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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
August 20, 2013
My summer reading has taken my reading list on a bit of a turn toward the revolutionary… Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth From the Publisher: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the […]
January 1, 2013
Updated December 2013 I am reviewing my reading list I put together for 2013. It appears that other reading requirements sure got the best of this list. Here’s the list with edits and carry overs for next year’s list: The Revenge of Geography, Robert Kaplan (move to 2014) The New American Militarism, Andrew Bacevich Hybrid […]
December 28, 2012
Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective An Operation Iraqi Freedom vet and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Paul Rieckhoff recounts his journey from National Guard lieutenant to disillusioned patriot in this disappointing combat memoir-cum-polemic. Rieckhoff admits that he thought the reasons for invading Iraq were “bullshit,” but volunteered […]
November 30, 2012
Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL’s Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War (via Amazon) In Powerful Peace, J. Robert DuBois takes on a crucial, unprecedented mission for a U.S. Navy SEAL: the relentless pursuit of interpersonal and international peacemaking. With gut wrenching candor and surprising moments of comedy, he narrates a personal journey through […]
Pathfinder 
May 14, 2015
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