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I Called It the Job Until I Had a Name for It
By Doug White | retired deputy sheriff, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office | U.S. Air Force veteran Here’s What Leaders Need to Continue Reading
Iowa, Nebraska and Kentucky Lead Per-Capita Toll in Listed U.S. Iran War Deaths
By Dylan PrescottAs Armed Forces Day approaches, a new state-by-state analysis offers a stark reminder that wartime losses are not felt evenly across Continue Reading
America’s Four-Year Experiment in Presidential Puppetry
In 1968, Star Trek aired one of its nastier little morality plays, an episode called “Patterns of Force,” in which a Federation historian tries to Continue Reading
Private Andy Andrews
He's just a stooped old man to some.To the ravages of age he slowly succumbs.Death is coming to the generation he belongs to.To me he is a hero, still Continue Reading
Select-in vs. Weed-out
“I have applied to 25 jobs and was denied them all.” “The recruiter called me and said I was not a good fit.” “The hiring manager told me I Continue Reading
Explaining Iran’s “These Hands Are Rated E for Everyone” Strategy
To most Americans, Iran’s foreign policy often looks less like grand strategy and more like a drunken bar fight. Missiles at Israel. Proxy attacks Continue Reading
In Leadership, Ego Kills
When it comes to podcasts, I am a gluttonous consumer. I have to start with a plug to one of the best law enforcement tactical/leadership Continue Reading
Weaponizing Wellness: What They Never Taught Us About Recovery
By Rob Sweetman, Former Navy SEAL, Sleep Scientist, and Veteran Advocate We trained to be machines—deadly, focused, relentless. We were told to Continue Reading
Military Readiness – Seen Thru the Lens of Army Aviation
By Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gaub This first appeared in Darin's blog and is republished with the author's permission. The Readiness of Continue Reading
Exponential Apathy
You could say it’s been an eventful season for our political circus. Emotions have been stirred on all sides for one reason or another. Yet, I feel Continue Reading
When the Virtue Machine Learned to Hate in Public
The most impressive trick of modern American moral culture is that it can take an ancient prejudice, hose it down with graduate-school vocabulary, Continue Reading