The Human Capital Crisis: The “Real Asymmetric War”

(download printable doc here) The Jelly Metaphor and Systemic Vision: Strengthening Defence requires an organisational paradigm shift. To understand the scale of the problem, it is useful to use the jelly metaphor: to move a block of jelly, a strong punch (i.e., an isolated political action or a one-off funding allocation) is completely useless, as it simply goes through it without moving it. To achieve a systemic result, constant and distributed pressure across all surfaces of the problem is required. Only by integrating hardware production with the strategic development of human capital can we escape this illusion. Politicians must stop chasing media popularity and start investing in reliable industrial timelines and in people. Security is not announced: it is built (wnload printable doc here)