My essay (with Nick Howard) in the January-February 2015 edition of Military Review: “Networking and Generalship Across the Anglo-Pacific.” Available via image below, at the Military Review site, and via PDF here.
Photo of the arrival at the 50-yard line in Baltimore; image courtesy of the West Point Marathon Team. After losing to Navy for the baker’s dozenth time, I have a message for Army football fans: Quit the crying. Wipe the tears. End the sobbing. Halt the sniveling. Cease the bawling. No more weeping. Because the school you…
Image courtesy of Vanity Fair; photo illustration by Stephen Doyle. Words and war are connected deeply and in ways that have shaped human history. Land armies secured the Rosetta Stone, which enabled linguistic understanding of far off ancient civilizations. Paper-making technology came to the Middle East and Europe from a Chinese prisoner of war taken at the Battle of Talas in 751A.D. And,…
Image courtesy of the Petaluma Research Center. I recently co-wrote an essay over at Cicero Magazine – “The Long Gray Online: Driving Military Leadership and Innovation Online.” The combined essay was a look into the voluntary, part-time military blogging efforts of a few mid-career officers (Major Nate Finney at The Bridge, Major Joe Byerly at From the Green Notebook, Major John…
Image courtesy of Foreign Policy. Can we educate a strategist in an hour? Some would argue this task is impossible, that it takes a lifetime, or at least 10,000 hours. But what if we had to? Imagine it were possible – how would you do it? How would you accelerate learning to strategic competency? Note: I define competency as someone…
Image of British World War I poster and slogan courtesy of the Imperial War Museum (UK). War is big, huge, enormous, large, vast, and giant elephant-sized. Though this claim needs no support, try these two data points on for size: Exhibit A: the incredible amounts of people killed in the world’s wars. Exhibit B: the…
Image of Rodin’s Thinker courtesy of Wikipedia. Strategic thought. Insight? Context? Perspective? Pick up any copy of the Harvard Business Review and you’ll get a definition (or six thousand) for strategic thought (that’ll be $9.95 + tax, thank you very much). But our audience is more interested in the strategy of Ancient Greek origin – where the mergers & acquisitions…
Image of 8-year-old Christian Golzcynski receiving his father’s flag in 2007, courtesy of NBC News. Golczynski has gone on to found a successful charity to comfort children of the fallen. Warriors get all the heroic upside if war goes well; families are left with all the downside if war goes wrong.
Image courtesy of The New York Times (Credit: Ruth Fremason). Note: We’re revisiting some of our most popular material from the past 10 months for our newer readers; this was originally posted June 9, 2014. Enjoy! Though this may seem gratuitous, as I’ve already done this once before (and responded to critics), I had more questions to…
West Point cadets departing for a two month-long trip to study European Great War battlefields in the summer of 1919. Note: We’re revisiting some of our most popular material from the past 10 months for our newer readers; this was originally posted June 4, 2014. Enjoy! My last essay – on a representative list of…