Microdosing: Improving Performance Enhancement in Intelligence Analysis

The Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) may gain an advantage over competitors in intelligence analysis, productivity, and efficiency if it utilizes the...

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 movies of the decade.“The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the...

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 conquer, to dominate whatever landscape is before us, wh...

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 to live through it. This was an era when people fought for belief. The era when...

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 people in suits and ties, senior citizens with canes and w...

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 your headlamp when outside. As 0200 arrived I made my way from my team room in the ...

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.  And thanks to the magic of internet commerce and a wide rang...

BRANDED LOST BOYS

Private Military Contracting (PMC) is a weird and beautiful animal. Should a mad scientist find a way to mate "War" with pure, unadulterated "Capitalism", the resulting birth would no doubt be a...

Truth in Movies

When it comes to military anything, there’s a problem in the entertainment industry. Well, actually, there’s a lot more than just one, but we’ll stick (for now) with something benign by compariso...

IN DEFENSE OF TROUBLE MAKERS

One of the first lessons I got from my father was when he told me “if you are not in trouble, you are not accomplishing anything.” This may seem strange advice for a young child to go break the ...

THE CATALYST

My life has been a complex one. Some of it self-induced, some of it just dumb luck. It’s been unconventional to say the least. I’ve had a lot of fun, and sometimes I have felt like God simply wan...

The Bizarre Power of American Apathy

It doesn’t happen all that often, but every now and again well-intentioned souls embrace me and apologize for America’s forgetfulness, all because I fought in Iraq like a zillion years ago. Pres...

GWOT vs WW2 Vets

A common belief among many quarters is that we have gone squishy. From participation trophies to so called “microaggressions”, the “snowflake” youth of today will never measure up to the metal...

A Frogman’s Response to the Fiasco

There’s a long established concept that the only thing people love more than a hero is to see one fall. With the dwindling combat operational tempo across the board in Special Operations it come...

Warless Warriors

The most common question asked of a service member is, “why did you join?” The most common question asked of a veteran is, “why did you leave? ”The answers vary depending on who’s asking and who...