My Crucible of Leadership
“Hi dad, how are you?” This was the start of a simple phone conversation, around Veterans Day in...
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Commentary & Analysis
Does K-2SO Deserve a Medal? Warrior Ethos, Human Judgment, and our (Possible) Machine Colleagues
Author’s note: The following is based on remarks I delivered on August, 2, 2017 at the Royal...
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Ike’s Lament: In Search of a Revolution in Military Education
It was the day after Suzy died. Congressman Ike Skelton’s dearly loved soulmate was gone, and...
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It’s Time to Bring Back This Cold War Agency and Stop Ceding the Propaganda War to Russia
The United States has recently been ridiculed for losing the ongoing information war, and has...
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Dunkirk and the Civ-Mil Gap: The Vital Role of Popular Will in Wars Past and Future
I admit to feeling lumps in my throat as I watched Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk last month. The...
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On Millennials, Smartphones, and Snake People: Why Generalizations Make for Bad Analysis
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” You’ve...
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How Change Happens: The Four Ways New Ideas Get Implemented in the Defense Department
Adm. Hyman Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” was once quoted as saying, “If you’re going...
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Wear Pink Underwear like Churchill, and Nine Other Principles of Defense Entrepreneurship
Yes, you read that right. The West’s roaring lion, the British Bulldog, he of “blood, toil, tears,...
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