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General Dempsey, Coach K on Leadership
Good article over at Anglican Ink about what makes a good leader.
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Don’t Worry, Europe– We’ll Keep Defending You
Off-duty American servicemen subdue Moose-Limb loon bent on murder and mayhem. AMERICA, F YEAH.
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Matriculation Day
Happy Matriculation Day! Unlike some of the group I am a firm believer that they need to re-integrate more adversarial interactions during the rat-line, it can still be professional. And if a Shit...
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The Great Train Beat-Down
This story, I tell you, is truly inspiring. I turn (improbably for me) to the NYT— Alek Skarlatos, a specialist in the National Guard from Oregon vacationing in Europe with a friend in the Air Force,...
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VMI’s 2014 Salaries
Over at the Richmond Times Dispatch you can find Virginia State Salaries for 2014. I of course pulled the VMI Salaries what I found interesting is that there are 54 Administrative-Lecture or...
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McDew ’82 Takes Command at TRANSCOM
Congratulations to General Darren McDew ’82, now the commander of TRANSCOM! If I’m not mistaken, that would also make him the senior alumnus now in uniform, would it not? In any case, congrats to you...
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America is Weak, and So are Her Leaders
I can safely say that we are in the decline of Rome. Instead of being overtaken from the interior by an enemy who joined the ranks of our military. We are succumbing to something that our parent...
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Gun-Day Monday: Double-Barrel Bullpup Shotgun
Yep. I did not know that there was a market for such a thing, but I’m glad that companies out there are striving to experiment and innovate. I expect that it’d be a fearsome thing to face down a...
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“What difference does it make”
Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases — including security clearance applications, airline records and...
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“Treason of the Professors”
On behalf of DaveO, who’s on the road, I give you THIS: Bradford begins with the proposition that the West is losing its war against Islamic extremism. In all of the quotes below, Bradford’s copious...
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TAPS: Carrie Wortham ’12
This morning after Church I grabbed my phone from the floor of the car and went onto Facebook and saw a status about Carrie. I called one of my friends who happened to be married to one of her VMI...
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WarnOrd: 2015 “Ride to the I”
Matt Schwarzmann ’90 atthe Alumni Association told me yesterday that this year’s Ride to the I will go on saturday, 3 Oct. It’s the tenth anniversary, too. He’s going to send out emails to all past...
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Russians in Syria
There you have it. Russia’s Foreign Ministry disclosed early Wednesday that Russian military experts indeed are assisting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in that country’s long-running...
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Weapons Wednesday: Unorthodox Concealment Schemes
“Is that a pistol in your vagina, or are you just happy to see me?” I’d like to know, was it muzzle-up or muzzle-down? Because muzzle-up is simply unsafe. Then again, if you’re carrying a piece in your...
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“Marine Corps’ Women-in-Combat Experiment Gets Mixed Results”
And “mixed results” is a polite way of saying it. Read THIS first, from the WaPo. According to a recent report in the Marine Corps Times, only a small number of women were left by the experiment’s...
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9/11, 2015
I’m out of profundities and tributes. I have very little to add to the discussion of the remembrance of this day. Except, that is, for a deep sense of dread at the state of our nation’s defenses, her...
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Stray Voltage September 15 2015
Stray Voltage Without commenting on the merits of the USMC study of Women in Combat, the actions of publicly being critical of the study by the Secretary of the Navy are unforgivable. He has squandered...
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Obama As A Grand Strategists
Over at Tom Dispatch is an article that argues that President Obama is a Grand Strategists on par with Elihu Root and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Proactive thesis from a Professor of History at the...
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RIP, Cadet Hoang
Sad news from VMI. Our prayers and intentions go forth to you and your family, and your Brother Rats.
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The Air “War” Against ISIS
DaveO tossed this out for us. “Year One: Inside the Air War Against ISIS.” The plane left in such haste that the crew took off without knowing the flight plan, the radio frequencies for Iraqi air...
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