I recorded two podcasts while at the U.S. Army War College. The second was on Lethality. In DoD terms, lethality means “good.” It’s the new hotness–all the rage. As an artilleryman, I approve. But there’s another side to these things. I’ve also studied a lot of economics, and it may just be easier to lose the peace as to lose the war. In that vein, I offer There’s More to Life than Lethality. (Though the Space Force #pewpew article was more fun.)
I was able to be on two podcasts while a student at the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) over the last year. The first was aimed at a civilian academic audience. Basically, “What in the world is it like to be a military grad student at a ‘War College’?” Yes, there are such things, and the things are a bit different in a professional military education (PME) setting than at a regular university. For example, the military is a direct consumer of its own product, so there is a very tight feedback loop, analyzing the output. ...
It’s a constant battle to be able to receive my Defense Enterprise Email on linux. (Heck, it’s not that far off on Windows, either.) I had it working, then it stopped, and militarycac.com came to the rescue. It turns out that you need to renegotiate the SSL session while authenticating, which is a security hole. https://militarycac.com/firefox.htm had the right info for me: You’ll need to enable SSL renegotiation, do this by pointing your browser to about:config. After confirming that you know what you are doing, you need to start typing in: ...
I just spent a few days in Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS). The exercise was a good one, and the mountain is much drier than it was right after all the heavy rains and floods. And, since it seemed like the right thing to do, I brought my copy of Footfall and re-read the bits where the hard science fiction authors went Inside as US threat team in case the space aliens turned out to be bad guys. (Non-spoiler: they invade.) ...