Army Major Keith Boring spent much of 2006 and 2007, his second Iraq combat tour, as a battalion plans officer for 1-40 …
War Story
The Yellow Birds: An Iraq Veteran’s Novel Gives a View from the Inside
War has always been a strange and distant endeavor, brought home from the battlefields in letters, photographs and stories after the guns fell silent. Then beginning with the war in Vietnam, images of battlefield violence were …
Not (Just) Another Reading List
My Battleland colleague Nate Rawlings has done excellent work at keeping us all aware of trends in official Army reading lists. Like many veterans, I suppose, I have a shelf of books I own solely because some previous commander put it on his mandatory reading list. These lists are handed down as part of the boilerplate leadership …
The 3 Bs: Be Kind, Be Courteous, Be Prepared to Kill
Army Major Tyler Andersen served in Iraq in 2007 and 2008, and reflected on his service there in a January 2012 interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here are some highlights:
Like what’s spoken at the COIN Academy and something I’ve kept with me, the three Bs: be kind, be courteous, and be prepared
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