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• A Million Zeroes Still Don’t Add Up to One October 7, 2026
  Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once wrote something that should probably be posted in every headquarters, corporate boardroom, and executive office in America: “A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one.” Jung was writing about the individual and the dangers of mass organizations, not about military or business leadership specifically. But the […]
  Charles Faint
• The Only One Who Doesn’t Ask Why October 7, 2026
  By Nickolas Jacobs (N.C. Jacobs) There’s a specific kind of quiet that happens in a patrol car at three in the morning, after a call that didn’t go the way you wanted, when you’re not ready to go back to the station and you’re not ready to go home either. I’ve sat in that quiet […]
  Special Guest
• Stop Building the Enemy’s Biography October 7, 2026
  By Juan Pablo Vivaldi Remy Every staff I have served on eventually does the same thing when intelligence grows thin: someone starts building the enemy’s biography. We compile grievances, humiliations, and a decade of patterns, then ask what behavior that history should produce. The process feels rigorous and fills slides. However, when the adversary acts […]
  Special Guest
• The Pentagon Has Forward Deployed Your Social Security Number October 6, 2026
  There are few traditions more sacred in the American military than mandatory cyber training. Somewhere, right now, a staff sergeant is clicking through a government module explaining that personally identifiable information is precious, passwords are sacred, suspicious links are dangerous, and leaving your CAC unattended will apparently cause Beijing to annex Ohio. Then the Pentagon […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• Things War Movies Made Me Think I’d Do in the Army October 6, 2026
  Based on watching war movies, these are some of the things I thought I’d be doing in the Army, but didn’t. Peeling potatoes as a form of punishment. Standing guard, in full dress uniform, along with another sharply dressed troop, in front of an important Army building, giving rifle salutes to generals and colonels. Yelling […]
  Nick Perna