Getting the Elephant in the Room to the Front Lines: Engineer Sustainment at JRTC

Sustainment. Itโ€™s always the elephant in the room; the thing that โ€œwarfightersโ€ donโ€™t want to talk about. Neglect it, however, and maneuver suddenly ceases, combat support canโ€™t support, and the whole operation collapses. So how do we get that elephant from the brigade support area to the front lines? Let me start, right off the …

Thaddeus Kosciusko: The Polish Engineer You Never Heard of who Saved America

So, we know all about the heroes of the American Revolution, right? George Washington, John Adams, Paul Revere โ€“ OK, well, not him, he was a good silversmith, an average errand rider, and a godawful general. But odds are you probably havenโ€™t heard of Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko. Nor can you spell it or pronounce …