Motivational Mondays
Tiger Woods “EDUCATION IS PRIORITY OVER ANY SPORT, BECAUSE WITHOUT A MIND YOU CANNOT CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY.” Arnold Schwarzenegger THE
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We Have Ways Pod
From across the Pond comes a highly informative, and extremely entertaining podcast on World War II, titled “We Have Ways”. The name of the show comes both from the very clichéd line, “Vee haf vays of making you talk” used by menacing cinematic Nazi interrogators right up to the first Indiana Jones movie, and also a key laugh line in the 1980s WW II Britcom ‘Allo, ‘Allo (more on that show, and its relevance, later).
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A Quiet Cadence
A Quiet Cadence: A Novel by Mark Treanor (Naval Institute Press, May 2020, 392 pages) We Few, We Happy Few The
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Lions of the Sky
Lions of the Sky by Paci Chierici (Braveship Books, 2019, 292 pages) Lions of the Sky by Paco Chierici was
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A review: “First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our Country” by Thomas Ricks
First Principles is an indispensable work that must permeate classrooms and personal libraries. Thomas Ricks bestows several years of study to include: Aristotle, Plutarch, Cato, Cicero, Presidential personal letters, journals, Greek, Roman, and Scottish history (sixty-four pages of notes with endless resources) neatly packaged into Parts I, II, and III with the epilogue being the crowning jewel.
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AMEX Credit Card – The #1 Card for Military
NOTE: Signing up for this AMEX card provides me compensation and supports high quality content for DODReads.com Under the Servicemembers
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Why We Lead Military Reading List Quote Request
Christopher Little from “Why We Lead” and DODReads are partnering together to help fund the mission of supporting life-long learners
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Become The Next DODReads Affiliate
DODReads is looking for a few military professionals to promote the Military reading list that are sold on DODReads. The affiliate
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Miltary Spouse Resources
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Mil Spouse
This is the first Milspouse blog post Some current websites that cater to MilSpouses: Military Spouse Jobs The MILSPO Project
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Like Care Packages for your Brain… 11 Ways to Request Books for your Command
Like my buddy Storm Williams likes to say, “getting a box of books is like a care package for the
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V-E Day Inspires Hope To A Weary Europe
On May 8, millions in Europe celebrated V-E Day or Victory in Europe Day.
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DRAFT — Example top 10 List –DRAFT
Red Burning Sky Hosts:Damien O’Connell, facilitator of decision games, founder of the Warfighting Society, and Non-Resident Fellow at Marine Corps
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Presidents And The Military: Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…”
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A Few Good Reasons to Follow The Crowd
Behind all advice is an unspoken expectation that the one who follows ends up unhappy and unsatisfied with life. We like to think of crowed followers as lemmings simply going along with the flow and failing to living life to their the full potential.