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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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The Honorable Deborah Lee James served as the 23rd Secretary of the Air Force. Her book, Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find Success shares lessons and wisdom gleaned from a career in public and private service. From her Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) framework to the countless personal stories of challenge and success, they will appeal to any leader.
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A Military History of India since 1972 is a definitive work of contemporary Indian military history that is written from a joint perspective. It is a comprehensive account of India’s resolute, responsible, and restrained use of force as an instrument of statecraft and how the military has played an essential role in securing the country’s democratic traditions along with its rise as a responsible power of consequence.
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Interview by Dillon Fishman Fortune Favors Boldness’ is the motto of the U.S. Navy’s Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1 (CCDG-1). That team led the
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After a successful career in the US Navy, retired Rear Admiral Danelle Barrett knows plenty about effective, motivational leadership, and now she’s sharing it with anyone who strives to be a bold change leader.
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At Alaska’s Fugitive Task Force, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki are pulled from their duties and sent to a federal court in Juneau
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Daniel is a Professor at Naval Postgraduate School and Dr. Jan-benedict is Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Time To Lead: Lessons for today’s leaders from bold decisions that changed history.
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When 2020 turned the world on its side, former Navy SEAL, serial entrepreneur, and two-time best-selling author, Brent Gleeson was more prepared to pivot than most. Gleeson devotes his life to shifting directions and taking action.
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Leaders eager to make a difference by helping people and organizations be at their best will find Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters their go-to resource.
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Scott Huesing transports readers to the deadly streets of Iraq in this visceral, gripping portrayal of urban combat. Bound together by honor and surrounded by chaos, they battled on the frontlines of a war without rules against an elusive, ruthless enemy who wore no uniforms and showed little mercy.
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At a time of extraordinary uncertainty and anxiety, we are all searching for ways to stay calm and keep despair at bay. In STOIC WISDOM: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, Nancy Sherman draws on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others to bring ancient ideas to bear on 21st-century concerns.
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Former US Marine Craig Grossi and his dog Fred have appeared on the “Today Show’ and ‘Rachael Ray’, and in schools, bookstores, and military bases across America as they told the uplifting story of how Craig found Fred, a stray, while serving in Afghanistan–and brought him home.
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Artificial intelligence may be the most beneficial technological development of the twenty-first century, but it is often misunderstood outside of specialists in the field. AI at War provides a balanced and practical understanding of this dawning new technology, explaining the importance of machine learning, human-machine interfaces, and big data analysis, components that are often omitted or misunderstood.
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Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command
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The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine Nationale continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself.
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Three Ordinary Girls is the richly researched story of the young women whose acts of heroism represent the story of the Dutch resistance during World War II. Cinematically crafted and reconstructed by award-winning history author Tim Brady, the book paints a portrait of sisters and friends who cleverly wielded the only weapons at their disposal – wits, bravery, audacity, intelligence, and youth – to repeatedly undermine the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators.
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