On hard work and dirty fingers
I’m a big fan of hard work.
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David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
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David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
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Stephen M. Walt
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Michela Wrong
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The rule of 12
I’ve mentioned before that there seems to be something magic in having a group of 12 men.
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A generous Army program for alcoholics
There’s a good interview in the June issue of ARMY magazine with Maj. Jason Main, a recovering alcoholic, about how he turned his life around.
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‘Gunpowder Age’: A strong and thorough new study of ‘global military history’
This is one of the best books I've read in awhile — indeed, I think since "Comanche Empire."
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Firings, ousters, and such
In what appears to be a first, a one-star in the West Virginia National Guard gave a female LTC an unsatisfactory evaluation in retaliation for reporting a sexual assault, an IG investigation concluded.
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Essay contest: Your last week to vote
I’ll publish the results next week, and republish the winning essay.
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Revising our armed forces (13): The less certain the security environment, the more you should hedge your investment bets
That headline amounts to Rule 13 of innovation.
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NFL says it will give back $700,000 it accepted to stage salutes to the military
And a salute to Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain for pursuing this matter.
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Dogs put up with a lot (3)
This is a Yorky parachuting in the Pacific.
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Metrics Watch: If the Dog Don’t Bark, How Do We Know We Are Winning Against ISIS?
Some of our intelligence services think that the Islamic State is on the verge of collapse.
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About Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He can be reached at [email protected].
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