants an answer<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

PLEASE CONTINUE READING THE PAPER IN THE ORIGINAL \u2013 laetusinpraesens.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March\/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013) – Checklist of questions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}