Knowledge Is Necessity

What a lousy week. In July, I asked you how your “last seven days" went. Out of 127 responses, only four of you (3%) replied, “couldn’t...

In Part I, we looked at how thinking outside the box enabled the Romans to defeat rival Carthage at its own game in the First Punic War. Ins...

Military history has a thing or two to teach us about life. Today’s and tomorrow’s two-part lesson involves thinking outside the box. Our ca...

My most recent blog piece focused on the negativity people in my position attract. Call it the asshole effect. We’ve all had to deal with it...

In my last blog piece , I recollected an unscheduled visit I had made to Walter Reed Army Hospital two years before. These are the type of s...

At ten last night, I plopped into bed exhausted, expecting sleep to overtake me. My sciata had other ideas. What was particularly depressing...

As you know by now, three weeks ago I came back from a conference and a family visit with a bad leg cramp which turned out to be sciatica. H...

As you know, I spent the last week lying flat on my back on the couch, breathing through sciatic pain, looking up at the spinning ceiling fa...

Fortieth anniversary: July 20, 1969.

I don't have too many heroes. He was one of them.