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Leading at the Crossroads of Experience and Personality
by Kyle Trottier and William Branch Upon being selected to serve as the BCT Executive Officer (XO) and BCT Operations Officer (S3), William Branch and I held a series of sensing sessions with each Battalion Commander and Battalion Command Sergeant...
The SFAB: A Lieutenants Experience
by Christopher Wilson Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Infantry magazine and has been reproduced with permission. As I in-processed to the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade...
Urban Combat Fitness: Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Fight
by Benjamin Phocas Urban warfare is a costly endeavor with a broad litany of demands. Among these vitally important demands, one that requires months if not years of preparation, is physical fitness. The physical toll of combat has long been...
A Leader’s Challenge: Sharing Information in a Low-Information Environment
by Joel Concannon Leaders have always struggled to balance two virtues of communication: transparency and necessity. They strive to be open and honest with their team, while also controlling the quality of information. Doing one of those too much,...
S3,Ep 25: Danny Warshay- How to Solve Problems
Joe interviews Danny Warshay, the founding Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University and author of See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn a Problem into a Breakthrough Success. In this episode, Danny explains...
Win a From the Green Notebook and TRX Elite Fitness Box
This month, we are teaming up with TRX Elite to provide subscribers to The Monthly Reading List Email an opportunity to win a limited edition FTGN and TRX Elite Fitness Box that includes a copy of My Green Notebook, TRX Tactical Gym, 18” foam...
A Tale of Two Majors: A Simple Way to Seek Shared Understanding
by Tom Dull and Matthew Schardt It is the middle of the night and the Brigade is on schedule to uncoil and maneuver into the vast training area of the National Training Center (NTC) in just a few hours. Two Army Field Grades, Majors, are conducting...
The Army Needs More Introverted Leaders
by Aaron “Butch” Pucetas After reading Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, I have reflected greatly on how the Army People First campaign can be improved. Up front, my recommendation is for the Army to...
Optimal Ignorance: A Filter for Intent-Based Leadership Above the Tactical Level
by Joel P. Gleason Temptation of Details Mission command philosophy is an intent-based leadership style that encourages commanders to eschew the overly controlling methodology of detailed command. The principles of mission command philosophy are...
Once an Expert, Forever an Expert? A Case for Army Expert Badge Holder Recertification
by Andrew J. Papathanasiou No one who has earned one of the Army’s coveted expert badges (EIB, ESB, & EFMB) wants to ever have to relive that week of mental stress again. But should they have to? Our immediate response, mine included,...
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Why Military Leaders Should Study Human Nature
By Joe Byerly This is the first question, in a five question interview with author Robert Greene. Joe: You’ve spent decades researching and writing about power, mastery, and war. In your latest book, The Laws of Human Nature, you have written what...
Examining Human Nature with Robert Greene
By: Joe Byerly Have you ever had a conversation with someone and walked away much smarter? This happened to me a few weeks ago. I had an opportunity to spend an hour talking to author Robert Greene. We discussed leadership, the dark side of human...
What Commanders Should Expect From Their S6
By: LTC Joshua Trimble Being a signal Soldier can have its difficulties. What is the unscientifically calculated most heard phrase at AAR’s? “Comms could have been better.” The Army’s communication gear, with its necessary security standards and...
Task Sifting: A Method of Team Management and Empowerment
by Lennard Salcedo Whether you are an assistant operations officer muddling through endless daily tasking orders or a company commander looking for opportunities to develop your platoon leaders, one key to success is the ability to assign tasks to...
From the S3’s Desk: 10 lbs of Success in a 5lb Bag:
By Casey Dean Across the Army, orders are in hand. A new class of staff college graduates are getting ready to PCS, eager to use the skills and knowledge they acquired during their year in school. Several months ago I shared some thoughts on...
How to Enhance Your Daily Performance
By Tyler Inman What if I told you there was a performance enhancing substance that was safe, legal, and promised to increase your speed, power, strength, and coordination while simultaneously reducing your risk of injury? You must choose. This is...
Improving Our Army Reserve Force Through Augmentation at Combatant Commands
By Eero and Rose Keravuori With recent studies stating the Reserve needs to continually integrate with the Active Force to sustain the Reserve Component’s readiness, and given our recent focus on great power competition, America’s Army Reserve...
The Command Sergeant Major’s Place on the Battlefield
By LeVares Jackson Part of the job of a Squadron Command Sergeant Major (CSM) is determining where you should be on the battlefield.There are several doctrinal references that describes the duties and responsibilities. I found the one that best...
Do Soldiers Need Sleep?
By Tyler Inman Practice makes perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Perfect practice while routinely sleeping 8 hours per night makes perfect. Lethal squads and platoons are forged through hard, realistic training. To that end, my boss used to...
How to Plan for Your Company Change of Command
By: Captain Andrew V. Jazbec A change of command is a critical time for an organization. Quite often, military blogs, social networks, and Center for Army Lessons Learned handbooks publish helpful lists outlining the first 90 days of command. As...
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