Category: Speaker Series
The Thursday Presentation / Documentary / Speaker Series of the week features professional publications on topics relevant to the the war fighter
I am not big on anniversaries. It’s not that I don’t care but for some reason remembering dates is hard for me and they usually have a tendency to sneak up on me. Thankfully social media helps in this regard but, unless it is in the immediacy of my house, I still
Universal Lessons in Adversity, Conflicts of Mass Distraction and Weapons of Mass Destruction
I don’t really like going to the well to many times in a row for articles but here we are again with two important stories from a couple of my favorite podcasts… and I’ve been busy. First, we will discuss the remarkable intelligence gathering apparatus the IDF used to
Trouble Brewing South of The Border?
My morning routine typically consists of getting the kids up, packing lunches, getting them off to school and trying to wind down with a podcast on my way to work. The podcasts vary, but I usually start my day with The President’s Daily Brief. It is a very good daily
This Weeks Podcast Listening
Like most of you, I try to use podcasts to keep up with the goings on in the world. However, listening at the house is not really possible with four walking distractions that see silence as an opportunity… As it turns out, my daily commute of approximately 35-40 minutes is
Girl Power: An Irregular Warfare Podcast about Kick Ass Kurdish Women
Over the weekend I had a good bit of windshield time which allowed me to get caught up on some podcasts and here is one that I could not more highly recommend. It tells the story of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units and how they were a key element in the fight
Podcast: John Batchelor Discusses Drones and Other Emerging Technologies with The Drive’s Tyler Rogoway
A couple quick Podcasts for your weekend listening about drones and warplanes. This time it’s John Batchelor interviewing Tyler Rogoway, a writer for The War Zone on The Drive about drone warfare in the Israel – Palestinian fight. If you care about emerging
Looking to the Past to Leverage Future Technology: Armed Overwatch
Several weeks ago I listened to a new podcast from the Modern War Institute’s Irregular Warfare Podcast – Armed Overwatch: Airpower in Irregular Warfare – Past, Present and Future. I decided to do a bit more research and this is what I came up with
Another Excellent Podcast: Special Operations Forces in the High North – MWI
It’s all podcasts all the time here! We have another must listen to podcast that, if you care even a little about the New Great Power Completion, you really should listen too. This time we go to the Modern War Institute for an interview with the 10th Special Forces
Must Listen Podcast: The Fish Wars Are Coming – Angry Planet
Just a quick note to put a really good podcast in front on you. I stumbled into a few stories a few months back about China illegally fishing around the Galapagos Islands (which you can read about here and here ) and in the climate of conflicts in the “Grey Zone”
Weekend Inspiration for Works of Love and The Infinite Game
A friend passed this video along in the context of the War on Terror from this weeks earlier posts on Islamic terror in Africa (here and here) and this blends perfectly with our post: Double Feature: Military History and Geography. If you want to understand what we are