*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 19, 2019. It can also be found online here, some images of the article are included below, as well as the text of the essay. “I know we can climb it. Given time, the tank could go to the top of the world.”…
Details*Note: This essay/book chapter excerpt was published in The Daily Beast on April 13, 2019. It can be found online here. “Jon Snow” and “strategic genius” are certainly terms that don’t seem to go together. While Jon is one of the most beloved of characters in Game of Thrones, Ned Stark’s bastard son is often viewed like…
Details*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. HBO’s Game of Thrones is the series that launched a thousand lessons into a million minds. A quick query online suggests that the show (and book series on which it’s based, “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R.…
DetailsOn Tuesday, April 9 2019, I had a great time in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of California with my friend & co-editor Max Brooks talking about our book Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict. Here are the links to the audio podcast and the video from the event. While in…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 31, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Nearly nothing is as core to the male psyche than the ability to start a good fire. It’s…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 26, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The real “No Man’s Land” was the deadly zone between World War I’s opposing armies, and its frightening…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Pikes Peak Bulletin print edition on March 21, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Author Neil Gaiman once wrote that “individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things…
Details*Note: This essay was originally published on the United States Naval Institute’s Proceedings commentary & analysis site. Sure, you love your smartphone. But what if that sleek digital device served as your company commander—would you follow it? Would you die for a computer program’s decision? Can valor be “automated”? And in advanced societies with fewer and fewer…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 17, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. “It’s just too bad,” he said, “there’s so much history being lost.” This gentleman and I had been…
Details*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 10, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Train travel is entirely another world of transportation that all Coloradans (and Springers) should experience. All of us…
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