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Let Them Walk on the Grass: The Role of Senior NCOs
By CSM Michael S. Burke At the qualification range, a group of Soldiers congregate during the lunch break. Unexpectedly, a Sergeant Major descends upon them In his growling voice he barks about their uniform deficiencies and how the range is not...
4 Tips for Selling Your Ideas
By Joe Byerly Have you ever had an idea you thought was solid gold, but when you presented it to your boss or coworkers it fell on deaf ears? Maybe it wasn’t that your idea was bad. Maybe it was you. Hear me out: Sometimes our ideas ARE solid...
4 Tips from Sir Winston Churchill to Write Better Emails
By Joe Byerly Emails- They are the bane of our existence, but they are how we communicate in the modern world. Each day, military leaders clean out their inboxes only to have them fill back up within hours. Unfortunately, quantity doesn’t...
A Toast to Small Wars Journal
By Joe Byerly Much like many of the biggest comedians today can trace their beginnings back to the same comedy club, there are countless national security writers and senior military leaders who can trace their intellectual roots back to Small Wars...
The Sergeant Major of the Army Shares His Reading List
By Joe Byerly Recently, I spoke with the Sergeant Major of the Army about COVID-19 and the challenges and opportunities we are facing right now as an Army and a Nation. He highlighted that now is the time to reassess our goals and set new ones. One...
Staying Focused In the Frenzy of Company-Level Command
By Jeff Horn Staying focused on the “right things” in a company-level command is easier said than done. Commanders begin their commands committed to this noble endeavor, but other priorities and external commitments emerge and they end up in...
Why we all need to pay attention to how we’re spending our time
By Joe Byerly Originally Published on We Are the Mighty Every day we use words and phrases, yet we rarely take the time to think about what they mean. For example, think about the phrase, “Spending time”. Typically we when we talk about...
The Lessons I Learned Commanding with an Injury
By Scott Kelly At 28 years old I took over my first command, and at 30 I woke up with a bad back. In December I got an MRI and found out I have three bulging disks which are causing an “extremely symptomatic” case of sciatica. Since college,...
Busy is a Choice
By Maggie Kurtts About a month before COVID brought our world to a grinding halt, I wrote a book review on Ryan Holiday’s latest book Stillness is the Key. At the time, I was feeling pretty overwhelmed by all the demands I had placed on myself and...
The Unofficial Guide to Hosting a Distinguished Visitor
By: Thang Tran, Nick Luis, Barrett Martin, and Rudy Weisz Military leaders plan, resource, and execute combat patrols and administrative directives on a daily basis and are well prepared and trained to do so. In contrast, one task that most...
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