#Career development

There has been no shortage of recent criticisms directed at professional military education, with some asking the question, “What is it good for?” The 2018 National Defense Strategy claimed professional military education has “stagnated.” Moreover, my Naval War College colleague Joan Johnson Freese

Recently, I’ve had several enlightening conversations with career Marine officers about professional learning. In each case, these fellow officers — with something approaching pride in their voices — proclaimed they hadn’t read a new book since graduating Basic School. They had no problem getting

Last year was a strong one for debate on personnel challenges in the U.S. Air Force at War on the Rocks, from the erosion of culture to the U.S. Air Force chief of staff responding directly (and, most importantly, positively) to an anonymous article on the officer promotion system. In the United

Editor’s Note: As part of “Remembering the Warlord,” a series honoring the memory of John Collins, we are republishing remarks by Collins delivered at Georgetown University in 2012 and republished on War on the Rocks the following year. Please click here to read the rest of the series.   Not many

Author: Arthur Peirce / Source: Lifehack For some reason, the idea of a mentor seems like an old fashioned concept doesn’t it? Some thing that might create mental images of knights and squires, or even Jedi, certainly not something that can work in contemporary working relationships. Sure, maybe