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.
Passing the Buck in Sub Drama
Christian Science Monitor - March 2001 My first op-ed for the wonderful Monitor, this explores another case of failed military accountability. (A personal note: thanks to the kind recruitment by Monitor staff writer Brad Knickerbocker. Then op-ed editor Linda Feldmann...
Preventing State Failure
National Strategy Forum Review - Winter 2001 Issue PREVENTING STATE FAILURE—A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE…SOLDIERS? No matter how much we aficionados might wish it, Presidential campaigns seldom admit real debate on issues of substance in foreign policy. Among last...
The Postmodern Military—Armed Forces After the Cold War
Book review for USNI Proceedings—August 2000 Edited by Charles C. Moskos, John Allen Williams, and David R. Segal Oxford University Press, 2000 Reviewed by Captain Larry Seaquist, USN (Ret.) Finally, a book by authors with something on their minds other than...
Community War
An edited version was originally published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August 2000 War left the battlefield. While many militaries busied themselves with the so-called "revolution in military affairs," war put on new clothes and moved away. As armies...