For today and tomorrow, I think it can remind us of one tool that’s been tried for some bootstrap professional development, and also make us think about how all...
I’m using Kennedy’s life to tell the story of America’s rise, first to great power status and then superpower status. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning author Fredrik...
It is no secret that the U.S. and Chinese currently compete for influence throughout the world, not only in the Asia-Pacific, but also in regions such as Latin America,...
One of the things we’re trying to do is encourage people…to start talking about older books, older readings, older things that are lost or never really well known that...
To delay action in an emergency because of insufficient information shows a lack of energetic leadership and may result in lost opportunities. The commander must take calculated risks. ...
We need to go back and think big, and We need to think big fast. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Major General Eirik Kristoffersen, Chief of the Norwegian Army,...
Abandoning an ally or proxy because they no longer serve your interest may be good strategy, but it does carry a cost. U.S. President Donald Trump has been...
Is this a strategy for building a budget? For fighting in a future environment? Or is it designed to provide internal guidance and policy? In the Pentagon everyone fancies...
What are the costs for the U.S. of losing the war? And it’s a sort of uncomfortable conversation in some ways because the answer may be not all that...
From an American-centric scholarship standpoint, I think much of it is driven by this search for finding a scapegoat to make it understandable for why we lost. A...
The very existence of the draft motivated enough men to enlist voluntarily that all branches of service were able to fill their quotas, often without conscripts. For this whiteboard...
As long as reporters abide by agreed-upon rules of operational security and attribution and make a good-faith effort to provide context and fact-checking regarding the news of the day,...
If you read a story and it sounds just too good to be true — either good or bad — open up another window and look for the same...
The general public often assumes a great deal about the relationship between the media and the military. This topic has been in the news a lot in 2019, with...
The jungle is the natural refuge of the weak. René Riesen, Jungle Mission In many military cultures and in the Western popular imagination, individuals who go native or...
The goal of police use of force is to gain control over a situation and to ideally eliminate threats posed by an individual to themselves, others, or the police....
As government and private organizations come to understand the extent, nature, and full context of insider threats, organizations are thinking about how to mitigate the problem. The Office...
HISTORICALLY WE WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO… READ ABOUT ANOTHER CULTURE, READ ABOUT THEIR HISTORY, THEIR ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT AND TO UNDERSTAND WHY A CULTURE DEVELOPED THE WAY THAT...
Our students come with a professional ethos and a professional mindset of being apolitical and fundamentally the decisions… we’re talking about often are happening in the political realm. In...
But is updating the doctrine sufficient to answer its critics? Persistent execution challenges may go beyond what any doctrine can address. It is no secret that the U.S. Army...