re: “Building a Marine Corps for Every Contingency, Clime, and Place” — If you purge[d] the disruptors, only failure can be persecuted in a post-mortem. ⁦The Krulak Center⁩: are the CMC Innovation Challenges a relic? (Asking for a friend...) warontherocks.com/2020/04/buildi…

Bring back #SmallBoatRaids. Oh, make Nomenclature: BOAT, LANDING, INFLAT TAMCN: C59017K great again...Light + agile = expeditionary. BZ!

“The Case for Change.” — CMC

Doesn’t simply apply to Colonels! Be a life-long learner; forge your own path...Our profession of arms necessitates it.

Or, a generation that read Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” (published in 1964 by Harper & Row) and committed to “pay[ing] it forward.” Disagree. We all enjoy the shade from another’s efforts. If it’s not adequate, do more! That’s my message to those I created...

Matt Gallagher’s well-crafted piece: “The Forever War Over War Literature” in The New Republic, evoked distant memories of Paul Fussell’s 1975 literary criticism “The Great War and Modern Memory” by Oxford University Press. Both Fussell & O’Brien help me to heal...[!]

MCDP-7 Learning — got me thinking: all degree programs shouldn’t lead to officer commissions! There’s a reason the SNCO Degree Completion Program exists. Widen scope of study & extend to NCOs! The Krulak Center TECOM cnas.org/publications/c…

“It’s all about relationships.”

“On Sabbatical.”

“The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” — Spartan King, quoted by Thucydides {Inset epigraph to “What It Is Like To Go To War,” by Karl Marlantes}

Solutions for backlog…hbr.org/2020/05/buildi…

“Back to basics.” #Adapt wsj.com/articles/u-s-m…

Can this be the year that Congress fixes disability and retirement pay offset issues for veterans? Advocates hope so. #RichardStarAct militarytimes.com/veterans/2023/…

#Time ToTalk: Maj. Robert O'Berg shares his story. One piece of advice he would give Marines is "Don't suffer in silence. If you are in a position to help, do so. Know your Marines well enough to know when they are not well." Full story: tinyurl.com/5eyt4d4f

DVIDS - News - #TimeToTalk: Robert O’Berg shares his story and tackles military’s PTSD stigma [Story of a native NYer that lost x2 FDNY cousins on 9/11, enlisted, went to Iraq.] ⁦SIAdvance⁩ ⁦New York Post⁩ ⁦NYT At War⁩ ⁦New York Daily News⁩ dvidshub.net/news/441174/ti…

Jon Stewart: “We got out of 20 years of war & the Pentagon got a raise..I can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank & file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that’s f***ing corruption.” militarytimes.com/home/left-colu…

Humbled to be associated with Pat’s legacy and announce my selection as a 2023 #TillmanScholar! It bring tremendous pride and honor. Excited to join the @PatTillmanFoundation We Are Tillman Scholars! Learn more at scholars.ptf.org.

Marines haven't forgotten

Former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago that America wouldn’t be defeated with bombs, but through ideological subversion. Here we are. He said it takes 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. That’s one generation. Look around. We’ve already lost several. That’s