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No Longer a Marine, a Mere Veteran
July 20, 2015
Microdosing: Improving Performance Enhancement in Intelligence Analysis
By Maj Emre Albayrak, USMC
The Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) may gain an advantage over competitors in intelligence analysis, productivity, and...
Moral Double Standards: Running Interference for the Bad Guys
Americans today hold each other to high moral standards in our public discourse, and often for good reasons. But this has come with a...
Relevance: Putting Down the Sword
As a self-described cinephile, I find it odd that my all-time favorite scene comes from what could arguable be called one of the worst...
CONTEXT
We strive through combat only to return to a nation that seemingly only desires to appear to understand us. We set ourselves to thrive, to...
Outside The Wire: A U.S. Marine’s Collection of Combat Poems &...
It’s so loud I forget who I am. I can’t feel anything; I can’t hear anything. I try...
THE NEW FAITH MILITANT
I look to the era before the Enlightenment with the kind of nostalgia that only comes to those who never actually had...
WELCOME TO CANNABIS COMPANY
The scene is the shop floor of my favorite marijuana dispensary in Sin City. The store is bright and, clean. Customers range from business...
Brown Out
The moon and the stars were out in numbers in that way they are in Afghan, so bright you don't need your NVGs or...
THE MYTH OF THE MONOLITHIC VET
If you’re like me, you are proud of your military service and you have a couple “HOORAH/ Kill Stuff” t-shirts hanging in your closet. ...