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LatestPodcast: The Spear – Ambush in Uruzgan
In 2004, Lt. Col. Blake Schwartz was an infantry platoon leader deployed in Uruzgan province,...
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How does the relationship between the US government and society influence decisions on when—and...
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The Army Heritage Center Foundation recently hosted MWI’s Tim Heck, Walker Mills, and Dr....
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Army Writing and the Zombie (Noun) Apocalypse
The undead lurk among us—zombie nouns. These word cannibals have invaded Army writing, where they...
Read MoreSwarm Clouds on the Horizon? Exploring the Future of Drone Swarm Proliferation
Zachary Kallenborn | 03.20.24
A 2020 New America report cataloged thirty-eight states with armed drone programs, twenty-eight...
Read MoreWarfighting from Ship to Shore and Beyond: Why Amphibious Operations Still Matter
Timothy Heck, Brett Friedman and Walker Mills | 03.18.24
Marines have long been mythologized as an elite fighting force. Richard Harding Davis’s famously...
Read MoreHarding Project #ArmyAuthor Profile: Colonel Emory Upton
Theo Lipsky | 03.15.24
On this day in 1881 Colonel Emory Upton ended his life with a revolver in his San Francisco...
Read MoreThe Return of Tactical Antiaircraft Artillery: Optimizing the Army Inventory for the Era of Small Drone Proliferation
Benjamin Phocas and Peter Mitchell | 03.14.24
As the war in Ukraine has unfolded over the past two years, a seemingly endless series of videos...
Read MorePodcast: The Spear – A Lieutenant’s Dilemma in Kosovo
Timothy Heck | 03.13.24
Just two years after Chris L’Heureux joined the Army in 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 led to...
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