Received an incredibly kind letter from our senior Army Strategist in the mail today. Humbling!

Great time at Leavenworth last night! www.cgscfoundation.org/dss-260617/

Great chat at Leavenworth tonight…and even better seeing old friends!

Excited to head to Leavenworth next week to talk “Orchestrating Power”! www.cgscfoundation.org/events/dss-2...

cracking open a cold one with the boys

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy | Science. Really important short-read from Stephan Lewandowsky. Might be of interest to @brianstelter.bsky.social & @jayrosen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extremely glad to see the tech is catching up to the need…I remember advocating for this requirement a decade ago…

“The third generation—social and AI both—can have empowerment and convenience together. But…it requires treating decentralization not as a technical preference but as the architecture democracy actually needs.” www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Why are so many dooming on US? "The present kaleidoscope of declinist discourse reflects the cumulative wreckage of US domestic class war, imperial destruction, and competition with China into a staggering array of diagnosis & prescription" Tim Barker in our first PW issue bsky.app/profile/phen...

Thanks to Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for a great conversation about “Orchestrating Power”! newbooksnetwork.com/orchestratin... @bethanywasik.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social @silbey.bsky.social

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Zurich as fun…spent the entire day just wandering and decompressing before heading home tomorrow. A family trip for the ages…

Hah. I’m going to run a series called Books And the Postcards Tucked Inside Here’s @nathankfinney.com’s new book, Orchestrating Power, with @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social short range fire from the Iberian peninsula in the town of Pedrouzo along the Camino Arzua. #greatpostcardwar2026

Stopover in Kandersteg as we left Zermatt, then to Zurich in time for the ballet (Romeo and Juliet).

Hiking!

Zermatt…

Duomo arigato…gelato.

Is it even a trip to Italy if most of the photos aren’t food? Well…lucky for us…there’s plenty of food (and some we made ourselves!).

Firenze…

Roma!

“The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering’s bombing planes.” This guy gets it.

Awards Program submission window open through 6/31! Apply: www.militarywritersguild.org/awards Check out last year’s Professional Category: Winner: Ryan Pallas www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/beyo... Hon. Mention: @nathankfinney.com www.fletchersecurity.org/reimagininga...

A decade ago today I was provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to help someone else. I have never regretted pursuing that opportunity. If you have can donate an organ (especially a kidney!), I cannot encourage you enough to do so. It’s life changing. Thinking of you, Francesca.

“China’s leaders remain confident that America’s challenges are more severe than their own. They are making a long-term bet that the United States is hastening a decline that will necessitate a more central and powerful role for China in a new world order.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"According to Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun on Tuesday, NATO recently asked South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to join the Starlift project." en.sedaily.com/internationa...

Really excited to offer this writer' retreat opportunity for Military Writers Guild members! If you're a member and want a few day in a scenic location working on your writing...this is for you. Apply now! www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...

Have a story about an American innovation born from war that shaped civilian life, the military, or society? We welcome your submissions. Selected contributors will compete for War on the Rocks memberships and cash prizes.

Excited to join the great team at the University of South Florida’s Global & National Security Institute as a senior fellow! I already experienced their great undergraduate strategy competition a few weeks ago…& I look forward to many more great projects and activities! www.usf.edu/gnsi/about/f...

Can’t wait for this book to come out later this year…look for my chapter on the American mobilization for WWI!

10-mile conditioning hike around Bragg today with Jennifer. A little warm, but a beautiful day!

“A secure hemisphere is not a supporting condition for American global power projection. It is a prerequisite.” mwi.westpoint.edu/mind-the-gap...

Carlisle…

Beautiful morning reliving my life at Carlisle Barracks a dozen years ago…

“The establishment of the US Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC) represents the most significant reorganization of Army theater-level command in the Western Hemisphere since the creation of USNORTHCOM nearly a quarter of a century earlier.” mwi.westpoint.edu/mind-the-gap...

US Army Strategists unite! Great to have a handful of current and former FA59s supporting GNSI’s undergraduate strategy competition…

Beautiful morning run around USF before the undergraduate strategy competition. Could not have asked for better weather…

SUPER excited about these new MWG opportunities! Took a ton of work and years to get it off the ground. Highly recommend MWG members apply for these fully funded writing retreat opportunities!

SUPER excited about these new MWG opportunities! Took a ton of work and years to get it off the ground. Highly recommend MWG members apply for these fully funded writing retreat opportunities!

So proud of this smart, talented, soon-to-be HS graduate! She’s rocked it the last few years @uncsa.bsky.social…and we look forward to her continuing to grow there next year at the university level. 😍🫶🏻🩰

Bedazzled by the great Kate (Dahlstrand)!

Adventures in the Western Hemisphere…

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... @nathankfinney.com really cool episode!

I appreciate @kschake.bsky.social's efforts to shed light on these vital issues, but I am less sanguine Politicization operates through multiple mechanisms not captured by analyzing the credentials or past partisan commentary of senior officers replacing those who have been fired. 1/

My terrific RA, Caleb Dixon, and I tracked the military firings and replacements so you can judge whether the military leadership is being politicized: www.aei.org/military-ous...

From time to time…when I need a reminder of what’s important in this world…or what I should be doing in it…I return to the wise words of Jonathan Murad. This speech still slaps a dozen+ years later…

USAF is placing all bets on ISR in orbit. And the thing is, the Army already played this game when it thought 2000s era RPAs would replace the need for ground reconnaissance. Neither are untouchable and we will regret it.

Great trip to San Antonio and Leavenworth to talk to folks about U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command. Much BBQ was consumed…

Come listen to three historians geek out on history, the military, and life!