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What’s Really Wrong with Mission Command
By Josh Suthoff Recently, the Army Times published an interview with TRADOC Commander, GEN Stephen Townsend in which the primary point of discussion was that the decades-long Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has eroded the decision making confidence...
A Leader’s Guide to Training for the ACFT: Part 3
By: Tyler Inman Parts 1 & 2 described two exercise science theories foundational to all strength and conditioning programs. To increase fitness, training must be progressive in nature and the demands must be specific to the desired outcome....
A Leader’s Guide to Training for the ACFT: Part 2
By Tyler Inman In Part 1, you learned that overload must occur to increase fitness. Overload drives adaptation by creating enough stress to elicit a response. The key is a slow, smooth progression commonly referred to as progressive overload....
A Leader’s Guide to Training for the ACFT: Part 1
By Tyler Inman The Army will officially replace its current physical assessment, the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT), with the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) in October 2020. Soldiers that currently earn 300 points on the APFT by focusing on...
Preventing a Crisis: Your Unit PMCS Checklist
By: Orlandon Howard Have you done any preventative maintenance on your unit lately? A crisis may be looming. Corporations deal with issues and crises all the time. They typically have a lot at stake if they spiral out control, namely, money. The...
UK Commanders Everyone Should Study
By: The Editors at the Wavell Room We’ve teamed up with From the Green Notebook for a leadership exercise: A General Exchange. The idea is simple. Just put forward 5 British generals that are worthy of study by our American cousins. In return we...
10 Things You Should Know About Supporting Breastfeeding Soldiers
By Lauren Holl The number of women entering the military has steadily increased during the last 30 years. Despite this trend, there continues to be a knowledge gap regarding best practices in supporting Soldiers who return to work after giving...
Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before I was an S3
By: Casey Dean During the last few months of KD time I began to reflect on the things I wish I could have done better and captured those lessons. My goal was to pass these notes to my replacement in hopes he wouldn’t make some of the same mistakes....
The Do’s and Don’ts of Letters of Introduction
By Scott Shaw and Chad Foster Writing letters of introduction to your future battalion or brigade commanders has been a staple of the basic and career course since we were lieutenants and captains (and before our time as well). This time-honored...
The 8 Lessons of Leadership I Learned Brewing Coffee – A Tribute to BG Sean P. Mulholland
By Alex Licea I originally wrote this over two years ago. It’s about the leadership lessons I learned brewing the morning coffee while working as the enlisted aid for then BG Sean P. Mulholland, who was the commander of Special Operations...
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