21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: Military Police Operations Field Manual - FM 3-19.1, FM 19-1 (Value-Added Professional Format Series)

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To Be a Soldier: The Army's Capstone Doctrinal Manuals

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U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Handbook

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In Order To Win, Learn How To Fight: The US Army In Urban Operations

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Combat Leader's Field Guide

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US Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook

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Cavalry Operations In Support Of Low Intensity Conflict

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Operational Principles: The Operational Art Of Erwin Rommel And Bernard Montgomery

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Sherman And Nimitz: Examples Of Modern Information Operations

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World War I Leadership Characteristics That Could Make Future Military Leaders Successful

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The Official US Army Civil Disturbances Handbook - Updated: Riot & Crowd Control Strategy & Tactics - Current, Full-Size Edition - Giant 8.5" x 11" Format: Large, Clear Print & Pictures - ATP 3-39.33 (FM 3-19.15)

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Enhancing Combat Effectiveness;: The Evolution Of The United States Army Infantry Rifle Squad Since The End Of World War II

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General George S. Patton, Jr.: Master of Operational Battle Command. What Lasting Battle Command Lessons Can We Learn From Him?

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Marshal Jean Lannes In The Battles Of Saalfeld, Pultusk, And Friedland, 1806 To 1807: The Application Of Combined Arms In The Opening Battle

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Coalition Tactics On The Napoleonic Battlefield And Their Influence On Unity Of Effort

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Army Officer's Guide

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Army Officer's Guide

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United States Army Special Forces In DESERT SHIELD/ DESERT STORM: How Significant An Impact?

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The Soldier's Guide: The Complete Guide to U.S. Army Traditions, Training, and Responsibilities

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Cannon Fodder Or Corps d'Elite: The American Expeditionary Force In The Great War [Illustrated Edition]

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Operational Performance Of The US 28th Infantry Division September To December 1944

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Confederate Staff Work At Chickamauga: An Analysis Of The Staff Of The Army Of Tennessee

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Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units [Revised Edition]

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General Lewis Walt: Operational Art in Vietnam, 1965-1967

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Concepts Of Information Warfare In Practice:: General George S. Patton And The Third Army Information Service, Aug.-Dec., 1944

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The Ia Drang Campaign 1965: A Successful Operational Campaign Or Mere Tactical Failure?

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U.S. Army Weapons Systems 2010-2011

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Vietnam Studies - Field Artillery, 1954-1973 [Illustrated Edition]

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Defence Forces Review 2011

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Transport Helicopters: The Achilles Heel Of Maneuver Warfare

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A Model For Modern Nonlinear Noncontiguous Operations: The War In Burma, 1943 To 1945

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A Daily Creativity Journal

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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

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The Art of War

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Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy

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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

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The God Delusion

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas

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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

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Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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The Last Kingdom

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Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

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The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy

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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

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Unit 731: Testimony

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56. The Secret Sauce of America's Army with GEN Paul E. Funk II: Gen. Paul E. Funk II, CG, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. (U.S. Army photo) General Paul E. Funk II assumed duties as the 17th Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), on June 21, 2019. As TRADOC commander, Gen. Funk is responsible for 32 Army schools organized under 10 Centers of Excellence that recruit, train, and educate more than 750,000 Soldiers and service members annually.  Gen. Funk was born at Fort Hood and graduated from Fort Knox High School. He was commissioned an Armor Officer through ROTC upon graduation from Montana State University.  Gen. Funk has commanded at every level, Company through Corps; his combat and operational experience includes six deployments in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Inherent Resolve. Gen. Funk holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communic

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92. Know Your Enemy: Army Doctrine Starts with the Threat: [Editor’s Note:  Grizzled readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory will recall their well-thumbed copies of the forty-year-old FM 100-2 series, The Soviet Army.  U.S. Army Soldiers and Leaders from the Cold War-era were expected to know their Soviet adversaries’ Operations and Tactics; Troops, Organization, and Equipment; and Specialized Warfare and Rear Area Support cold — as international tensions and crises could (and frequently did!) escalate to trigger alerts at a moment’s notice, sending units racing forward from their garrisons to occupy their GDP positions… ready and prepared to counter Soviet and their Warsaw Pact allies’ forces advancing across the Inner German Border (IGB)! Flash forward to today’s Army, where knowledge of the Operational Environment (OE) and the five National Defense Strategy Threats — China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Violent Extremist Organizations (VEOs) — remain critical competencies within t

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#75 Todd Manyx on the MCIOC: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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Air National Guard Director Lt. Gen. Michael Loh on the National Defense Strategy, Joint Force, and Integrated Deterrence

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74. Synchronizing Modernization Across the Army with GEN Gary M. Brito: General Gary M. Brito assumed duties as the 18th Commanding General, United States Army TRADOC, on September 8, 2022.  He is responsible for building and sustaining a highly trained, disciplined, and fit Army by acquiring the best people, training the most lethal Soldiers, developing the most professional leaders, guiding the Army’s culture, and shaping the future force.  In today’s podcast, General Brito discusses synchronizing modernization across the Army, critical aspects of modernization that are crucial to shaping the fighting force , and how changes in the Operational Environment affect this process.  The following bullet points highlight key insights from our discussion with General Brito:  TRADOCis “that first layer of bricks” in building readiness for the Army.  In building this foundation, TRADOC acquires the very best people, trains the most lethal Soldiers, and develops the most professional Leaders.

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82. The AI Study Buddy at the Army War College with LtCol Joe Buffamante: [Editor’s Note: In recent weeks, Mad Scientist Laboratory has featured a number of podcasts and associated blog posts exploring the democratization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential ramifications for Warfighters and the Operational Environment (OE). From generating better proposals from a broader array of defense contractors, exploring the future of warfare and OE trends, the convergence of neuroscience and AI, and the future of learning through emerging technologies — large language models (e.g., Open AI‘s ChatGPT) can augment how we learn, work, create, and — most importantly to the U.S. Army — compete and fight.Imagine a not-too-distant future when all of our Military Leaders (from platoon to echelons above corps) are able to harness the comprehensive thoughts and insights of the world’s military theorists and tacticians, from antiquity to the present, via a personal AI digital assistant — or a

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57. The Most Consequential Adversaries with GEN Charles A. Flynn: Gen. Flynn is a native of Middletown, Rhode Island and Distinguished Military Graduate from the University of Rhode Island with a BS in Business Management. General Flynn is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses at Fort Benning, GA. He holds two master’s degrees, one in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College in Newport, RI, and one in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy from the National Defense University.   In today’s interview, Gen. Flynn discusses the unique pacing threat posed by China, building interoperability with partner nations, and the future of multi-domain operations in INDOPACOM.  The following bullet points highlight some of the key insights from our interview: - While it is often argued that future conflicts in the Pacific will be fought in the air and at sea, the U.S. Army remains critical in securing our regional interests. The Army con

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Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022): An interview with Robert W. Tomlinson

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63. Gaming the System: How Wargames Shape Our Future: Army Mad Scientist interviewed the following world-class SMEs to explore how wargaming can enhance traditional training and education methods to help build better Leaders: Ian Sullivan serves as the Senior Advisor for Analysis and ISR to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC G-2). This is a Tier One Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL) position. He is responsible for the analysis that defines and the narrative that explains the Army’s Operational Environment, which supports integration across doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy. Mr. Sullivan is a career civilian intelligence officer who has served with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI); Headquarters, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2 (USAREUR G-2); and as an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) cadre member at the

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Highest Risk: 2025-2026 - with HR McMaster: Upon graduation from the US Military Academy in 1984, HR McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years. He retired as a lieutenant general in June 2018. From 2014 to 2017, General McMaster designed the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and the deputy commanding general, futures, of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). As commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, he oversaw all training and education for the army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry force.He commanded the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012; he commanded the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006; he was also deployed in Operation Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991. General McMaster holds a PhD in military history. He was an assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy. He is author of the bestselling

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Concept of Resistance: Part 1 - Resistance in Europe

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#164 Shane Rutherford on Political Paralysis: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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Inside the U.S. Cyber Army: The U.S. military prides itself on being one of the most powerful militaries on the face of the earth. The best trained, the best equipped with the latest wartech, the most mobile, with a power projection around the world. It’s why, sadly, as the Burea...

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Colonel (Ret.) Peter Mansoor

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Episode 15 - Large Scale Sustainment: Large Scale Sustainment

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#102 Brian Schweers on the All Domain Effects Team Concept: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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75. Volatility in the Pacific: China, Resilience, and the Human Dimension with GEN Robert Brown (USA-Ret.): General Robert Brown (USA-Ret.) is an experienced commander who has led at every level, from platoon through Army Service Component Command. Serving as Commanding General of U.S. Army Pacific, General Brown led the Army’s largest service component command responsible for 106,000 Soldiers across the Indo-Pacific Region before his September 2019 retirement. General Brown is a 1981 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he was commissioned as an Infantry Second Lieutenant. His assignments took him across the globe including deployments in support of Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and two combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before U.S. Army Pacific, he commanded the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and the

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Persistent, Deniable, Defensive: Cyber Operations and the Army: This episode of the Social Science of War podcast examines the challenges posed by cyber threats to the United States and how the nation and Army are adapting to the cyber domain. To do so, host Kyle Atwell is joined by Colonel Candice E. Frost, commander of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center at US Cyber Command, and Major Margeret Smith, an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point and a researcher at the Army Cyber Institute. They begin by outlining a few of the key characteristics of the cyber domain before explaining why cyber operations often favor the defense, particularly given how challenging and resource intensive planning cyber offensive operations can be. They then discuss how the Army fits into the US national response to cyber threats to include the role of hunt-forward teams working with US partners and allies overseas. They conclude with recommendations for how noncyber mil

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86. Death From Above! The Evolution of sUAS Technology with COL (USA-Ret.) Bill Edwards: [Editor’s Note:  Army Mad Scientist continues to explore issues impacting the Operational Environment, especially those directly affecting U.S. Army operations in the contemporary battlespace. Over the past decade-plus, dual use automation technologies have increasingly been weaponized by state and non-state actors alike, democratizing warfighting capabilities in the air, land, and sea domains.  In the air domain, Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) initially provided Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities without the associated costs and infrastructure required to operate manned platforms.  More recently, we’ve witnessed ISR and strike capabilities converge in small UAS (sUAS), granting lesser powers the ability to identify, reach, and strike targets — “lower[ing] the ‘entry fee’ into combined arms operations.” With this democratization of the air domain, we’re also witnessing

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#95 LtGen Matthew Glavy on MCDP 8 Information: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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07. CMSgt (Ret) Will Markham - Air Force Combat Controller: Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in the weeks following 9/11?  In October of 2001, Will Markham, one of the first Americans deployed into combat for the Global War on Terrorism, touched down in Afghanistan attached to a small...

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#152 Dennis Katolin on Information Maneuver: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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93. Insights from the Israel-Hamas War with LTC Kenneth Hardy: [Editor’s Note:  It has almost been a decade since U.S. forces and coalition partners assisted Iraqi government forces in dislodging ISIS fighters from Mosul in what some observers described as the toughest urban battle since World War II.  With the Islamic Resistance Movement’s (aka Hamas) October 7, 2023 cross-border terror attacks on Israel and subsequent Israel Defense Forces’ combat operations in Gaza, new lessons are emerging about engaging an entrenched adversary across 360 square kilometers of densely populated (over 2 million Palestinian civilians) and highly urbanized terrain. As Dr. Brent Sterling reminded our readers and listeners, other observers are also watching and learning — especially our pacing challenge China with regard to potential operations in dense urban centers on Taiwan, North Korea with its subterranean operations beneath the Demilitarized Zone, and Iran and its “Axis of Resistance” in continuing

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51. Then and Now: Using the Past to Secure the Future with W02 Paul Barnes: Paul Barnes is a serving Warrant Officer in the British Army, employed as a Doctrine Writer at the Land Warfare Centre. He is uniquely a Chief of the Air Staff’s Fellow, a Chief of the General Staff’s Fellow, and a former MWI fellow at West Point in 2021. In today’s interview, Warrant Officer Class 2 Paul Barnes, British Army, discusses his article Learning the Wrong Lessons:  Biases, the Rejection of History, and Single-Issue Zealotry in Modern Military Thought, featured by our colleagues at Modern War Institute; learning from historical conflicts; and fighting against “neophilia” and “presentism”.  The following bullet points highlight key insights from our interview: In the aforementioned article, Paul Barnes discusses the dangers of “presentism,” in which current events are catastrophized and used to inform the future without adequate acknowledgement of historical context. This mindset creates two dangerou

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Technology and the Future of Land Warfare: Technology is rapidly changing the modern battlefield, making it crucial for armies to adapt how they think, fight, and train. But what should that adaptation look like? How can the US Army, for example, evolve at the tactical level to both meet the challenges and leverage the opportunities brought about by advancing technology? How should Army leaders and other decision-makers approach the hard choices they face—about everything from procurement to force structure to commitments across Europe and Asia? And what will be required to achieve deterrence in an era of rapid change? To explore these questions, Dr. Alexandra Chinchilla is joined on this episode by retired General Robert Abrams, Dr. Jack Watling, and Major Ryan Van Wie.

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62. Sooner Than We Think: Command Post Survivability and Future Threats with COL (Ret.) John Antal: COL John Antal (USA, Ret.) is a lifelong student of leadership and the art of war. His purpose in life is “to develop leaders and inspire service.” Today, he is an Amazon best-selling author, a defense analyst, a military correspondent, and a galvanic speaker. John has appeared on radio, podcast, and television shows and is the author of 16 books and hundreds of magazine articles on military and leadership subjects. His latest books are Leadership Rising (July 2021); and 7 Seconds to Die, A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting (February 2022). In the past year, based on his in-depth study of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, COL Antal has made over 108 presentations on the “changing methods of warfare” to U.S. military and national security leaders. He offers these presentations to the U.S. military at no ch

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01. Welcome to SOFcast - Intro to your hosts CCM Greg Smith & SGM Matt Parrish: Join U.S. Special Operations Command’s Command Chief Greg Smith and Preservation of the Force and Family Sergeant Major Matt Parrish as they kick-off our official podcast from the headquarters of all special operations forces in the U.S. military....

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Col. Tony Shaffer: US diplomatic failures in Ukraine and Israel

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The War That Shall Not Be Named: Lessons from Afghanistan for the Army: This episode looks back at twenty years of the US-led war in Afghanistan to find lessons for the US Army. How should the war inform the way we make strategy going forward? What are the keys to effective security force assistance? And is it possible to disrupt the US government's tendency to overmilitarize efforts from the tactical to the strategic level? Three guests join this episode to discuss these questions and more. Retired Lieutenant General Doug Lute has had a long and distinguished career culminating in a series of senior positions, including US permanent representative to NATO, and is currently the Robert F. McNamara distinguished chair at West Point's Department of Social Sciences. Dr. Jason Lyall is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, has conducted fieldwork in Afghanistan as a scholar, and is the author of the book Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Perfo

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062: Navigating The Grey Space | Major General Tom Copinger-Symes