Tactical Philosophy 101
When setting up my account, LinkedIn asked me to find a "headline"...one that adequately captured the essence of my professional life. Nothing seemed to fit. That was, until I recalled a moniker jokingly given during hostage rescue training. It was a perfect paradox, representing the two contrasting aspects of my job: Tactical Philosopher . In the words of a friend, it labels me "a shooter who's a thinker and a thinker who's a shooter!" The words tactics and philosophy are divergent. Their ideas travel in completely opposite directions. Tactics refers to the planning and implementation of a strategy. Philosophy gets to the underlying theory, concepts, and ethics of the situation. In short: Tactics asks How? Philosophy asks Why? And these are two critical, but wholly antagonistic questions. The framework of The Illinois Model. (Read Tactics' Most Important Questions: Why? and How? for background on this theory.) So who and what