Fighting in the Uncommons
What you can’t see can kill you. This has always been true in warfare, from infections to IEDs,...
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Author: M. L. Cavanaugh
The Battle Hymn of the Strategist: Composing the Terrible Swift Sword
A couple months ago, The Atlantic magazine signed up jazz musician Jon Batiste to draw ears to...
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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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Abundant Vulnerability: Why Military Millennials Might Be America’s Achilles’ Heel
“Be strong enough to know when you are weak,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur once advised. But what...
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It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ends, Ways, and Means
A few years ago, I showed a senior officer a draft strategy. He looked at it, and then looked at...
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