When the Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series last week, they ended a 95-year drought since a Washington baseball team won the world championship in 1924.
As a byproduct of their military service, today’s veterans have the stomach to take risks, the ability to deal with ambiguity, composure, and creativity under extreme pressure. Also, they have an unparalleled focus on “team” as the way to win in business.
When I was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, it was always interesting to watch the Air Force scramble to respond to frequent tornado warnings in Tornado Alley.
Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military has consistently ranked number one among all other nations in the size and complexity of its bureaucracy.
The Air Force has chosen to organize around a theater-centric, centralized command and control system that is ill-suited for the global nature of space power.
Now, 34 years later after the first Humvee entered service, some of these venerable vehicles are being replaced by Oshkosh’s JLTVs.
Effectiveness implies accomplishing something, so to evaluate military effectiveness there must be a strategy or an articulated list of accomplishable objectives and/or missions.
This week sees the 75th anniversary of the now-legendary Allied invasion of Fortress Europe. While incredible movies like “The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan” do justice to the heroic acts of that fateful day, the real heroes were unassuming Americans, Canadians, Brits and Australians who answered their nation’s call to push back against tyranny.