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Finding the Path Towards Mission Command: An Exercise
By Joe Byerly Following my time in company command, I had the privilege of teaching future company commanders and first sergeants at the Cavalry Leader’s Course at Fort Benning, GA. During this assignment, I quickly learned that one of the...
When Your Orders Send You to the Basement
This post is part of a series of weekly professional discussions that occur on Twitter among military leaders in the United States and students and professors at Kings College in London. If you’re interested in participating just “tweet” your...
A Professional Development Opportunity: A Summer With Grant
**Update: Week 1 Recap By Nate Finney and Joe Byerly In the introduction to the Army Chief of Staff’s 2014 Reading List, General Odierno encourages leaders to “discuss, debate, and think critically” about the ideas expressed in the books on his...
Getting the Most Out of Professional Reading
This post originally appeared at Small Wars Journal on May 26, 2014 “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” -E.M. Forster By Joe Byerly From the time I commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army I’ve been told...
Rise of the JO
This post originally appeared on The Bridge on April 17, 2014 By Joe Byerly Where are the “generation of military reformers” that some despair will ever arise from the ashes of Iraq and Afghanistan? Coming into their own. Over the last month,...
The Power of Our Connections
By Joe Byerly Recently on Business Insider’s website, writer Drake Baer posted an interesting article titled Who You Know is Even More Important than you Realize. He highlights that “research shows that success isn’t just a matter of hard...
A Letter to Junior Officers
This is post is also available at Small Wars Journal By Joe Byerly Recently several lieutenants have written me to share their fears and anxieties about their own particular development as the tectonic plates of the Army and budgets continue...
Anti-Intellectualism and the Army: The Sky isn’t Falling……Yet
This post originally appeared @ The Bridge on 1/21/2014 “The evidence would indicate that a serious intellectual effort during peacetime in thinking through what the past suggest about the future plays an important role in how well military...
How to Lead with the Strength of Nelson
This post is also available at the U.S. Naval Institute Blog and at Small Wars Journal Typically the Services study historic leaders from their own particular domain of expertise (air, sea, land), and rarely do they venture beyond this. The Navy...
2013: A Good Year for Reading
This past year was filled with several work related trips, and because of the airports, airplanes, and hotel rooms, I was able to focus my efforts on professional study. This blog is an outgrowth of those efforts. Even though I’ve...
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