*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on November 19, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. I skipped Feb. 11 this year. Never had it. Not just me, but my wife too, aboard our plane as we flew…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 14, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Colorado can learn a lot from New Zealand. True, New Zealand’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and Colorado’s continent-bound. New Zealand’s coastline is as jagged as…
*Note: This essay was published in the Sydney Morning Herald print edition on April 25, 2020. An image of the column is included below (“On the grim arithmetic of war, Gallipoli cannot be dismissed as a colossal waste”), as well as the text of the essay. On this solemn day, when Australians pause to reflect on…
Rachel and I just returned from a trip to New Zealand with a stopover in Hollywood. And though we live in a visual culture where pictures take precedence, here’s a brief textual rundown of what we did: Threw axes. Won a public pushup contest with a bachelor party fairy. Got tattooed. 6 flights, 7 hotels,…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s commentary and analysis site – The Strategist. When New Zealanders vote this September, they should consider closing a self-inflicted wound—decades of disarmament and dangerous strategic apathy. In 1949, a distinguished New Zealand soldier, Major General Sir Howard Kippenberger, warned: It may be a…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the (Australian) Lowy Institute’s commentary and analysis site – The Interpreter. The recent news that two-thirds of United Nations member states negotiated a treaty that bans nuclear weapons was undoubtedly met with enthusiasm in much of New Zealand, which reportedly had a leading role in shepherding the talks…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. New Zealand is a small country of giants. My wife and I grew to love “the land of the long white cloud” while living in Wellington for two years, having been sent there for graduate school by the U.S. Army.…
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.
Brigadier Mark Holmes, Australian Army If anyone cared to ask me about my maiden research voyage on behalf the West Point Network Science Center, I think my response would primarily revolve around the words “flight” and “interview,” as that’s about all I remember from the two weeks! Flight-wise, the numbers are astounding, even to me:…
I’ve recently been listening to some amazing lectures available from the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago…one can find the series of authors and historians discussing topical issues and their books on iTunes for free. An amazing resource, especially Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln. Anyhow, I came across two interpretations that I was interested in and…