Author: Jim Perkins

Gig Work and the Joint Force: A Modern Solution to Leverage Reserve Component Talent

Jim Perkins | 06.18.24 | Commentary & Analysis

Roughly half of the US military is in the reserve component. Yet the US military in 2024 is...

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Software Wins Modern Wars: What the Air Force Learned from Doing the Kessel Run

Jim Perkins and James Long | 01.17.20 | Commentary & Analysis

The US. Air Force is quietly proving that software development is a warfighting enabler. Kessel...

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Leveraging Soldiers for Innovation: Why We Need an Army Product Development Cell

Jim Perkins, James Long and Spencer Macdonald | 10.08.19 | Commentary & Analysis

There is a disconnect between Pentagon assertions that the US Army’s greatest resource is “our...

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More than Killer Robots: Artificial Intelligence Will Displace More Soldiers than It Kills

Jim Perkins | 06.12.19 | Commentary & Analysis

For nearly four thousand years, the horse was as integral to warfighting as weapons and armor....

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Does Innovation Need a Commanding General?

Jim Perkins | 04.10.19 | Commentary & Analysis

In September 1999, Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced a change in the unified command...

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