Author: Theo Lipsky

A Clearer Mirror: The Promise of Combat Training Center Data

Jon Bate and Theo Lipsky | 01.07.25 | Commentary & Analysis

How can the Army know itself? In November 1976 this question was on the mind of Major General Paul...

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Harding Project #ArmyAuthor Profile: Colonel Emory Upton

Theo Lipsky | 03.15.24 | Commentary & Analysis

On this day in 1881 Colonel Emory Upton ended his life with a revolver in his San Francisco...

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Master Sergeant Half-Mast and the Scrolling Soldier: A Proposal to Renew PS Magazine

Theo Lipsky | 01.26.24 | Commentary & Analysis

PS Magazine, the Army’s soon-shuttering preventive maintenance magazine, has taught American...

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Introducing the Harding Project: Renewing Professional Military Writing

Zachary Griffiths and Theo Lipsky | 09.05.23 | Commentary & Analysis

In 1934, the US Army was racing to transform quickly enough to win the next war. Knowing...

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The Burden of Command: Checklists, Inspections, and Bureaucracy

Theo Lipsky | 12.27.22 | Commentary & Analysis

The US Army is rightly focused on how to best ready for the next war. To that end it has launched...

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