This podcast features great insights from Brigadier Mick Ryan AM. The podcast begins with Brigadier Ryan discussing his roles in the Australian Army including as Commander 1st Brigade, and building networks through educational opportunities at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College at Quantico and John Hopkins University in Washington D.C. List…

I spoke with Matthew Cavanaugh who was teaching the Military Strategy Course at the United States Military Academy West Point at the time. A taste of Cavanaugh's advice:- On core competencies for junior military commanders: develop your sense of military judgement, relate your tactical action to national policy, and to do both of these things, you …

Discussion with T.X. Hammes at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. including insights on broad spectrum bets for the future, structural versus interactive complexity, tactical decision games, learning how each other thinks up and down the chain of command, using mission orders, how to deal with mistakes and ending with entertaining k…

I had the pleasure of talking to David H. Ucko at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. His book, co-authored with Robert Egnell, is titled Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare. Some of David Ucko’s thoughts on junior commanders:• “Junior commander’s have an unenviable role to play because on one ha…

I chatted with Dave Maxwell at Georgetown University to hear his thoughts on what the future holds for junior commanders. The podcast starts with the discussion of the future operating environment within the framework of nuclear, traditional and irregular warfare, and ends with a great story about initiative and strategic perspective by a junior le…