ALL AHEAD FLANK
Written to invite your thinking, these occasional essays offer my views on the wide stream of events and ideas carrying us forward. Reposted in Medium for a general audience, I look forward to longer exchanges here.
Where’s Military Creativity?
Christian Science Monitor—February 2002 Written to help citizen-taxpayers critique the Pentagon's budget request, this op-ed challenges the professional expertise of the modern officer corps. I think this criticism is even more valid after watching the mistakes our...
Our New Kind of War Needs Teamwork
Christian Science Monitor—November 2001 We've now forgotten how radically the US attack on Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan differed from traditional military operations. This essay, written in the early days of that brief, semi-successful war, explores two...
In a New War, Innovation is Needed
Christian Science Monitor—October 2001 Written for citizens watching the precursor skirmishes of the invasion of Afghanistan, the first move in what has become known at GWOT—the Global War on Terrorism—this piece suggests a general approach to thinking about what our...
Creating Security in an Uncivil World
Christian Science Monitor—September 2001 The Monitor asked me to write this on the afternoon of the 9/11 attacks. (Carla and I could see the Pentagon burning from our kitchen window in downtown Washington.) Asking citizen's questions about how we proceed, the piece...