Image courtesy of Wordle.net. In honor of the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, the word cloud above represents the 70 most often used words from War Council’s most recent posts. I recommend Wordle’s use; it can be a very attractive and useful analytical tool to evaluate thinking.
Link to West Point Center for Faculty Excellence Apgar Award information. I’m very excited to announce that yesterday, at an academic luncheon hosted by the West Point Center for Faculty Excellence, the War Council project won the Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching. Starting in 1997, the award was established to “recognize, encourage, and reward faculty members at…
Graphic created by Major Matt Cavanaugh. I seem to be writing and thinking quite a bit about the concept of strategic landpower these days. The image above is a second, better version of a similar attempt at visualizing strategic landpower. Please feel free to offer suggestions and/or comments!
Image courtesy of Life Magazine and Flikr user Vietnam History in Pictures. The US Army will not be very successful in the coming operating environment unless it develops a sense of strategic understanding in its officers (and senior noncommissioned officers). For the purposes of this essay, strategic understanding is defined here as: awareness, comprehension, and…
Link to Best Defense/New America essays. As recently mentioned, I entered an essay contest on Tom Ricks’ blog, The Best Defense – part of an effort to create a New America Foundation panel to get a better sense on the future of warfare. Here’s my essay; here’s the collection of essays (27 total); here’s the contest announcement. If you…
Image courtesy of Topoquest. Yesterday, in a cadet capstone brief on strategic landpower, I came to the realization that my general description of the concept had not been getting through. I needed a more concrete example to provide – something cadets could visualize. In short, a good example.
The Staff Ride and other Center of Military History resources can be found here. Having just returned from a historical staff ride to Gettysburg, there are still some things fresh in mind that seem worth sharing. There are generally three phases to a historical staff ride: preliminary study, an in-depth site visit, and an integration (or…
Image courtesy of Flikr user US Army. Note: Departing for Gettysburg Historical Staff Ride, so this is coming a day early. Friday’s Last Word – Pull Pin, Throw Grenade, Run Away: A provocative thought to kick off the weekend… No West Point cadet will attend academic classes today due to the Simon Center for the…
Image courtesy of ForeignPolicy.com. Great thanks to Tom Ricks & his Best Defense blog for allowing me the privilege of entry into his “Future of War” essay context. What follows is a sample, and the rest can be found here. “Though New America is doing great service by leading some much-needed public discussion, the “Future of War” project…
Relative landpower roles in terms of space, time, and strategic effect. The Strategic Landpower Task Force is an initiative designed to integrate the individual landpower roles of the Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations community. Last October, the relevant leadership released a jointly-signed “white paper,” promising to work together to generate commonly held principles to…