Of history, warfare, leadership, and alcohol
The recently announced Joint Warfighting Evaluation (JWE) will fail to produce the next Marshall and Eisenhower for two primary reasons: Firstly, the JWE will integrate a digital wargame that ostensibly assesses the decision-making ability of Colonels. However, wargames haven’t and won’t be fully embraced by Army Senior leaders because doing so will highlight their poor …
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Shakespeare apparently once said that, “Clothes make the man.” Well, in the Army, we all have to wear pretty much the same thing: colorful pajamas. And there’s not much you can do to accessorize - barring our hair, but that’s another story entirely. Which leaves us only a few ways to express the individuality that …
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Back in 1941, the Army did something extreme: it tested its doctrine. Not on tabletop wargames, not in a computer simulation, not with an invasion of a small Latin American country. No, the Army mobilized over 400,000 Regular and National Guard troops, spent a year training them up, and then let them fight each other …
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