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Tag Archives: Strategy

Strategic thinking for the post-Covid-19 world

Colorado Springs GazetteBy adminMay 19, 2020Leave a comment

*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…

The Watch and The Pen: The Strategist’s Two Tools

Commentary & Analysis, Modern War Institute SiteBy adminDecember 5, 20162 Comments

*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…

Clausewitz in Space: The Trinity for Trekkies

Commentary & Analysis, Modern War Institute SiteBy adminNovember 29, 2016Leave a comment

*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.…

What is Strategy?

Commentary & Analysis, Modern War Institute SiteBy adminNovember 10, 20161 Comment

*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…

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