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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One Measure By Which Things Have Recently Gotten Worse
Originally posted on Dart-Throwing Chimp:
The United Nation’s refugee agency today released its annual report on people displaced by war around the world, and the news is bad: The number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier and 37.5 million a…
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Chaos Fueled by Caffeine
June 1, 2015
There is a theme trending in these Military Writers Guild interviews — life. Not everyone has the luxury of sequestering ourselves away to make writing happen. At this point, I’m not so sure that would be a luxury at all. The precious time that we steal away to write make those words even more valuable. Perhaps that […]
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Metaphorically Speaking: A Military Writers Guild Interview with Diane Maye
May 14, 2015
This is a cross-post from the Military Writers Guild Medium My sole New Years resolution for 2015 is to use creative metaphors to challenge established schemes. Using an illustration of the futility of voting in Iraq was an appropriate visual of the strength of that promise. My interview with Diane Maye is a good reminder […]
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Mozart in the Morning
April 17, 2015
This is a cross post from the Military Writers Guild I recruited Ellen Haring to the Military Writers Guild, so I was eager to interview her about writing and research. She has been for me a bit of a canary in the coal mine. Ellen is a few cohorts ahead of me as a Ph.D. […]
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Clausewitz’s Magic Beanbag
April 13, 2015
This is a cross-post from the Military Writers Guild Medium Let me start by saying, even after this interview, I would like to know more about @clausewitzrocks. First, did she learn her field craft from Phil Walter? How does she translate U.S. civil-military relations theory to the Australian experience? Does she know there is already a […]
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Headlamps and Orange Highlighters
March 23, 2015
This is a cross-post from the Military Writers Guild Medium Headlamps and Orange Highlighters An Interview with Associate Member Phil Walter Next up in this series of interviews to discover the reading, writing, creativity, and daily rituals of Guild members, is Phil Walter. Phil is a former infantryman, intelligence officer, and counterterrorism planner. He currently […]
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Words for War: Seven Unknown Quotes on War
March 18, 2015
This post is a contribution to the War Council blog challenge: Can you come up with seven meaningful quotes on war that nobody has read? “Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the real truths about ourselves and this whirling earth to which we cling. This is especially […]
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WarBooks
March 15, 2015
Here is my answer to the War Council’s call for WarBooks. “WarBooks centers on the personal relationship between students of war and their books. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see someone else’s bookshelf (not everyone is on goodreads.com)? To know, for example, what books mattered most to a particular soldier, general, admiral, academic, or theorist?” The […]
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Pathfinder 
June 23, 2015
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