by zen | Nov 18, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] “….Instead of softening their feet with shoe or sandal, his rule was to make them hardy through going barefoot. This habit, if practiced, would, as he believed, enable them to scale heights more easily and...
by zen | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
SWJ Blog has a new post up with an important and all too timely article on transition operations whose authors include an amigo of mine, Pete Turner, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Turner will also be one of the featured speakers at the Boyd & Beyond...
by J.ScottShipman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] Since the original post of “No one is really listening, they are just pretending,” there are indications that pretending may actually be doing institutional harm. The US Naval Institue recently sponsored the Joint Warfighting...
by zen | Aug 23, 2012 | Monitor
It appears that the Pentagon no longer intends to educate the most talented members of the officer corps to think strategically. I say this because the status of the premier professional military education institutions – the war colleges and NDU – have...
