War Books Profile: Capt. Brett Friedman, USMC
US Marine Corps Capt. Brett Friedman, editor of 21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era, shares his top five books on war and warfare.
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Tag: military innovation
Preparing for the ‘Pure Risk’ of Tomorrow’s Smart Minefields
Max Brooks imagines the second and third order effects of the massive use of drones to inspire further study and debate on the real-world consequence of a post-drone-war world.
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How Smartphones will Reshape the Modern Battlefield
Armies of the future that leverage smartphone innovations will change the face of war and reshape the modern battlefield, argues LTC Ernest Wong of West Point’s Army Cyber Institute.
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Max Brooks Talks Future Warfare
Max Brooks, the author of World War Z, addressed over 150 cadets, staff, and faculty, as part of a MWI Speaker Series titled: Imagining Future War.
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The ‘Inception’ Theory of Military Innovation
We have many choices if we want to define and think about military innovation. Major Dan Maurer proposes that we can think of it better by thinking of Leonardo DiCaprio.
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What is Army Doctrine?
Major John Spencer argues for an emphasis on the definition of Army Doctrine and the advantages it provides to the profession of arms.
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Un-forgetting Afghanistan
MAJ Steve Ferenzi argues it is time to evaluate the post-9/11 Afghan state-building experiment and determine how best to influence its future trajectory in order to secure US national interests and achieve some measure of regional stability.
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How to Win the War of Words
CPT Kimbrell argues that the United States isn’t fighting effectively in the information environment and current bureaucratic fixes are not enough, but there is hope if the Global Engagement Center can deliver on its stated implementation plan.
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