By Jacob Loftice The best training guidance I have received is “be able to do the things you say you can do.” Having...
Do What You Say You Can Do
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Reflect Articles
Leaders Shoot First – the Value of Leader Live Fires
by Reed Markham Have you ever felt that the more you teach your Soldiers with words the less they get it? Or...
Harnessing the Power of Knowledge Management
by Jakob Hutter Reinventing the wheel is often discouraged. But COL Schmidt, the Director of Army University Press at...
Diving with Death: Navigating Scary Conversations in Mental Health
By Stein Thorbeck I want to tell you a story to make you better at supporting people in pain. I was glad to be there...
From a Company Commander to Platoon Leaders: Relax—and Check Your Ego
by Michael Everett Relax. Be where your feet are. Be yourself. Learn how to Army. Read, write, learn. Own being the...
Wayne Gretzky and Coup d’oeil
by T.G. Bradbeer In his classic work, On War, Clausewitz describes the concept of Coup d’oeil as “an intellect that,...
How To Be a Data Literate Leader—And Why It Matters
Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash by Justine Meberg As the Army shifts focus from asymmetric to peer threats,...
It’s Not Innovation Versus Readiness—Innovation Is Readiness
By James Ashworth, with Rebecca Segal The U.S. Army has been charged to transform in contact, using deployments and...
Evaluation is Key. But So Is Training Without It
By Tom Sujack Smoke and I agreed the platoon should practice one more hip shoot before chow. We would start platoon...