Some light holiday reading from me and my RAND team: how U.S. Navy and PLA Navy command and control philosophies will affect maritime competition:

Finally, my current location getting some well-deserved love for red wine—my US friends should be able to find lots of these! Great deals on lesser-known but award-winning wines from Trollinger, Lemberger, Pinot Noir, and others. #badenwürttemberg #deutscherwein #stuttgartwine

Deeply missing one of the very best today. #MattVidDay

Fantastic readiness visit out to San Diego. Many thanks to our U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines hosts for showing us your capabilities, challenges, modernization plans, and data analytics efforts—all so critical to understand as we expand our view toward strategic readiness. #readyforwhat

Should be a fantastic panel—excited to talk about how critical rethinking the way we train will be to shifting as a Department to strategic readiness. Join/tune in!

Strategic readiness in spades today!

Great to see this write up of our I/ITSEC CNAS “A New American Way of Training” event in the I/ITSEC Show Daily w/ Christopher M. Dougherty, Kimberly Jackson, GEN Paul E. Funk II, Admiral Richardson, and Gen. Holmes.

Absolute privilege to meet with these U.S. Military Academy at West Point cadets, who are working with us to think through what the right metrics are to truly understand Army unit readiness. #strategicreadiness #readyforwhat

It’s only Tuesday, and my incredible team has already achieved three massive, unprecedented wins that each will advance our ability to be strategically ready in fundamental ways. Tangible progress in the policy world is often elusive—I’m so proud of their efforts. #readyforwhat

Whether in strategic competition or high-end conflict in the future, special operations capabilities and personnel will play a huge role. Very grateful to USSOCOM for hosting me to discuss readiness challenges, modernization efforts, and progress in DEI & talent mgmt.

In helping DoD to shift to a strategic view of #readiness, I’ve been focused on better linking #talentmanagement (my fave research topic) w/readiness metrics. Army HRC is leaning far forward in tracking data to shape and select the best leaders—fundamental to future readiness.

Best part of the job is getting out to see readiness wins and challenges up close. Thanks so much to 4th Infantry Division for hosting me last week. @ivy6_4id your team is exemplary!

Interested in hearing about how the Department of Defense is approaching how we think about what munitions we need through a strategic readiness lens? I’ll walk through it with Stacie Pettyjohn expertly leading the panel next Wednesday. Hope to see you (virtually) there!

Future readiness requires understanding the cascading effects of decisions made today—by harnessing data. Along with the U.S. Marines and CDAO, this predictive modeling effort is the analytic arm of our #strategicreadiness initiatives—and will change how DoD makes decisions. More here:

If podcasts are your thing, and if strategic readiness through culture change, predictive analytics, and Joint force design are ALSO your things, do I have the episode for you. Thanks to Aaron Stein and Ryan Evans for the opportunity, and Gen Berger for the partnership!