Pentagon seeks ideas

[Jeff Aitken]

I also remember an interview with Meg Wheatley talking about her
discussions with military students/leaders, and how similar in feel her
conversations seemed with what I was learning about open space.

I remember Jim Channon's idea of the First Earth Battalion in which (my
paraphrase) all the armies of the world would learn to collaborate against
our common opponents: poverty, mass extinctions, etc. Jim thinks this idea
still lives in military leaders around the world.

I know that Open Space enables us to get down to the level of assumptions
and our true purpose -- I dream that Open Space in the military might lead
to a First Earth Battalion --

However, I believe the North needs the military to enforce a First World of
23 nations free to consume all we want, and a Third World of all the rest
of the nations, which are net exporters of protein and net importers of
guns to keep the system in place. (I believe they will never join the First
World because they do not have their own Third World to exploit - we would
need another five earths if everyone consumes as the US does.)

So I suggest we must also Open Space about whether we in the North are free
to consume all we want.

Jeff

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