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#Lifelong #learning is a passion cooked into me at an early age. Too often, we see people achieve a state of what I like to call "cognitive ossification," where learning stops and a weird kind of intellectual malaise sets in. How we overcome that, ho ...more
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Since I was a student at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), during which we read his landmark book, 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧, I've been an avid reader of Gary Klein and have weaved his work into just about every subject I teach.

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The Airborne Mafia by Robert F.   Williams
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It took me some time to finally get around to reading Robert Williams's book, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙞𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙛𝙞𝙖, and it did not disappoint. I spent a good part of my career in and around the #airborne community, and I still consider those years some of the most imp ...more
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Lincoln's White House by James B. Conroy
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James B. Conroy’s 2017 book, 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯’𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, reimagines Lincoln’s presidency through the vibrant and often chaotic life of the Executive Mansion during the Civil War. Conroy’s narrative is a richly textured and d ...more
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Presilience by Dr. Gavriel Schneider
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When we were writing the 2008 edition of FM 3-0, I slipped in sentence intended to recast how we view risk from an operational perspective: "Risk is a potent catalyst that fuels opportunity." Too often, we see risk as something to avoid rather than s ...more
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