Jason Howk with “On Military Advice to Civilians”

“So what should happen after the decision is made to go in another direction from your advice by the President or Secretary of Defense?

What if you are that General whose advice was rejected and the Senate or House asks you to come testify about the proposed national strategy?”

Mark Jones, Jr’s “#Reviewing No Place to Hide,” an autobiography written by W. Lee Warren

“Sometimes it’s not the intense violence of war but monotony and discouragement that lay siege to the soul, build their battlements, and begin to drain hope from the heart. The mundane becomes a weapon, chipping away at resolve and fighting a battle of attrition….This is the battle that neurosurgeon Major Lee Warren (USAF) captures with such graphic detail in the pages of his autobiography, that one experiences the heat, sounds, and smells all over again.”

Steven Foster with “Soviet Fall, Arab Spring, Crimean Winter”

“With the world looking for answers to Putin’s actions in Russia and its former states, as well as the seemingly unceasing wave of instability across the Middle East and North Africa, one place to look is the fallout of the 1991 Soviet coup. Given the sweeping revolution that accompanied the attempt to overthrow Gorbachev’s government, as well as the revolutionary breakup of the Soviet state that followed, it is easy to see striking parallels between the fall of the Soviet Union and events such as the Arab Spring.”

Will Stanton’s “A Millennial’s Perspective on the Legacy of Vietnam”

“The most important parallel between the thinking that led to Vietnam and the War on Terror is the flawed methodology of fighting an ideological battle as a ‘hot war.’ Indeed, there are times when force is necessary, and we have applied it both proportionately and disproportionately at times during the War on Terror. But bullets do not kill ideas, and absent a superior ideology to complement necessary use of force, a ‘hot war’ against an idea is destined to be a losing prospect, a long and futile war of attrition.”