U.S. Army strategic leaders must be ‘War Winners,’ not ‘War Managers.’ The responses to our first Whiteboard were...
Defense Management
This tag relates to all articles, podcast episodes, and features related to topics taught in the Defense Management course of the U.S. Army War College resident program. This includes fiscal matters, force development and integration, decision support systems, and authorities and responsibilities defined in U.S. Code.
Whatever roles military strategic leaders play… they do so as experts in the fighting and winning of...
In an organization in which … ‘manageR’ is an insult, it is not easy to convince people...
That there should be a connection between unit morale and combat effectiveness seems perfectly obvious. Why, then,...
Unit readiness—especially for the Army—hinges on rotations to Combat Training Centers. This is both inefficient and unimaginative,...
Woody Allen once said, “80% of success is showing up.” The U.S. government has a “big stick”...
By relying on large platforms built by large contractors, the U.S. military lacks the small business integration...
We may prefer not to rely on commercial services to support military operations, but we would be...
Increasing minority and female representation in combat arms branches is necessary—but it is not sufficient to improve...
How do action officers (or anyone below the executive level) get their principal’s priorities on a final...
The Air Force’s approach to developing unmanned aviation falls well short of the potential of autonomous systems....
General Milley has repeatedly declared that ‘Readiness is #1, and there is no other #1.’ And yet,...
The defense acquisition system has been the subject of much controversy and criticism. From the “Sisyphus Paradox”...
In a complex and dangerous world, the U.S. Army struggles with a persistent, strategic challenge: how to...
cost-consciousness is not simply about cutting spending. Rather, it is about reducing excess and being a good...
Just as a chess master with a positional advantage is willing to trade queens with his opponent,...
It is time to make the threat posed by artificial intelligence a permanent part of national security...
As long as the U.S. military approaches the application of military forces from the fractured perspective of...