Is the Powell Doctrine dead and gone?
Major Mike Jackson argues whether the Powell Doctrine is still a useful or even relevant learning objective for junior officers.
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Mike Jackson | 02.22.16 | Commentary & Analysis
Major Mike Jackson argues whether the Powell Doctrine is still a useful or even relevant learning objective for junior officers.
Read MoreMike Jackson | 02.02.16 | Commentary & Analysis
MAJ Mike Jackson discusses how using digital models known as synthetic prototyping can help improve the Army’s scenario-based futurist planning.
Read MoreDavid Stanford, Mike Jackson and Sam Ruppert | 12.05.15 | Battlefield Assessments
In this new report, MAJ Michael Jackson finds that the positional warfare of the siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s resembled the trench warfare aspects of World War I far more than the dynamic urban warfare American forces faced in Baghdad in 2003.
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