Conquer
This is a story of overcoming life’s setbacks and adversity, building strength and resilience, and finding hope in tough times.
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Authors Interviews
Interviews from Featured Authors
This is our most popular section where we conduct interviews with featured authors. During these interviews, you will hear about their writing process, the value they place on reading, mistakes they made along the way, and lessons for a junior leader.
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Leadership: A View from the Middle
LEADERSHIP: A VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE offers a refreshing perspective from a leader in “the middle” of the workforce, down in the weeds with millions of other like-minded people.
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Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace
Good Guys is the first practical, research-based guide for how to be a male ally to women in the workplace. Filled with firsthand accounts from both men and women, and tips for getting started, the book shows how men can partner with their female colleagues to advance women’s leadership and equality by breaking ingrained gender stereotypes, overcoming unconscious biases, developing and supporting the talented women around them, and creating productive and respectful working relationships with women.
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The Craft Of Wargaming
The Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations’ missions.
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Strategic Humanism
Strategic Humanism takes the reader through the works of Homer, Herodotus, ucydides, and Aristotle, laying out in clear and accessible terms their thoughts on leadership, war, and their relationship to individuals, nations, culture, and technology.
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The Herndon Climb
The Herndon Climb is an important and meaningful ritual in Naval Academy culture. Scaling the heavily greased, 21-foot tall Herndon
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TOPGUN’S TOP 10
The real-life inspiration for the blockbuster films Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School trains the top one
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis
James N. Mattis was the first Trump presidential cabinet nominee and received nearly unanimous, bipartisan support for his nomination, with only one disapproval. He received a rare waiver of the guidelines that exclude recently active military leaders from the position of Secretary of Defense. What could create such unprecedented unity, even enthusiasm, in the hyper-partisan political rancor of 2017?
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Naval Officer’s Guide to the Pentagon — Interview with RDML Fred Kacher and CDR Doug Robb
One of my favorite quotes is from Eleanor Roosevelt.Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to
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A Quiet Cadence – An Interview with Mark Treanor
I had the pleasure of reading Mark’s new book Quiet Cadence a few months ago. What most struck me most
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The Stringbags
If you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible.
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Ghosts Of The Valley
Ask around your local VFW about what a military police soldier does for a living.
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The Other Veterans Of World War II
For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical combat, have received scant attention.
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On Obedience
This volume is designed to be an in-depth and nuanced philosophical treatment of the virtue of obedience in the context of the professional military and the broader civilian political community, including the general citizenry.
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Redefining The Modern Military
We are proud to be partnering with the U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE to bring you the top of the line authors and interviews. This week we have Redefining The Modern Military by Tyrell Mayfield and Nathan Finney
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