Summary: As our military wages an apparently endless long against whatever (terror, jihadists, Islam), it’s not too soon to start thinking about the next generation of military leadership. Petraeus and his peers took the shining instrument built from the shambles of Vietnam. How sharp will it be when they’re done? Who will lead the long effort …
Building a new generation of visionary leaders for the US military Read More »
Summary: This is the fifth in a series of articles about Donald Vandergriff, explaining why changing the Army’s methods of recruiting, training, motivating, and retaining people are the key structural changes to make it better fitted for warfare in the 21st century. Today we have an excerpt from Don Vandergriff’s book Manning the Future Legions of …
Training of officers, a key step for the forging of an effective military force Read More »
Summary: This is the fourth in a series of articles about Donald Vandergriff, explaining why changing the Army’s methods of recruiting, training, motivating, and retaining people are the key structural changes to make it better fitted for warfare in the 21st century. . Today’s we have a excerpt from the Preface to Don Vandergriff’s book Manning the …
Summary: The second chapter in Donald Vandergriff week on the FM website, introducing his work to those readers not already familiar with it. This chapter briefly sketches out why his work is critical. People — not doctrine or technology — are the key to winning 4th generation wars (the many factors are always important, of course). Recruiting, training, motivating, …
Summary: It’s sad to read long articles about our military, so often grossly inferior to an analysis by Martin van Creveld written decades ago. Our difficulty learning (our broken OODA loop  is perhaps America’s greatest ill. Links to other posts about our broken OODA loops are at the end. $nbsp; Today we examine a chain of articles about …
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