*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on May 19, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. When the world rises from Covid-19’s fever, a once-discarded strategic imperative will rise again. It’ll cross disciplines, privilege risk mitigation, explicitly acknowledge uncertainty, and it’ll…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. It was surreal to watch. Here I was, sitting near someone at a conference I’d admired from afar as a strategist, a titan in the academic and policy worlds—and there he was, plugged into every conceivable Apple product on the…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Author’s Note: If you don’t know Star Trek, click straight to iTunes and rent Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and/or Star Trek (2009)—immediately. Then come back and read this. If you’re anything like me, you forget things.…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Ever get the sense something isn’t quite right? A feeling, an inkling, a tremor. Mothers get them from distant children; animals get them from inbound weather; and, apparently, I get them from reading definitions of “strategy.” Confusingly, there are a…