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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History, as the essay concludes, is unlikely to remember the names of those who stayed in the balcony.
The remaining question is whether we will finally treat the cognitive battlespace with the seriousness we already claim to apply to the kinetic one.
John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute and a founding member of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare, together with Colonel Drew Craig of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, have produced a timely and necessary corrective in their 12 August 2026 article “Digging Below the Death Zone: The Underground W…
History shows that forces which ignore the human dimension of prolonged conflict eventually pay a far higher price than the temporary inconvenience of rotating ships or reforming personnel systems.
Conservatives who wish to prevail must treat both the essay, my book Internal Insurgency and the underlying strategic reality with the seriousness they deserve.
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We already know what works. We already know that gunfire is the most ruthless—and most honest—personnel system ever devised.
The maximalists, minimalists, and doubters can continue their arguments. The facts on energy flows, reconstruction agreements, economic deals, and expanding security partnerships prove otherwise.
Anything less leaves the system broken in the ways that matter most on the battlefield.
How does AI impact professionalism in a culture that remains largely in the 2nd Generation of Warfare?
We do not need to burn the staff colleges down. We need to stop using them as finishing schools for industrial-age managers and start using them as forges for adaptive warfighters.
