The #BruteCast

(NOTE: there were minor audio issues with the host's equipment, but LtGen Dana's comments are loud and clear) Today we’re excited to welcome Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Mike Dana. Lieutenant General Dana was an armor officer, logistics officer, and strategic planner in the Marine Corps for 37 years. During his career he deployed ten times to include deployments to Desert Storm, Operation Restore Hope, the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq, Haiti, and Afghanistan. He did joint tours in NORTHCOM, EUCOM, and PACOM. As a three-star he was the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics from 2015-2018, and the Director of the Marine Corps Staff from 2018 to 2019. LtGen Dana is an Executive Fellow with the Institute for Defense and Business, and a Principal with PALLAS Advisor. He holds a Master’s Degree from the Naval War College and is a graduate of the School of Advanced Warfighting. He has a B.A. from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Now, LtGen Dana has also given special focus to innovation and future warfare. As DC for Installations and Logistics, he formed a next generation logistics team (NEXLOG) focused on innovation. This team was instrumental in the fielding of additive manufacturing into the Marine Corps. NEXLOG also spearheaded experimentation with unmanned air, sea and land logistics delivery platforms. Additionally, this team was the incubator for the first ever Marine Corps innovation challenge, an event that provided Marines around the world a venue to express their ideas and develop solutions for tough logistical problems. Shortly before his retirement in 2019, LtGen Dana also published an assessment of the complexities of the current and future operating environment in an article for War on the Rocks entitled “Future War: Not Back to the Future.” His perspectives on innovation and future warfare are part of why we’re excited to have him here today. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Mr. Steve Leonard is an author, speaker, and currently serves as the director of the graduate program in business and organizational leadership at the University of Kansas. After serving 28 years in the U.S. Army, he turned to writing and speaking, and is the cofounder of the national security blog "Divergent Options;" cofounder of the "Smell of Victory" podcast; and cofounder and board member of the Military Writers Guild. Steve also serves as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute, West Point. He's the creator of the well-known "Doctrine Man," a defense and national security micro-blog with nearly 200,000 followers across social media. He writes on foreign policy, strategy, and leadership, and has also discussed the usage of fictional realms to explore modern strategic issues in books like Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict; Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict; and the forthcoming To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Emma Moore is a Research Associate for the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Moore is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University. Prior to joining CNAS, Moore served as Executive Assistant and Social Media Lead for Narrative Strategies, a group of experts using strategic communication to combat violent extremism. Previously, she worked as a Program Manager with ProVetus, a veteran peer-mentoring organization, interned at the US Naval War College's Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, and worked with Brown University's the Cost of War Project. Moore earned a Master of Arts in War Studies from King's College London and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” storytelling, and serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning. With Peter W. Singer, he is the co-author of the best-seller Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (2015) and Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robot Revolution (2020). A former Wall Street Journal reporter, besides being a Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow, he is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project, which explored creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict, from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He also consults on creative foresight at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. He’s long been a friend and contributor to the Krulak Center’s activities, acting as a writing mentor for the “Destination Unknown” graphic novel series, and a judge for several of the Center’s creative writing contests. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Professor Edward D. Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Faculty Fellow, and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Professor Hess spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. He joined academia in 2002 as an Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University where he was the Founder and Executive Director of The Values- Based Leadership Institute. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business. He is the author of 13 books and over 150 articles dealing with optimizing individual and organizational performance. His work has been featured in more than 400 leading global media publications. His book Humility Is the New Smart was a best seller and his new book Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change was recently published on September 1st, 2020. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Maj Ian T. Brown is a CH-53E pilot by trade, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the INDO-PACOM region. He’s also written extensively on maneuver warfare, military history, and future war, including the book A New Conception of War, published with Marine Corps University Press in 2018. He holds a master’s in military history from Norwich University. Today he’s going to talk a little about the story he covered in his book – we’ll explore the conflict ideas of Air Force colonel John Boyd, the “intellectual renaissance” that took place inside the Marine Corps after the Vietnam War, and how those two threads converged in the official adoption of maneuver warfare as the Marine Corps’ philosophy of conflict, as well as the continued relevance of these ideas today. His book "A New Conception of War" can be found here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf?ver=2018-11-08-094859-167 Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Mr. John Kroger is a former Marine who recently served as the Navy’s first Chief Learning Officer. In that capacity he was charged to align the many educational institutions within the Department of the Navy, such as the Naval Academy, Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School, our own Marine Corps University, and future Naval Community College – with the goal of ensuring that the nation’s sailors and Marines entered any future conflict with a cognitive advantage. In this episode, Mr. Kroger talks about his experiences in that billet, and answers questions on the current state and future of professional military education in the Department of the Navy. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

This episode features two Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellows, both with backgrounds in military history and institutional innovation The first guest is Dr. Aimée Fox, a historian of warfare who explores military innovation and change in historic and contemporary armed forces. She is an assistant professor in King’s College London’s Defense Studies Department based at the United Kingdom’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. Her first book, Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded both the Templer Medal for Best First Book by the Society for Army Historical Research and the British Army Military Book of the Year prize in 2018. Her current research explores the importance of social relations and informal networks to the process of innovation, and the ways in which the social politics of military organizations helps or hinders innovation with a particular focus on the role of command and leadership. The second guest is Dr. Heather P. Venable, Associate Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of Airpower at the United States Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College. She has also served as a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, where she taught naval and Marine Corps history. Last year Naval Institute Press published her new book, How the Few Became the Proud: The Making of the Marine Corps’ Mythos, 1874-1918. This book has been strongly recommended by digital military journals such as the Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, and the Modern War Institute, where Dr. Venable has also written extensively about airpower and the current United States Air Force. Her current research centers on intersections between theory and pre-war thinking and the application of airpower in combat. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

This #BruteCast featured a wargaming panel of practitioners across the many different wargaming communities. Join Andrew Reddie, James Fielder, Damien O'Connell, and Sebastian Bae as they discuss their myriad experiences in using wargames for training, education, and analytics. The panelists provided a number of resources for those interested in learning more, which are included below: https://eduwargaming.org/ https://paxsims.wordpress.com/ https://www.mors.org/ https://www.guwargaming.org/ GUWS YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0nVuQu5KoHv0kFiC9yX4Q?view_as=subscriber https://connections-wargaming.com/connections-2020/ Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic

Kyleanne Hunter, PhD, is a Marine Corps combat veteran with multiple combat deployments as an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack pilot. She is Assistant Professor of Military and Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force Academy and co-founder of Athena Leadership Project. She is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for New American Security, and an Adjunct Researcher for RAND. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, and a Masters of Arts and a Doctorate from University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Dr. Hunter is also an adjunct professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the former Chair of the Employment and Integration Subcommittee for the Secretary of Defense’s Advisory Committee of Women in the Services (DACOWITS). She serves on the advisory board for Impact: PEACE. While completing her dissertation was a researcher in residence at University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace and Justice. She is co-editor of "Invisible Veterans: What Happens When Women Become Civilians Again" (Preager Press, 2019) with Kate Thomas Hendricks. Her forthcoming book with Dr. Jeannette Haynie, "How Gender Shapes Security: The Wars We Fight," is forthcoming in December 2021. Dr. Hunter’s research focuses on the intersection of public policy and military effectiveness. Her work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, Armed Forces & Society, Georgetown Security Studies Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and numerous news outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIYZ84VMuP8bDw0T9K8S3g Krulak Center homepage on The Landing: https://unum.nsin.us/kcic