Donald Vandergriff
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Donald Vandergriff
A 26 year Marine and US Army officer. I served enlisted time as a Marine infantryman and enlisted tanker. Author or editor of 11 books and over a 100 articles on leader development, military culture and Maneuver Warfare.
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InfantryDort’s “The Cost of the Arena” is a polemical indictment of a society that outsources violence, then treats the men who perform it as contaminated once they return.
Tehran’s Cognitive Offensive and the American Second-Generation Trap: An Analysis of Gregg Roman’s “Tehran’s War on American Morale”
Digging Below the Death Zone: An Analysis of John Spencer and Drew Craig’s Examination of Ukraine’s Underground War through the Lenses of Maneuver Warfare, Mission Command, and the Generations of War
When Sailors Reach for the Rail: The USS Abraham Lincoln Crisis, Combat Fatigue, and the Failure of Second-Generation Leadership in a Fourth-Generation War
Victor Davis Hanson’s “Not Winning? Just Change the Rules” as a Diagnostic of Democratic 4th- and 5th-Generation Warfare
*Shadows Over Albion* Book 7 of the *Reforging the Sword* Series: Forward by Major Gerry Long UK Army retired. Video summary below.
Gunfire as the Ultimate Personnel Board: Why Credentialism Fails Before the First Volley
Trump’s Theory of Victory Validated: Maneuver Warfare, Mission Command, and Generational Triumph in the Iran Campaign
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos has delivered a timely and necessary diagnosis of what ails America’s professional military education system. In “Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough?”
The real danger is not autonomous killers; it is the systematic atrophy of the adaptive judgment that Mission Command, maneuver warfare, and genuine military professionalism require.
Analysis of Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says By James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson, CBS 31 July 2026
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