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How AFVentures Cultivates Innovation: Investing in Airmen
by Jenn Walters What is AFVentures? Andreesen Horowtiz. Alpha Bridge. Lux. Expanse. Structure Capital. Atomic. Welcome to the small, exclusive enclave of venture capital (VC) nestled along the California coastline. MBA students and...
Pay Heed to the Enlisted: Reading Recommendations for Lieutenants
Summer is a season of transition for newly commissioned officers. The new lieutenants and ensigns attend their officer basic courses and arrive at their first units of assignment. They are empowered to lead, train, and fight alongside some of the...
Lessons Learned in Large Scale ACFT Testing
by Sarah Ferreira Since 2018, my unit has been executing the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) on a large scale, meaning that we test large groups of Soldiers continuously throughout a single duty day. We found that we can test a battalion size...
Training Future Leaders
by Chris Slininger In Combat Lessons No. 7, General George C. Marshall wrote, “The great combat lesson learned from every operation is the importance of leadership. Our equipment, our supply, and above all, our men, are splendid. Aggressive...
The Lost Art of the Handwritten Note
by Michael Wissemann I have a friend named James with whom I worked for the past several years. James is a “good old boy” from Louisiana with some of the clichés that invokes. Most notably, he speaks in a slow, comforting, backwoods southern drawl....
Inclusive Mentorship
by Daniel Blackmon The death of George Floyd, the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capital, the Secretary of Defense Stand Down, and other recent events have generated a lot of discussion about potential extremism in our ranks: whether or not there...
An Aversion to Ambition
by Brennan Randel What is it about open displays of ambition that can cause an eye-roll so deep it results in temporary blindness? Imagine a room full of combat arms second lieutenants on the first day of their basic officer leadership course. To...
Life Balance
by Brennan Randel What some refer to as “work-life balance,” I call “life balance.” Work is never really left at work, and home is never really left at home. It all falls under one umbrella—life. Who you are as a mother...
Vaccine Hesitancy: Talking to Service Members About COVID-19 Vaccines
by Nathan A. Fisher & Margaret A. Felix Introduction Medical planners have long known that disease and non-battle injuries (DNBI) claim more casualties on the modern battlefield than enemy action. As the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us, not only...
How President Eisenhower Would Have Fought Internet Trolls
By Joe Byerly We have a problem in the military. Leaders from mid to senior levels continue to wade into the fray, arguing hot button issues on Twitter, a platform designed more for a quick quip than thoughtful dialogue. In addition to leaders...
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#DAweek: Welcome to Atropia
By: James King Large columns of dust rise up from the desert floor as a hundred T-80 tanks and BMPs are on the move. The commander of the Donovian Operational Strategic Command South (OSC-South) has just given the order to invade Atropia. Supported...
#DAweek Getting Intelligence to Move at the Speed of Decisive Action
By: Alex Morrow and Michael Dompierre “To find, know, and never lose the enemy”– Military Intelligence Creed At the outset of the Army’s return to Decisive Action and Unified Land Operations, National Training Center (NTC) Command Sgt Major...
#DAweek Somebody…Anybody…Revise the TACSOP
By: Jeff Meinders One of the few documents a unit uses to help describe how they fight is their tactical standard operating procedure (TACSOP) book. The Army’s manual on how to write an SOP, ATP 3-90.90, lists 32 questions to help guide the...
#DAweek Winning the Fight To See
By Alan Hastings Our Cavalry formations have a maneuver problem. Somewhere between the line of departure and the reconnaissance objective, our reconnaissance stops. In our efforts to conduct reconnaissance, we find ourselves falling well short of...
#DAweek: The Survivability Mix
By: Remy Hemez In today’s rapidly evolving security environment, and after years of COIN operations, our armies are shifting their focus towards combined-arms maneuvers, which enables them to better prepare for combat against a wider array of...
#DAweek: Preparing For Decisive Action
By: Jim Greer For 55 years after World War II the U.S. VII Corps prepared to defend the rolling hills, forests and villages of Germany against attack by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces. Then, in early November of 1990 they were ordered to deploy...
#DAweek Anticipating Transitions to Seize and Maintain the Initiative
By Gary Klein As an observer-coach trainer at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), a recurring after action review comment during decisive action rotations was the training unit’s ability to handle transitions.[1] The hybrid threat...
#DAweek: The Principles and Art of Sustaining Decisive Action
By David Beaumont ‘In war, mistakes and normal; errors are usual; information is seldom complete, often inaccurate, and frequently misleading. Success is won, not by personnel and materiel in prime condition, but by the debris of an organisation...
Decision Point Tactics and Decisive Action
By Ryan Kranc In my 2 years at the National Training Center two things separated good rotational units from great rotational units and opposing forces focused on these differences to achieve the upper hand. Whether mission rehearsal exercise...
#DAweek: How Will We Train for a Hybrid War
By Peter Apps Should tensions with Russia ever “go hot” in Eastern Europe or the Baltic states, the potential consequences could be catastrophic. For all the attention that will inevitably be paid to hotline diplomacy and presidential, however, it...
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