Ivy League should do more to promote ROTC

*Note: This essay was published in USA Today on April 21, 2016. It can also be found online here (or PDF). Harvard President Drew Faust has many fine things to say about the military. Her eloquent words recently graced the air at West Point, where she delivered a remarkable, literary speech, complete with the ancient advice that guided…

On Growing Strategists: Beating Back the Credentialists and the Ageists

*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Two recent essays pertaining to the development of military strategists and Army strategic leaders have been lighting up the transom.  They’re both well written and well read, but their prescriptions should be taken with a grain of salt.  And here…

On Strategy: More Than Just a Bridge

*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Strategy is a “bridge,” so sayeth Colin Gray, “because no other idea so well conveys the core function of strategy” which “connects two distinctive entities or phenomena that otherwise would be divided.” Gray then lays a gauntlet, that this metaphor…