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The #BruteCast is a lecture and discussion series hosted by the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, Marine Corps Base Quantico. The #BruteCast connects the worlds of the warfighter and professional military education (PME) with the best in innovative and creative thought.

This is the first episode in a series that will look at a wide range of topics pertaining to Russia. Our host is Dr. Victoria Clement and she talks with Dr. Marat Iliyasov, a Chechen scholar. Their main topic of discussion is Chechnya's troubles with Putin's Russia. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the US Government.Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAIppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

In this episode, Dr. Tarzi is back and discusses the affects on Iran of the death of Ebrahim Raisi, former president of Iran and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, former foreign minister of Iran after a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement?

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This week we're joined by MSgt Jonathan Hackett to talk about some of the topics he writes about in his new book 'Theory of Irregular War' published this year.You can find the book from the publisher here: https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theory-of-irregular-war/All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the US Government.Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAIppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

Krulak Center Non Resident Fellow Preston McLaughlin is back in this episode to talk about Irregular Warfare and EABO.

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Dr. Clement is back on the BruteCast in this episode to discuss the recent Russian Elections held in March 2024. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

Exactly a week after the Kingdom of Sweden officially joined NATO, the Krulak Center was happy to host two students from the Swedish Defence University. We took the opportunity to sit down with them and learn a little bit more about the Swedish Military.

You can find links to the videos shown below:

Chief of Defence, General Micael Bydén, on Sweden's accession to NATO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNpp2ytbp54

US and Swedish marines train together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1VDNlpEO4

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We're joined by Dr. Christopher Harmon this week as he discusses some of the ways that terrorist organizations obtain funding. He then discusses some ways that states can combat these methods. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

The process of life long learning is important to Marines, regardless of rank. In this episode we talk with Dr. Christopher Harmon, a distinguished fellow with the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare. Our topic of discussion is Winston Churchill and his propensity for self-learning in his younger years leading up to WWII. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

In this episode of Navigating Complexity we're joined by Dr. Christopher Anzalone, the other half of the Middle East Studies here at Marine Corps University. With the recent activity in the middle east we've expanded our look beyond Israel and Gaza. Dr. Anzalone discusses the Houthis.

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On October 1st, 2022 we published a #BruteCast with COL Bill Edwards, USA(Ret) where we discussed the use of small UAS in a kinetic role. Nearly 18 months later we've seen a massive proliferation of these weapons while watching the war in Ukraine their their 'eyes'. The use of drones in combination with cruise missiles is also on the rise in the Red Sea at the time of recording.

The website mentioned by COL Edwards is linked here:www.phoenix6consulting.com

There will find additional information about COL Edwards as well as for the courses he mentions at the end of his presentation:

Drone Vulnerability and Assessment
Drone Emergency Response Planning
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (CUAS) and Law

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In this episode we spent time looking at Russian Strategic Culture and why they make some of their decisions. Our guest is Dr. Victoria Clement the new Russia SME here at the Krulak Center.

NOTE: There was a visual component to this discussion, where applicable additional audio was added to explain some of the visuals that were not described at the time of recording.

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In this episode we brought back two guests familiar to the BruteCast audience: Sebastian Bae and Ian Brown. They offer their presentation on Wargaming in the Marine Corps. This is based off the article they coauthored for Vol 12 No 2, 2021 of JAMS, published by Marine Corps University Press. You can find a link to the issue here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/MCU-Journal/JAMS-vol-12-no-2/

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In this episode we talk to Dr. Edward J. Erickson and Col Frederick Lorenz, USMC(Ret) about the the new edition of their book "Strategic Waters: Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin". The issue of freshwater scarcity has always been of vital concern to humans, and today it is increasingly characterized as a strategic factor in security planning. In the Euphrates-Tigris basin, water apportionment and management combined with climate change are increasingly emerging as threats to regional stability. The United States has a longterm strategic interest in the Euphrates-Tigris basin that, in turn, is directly linked to the national interests of the riparian states. The expanded second edition of Strategic Water: Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin updates analysis of the geopolitical situation and expands coverage of the aspirations of the basin countries. Finally, the book presents new conclusions and a proposed framework for action in the next 10 to 20 years.You can find a PDF copy of the book here, from Marine Corps University Press: https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/Strategic-Water-Expanded-Edition/All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

We discuss new events and developments in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

In order to have a better idea of what's out there and how other people may view the world, we want to talk with more of our partners. Previously we spoke with the Chilean Marine Corps and now we're going to taking a trip to the United Kingdom.

We're talking about the mission of the Land Warfare Centre and how it falls into the overall scheme of the British Army. Our guest is WO2(SQMS) Paul Barnes. He's a part of the Warfare Branch at the Land Warfare Centre in the UK.

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For this episode, we welcome LtCol Chris Jackson USMC(Ret), the program director of the Warrior PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Training for Helping Heroes) at Sheep Dog Impact Assistance. We're talking about Post Traumatic Growth and learning to thrive in in the aftermath of trauma.Additional Resources:Books:Struggle Well by Ken Falke and Josh GoldbergMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der KolkThe Gift by Edith EgerExcommunicated Warrior by Nick KoumalatsosVideos:This is the "On Duty" video about Warrior PATHH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjkd7aYNvgThis is the "Reborn" video about Struggle Well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuk0DMa6olgTucson Police Department implementation of Struggle Well into their academy - https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/how-tpd-recruits-learn-to-struggle-wellWebsites:This is the Boulder Crest Struggle Well webpage (a lot of good information on the program here) - https://bouldercrest.org/program/struggle-well/This is Boulder Crest Foundation (creators of the curriculum) - https://bouldercrest.org/This is the Avalon Action Alliance (PTSD, TBI, Substance Abuse) - https://www.avalonactionalliance.org/All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

We discuss new events and developments in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. During the episode, Dr. Tarzi mentions an article from the Middle East Studies newsletter, 'MES Insights', authored by Brigadier General (retired) Shlomo Brom of the IDF. You can find a link to that article here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/MES-Publications/MES-Insights/The-War-in-Gaza/

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We're joined this week by returning guest (and now non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center) Dr. Elena Wicker. We talk about jargon, terminology, and words. We also talk about the steps to follow to create your own buzzword! Stay through to the end and find out the buzzword we're going to work to make happen.

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We discuss new events and developments in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas with Dr. Amin Tarzi.

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Dr. Tarzi explains some of the history behind why Gaza is where it is and what it is. In our continuing series, we take a quick step back from current events in order to provide some historical context to the current geopolitical situation in that region. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

We sat down with the director of Middle East Studies at Marine Corps University to discuss what we know and what we don't know about the current conflict occurring in Israel.

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What risks do we accept and what opportunities do we miss by not opening our aperture to the maritime environment? What security challenges do we face? As the Marine Corps continues our pivot to the Pacific, how do we need to think about the Sea beyond "It's the thing we ride on in order to make our way to battle". This is a continuing mini series within the BruteCast focused on the maritime domain.Our guests are Lisa Mackinnon Munde (@lmm20071 on X/Twitter) and Dr. Sal Mercogliano (@mercoglianos on X/Twitter). Dr. Mercogliano's YouTube channel "What's Going on With Shipping" can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

This episode is in Spanish. Subtitled translations can be found on our YouTube channel:

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The Krulak Center's own LCDR Franco Ibacache is going to be talking from leaders of the Cuerpo de Infanteria de Marina de Chile (Chilean Marine Corps) about partnerships and the service.All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

A discussion on leadership challenges from a Communications Officer, LtCol Arun Shankar. LtCol Shankar is a non-Resident Fellow at the Krulak Center. He's an 0505, MAGTF Planner, as well as a former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He's currently with USSPACECOM.All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government. Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

A discussion with Dr. Claude Berube, director of the US Naval Academy Museum, on Maritime Security Companies and Maritime NGOs.

The articles mentioned in the recording:

https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=ciwag-case-studies

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030438707000774

For a link to the Gallup Poll mentioned: https://news.gallup.com/poll/170657/americans-say-army-important-branch-defense.aspx

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A discussion of territorial disputes on the ocean floor focusing on the South China Sea with Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow Drake Long.

The Science of Military Strategy document mentioned at the top of the episode can be found here: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/CASI/documents/Translations/2022-01-26%202020%20Science%20of%20Military%20Strategy.pdfYou can follow Drake Long at:Twitter: @DRM_LongBlueSky: @drmlong.bsky.socialLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drake-long-014991a1All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect those of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.Enjoyed this episode? Think there's room for improvement? Share your thoughts in this quick survey - all feedback is welcome! The survey may be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenRutN5m31Pfe9h7FAlppPWoN1s_2ZJyBeA7HhYhvDbazdCw/viewform?usp=sf_linkIntro/outro music is "Epic" from BenSound.com (https://www.bensound.com)Follow the Krulak Center:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/Twitter: @TheKrulakCenterBlueSky Social: @thekrulakcenter.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brute-krulak-center-for-innovation-and-future-warfare

Before World War II, the U.S. Navy relied on an ad hoc system to manage logistical support for its ships. The scale and geography of the war in the Pacific nullified earlier ways of acquiring and distributing sufficient materiel. This booklet explores the ways in which the Navy conceptualized and implemented overseas logistics from the age of sail through the Pacific War. These processes, both in their planned form and actual operation, reveal two significant themes: (1) logistics is line work; and (2) preparation and planning ahead of time are critical for the successful execution of operations, without which the Navy struggled to supply forward-deployed personnel.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/publications/publications-by-subject/logistics.html

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Today’s strategic environment has returned the conversation back to Great Power Competition, the competition of two large nations in the pursuit of their interests and to influence interstate relations. As our focus has shifted from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan towards our pacing threat in the Pacific, so has our focus away from Irregular Warfare. But, not every nation is a great power, and as we’ve seen from the end of World War II and especially since the end of the Cold War, not every military conflict is between two great powers. Where do we focus our limited attention in this new strategic environment? We are joined by Krulak Center non-Resident Fellow, Preston McLaughlin in this discussion.

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We're back #TeamKrulak community, it's the first episode of the Kiwi era. For obvious reasons, we've concentrated on the South China Sea as we talk about the First and Second Island Chains in regards to our pacing threat, China. This episode, we welcome back non-Resident Fellow Dr. Joanna Siekiera as she discusses China and and its affects on European Security along with possible ways forward.

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With last season now "in the can" we are starting to gear up for our next season of the BruteCast. With that we'll have a few changes that this short announcement will cover.

First, we're going to have a new host: Maj Nate "Kiwi" Jaenichen. It's his voice you'll hear going forward in the new seasons for non-"Down the Rabbit Hole" episodes.

Second, we're going to adjust to a posting a new episode every two weeks to our various platforms but will continue to conduct the Live portions of the events when and where we are able. You can join us there or wait for the publishing as normal.

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A weekend filled with hot takes on an armed hot dog vendor and 25,000 of his closest friends came to an end as befuddling as its beginning - the mutiny/insurrection/coup/road trip begun by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin came to a halt 200km south of Moscow 24 hours after it started. Some of Wagner is joining the Russian army, some is going to Belarus, and Prigozhin's prospects are unclear. #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellows Ian Brown and Dr. Yuval Weber don't claim to have the answers to this bizarre sequence of events, but will at least get you up to date on where all the players currently stand.

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So, we don’t know much, but we can say this: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s favorite hot dog stand vendor and head of the Wagner Group, is in open conflict with Russia's Ministry of Defense. It’s no longer a war of words, as the Wagner Group has seized the city from which the Ministry of Defense is directing the “special military operation” in Ukraine, and appears to be moving its combat forces toward Moscow. Newly minted #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellows Ian Brown and Dr. Yuval Weber give the first of what will likely be many updates on this unexpected turn of events.

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TeamKrulak community, we wrapped up this season of the #BruteCast in style - we were joined by General David Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps! When General Berger assumed his duties as the 38th Commandant, his Planning Guidance laid out a far-reaching vision for reforming and adapting the Marine Corps for the challenges of what looked to be a turbulent decade for the United States and its partners around the world. We asked General Berger about his time in office, the impact of Force Design 2030 on the Fleet Marine Force, challenges he thinks the 39th Commandant will need to deal with, and more!

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We were excited for the chance to welcome the Talent Management Strategy Group back to the #BruteCast for the latest updates on #TalentManagement2030. They discussed the All-Volunteer Force Symposium, the first update document to Talent Management 2030, the All-Services Talent Management Summit, and more!

The latest information on Talent Management 2030 can be found here: https://www.marines.mil/Talent-Management-2030/

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Over the weekend, it appeared that the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive was finally underway. In this episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber looks at the initial movements and conditions of the counteroffensive thus far, along with recent meetings among Russian exile groups regarding that nation's future, and the latest in the turf war between Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia's Ministry of Defense.

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"Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" returns with #TeamKrulak #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber. We begin picking up where the last episode left off, with the Russian military trying - and failing - to eject anti-#Putin military groups from the Belgorod region; signs that the anticipated #Ukranian counteroffensive might be beginning; and the unfolding humanitarian and ecological disaster caused by today's collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern #Ukraine.

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The #BruteCast was pleased to welcome Ambassador Philip S. Kosnett and a panel of contributors to discuss the recently released book Boots and Suits: Historical Cases and Contemporary Lessons in Military Diplomacy (Marine Corps University Press, 2023). This book seeks to explain military diplomacy through the lens of both the military and the diplomatic corps of countries, including perspectives from the United States, the Netherlands, and Turkey, among others. It examines the aspects of military diplomacy as used by nations and what differentiates this concept from both military confrontation and diplomatic overtures when used as discrete concepts by nation-states rather than employing military diplomacy to advance their strategic goals.

Our panelists were Amb. Philip Kosnett (Ret.), Heather Steil, Alison Storsve, Joanne Cummings, and Michael Skaggs. NOTE: in the recording, Mr. Skaggs is incorrectly identified as a contractor. He currently serves as a civilian senior lecturer for strategy and policy at Defense Security University.

You can request a hard copy of the book from the Press by emailing them at mcu_press@usmcu.edu, or download the PDF here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Boots%20and%20Suits_web.pdf

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The Allied campaign in Burma during World War II was one of the most challenging and complex of the conflict, with weather, terrain, and competing strategic objectives among the problems the combined Allied force needed to solve to drive back the occupying forces of Imperial Japan. In this episode, Dr. Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Dr. Ryan Grauer looked at how Allied commanders nevertheless managed to supply, organize, and motivate their composite force to drive the Japanese out in 1945.

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TeamKrulak #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber returns for an update on the war in #Ukraine, with developments both abroad and on the battlefield. We discussed how Putin's focus on #Ukraine has altered the balance of power in the conflict between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan; the nuclear arrangement with #Belarus; 18th-century cartography as a casus belli; the situation in #Bakhmut and extremely online Yevgeny Prigozhin's latest Telegram rants against Russian military leadership; the bizarre situation in Belgorod as Putin sent in the Russian military to defend local Russians from other Russians invading Russia; and wrap up with the implications of #Ukraine's rapid integration of the Patriot missile system into their air defense, F-16s entering the chat, and a little hypersonic treason.

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TeamKrulak community, thanks to the auspices of our friends at the Air Force's Tesseract office, we're pleased to welcome two of the biggest names in military adaptation and innovation to the #BruteCast! Dr. Nora Bensahel and LtGen David Barno, USA (Ret.) join us to talk about military adaptation and the future of war, including their insights on what they have seen unfold on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Dr. Bensahel and LtGen Barno mention the "Strategic Outpost" column they write at War on Rocks, which can be found here: https://warontherocks.com/category/special-series/strategic-outpost/. You can contact them at strategicoutpost@gmail.com.

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It's been a big week for things blowing up, from Russian oil storage depots in Crimea to flagpoles on top of the Kremlin to ranting mercenaries on Telegram. #TeamKrulak #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber takes us through all these things in our latest episode.

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Back in March, the Army Leader Exchange decided to run its own #MarchMadness tournament highlighting military media content creators, and after many intense rounds of voting, the finalists, who all joined the #BruteCast on this panel, stood poised to claim the title of Content Creator Champion. Now, while few us needed an excuse to build yet another playoff bracket during March, this contest also shined a light on just how different military leaders and curators of military professional development content were using #socialmedia platforms to share useful educational knowledge with a wider community. So we were very excited to have the finalists join us to share their perspectives on the uses of social media as a knowledge base, engagement tool, and professional development resource for those in uniform looking to prepare themselves and their subordinates for the challenges of future warfare. Our panel guests were: Sasha Maggio, Nikki Dean, Dr. Elena Wicker, and LtCol Travis Hord, #USMC.

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U.S. policymakers and strategists have long understood there are many more instruments involved in national security policy development and implementation than the DIME model (Diplomacy - Information - Military - Economic). Law Enforcement, often misunderstood, if not forgotten, is one of these instruments. Yet it possesses a powerful combination of hard and soft power, complements all other Instruments of National Power, and can bewielded at all levels – political - strategic, operational, and tactical. In this discussion, Marine Corps University's FBI Chair Supervisory Special AgentJoseph F. Garbato addresses existing generalizations and misconceptions, defines the instrument, and underscores its utility.

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"Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" returns with Dr. Yuval Weber for a look at #Russia's self-bombing of Belgorod, new repressive population measures in occupied #Ukraine, the recent phone call between Chairman Xi Jinping and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and more.

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This #BruteCast continues our look at one of the themes we’ve discussed a lot over the last several months, and that’s the many different ways entities around the Marine Corps are contributing to the Fleet-wide changes underway with Force Design 2030. We welcomed two guests from the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA), Major Steve Gore and Capt Brian Atkinson, to tell us more about what MCTSSA does, their specific roles in naval systems integration and JADC2, and how this all feeds into Force Design 2030.

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Well, this is what we get for waiting too long between episodes - Dr. Yuval Weber, #TeamKrulak's #Russia subject matter expert, had a lot of ground to cover today. We discussed the assassination of #Russian milblogger Vladlen Tatarsky via exploding statuette, Finland formally joining #NATO, what renewed violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan means about #Putin's inability to meet regional security commitments, videos circulating showing the brutal execution and mutilation of #Ukrainian prisoners of war by #Russian soldiers, and finally the rapidly unfolding story of the spillage of classified US intelligence on the gaming app #Discord.

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TeamKrulak community, we're pleased to bring you this special #BruteCast episode with LtCol Jan Eldeblad of Swedish Defence University, who was visiting Marine Corps University this week to explore collaboration on #wargaming and other topics. We talked about #wargaming, increasing integration between military and civil authorities on national security challenges, his recent visit to #Ukraine, and more!

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Strategic competition requires persistent presence and engagement with partners and allies around the globe. And while competition with China in the INDOPACOM region garners regular attention, the US AFRICOM area of responsibility has become increasingly critical to effectively countering the pacing threat. Under AFRICOM, the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) conducts operations to enhance partner nation capacity, promote regional stability, dissuade conflict, and protect U.S. and partner interests.

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1 November, 1945, was supposed to be "X-Day" - the beginning of the largest amphibious operation in history, landing Allied forces on the Japanese island of Kyushu. This would mark the start of Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan's home islands, which Allied leaders expected would be necessary to end World War II. Ultimately, Operation Downfall was cancelled after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan. Yet Downfall was well into the planning stages when World War II ended, and estimates of the invasion's possible outcomes expected casualty levels in the millions for all sides. #BruteCast alumnus Skip Crawley takes us back through the preparations and anticipated execution of the invasion that never happened.

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We welcomed author Ms. Emily Abdow to this episode of the #BruteCast to talk about her new book ⁠The Boxer Rebellion: Bluejackets and Marines in China, 1900-1901⁠ (Naval History and Heritage Command, 2023). In the summer of 1900, foreign diplomats living in Beijing’s Legation Quarter were besieged by Chinese imperial soldiers and “Boxers,” members of a secret society determined to rid China of foreign influence. Defending the LegationQuarter was a small international guard that included 56 American sailors and marines. Relief of the Legation Quarter required additional U.S. sailors, marines, and soldiers to join an international coalition and face the significantly larger force of imperial soldiers and Boxers. The conflict was the U.S. military’s first taste of coalition warfare on a global stage and its first time meeting China on the battlefield.

Ms. Abdow's book is available for free as a PDF from the Naval History and Heritage Command: https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/publications/publication-508-pdf/Boxer_Rebellion_508.pdfMs. Abdow also has an article available on the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/early-20th-century-conflicts/veracruz-1914.html

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Welcome to this unique crossover event featuring two of #TeamKrulak's resident regional SMEs! Last week, Chairman Xi Jinping of #China and President Vladimir Putin of #Russia met for 3 days of talks concerning mutual cooperation, opposition to the U.S.-led global order, and Putin's ongoing invasion of #Ukraine. Our #China SME Mr. Dan Rice and #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber helped us understand what each side got - or didn't get - out of these talks, and what we might expect from the Russia-China relationship going forward.

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This episode gets to the central topic Dr. Yuval Weber and host Maj Ian Brown planned to cover in the last episode - the bitter fight around #Bakhmut. They discuss the factors at play in why both #Russia and #Ukraine have committed forces so deeply to the battle, and note that the lenses through which Western observers view this particular piece of the war may be very different from how the belligerents view it.

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This past Friday, unexpected news broke that #Iran and #Saudi Arabia - after seven years of confrontational relations - had agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties and re-open their respective embassies in the coming months. And standing prominently in the background as Iranian and Saudi diplomats shook hands was #China's own top diplomat. Dr. Amin Tarzi, director of Middle East Studies at the Krulak Center and Marine Corps University, joined us for a special #BruteCast episode on where Iranian/Saudi relations went sour, why each side has opted for diplomacy, and the implications for the region as well as China and the U.S.'s relations with the countries there.

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This "Rabbit Hole" episode was supposed to be about the fighting around #Bakhmut, but breaking news today got our team's attention. With reports that #Russian fighter aircraft had intercepted an American MQ-9 Reaper drone and subsequently caused the drone to crash because of "reckless, environmentally unsound, and unprofessional" flight maneuvers that also "demonstrat[ed] a lack of competence," Dr. Yuval Weber and Maj Ian Brown looked at just what the Russian pilot might have been thinking (spoiler alert: thinking did not appear to enter into the equation). With echoes of recent #Chinese jet interceptions in the South China Sea, Maj Brown took listeners through a quick, and passionate, class on aviation safety (quite passionate, we had to bleep him out a couple of times). Dr. Weber also reviewed another breaking story that #Russia appears to be doubling down on its Suicide Squad recruiting technique by seeking female convicts to bolster depleted ranks.

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For this episode of the #BruteCast, we were thrilled to welcome back one of our very first guests! #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Chris Elles, and Alex Gallo of the Common Mission Project, joined us to talk about the "Hacking 4 Defense" innovation methodology. "Hacking 4 Defense" is a rapidly growing Lean Start Up-based methodology and has grown into the de facto standard for defense innovation education.

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Thanks to the generosity of the College of Distance Education and Training, in this very special episode we got to hear from Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Budaievskyi, who currently serves as Chief of Section of International Partners, Cooperation, and Development in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He has served in uniform for 17 years, and also represented Ukraine in the 2017 Invictus Games as a professional swimmer. He graduated from the Marine Corps' Command and Staff College in 2019, and so we are pleased to welcome him back to Quantico to share his experiences and insights on the war in #Ukraine.

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TeamKrulak's #China SME Mr. Dan Rice returned to the #BruteCast for his third episode, and this time around it was all about taking your questions. We discussed the recent shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon, diplomatic exchanges between Beijing and #Russia and #Belarus, fishing fleets, and more!

Mr. Rice touched on Chinese influence in #Africa, which he covered in more detail in the latest issue of Middle East Studies Insights: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/MES%20Insights_Rice_14_1.pdf

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As promised, #TeamKrulak offers our second "Rabbit Hole" episode this week on the 1-year mark of #Russia's latest invasion of #Ukraine. In the last few episodes, among other things we've reviewed developments in Western military assistance provided to #Ukraine. Here, #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber lays out #Putin's ability to keep the Russian war machine going for another year. Putin has mortgaged Russia's future in the hopes of present victory in #Ukraine, but economic trends suggest a losing bet in the long run.

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In the latest "Down The Rabbit Hole," #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber notes that if you blinked and thought you missed the Russian winter offensive, you're not alone; covers U.S. President Biden's visit to #Kyiv in #Ukraine with the math to confirm that Biden has spent more time in #Ukraine since the war started than Putin; previews a likely "corner turned" speech Putin is preparing to give to the Russian Assembly; and concludes with a look at fighter jets, which are the new tanks, which were the new HIMARS, which were the new Javelins.

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In this episode, we welcomed back two guests who we interviewed almost exactly a year ago. In the early days of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, we invited Dr. Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins onto the #BruteCast to discuss their book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century, which back then was slated for publication later in 2022. The book focused on "how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of perception." The war was less than a month old when we talked with them, but already it had become clear that information and narrative, promulgated through countless personal electronic devices and social media accounts, were going to be key battlegrounds in the conflict.

As the invasion approaches its 1-year mark, Dr. Ford and Professor Hoskins returned to tell us what elements of #RadicalWar they've seen on Ukraine's battlefields, how Russia, Ukraine, and the world have adapted (or not) to the leveraging of the information domain, and more.

Radical War is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-War-Attention-Control-Twenty-First/dp/0197656544

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The Marine Corps has always been energetic in capturing and telling its own story, and one medium for doing so has always been visual art. In this episode, we welcomed members of the Combat Art Program, in which talented active duty Marines, Reservists, and civilian artists document Marine Corps life on the battlefield and while training for battle, during humanitarian missions, and on the home front. The Combat Art Program generates works that provide an authentic and unvarnished focus these on our very human Marines as they operate under the most trying of circumstances.

Our guests on this episode were Mike Reynolds, C.J. Baumann, Elize McKelvey, and Kris Battles. Learn more about the Combat Art Program here: https://www.usmcmuseum.com/usmccombatartprogram.html

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TeamKrulak community, you've joined us for past #BruteCast discussions on Force Design 2030, wargaming future concepts, and Talent Management 2030 - now the last piece of the vision laid out in the 2019 Commandant's Planning Guidance has dropped into place. On January 24, "Training and Education 2030" was released, and we were excited to welcome two Marines from Training and Education Command to explain it. LtCol Mark Saville and Maj Matthew Morse walked us through how Training and Education 2030 will prepare the future force with improvements to doctrine, training from the individual to the Service level, data sharing, and professional military education.

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Our latest episode merges two areas #TeamKrulak has extensively focused on: #wargaming and #China. Earlier this month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies presented a report on a series of wargames they ran which simulated an attempted Chinese amphibious assault on #Taiwan. The results of these games generated much discussion about deterrence, defense against amphibious assault, and the cost such an invasion might impose on all parties involved. Taking us through these topics are Matthew Cancian, PhD, the game's designer, and Dan Rice, our own China SME, who participated in the games.

Read the full CSIS wargame report here: https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan

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The "Rabbit Hole" returns to grapple with the 70-ton, 120mm smoothbore gun elephant in the room - tanks. Dr. Yuval Weber and #TeamKrulak operations officer Maj Ian Brown discuss the varying types, challenges, and possible employment of the tanks now being made available to #Ukraine, along with the context of tanks in the pending offensives by both #Ukraine and #Russia. Other promised or potential additions to Western military aid are also part of the discussion, with a look ahead to our next episode which will focus on the #Russian economic clock.

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The #BruteCast returns with an episode on something that is both an interesting historical case study of attempted military innovation, and an initiative close to the heart of our namesake, "Brute" Krulak: the Combined Action Program undertaken by the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Cavender Sutton has researched this program in detail, and joined us to discuss his insights.

Mr. Sutton referenced an article he wrote for the Winter 2022 issue of the Marine Corps History journal entitled "'To Take Some of That Fear Away:' Task Cohesion and Combat Effectiveness Among Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam, 1965-71." The Winter 2022 issue can be found here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Marine%20Corps%20History_8_2_Winter%202022-23_web_FINAL_1_1.pdf

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In this episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole," Dr. Yuval Weber reviews the horrific missile attack on an apartment complex in #Dnipro, new Western military aid packages to #Ukraine, and initial preparations both #Ukraine and #Russia are making for likely spring offensive operations. Also added to the surreal lexicon of this war is the concept of "performative air defense" by #Russia.

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We're excited to bring you the first #BruteCast of 2023 with the return of a Krulak Center alum chairing a timely discussion on cyber warfare in Ukraine. About a month into the war, we hosted a panel on how the cyber conflict in Ukraine had unfolded, both in things expected and unexpected. With the invasion of Ukraine approaching the one-year mark, Dr. Brandon Valeriano and Mr. Gavin Wilde will look at what the world has seen - and not seen - in the conduct of cyber warfare during the conflict.

You can read Mr. Wilde's reports, as well as other cyber research on the war in Ukraine from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, here: https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/technology/cyberconflictintherussiaukrainewar

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"Down the Rabbit Hole" returns with a focus on the intense fighting now ongoing in and around the town of Soledar. Dr. Yuval Weber, #TeamKrulak's Russia subject matter expert, looks at the combat underway there and the implications of the Wagner Group private military company leading Russian efforts. We also discussed the recent appointment of Russian General Valery Gerasimov as Putin's point man for the "special military operation," rumors of a large second wave of Russian mobilization coming soon, and Western announcements of the provision of infantry fighting vehicles (and maybe tanks? maybe not?) to the Ukrainian military.

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Russia's invasion of #Ukraine approaches its 11th month and has crossed into a new year, and #TeamKrulak's Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber brings us up to speed on the last two weeks and what 2023 bodes. We discuss two very different leadership trips - Zelensky to Washington, DC, and Putin to Minsk - Russia's days-long drone and missile attacks on Ukraine entering the new year, and today's HIMARS strike on a Russian barracks in the town of Makiivka in occupied Donetsk which reportedly caused hundreds of Russian casualties.

NOTE: there were some small audio issues in the recording of this episode.

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This episode continued our look at some of the changes taking place across the Marine Corps under #ForceDesign2030, and highlighted an example of practical application and experimentation. Our guests discussed how the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command contributes to Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR) training and Service-level experimentation. They covered how the exercises prepare deployed forces to assure allies and partners; the defense of key maritime terrain against amphibious assault; counter-landing operations; how the MLR enables naval and joint forces to execute decisive operations in contested space; and a number of other topics, with some great questions from our virtual audience!

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Dr. Njord Wegge is a professor at Norwegian Defence University College/Norwegian Military Academy, and for the last 6 months has been resident at Marine Corps University as Chair of Arctic Security. We talked about Norway's strategic outlook, the challenges and requirements for American and NATO forces to operate in the High North, Russian threats in the context of the ongoing invasion of #Ukraine, and more.

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Understanding complex military concepts on one's own is hard; distilling their essence to quickly and coherently explain them to others is much harder. Our guest on this episode, 1stLt Kayla Haas, has nevertheless cracked the code on this challenge with the help of the humble whiteboard. Lt Haas tells us why she started this project, how she deconstructs complex concepts into a single whiteboard frame, and how this unique approach to training and education can help you!

1st Lieutenant Kayla Haas is the Communication Strategy and Operations (COMMSTRAT) Director at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where she studied Mathematics. She previously served as a COMMSTRAT Officer at 2d Marine Division, where she deployed with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 21.1 and Joint Task Force-Haiti. Follow her on Twitter at @PAO_kaylahaas, Instagram at pao_kaylahaas, and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylaolsen/.

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It's been a while since we've provided a "Rabbit Hole" update, so in this episode #TeamKrulak #Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber updates us on the missile attacks of the last month, an overview of integrated air defense systems and how the Patriot missile will impact #Ukraine's ability to protect civilian infrastructure, Putin's build-up for a possible future 2023 offensive, and the state of the Russian economy and internal Russian domestic pressures.

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A few months back, SSgt Miranda stopped by the #TeamKrulak spaces to learn more about what we do and share our approach to innovation with his Air Force audience. In this episode, it's our turn to do the learning! SSgt Miranda works at the "Tesseract" office in the Air Force's Air Staff Logistics Directorate, with a mission of accelerating combat-focused logistics innovation by empowering Airmen and connecting them to a network of ideas and resources in order to improve the agile combat support and mission generation capabilities of the United States Air Force.

Learn more about Tesseract at their website: https://www.tesseract.af.mil/

SSgt Miranda discussed the "Year in Review" study recently posted on Tesseract's LinkedIn page; you can read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tesseracts-2022-year-review-tesseractaf/?trackingId=Mc4Ibhrrr2rI113xNCXqEA%3D%3D

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In this special episode, we had the unique opportunity to talk to Dr. Hanna Shelest. She recently returned to Ukraine from extensive travel across that country and throughout Europe, and we are extremely grateful to her for taking the time to talk with us. We discussed some misperceptions about the war, the condition of Ukrainian forces on the front lines, the remarkable performance of Ukrainian first responders and civil engineers in restoring infrastructure, and more.

Dr. Hanna Shelest is Director of Security Programmes for the Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism," and editor-in-chief of Ukraine Analytica, which is the first Ukrainian academic and analytical journal in the English language on International Relations, Politics and Economics.

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This lecture is part of the AY23 Middle East Studies (MES) Research Talks series.

The implications of great power competition are increasingly apparent across South Asia, especially within the Indian Subcontinent where the two largest nuclear armed nations in South Asia, Pakistan and India, are locked in a protracted rivalry. Rather than primarily relying on India’s simultaneous ability to engage in adversarial competition with China and to wean smaller South Asian states away from Chinese influence, the U.S. needs to invest in alternative strategies to contend with the growing Chinese footprint in South Asia. The U.S. is well placed to leverage its long-standing relationship with Pakistan to explore opportunities to promote human-centric security goals which are in the national interests of both the global powers and which can also have a positive impact on much needed regional stabilization within South Asia.

Dr. S. M. Ali is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Melbourne. He has extensive on the ground experience working on development issues with government and non-government organizations. He teaches courses on South Asian security, human security, and different research methods at American University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has previously taught courses on the same subjects at George Washington University, George Mason University, and in universities in Australia and Pakistan.

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In this episode, we welcomed Megan J. Hennessey, Ph.D., who is the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Air University. We talked about the Air University approaching to #wargaming as an educational tool, but our wide-ranging discussion covered broader learning methodologies and assessments, and a "save the date" for next year's Military Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Forum!

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The #BruteCast audience knows that we’ve had several episodes this year in which we asked the question: What will the next fight look like, and what changes must be made to compete and win? In the context of the institutional restructuring undertaken through Force Design 2030, these are important questions. Today, we look at the problem through the lens of another topic we’ve often focused on, and that is wargaming. In May 2022, the students of the School of Advanced Warfighting at Marine Corps University looked at the hard choices an institution must make to design a force capable of outperforming a committed adversary, and tested these choices in a series of open-source wargames; and recently, the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings journal published three articles that highlighted these games. LtCol Brian Kerg and Maj Tyler Quinn, both part of the student cadre that ran these games as well as contributors to the articles, are here today to talk about what they learned and how those lessons apply to the challenges that Force Design 2030 is trying to face.

The articles which our guests reference in this presentation can be found below:

The 'Agile' Wargames that Can Test Force Design, Part 1 (https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/november/agile-wargames-can-test-force-design-part-1)

The 'Agile' Wargames that Can Test Force Design, Part 2 (https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/november/agile-wargames-can-test-force-design-part-2)

The 'Agile' Wargames that Can Test Force Design, Part 3 (https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/november/agile-wargames-can-test-force-design-part-3)

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Dr. Yuval Weber, #TeamKrulak's Russia SME, reviews the liberation of Kherson, the recent tragic missile explosion in Poland, and looks ahead to what might develop in the winter months.

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In the military, it's often said that "words mean things;" but is the meaning always obvious, or even conscious? In this episode, Dr. Elena Wicker walks us through the difference between the documents and symbols of strategy - such as the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy - and the actual process of strategic thinking that occurs at all levels of the military. Artificial intelligence and pattern analysis can tell us a lot about the first and little about the second.

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Note: we experimented with new microphones in this episode and they worked a little too well, picking up unexpected ambient sounds. However the audio for our guest is unimpeded, and we'll have the mics placed better next time!

For this episode we were excited to welcome the newest member of #TeamKrulak, Mr. Dan Rice, who has joined the Center and Marine Corps University as our dedicated subject matter expert for China. He comes to us from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, where he remains a Non-Resident Fellow. We discussed the 20th National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, his recent Mitchell Institute article analyzing key Peoples' Liberation Army Air Force airfields, and more!

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TeamKrulak community, we have a special Marine Corps birthday gift for you - a new episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" with our Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber. We take a look at two of the biggest developments from the last couple of weeks - Ukraine's maritime drone attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet anchored in Sevastopol, and the announcement that the Russian military would withdraw from the Kherson region.

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TeamKrulak community, we're pleased to bring this special update on events unfolding in #Iran from our Middle East Studies gurus, Dr. Amin Tarzi and Dr. Christopher Anzalone. We look at the state of the protests which started at the end of August following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian authorities, and the recent Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack on the Shahcheragh Shrine in the city of Shiraz.

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Dr. Yuval Weber, #TeamKrulak's Russia subject matter expert, caught us up on a few things today: the state of play in Kherson, Russia's declaration of martial law for its non-martial special military operation, and Putin's speech yesterday - with Russian literary interpretation - to the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow and its implications on war termination. Come for the Soviet science fiction movie recommendations, stay for Darth Putin's poop emojis.

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We noted a couple of social media pieces in this episode, the first of which - the Soviet-era science fiction movie Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions (with English subtitles) - can be found on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/m3xVdxDWFWU

We also cited photographs of Lieutenant Lyubov Plaksyuk, first female head of an artillery unit in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, standing on the wreckage of Russian vehicles destroyed by her battery; they can bee seen here: https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1585723759775784964?s=20&t=FLy7dqLly3IIgxEPa71Wyw

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In this episode, we welcomed some of our neighbors from just across the highway on Quantico - Col Greg Jones, Commanding Officer, Weapons Training Battalion – Quantico, and Gunner John Costa, Director, Marksmanship Program Management Section discussed the Marine Corps' new Annual Rifle Qualification course of fires, and the Advanced Marksmanship Training Program and Infantry Marksmanship Assessment for the infantry community that are in the final stages of development. These changes will build on "every #Marine a rifleman" to make our #Marines a more lethal, commando-like force in line with the Commandant's intent under Force Design 2030.

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It's episode 100 of the #BruteCast! How did we get this far? Listen and find out! We talked with Krulak Center Director Ms. Valerie Jackson on how #TeamKrulak has grown and changed since its chartering in 2018, how its programs (including the #BruteCast) have impacted professional military education at Marine Corps University and across the Fleet Marine Force, our favorite episodes, our "dream guests," and where the Krulak Center goes from here! Enjoy, and we'll see what episode 200 brings in the future!

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This episode was special because while we’ve previously done historical case studies and book discussions on the #BruteCast, we haven’t done one with a specific naval focus, and so our guest helped us rectify this. We were pleased to welcome author Trent Hone to talk about his newly released book Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific. The book is a detailed examination of Nimitz’s leadership during World War II, describing how he used his talents to help the #Pacific Fleet recover from the trauma of Pearl Harbor, win crucial victories against the forces of Imperial Japan, and then seize the initiative in the Pacific. Once Nimitz’s forces held the initiative, they maintained it through an offensive campaign of unparalleled speed that overcame Japanese defenses and created the conditions for victory.

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This is the second #BruteCast episode we were fortunate to host as an offshoot of the recent "NATO's Northern Flank" writing workshop coordinated by Dr. Njord Wegge of the Norwegian Defence University College, who is in residence with us here at Marine Corps University as the Chair for Arctic Security. We spoke with Professor Tom Røseth and LTC Palle Ydstebø on Norwegian security considerations and their perspectives on Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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Today we caught up with Dr. Yuval Weber in the latest developments in the #Russia-#Ukraine War. We reviewed the status of the Kharkiv and Kherson counteroffensives, mobilization, internal struggles between the Russian military and Russian security services, and finally focused on the recent strike on the Kerch Bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea, and this morning's retaliatory attack on Ukrainian civilian targets.

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Building on our recent #BruteCast about drone swarms, #TeamKrulak is excited to welcome Col Bill Edwards, U.S. Army (retired) to open the aperture on the global security challenges presented by commercial drones. There are millions of commercial drones in private hands, they are a multi-billion dollar global industry, and their proliferation and use on fields of conflict by conventional armies and non-state actors alike are limited only by their imaginations. Col Edwards describes the challenges, countermeasures, and potential opportunities in this new security environment.

Bill Edwards is President of Federal and Public Safety at Building Intelligence, Inc. He retired from military service in 2017 and let Thornton Tomasetti's security consulting group as a Principal from 2017-2021. He has over 34 years of expertise in operational/technical security, counter terrorism, counter intellligence, surveillance and counter surveillance. He is also co-author of Inside Abu Ghraib: Memoirs of Two U.S. Military Intelligence Officers.

Col Edwards cited a number of drone databases in the presentation; they can be found below:

Drone Laws by U.S. State and Country: https://uavcoach.com/drone-laws/

Drone Laws by Country: https://www.drone-made.com/drone-laws

Worldwide Drone Incidents: https://www.dedrone.com/resources/incidents/all

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This week, the Krulak Center was honored to host a writing workshop focusing on NATO’s Northern Flank coordinated by Dr. Njord Wegge of the Norwegian Defence University College, who is in residence with us here at Marine Corps University as the Chair for Arctic Security. He was kind enough to arrange some #BruteCast opportunities with the workshop contributors, including this episode featuring a panel discussion on “Arctic Security and Great Power Competition.” Panelists include: Professor Liselotte Odgaard, Lt.Col. Marius Kristiansen, Professor Stian Bones, Associate Professor Lon Strauss, Captain (N) Steinar Torset and Professor Njord Wegge. #TeamKrulak Russia SME Dr. Yuval Weber acted as moderator.

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In this rapid-fire episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War," Dr. Yuval Weber looks at how the first week of mobilization has gone for Russia, the faux referenda in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured at the Azovstal iron and steel works in Mariupol, and suspicious explosions that triggered leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.

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Those who’ve watched the headlines this week have seen some remarkable images coming out of Iran. Widespread protests lead by Iranian women have occurred in many cities, and there have even been videos of protestors fighting back against the regime’s notoriously brutal law enforcement entities. To help us understand what’s going on we’re pleased to welcome Ms. Golnaz Esfandiari, who is a senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty focusing on Iran. Her previous reporting has covered Afghanistan and Haiti, and her work has been used by The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major publications.

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In this episode we’re excited to welcome the first in a series of guests we hope to have on this year to talk about something we haven’t yet covered in the #BruteCast, and that’s drones. Drones have gotten much attention over the last several months as we have watched both the Russians and Ukrainians use them extensively during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but what we’ve seen in that war still is not the full scope of potential applications of this hardware.

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It's been a busy 48 hours, and in our latest "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" episode, Dr. Yuval Weber breaks down the events that have transpired to date. The big story of the day was Vladimir Putin's early-morning speech in which he finally took the step of calling for a mobilization of up to 300,000 new soldiers. We look at what else Putin said, the legal framework (and loopholes) of this mobilization, the domestic impact within Russia, and much more.

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TeamKrulak continues to be fortunate in its #BruteCast guests, as we got to talk with SgtMaj Troy Black, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps! SgtMaj Black discussed the enlisted aspects of Talent Management 2030, the strategic advantage of the individual Marine in Force Design 2030, enlisted professional military education today and tomorrow, and more.

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In this episode, we're excited to build on a theme for this #BruteCast season, which is welcoming senior Marine Corps leaders who are helping drive the Corps forward to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We welcomed LtGen David R. Bellon, USMC, Commander Marine Forces Reserve and Commander Marine Forces South. He shared his perspectives on how Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces South are supporting the changes underway with Force Design 2030, the challenges of the future operating environment in the 21st century, and more!

We discussed a couple of points of contact in this episode for listeners wanting more information about both specific Marine Forces Reserve affairs, and the Talent Management Strategy Group. Specific questions on MFR may be directed to the G1, Col Beth Perazzo, at elizabeth.sager@usmc.mil. Questions for the TMX may be directed to tmx@usmc.mil.

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In our latest "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" episode, Dr. Yuval Weber updates us on the current results of the counteroffensive near Kharkiv, contrasts between Ukrainian and Russian recruitment and political leadership, and the impacts of regional leaders looking at a weakened Russia and seeing new opportunities to settle old scores.

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Dr. Weber refers in this episode to a video of a Ukrainian soldier meeting his mother in a village that had just been liberated; you can see the video here: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1569801663325544448?s=20&t=RfwTKppVQQGyl44pH1H20A

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Dr. Yuval Weber returns to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" to look at the dual Ukrainian counteroffensives unfolding in the Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts.

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Two weeks before Russia began its current invasion of Ukraine, we offered a #BruteCast panel on "Rapid Wargame Prototyping for Crises." When the invasion actually occurred, #TeamKrulak staff started looking in real time at how to apply rapid prototyping concepts to the wargame platforms already offered to the Marine Corps University and wider national security communities. The goal was to provide "living" wargame layers and mechanics to allow these communities to learn and test battlefield developments as they were observed, in order to provide campaign analysis and inform future decisions.

Mr. Tim Barrick, director of wargaming at Marine Corps University, and Maj Ian Brown, operations officer at the Krulak Center, discuss the prototyping and designs processes applied to the Operational Wargame System and Fleet Marine Force/Littoral Commander wargame systems as the war in Ukraine unfolded.

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Our latest episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" covers a lot of ground in what's been a busy week: the emerging Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south, Russian force generation challenges, visa bans, the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, oil price caps, the insanity of combat near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the defenestration of Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov, and some comments on the grassroots information warfare phenomenon of the #NAFO #Fellas.

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Our latest episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" comes on a day marking two very different milestones: the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's independence from the former Soviet Union, and the sixth month of Russia's ongoing invasion of that country. Dr. Yuval Weber, our Russia subject matter expert, reviews the six months of conflict from the perspective of "three phases and two questions;" discusses contrasts between the Ukrainian and Russian militaries - and national cultures - as learning organizations; and we end with a look at a highly unusual act of violence in the heart of one of Russia's most elite communities in the assassination of Darya Durgina, daughter of hardline political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.

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Hot on the heels of our talent management discussion with Gen Eric Smith, we were excited to welcome guests to the #BruteCast who not only have front row seats to Force Design 2030 but are helping to drive the bus. We talked with Major General Frank Donovan, commanding general of the 2d Marine Division, and Command Master Chief Scottie Cox, who serves as the senior enlisted Navy advisor to the division. For those who’ve been tracking Force Design 2030, you’ll know that the 2d Marine Division recently returned from their mission under Task Force 61/2 in the 6th Fleet Area of Operations, and working with the US Navy and partners and allies from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea. The Task Force also conducted real-world experimentation on several of the concepts highlighted in Force Design 2030, such as the Stand-In Force and multi-domain reconnaissance and counter reconnaissance (RXR). General Donovan and Command Master Chief Cox covered this and more in our conversation.

MajGen Donovan's biography can be found here (https://www.2ndmardiv.marines.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/516073/major-general-francis-l-donovan/) and CMC Cox's biography can be found here (https://www.2ndmardiv.marines.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/516102/command-master-chief-scwexw-scottie-l-cox/).

Task Force 61/2 operations are also discussed in this article in Defense News (https://www.defensenews.com/interviews/2022/08/03/how-us-marines-put-force-design-2030-to-work-in-europe-against-russian-naval-forces/#:~:text=%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Maj.-,Gen.,to%20an%20array%20of%20crises.) and a recent podcast episode with Ryan Evans at War on the Rocks (https://warontherocks.com/2022/08/the-task-force-at-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-marine-corps/)

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TeamKrulak community, we were very excited and honored to welcome General Eric Smith, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps to the #BruteCast! Those following the Service-wide changes under Force Design 2030 know that talent management is a key focus area, with detailed reforms laid out in the Talent Management 2030 report (https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/142/Users/183/35/4535/Talent%20Management%202030_November%202021.pdf). A couple of months ago, we had the chance to talk to the Talent Management Strategy Group (TMX) under the Assistant Commandant about the coming changes; in this episode, our audience got to pose questions to General Smith himself!

You can send questions or comments on Talent Management 2030 to the TMX at tmx@usmc.mil.

General Smith's biography can be found here: https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/acmc/Biography/.

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For our second episode of season 5, we were pleased to welcome Ms. Ada Sayin from the KızBaşına project in #Turkey. #TeamKrulak first learned about this project from a #wargaming exercise we ran for the #NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in the UK a few months ago (and if you’d like to know more about the ARRC and how they use wargaming to train, check out our past #BruteCast interview with their team members). The KızBaşına project aims to increase the place of women in the defense and security sector, strategic decision-making mechanisms, and domestic and foreign policy tables in Turkey. And to do this, they’re created a unique wargame called “Women in Command: Hybrid Threat Rising,” which has already seen use in Europe and the United States. Ms. Sayin discusses this project and unique wargaming platform they’ve created.

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Dr. Yuval Weber was down our way this afternoon and we took the opportunity to record a detailed "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" on the recent Ukrainian strike on Saki Air Base, a major Russian aviation installation in occupied Crimea. While details remain scarce, initial indications are that the strike caused significant damage to Russian forces based there. We outlined some possible methods of attack Ukraine might have used, and the implications for the Russian position in southern Ukraine now that their safe haven in Crimea is no longer secure.

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Welcome to season 5 of the #BruteCast! It’s a new academic year here at Marine Corps University, and we at the Krulak Center are excited about launching into it with our students. So we’re going to ante up by getting this #BruteCast season off to a strong start. And we couldn’t have asked for a better guest today to help us do that.

In this episode we were pleased to welcome Col Brian Greene, USMC, the commanding officer of the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG) in 29 Palms, CA. MCTOG has been deeply involved in the work behind Force Design 2030, which has been a topic of discussion in recent months both in the headlines and on our own #BruteCast series. MCTOG also runs the Advanced Maneuver Warfare Course, which trains Operations Tactics Instructors and Intelligence Tactics Instructors for operations today and in future conflicts. Col Greene will discuss this and more in our season premier! Those interested in reaching out to Col Greene and MCTOG can work through us at #TeamKrulak at the_krulak_center@usmcu.edu.

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Our special miniseries returns! For this new episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War," resident Russia subject matter expert and #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow Dr. Yuval Weber brings us up to date on development since our last episode. We discussed the war entering a new third phase with Ukraine's pending counteroffensive near Kherson; supply chain developments with Ukrainian grain and Russian natural gas; and continuing humanitarian crisis with the forcible relocation of Ukrainian citizens and summary execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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"Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" will be on hiatus for a few weeks, but we've got a double-length episode to hold you over. Dr. Yuval Weber discussed the human factors at play for both #Russian and #Ukrainian soldiers, the divergent targeting choices of both sides for their limited number of precision-guided weapons, and we spent extra time talking about the ongoing "situation map" of the conflict used by our #wargaming director Mr. Tim Barrick. Incoming MCU students and faculty will be interested to know that this map - laid out using the Operational Wargame System developed by Mr. Barrick - will be available for enhanced educational opportunities for interested parties in the coming academic year.

Dr. Weber mentioned Putin's threat that Russia "hasn't started anything seriously yet" in Ukraine - the article quoting Putin can be found here: https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-dares-west-to-defeat-russia-on-battlefield/31933634.html

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NOTE: this episode contains graphic and explicit content based on its thematic focus on wartime sexual violence.

In this episode, the #BruteCast continues its focus on the war in #Ukraine with Dr. Dara Kay Cohen, who discusses issues of wartime sexual violence and what is currently known about sexual violence from #Russia's ongoing invasion of #Ukraine.

The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset that Dr. Cohen references in this presentation can be accessed here: http://www.sexualviolencedata.org/

In a 2021 article in the Annual Review of Political Science, Dr. Cohen reassessed the literature on wartime sexual violence to develop a deeper understanding about when, where, why, and under what conditions sexual violence occurs as well as its consequences. That article can be accessed here: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719-102620

Dr. Dara Kay Cohen is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is an internationally-known expert on gender and sexual violence in conflict, civil wars, gender studies, and feminist theory. Her research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals including the American Political Science Review, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Stanford Law Review, and International Organization. She has also published two books, Rape during Civil War (Cornell University Press, 2016) and Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States (Cambridge University Press, 2020), the latter co-authored with Dr. Danielle F. Jung. Dr. Cohen has a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and was previously a paralegal in the Outstanding Scholars Program in the Counterterrorism Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (2001-2003) and an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota. For additional information on this episode's content, Dr. Cohen may be reached at: dara_cohen@hks.harvard.edu

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Sometimes, 13 is a lucky number, and in this rapid-fire episode we were indeed lucky to be joined by some of #TeamKrulak on location in Athens, Greece! Dr. Amin Tarzi, director of Middle East Studies at the Krulak Center, and Maj John Behrmann, director of the Center for Regional and Security Studies, dialed in from Athens to focus on the role(s) Turkey has played both as a member of NATO and neighbor of #Russia during the invasion of #Ukraine. They also discussed how the war has altered the security environment in the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean regions.

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For a second episode in a row, "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" welcomes a special guest! Dr. Rita Konaev, a Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology - and a #BruteCast veteran - joined Krulak Center Distinguished Fellow and #Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber to examine two themes: timelines and sustainment. There are many competing timelines at play, from Western weapons deliveries to Russian offensive tempo, from the impact of Western sanctions on Russia to the ability of domestic politics in Europe and the United States to maintain support for a war overseas. And all of this feeds into a war that is about sustainment for Russian and Ukrainian forces, as to which army can keep its units equipped, fed, and manned - all while adapting to battlefield lessons - in the bloody and grinding combat now defining the war in the Donbas.

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Dr. Konaev previously appeared on the #BruteCast to discuss urban warfare in the context of Ukraine: https://youtu.be/ytxG-7mAlWY

We also discussed a recent interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in which Dr. Konaev touched on these issues as well; the interview may be found here: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-long-war-analysis/31912134.html

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Part of the broader Force Design 2030 reforms initiated in 2019 under General David Berger's Commandant's Planning Guidance, Talent Management 2030 has become a focus area in those efforts. Just last week, the Marine Corps wrapped up its inaugural Talent Management Summit to provide deeper discussion and feedback on Talent Management 2030. This special #BruteCast episode features members of the Talent Management Strategy Group (TMX) team from HQMC on the outputs of the Summit, the status of Talent Management 2030, and the way forward for the Marine Corps.

Our panel of guests from the TMX team were: LtCol Reid Houck, MGySgt Sage Gouda, GySgt Nicholas Knoll, Capt Julie Schumacher, Capt Adam Devine, and Maj Sharon Sisbarro.

Have a talent management idea? You can send it directly to the TMX team at: tmx@usmc.mil.

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"Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" returns with a special guest episode. Krulak Center Distinguished Fellow and #Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber brings us up to date on major developments since we last met, and then we were very pleased to be joined by #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Rosella Cappella Zielinski to explain the looming global food catastrophe caused by the disruption of Ukraine's wheat supply. We end the episode trying to answer the question: when it comes to Vladimir Putin, who does number two work for?

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Dr. Zielinski has been a guest on two previous #BruteCast episodes; catch up on them below.

BruteCast S1 E9 - "Supplying Coalition Warfare During World War I:" https://youtu.be/JBkFU0wi8K8

BruteCast S4 E8 - "Update on Ukraine" with Dr. Yuval Weber: https://youtu.be/clD4Y_3yt18

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Dr. Anahid Matossian, subject matter expert for Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) studies at Marine Corps University, joins the #BruteCast to discuss the ongoing invasion of #Ukraine from a WPS perspective in the context of her extensive experience working on similar issues - the different roles women play during conflict, post-conflict experiences, and more - within the Syrian conflict.

Prior to serving as the WPS subject matter expert, Dr. Matossian worked as a Social Scientist with the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL)'s team Translational Research Group (TRG). She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in May 2021 from the University of Kentucky, M.S. in Anthropology from Purdue University, and B.A. in Anthropology and Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan. She has 10 years of experience conducting ethnographic research with displaced women from Syria and Turkey in places from Los Angeles to Yerevan, Armenia, Berlin, and Istanbul. Originally from Michigan, Dr. Matossian grew up hearing oral history accounts from relatives about forced displacement and survival, which sparked her interest at an early age to capture and amplify these narratives for diverse audiences. Her research focuses on gender, migration, conflict, and political anthropology, and regionally on the Middle East (Syria) and South Caucasus (Armenia). She is pleased to join the MCU team and combine experiences in the field working with Syrian refugee women and her current work on Marine Corps professional military education.

We discussed several humanitarian aid groups, which you can learn about below:

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR): https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/

International Committee of the Red Cross: https://www.icrc.org/en

International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: https://www.ifrc.org/

We also discussed the music video for the song "Stefania" by the Ukrainian group "Kalush Orchestra:" https://youtu.be/Z8Z51no1TD0

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TeamKrulak took to the road again last week, this time supporting #wargaming efforts at the Headquarters of the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). While we were there, we got to sit down with several of the officers at the ARRC to learn more about the ARRC's mission, how it uses #wargaming to support planning and staff professional development, and gain insights into the UK Fight Club, a grassroots organization created to support professional development among British military officers using #wargaming. We were grateful for the time shared by Maj Julian Apps, Royal Marines; Maj Edward Farren, 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Capt Andrew Elliott, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; and MAJ Pace Dean, United States Army in this interview!

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Learn more about the ARRC here: ARRC | Home (nato.int) and follow them on Twitter: @HQARRC

Learn more about the UK Fight Club here: Home | UK Fight Club and follow them on Twitter: @UKFightClub1

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TeamKrulak community, following some overseas expeditions "Down the Rabbit Hole on the #Russia-#Ukraine War" returns with its tenth episode. Krulak Center Distinguished Fellow and #Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber discusses developments in NATO accession for #Sweden and #Finland, and the outlines of how the war in eastern Donbas will shape post-war negotiating stances for Russia and Ukraine. We end with a look at the looming global gain shortage crisis caused by the war's continuance.

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Marines know a handful of biographical points about MajGen Smedley Butler: he fought in America's "small wars," won two Medals of Honor, had the Eagle Globe and Anchor tattooed across his chest...and near the end of his life, became an antiwar activist and published a pamphlet called War is a Racket which captured his decidedly negative personal reflections on his military career. Between those biographical bookends lies an untold story of moral injury in the pursuit of American foreign policy that is not well known, but which is now told in Jonathan Katz's book Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. We'll be joined by the author in this #BruteCast to dig more deeply into his book and its unflinching look at a part of Marine Corps history.

TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Maj Brian Kerg, USMC, recently reviewed the book in USNI's Proceedings.

Jonathan Myerson Katz is the author of Gangsters of Capitalism. He received the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, The Big Truck That Went By, was shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and the WOLA/Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. His work appears in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. Katz was a New America national fellow in the Future of War program and received a fellowship from the Logan Nonfiction Program. He lives with his wife and daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire (2021)

The #BruteCast takes a look back to the Corps’ history for a case study in the seizure and defense of an advanced base. Fought between 7 August, 1942, and 9 February, 1943, the battle for Guadalcanal (Operation Watchtower) was the first allied land offensive against the Empire of Japan. With contested sea, land, and air domains, Japanese and American forces grappled with each other for advantage as American forces aimed to keep control of the “unsinkable aircraft carrier” of Guadalcanal.

Timothy "Skip" Crawley, a retired Marine infantry officer, regular Marine Corps Gazette contributor, and coordinator for the Marine for Life Network, will examine the planning and execution of the island's defense, comparing the lessons learned back then to modern considerations of the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations concept.

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Welcome to another special #BruteCast episode with #TeamKrulak on location at Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, Sweden! In this episode, we sat down with Kn/Capt. Patrik Hulterström, a doctoral student who also instructs in the Maritime Operations Division, Department of War Studies and Military History, at Swedish Defence University. Capt Hulterström's dissertation explores the educational value of #wargaming from a philosophical perspective, and he is also part of a team at SeDU that has developed its own digital #wargame for use by its naval officers. We learned more about both his research and the SeDU wargame in this wide-ranging interview.

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This special #BruteCast episode comes to you with #TeamKrulak on location at Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, Sweden! We had the unique opportunity to sit down with Captain Silvia Haas, USMC, who is currently enrolled in the 2-year Command and Staff College-equivalent program for Swedish military officers at Swedish Defence University. Learn how she got into the program, what she’s learned as a foreign PME student, and the rare opportunity to study a broader security perspective as global security arrangements shift in real time.

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The performance of the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine has raised a number of questions about their objectives and strategy for achieving them. Joining the #BruteCast from Sweden, Dr. Markus Göransson will discuss the invasion in the context of Russian military thinking about new wars - characterized by rapid, small-scale, surprise attacks and prominent use of SOFs and information warfare - and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov’s “strategy of limited actions.”

Dr. Markus Göransson is an Assistant Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, where his research focuses on Russian military debates, Russian land warfare in Syria and Russian tactical learning. He holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom.

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The war in Ukraine has drawn tens of thousands of foreign volunteers. The only comparable number of foreign fighters in recent years have been in Syria, but are the Islamic State (ISIS/ ISIL) and Ukraine's International Legion really comparable? This guest talk examines what we know about foreign fighters and foreign volunteers throughout modern history, including who joins, how they behave on the battlefield, and what happens when they return to their home countries.

Dr. David Malet is an Associate Professor at American University's School of Public Affairs. An expert on foreign fighters and foreign volunteers in conflict environments, he has published extensively on these subjects, including a book, Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civic Conflicts (Oxford University Press 2013), and numerous peer-reviewed articles.

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For anyone paying attention to current events, the #information domain has been front and center. In this #BruteCast, our guests will describe what the Marine Corps is doing about it. We're very excited to welcome the commanding officers of two different Marine Expeditionary Force Information Groups (MIGs). Col Brian Russell, commanding officer of II MIG, and Col Lester Gerber, commanding officer of III MIG, will discuss what their organizations are doing in the information space; their commonalities; and the unique approaches each is taking in its respective area of operations.

Colonel Ray Gerber is the Commanding Officer of III MEF Information Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa Japan. A career intelligence officer, Col Gerber previously commanded Marine Corps Embassy Security Group Region 2 (Near East & South Asia). He has served as an intelligence officer at the battalion, regimental, and Marine Expeditionary Unit level in combat operations ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan, in direct support to ODYSSEY DAWN in Libya, as well as to other contingencies. His previous assignment was providing direct intelligence support to the Commandant of the Marine Corps after graduation from the Marine Corps War College.

Colonel Brian Russell is the Commanding Officer of II MEF Information Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, NC. A career artillery officer, Colonel Russell previously commanded 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company and completed combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In his previous assignment he served as the J5 of Joint Task Force ARES and as the Fires and Effects Director of USCYBERCOM following graduation from the College of Information and Cyberspace top level school program. He is a member of the Marine Corps Gazette editorial panel and a frequent contributor with his last article, The Five OIE Truths, published in the April 2021 edition. You can follow Colonel Russell on Twitter @OIECol.

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TeamKrulak community, we're back at it with another episode of "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," our mini-series on featuring up-to-date commentary from Krulak Center Distinguished Fellow and #Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. In this episode, we explore what Russia's annual "Victory Day" celebration on May 9 might actually "celebrate;" growing unrest in the unrecognized breakaway state of Transnistria; and the latest round of European Union sanctions. We end with a brief discussion on what one Ukrainian advisor called disturbing indications that Russian forces in Donbas were preparing a "Zerg rush" - human wave attacks intended to gain battlefield successes through bloody brute force. #Ukraine

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As #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine has continued, a wealth of evidence has emerged on the brutality of Russian soldiers in the areas of Ukraine they have occupied. Looting, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, the deliberate targeting of civilian populations and infrastructure - the list of potential war crimes is long and grows each day. However, despite the documented evidence, historically there are a number of challenges in bringing the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice. The law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law are often weak, leaky, and lack robust enforcement tools. Those tools that exist depend on the political will of countries to enforce them, and that will is not always there. In this #BruteCast, Dr. Joanna Siekiera discussed the frameworks for the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law in the context of Russia's invasion, as well as the sobering reality of what challenges lie ahead for those agencies that will seek to prosecute Russian war crimes once the war finally ends.

Dr. Joanna Siekiera is an international lawyer and a LEGAD from Poland, currently working as a researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen in Norway. She is also a Legal subject matter expert at the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence in Vicenza, Italy. She did her PhD studies in New Zealand, at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, and defended her title as Doctor of Social Sciences in Public Policy Sciences at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland. Dr. Siekiera gained international experience in Polish diplomatic missions to Canada and Estonia, the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy in Germany, the School of Humanitarian Law in Russia, the UN CIMIC Training School, the French Institute of International and Strategic Affairs, and NATO. She is an author of 8 books, over 100 scientific publications in several languages, and 40 legal opinions for the Polish Ministry of Justice on Public international law, international relations and security. Her areas of expertise are the South Pacific region, Pacific Ocean governance, and the law of armed conflict (NATO legal framework, Central Europe, security in the South Pacific, gender in armed conflict).

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It's been a couple of weeks, but welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. We had a lot of developments to catch up on today, from the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva (by an adversary that has no navy of its own...) to the deployment of Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces General Valery Gerasimov to the front lines. All of the developments have implications for two themes as the Russian offensive in the Donbas takes shape, and the rest of the world looks at what comes next. Dr. Weber explored what the possible (likely?) failure for the renewed offensive means, and what are scenarios for #Russia and #Ukraine might derive from that failure going forward.

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There has been a great deal of energetic discussion recently over the Marine Corps' adaptation for future conflict, "Force Design 2030." In this special #BruteCast episode, we welcome two additional voices to the debate. Cols Tim Barrick and Matt Jones (both USMC, retired) will look at some of the questions raised by Force Design 2030's vision.

Tim Barrick is currently the Wargaming Director for the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare at Marine Corps University. He is the lead designer of the Marine Corps’ Operational Wargame System. Tim retired as a colonel in 2021 from the Marine Corps after 29 years of service. His last tour on active duty was as Director for the Wargaming Division in the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. He also served as the commanding officer of the Marine Corps Tactics & Operations Group as a colonel and 1st Tank Battalion as a lieutenant colonel. He is a graduate of the Marine Corps War College, the Naval War College, American Military University, and the U.S. Naval Academy. Col Barrick recently authored the piece "On Future Wars and the Marine Corps: Asking the Right Questions" at War on the Rocks.

Matt Jones is a retired Marine Corps Infantry Officer. His career crossed the fields of both infantry and light armored reconnaissance, with platoon and company command in 3rdBattalion, 9th Marines; company command with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion; MEU Battalion Landing Team XO for 1stBattalion, 1st Marines; and battalion command of 3rdLight Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. He also held command of the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, and performed staff duty as G3 and Chief of Staff of I Marine Expeditionary Force. He is presently an independent consultant and a candidate for the PhD in military history at the University of Leeds. Col Jones recently wrote "Modernizing the Corps" in the Marine Corps Gazette.

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This lecture is part of the AY22 Middle East Studies (MES) Lecture Series.

In our new fragmenting world, the Eastern Mediterranean plays an important role because it stands at the geopolitical crossroads of American, European, Russian, Middle Eastern and Chinese interests. The Eastern Mediterranean concentrates tensions: tensions linked to the dysfunctions of societies in the South, tensions linked to inequality between the two shores, tensions linked to the play of regional powers and finally growing tensions between the global powers confronting each other in this crucial region, as the war in Ukraine illustrates. Understanding what is at stake in this region will enable future military officials, as well as citizens, to better understand the missions they will undertake in the coming decades.

Vice-Admiral (ret.) Pascal Ausseur is Director of the Mediterranean Foundation of Strategic Studies (FMES), a think-tank dedicated to the Euro-Mediterranean region and the Middle East and North Africa. During his military career he served in operational positions on surface ships, including within the French Aircraft Carrier Group, and was appointed three times as commanding officer. He also served as Maritime Prefect for the Manche and North Sea and chief of the military cabinet at the Ministry of Defense. He has extensive operational and political-military experience in the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East and North Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Indian Ocean.

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Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series featuring a snapshot of recent events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. Today Dr. Weber gave an overview of the new correlation of forces in eastern Ukraine as Putin prepares his last throw of the dice, and Maj Brown laid out the potential future combined arms employment of the new shopping list of weapons the U.S. just offered to Ukraine.

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As Russia's military and political goals for its invasion of Ukraine continue to be frustrated, there has been much discussion over the possibility, and potential means of employment, for unconventional weapons. The Russian nuclear arsenal has naturally been a part of this conversation, especially its large inventory of "tactical" nuclear warheads. Dr. Lasha Tchantouridzé will provide an overview and analysis of Russia's nuclear options in the context of its broader objectives in Ukraine.

Dr. Lasha Tchantouridzé is Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Diplomacy and International Relations at Norwich University. He is also a Davis Center Associate at Harvard University, Boston, MA; Research Fellow, the Center for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; and Advisory Board Member of Peace & War Center at Norwich University. He earned his PhD in International Relations from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Tchantouridzé’s research interests are at the intersection of diplomacy and force in international politics, and his academic publications are in the areas of geopolitics, Russian foreign policy, Canadian foreign policy, the Arctic, the Black Sea basin, international politics in the Caucasus, and NATO-Russia relations.

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TeamKrulak is proud to present one of the crown jewels of both our Krulak Scholars program and Non-Resident Fellow outreach. Capt Casey Lamar, USMC, and Dr. Leah Windsor first started collaborating on a research project while Capt Lamar attended Expeditionary Warfare School in AY20-21. That project went from a research paper to a presentation that has been highlighted in academic conferences, most recently at the 2022 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence and Academic Alliance Conference. We were excited to learn more about their work in this #BruteCast!

Capt Lamar and Dr. Windsor examined the style and substance of linguistic similarity between the U.S. and host countries for troops. They looked at the relationship between troop drawdowns, base closures, and significant policy shifts alongside stylistic (syntactic/semantic) similarity. Cold War: dissimilarity. Post-Cold War (1990-2010): similarity. Post-post-Cold War (2011-present): massive dissimilarity. They also modeled the content similarity of language between the U.S. and other countries in the world. The goal of this research is to use this data to help explain countries' alignment with the U.S., and the ebbs and flows of closeness and differences regarding the presence of U.S. troops.

Dr. Leah Windsor is an Associate Professor in the Department of English (Applied Linguistics) and the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis where she directs the Languages Across Cultures lab. She is PI on an NSF grant studying multimodal communication. Her book with Dr. Kerry F. Crawford, The PhD Parenthood Trap, is available with Georgetown University Press. She serves on the Editorial Board of International Studies Quarterly and International Studies Perspectives. She is also a 2020-2021 Non-Resident Fellow for the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare at Marine Corps University.

Captain Casey LaMar is an Intelligence Officer currently serving with 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He graduated from George Washington University, where he studied International Affairs and Arabic. He was previously published in the Journal of International Negotiation and Small Wars Journal. When not writing, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and their two Australian Shepherds in Southern California.

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Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series featuring a snapshot of recent events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. In this episode, we examined a couple of events from the last 24 hours that have raised real questions about whether Putin's command and control over his subordinates is breaking down. Are Putin's intentions being effectively conveyed in public by his ministers and spokespeople, or are the inmates running the asylum?

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Listener discretion is advised - Dr. Weber and Maj Brown discuss emerging details of abuses and atrocities committed by the Russian military against Ukrainian civilians in areas from which Russia has withdrawn or been expelled by counterattack. Graphic content.

Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series featuring a snapshot of recent events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. In this episode, we looked at emerging stories of abuses and atrocities committed by the Russian military against civilians in Ukrainian towns from which they have withdrawn or been expelled. We discussed how this potentially impacts war aims for both sides, as well as Western responses both in the near and far terms.

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In 2019, Islamic State's setbacks in Syria and Iraq seemed to herald the organization's death knell. Yet, its affiliates continue to endure and even thrive, particularly those in Africa. Indeed, many of its African affiliates have been reinvigorated and have reaffirmed their loyalty and ties to the central leadership. This lecture will explore the history, evolution, and expansion of Islamic State's African affiliates and discuss how they have evolved mostly autonomously, using the "Islamic State" brand as a means for accruing power while receiving relatively little, if any, direction or material support from the core organization's leadership. Given this pattern, Islamic State Central's relative decline in the Middle East has had little impact on its African affiliates, which are likely to remain committed to the "Caliphate's" cause for the foreseeable future, posing a unique security challenge to the United States and its allies.

Dr. Jason Warner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and leads Africa research at the Combating Terrorist Center, also at West Point. He holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from Harvard University. He is the co-author of The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront (Oxford University Press, 2022). Click here for more info on Dr. Warner: https://www.westpoint.edu/social-sciences/profile/jason_warnerollow the Krulak Center:

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In this episode we kept looking at Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, but our topic was one we hadn't really delved into yet. It’s the dog that didn’t bark; or rather, it’s barked in a very different way than many people expected. Our panel examined the cyber aspect of this conflict: what both Russia and Ukraine did that our panelists did not expect, lessons from those activities for US cyber strategy, and how the PME community needs to respond to these revelations.

Our panelists were: Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider (Hoover Institution), Dr. Sean Lawson (University of Utah and a #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow), Dr. Melissa Thomas (Air Force Cyber College), and Dr. Carl Horn (Air Force Cyber College). The panel was moderated by Dr. Brandon Valeriano, a #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow.

Our panelists referenced a number of articles and publications, which included:

What Ukraine Shows About Cyber Defense and Partnerships (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland-when-great-power-competition-meets-digital-world/what-ukraine-shows-about-cyber)

The Logic of Coercion in Cyberspace (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09636412.2017.1306396)

Distinguishing Cyberattacks by Difficulty (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850607.2021.2018565?journalCode=ujic20)

Unleashing the U.S. Military's Thinking About Cyber Power (https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/unleashing-the-u-s-militarys-thinking-about-cyber-power/)

Cyber and Nuclear Threats Make for a Dangerous Mix in Ukraine (https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/30439/cyber-and-nuclear-make-for-a-dangerous-mix-in-the-ukraine-war)

Evaluating A Bursty-Signal Mesh Network to Support C2 Constructs of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/67688)

The Challenge of Educating the Military on Cyber Strategy (https://warontherocks.com/2021/06/the-challenge-of-educating-the-military-on-cyber-strategy/)

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Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series featuring a snapshot of recent events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. In this episode, we looked at the state of current peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, which - reports of poisoning inflicted on Ukrainian negotiators notwithstanding - indicate a significant downshift in Putin's war aims...or does it? We also took a quick look at the prospects for the new draft class of Russian conscripts scheduled for just a few days from now.

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Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's mini-series featuring a snapshot of daily events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. In this episode, we examined the highlights of today's extraordinary NATO summit, especially the reinforcement of NATO countries bordering #Ukraine and the activation of the CBRN Defence Battalion.

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Welcome back to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," #TeamKrulak's new mini-series featuring a snapshot of daily events from the war, along with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. This episode looks at the question of territorial concessions from the perspectives of #Russia and #Ukraine - what each side is fighting for, and what they might accept in a negotiated peace.

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For our ongoing focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, #TeamKrulak was pleased to welcome Ms. Nataliya Gumenyuk, speaking to us directly from #Ukraine. Ms. Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author. She is a founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, which promotes constructive discussion around complex social topics. From 2015 to 2020 she headed the independent Ukrainian broadcaster Hromadske TV and the English-language Hromadske International project. Ms. Gumenyuk specializes in reporting foreign affairs and conflicts. Her recent book, The Lost Island: Tales from Occupied Crimea (2020), features her six-year reporting from Russian-annexed Crimea.

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A significant component of #Russia's ongoing invasion of #Ukraine has been the clouding or outright denial of their military actions and intent. Russia has conducted this disinformation campaign through diplomatic, social media, and entertainment channels in an effort to convince the world, and their own public, that they are not doing what all the evidence suggests they are.

Arvin Verma is a highly motivated cybersecurity professional, with over 10 years of experience across a multitude of cyber and IT domains. He has worked in multiple industries spanning over 5 Fortune 500 companies and Big 4 consulting. In addition, Arvin is proudly serving in the US Navy Reserves as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer. He also serves as a research fellow with the Cybersecurity Forum Initiative where he has co- authored several research papers in new cyber trends and best practices and holds several leadership positions with InfraGard Chicago and InfraGard National. He also serves as an advisor to several private and public entities and is a guest lecturer at several universities across the State of Illinois.

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Welcome to "Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War," a new (mini) series from the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare at Marine Corps University. Each episode will feature a snapshot of daily events from the war, with a deeper look at one important development our audience should know about, all from the insights of #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow and Russia subject matter expert Dr. Yuval Weber. This inaugural episode looks at the current state of peace negotiations between #Russia and #Ukraine.

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Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine is now in its third week, but it only took a few days of fighting for the world to see that Vladimir Putin’s evident hope for rapid and generally bloodless victory had been shattered. Putin expected his soldiers to walk into Ukrainian cities and be welcomed with open arms. Instead, the Russian army is stalled along several fronts by stiff Ukrainian resistance, and many of the cities that were likely objectives for the first days of the war remain unconquered. But taking those cities remains a key goal for Putin, and the world is now watching as urban warfare takes center stage in this conflict. Cities like Mariupol and Kherson are either encircled or already at least partially occupied; others, like Kyiv and Kharkiv, are being battered in preparation for attempts to seize them; and those like Odesa are wondering how long it will be before Russian ground forces reach their outskirts. To talk us through the unique and bitter challenges of urban warfare, as well as Russia’s approach to it, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Rita Konaev.

Dr. Konaev is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) interested in military applications of AI and Russian military innovation. Previously, she was a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point, a post-doctoral fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. Before joining CSET, she worked as a Senior Principal in the Marketing and Communications practice at Gartner. Margarita’s research on international security, armed conflict, non-state actors and urban warfare in the Middle East, Russia and Eurasia has been published by the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Global Security Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, the French Institute of International Relations, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, Defense One, Modern War Institute, Foreign Policy Research Institute and a range of other outlets. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Brandeis University.

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The Krulak Center is very grateful to Ms. Anna Bulakh, currently residing in #Ukraine, for granting us the time to record this episode. All opinions expressed here are those of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University, the United States Marine Corps, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.

Ms. Bulakh has spent many years working in Ukraine on security and defense policies, and focuses on building resilience into technology and information security. In this episode, she discussed a comprehensive approach to defense and security as it also relates to cyber defense, the technology sector, and civilian engagement in the kinetic dimension of defending one's homeland as part of the territorial defense effort. She covered a range of aspects in hybrid warfare, and factors in Ukraine’s resilience in the cyber and land domains. This includes information operations and cyber attacks, private tech sector engagement, and the reality that cyber warfare extends beyond Ukraine-Russia internet spaces. She also touched on the kinetic space — society embedding in the security and defense sectors.

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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, the information domain has manifested itself as one of the preeminent theaters of conflict in this war. But how Russia and Ukraine have approached this theater is a study in contrasts. The Ukrainian government has employed a robust information strategy from the highest level of political leadership to its troops on the front lines in sharing messages and images that support their narrative, and sharing them across the widest number of platforms available. Russia, on the other hand, has progressively shut down the information outlets available to its people, and those outlets it has not directly shut down have often removed their services on their own volition to protest Russia’s aggression. In this #BruteCast episode, we welcomed Mr. Thomas Kent to help us understand the Russian side of this equation, and what those outside Russia can do to push in the information that the government is denying its own citizens.

Thomas Kent is a specialist on disinformation, Russian media and journalistic ethics. Until September 2018 he was president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a congressionally funded corporation providing news in 25 languages to the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He consults for governments, NGOs and corporations on Russia, disinformation, and ethical journalism. His book on combating Russian disinformation in Europe, Africa and Latin America was published in September 2021.

Previously, Kent was standards editor of The Associated Press, responsible for credibility, balance and fairness in AP’s text, photo and video services worldwide. He served with the AP as reporter in Sydney, Australia; NATO and the European Union reporter in Brussels; reporter and bureau chief in Moscow; chief of AP operations in Tehran during the Iranian revolution; deputy news editor and news editor of AP's World Service Division in New York; international editor of the AP and chief of the AP supervisory desk.

He lectures internationally on journalistic ethics and disinformation, has served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in international reporting and is a member of the advisory board of the Ethical Journalism Network.

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Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation

This episode continues #TeamKrulak's focus on #Russia’s ongoing invasion of #Ukraine and the many new dynamics we’ve been seeing on that battlefield; our guests here talked about one which has been very prominent. We were very pleased to welcome Dr. Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins, co-authors of the forthcoming book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Centuryfrom Hurst Publishers.

Dr. Matthew Ford is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex; founding editor of the British Journal for Military History; and author of the book Weapon of Choice.

Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow; and founding editor of the journals Digital War; Memory, Mind & Media; and Memory Studies.

The Krulak Center is grateful to Henrik Paulsson, a Visiting Fellow from Swedish Defence University currently conducting research at Marine Corps University, for getting us in touch with these two gentlemen.

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This episode continues our special focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, and we were very pleased to be able to host this guest because he’s been providing lots of very good real-time assessment. On February 15, 2022, Maj Gen Mick Ryan published his book War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict with the Naval Institute Press. Less than 2 weeks later, the world was given a brutal introduction to 21st-century great power warfare, when Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine. Since then, Maj Gen Ryan has been sharing his insights and analysis of this ugly new face of modern war across social media, and he brought them to this episode of the #BruteCast.

Gen Ryan has commanded soldiers at the troop, squadron, regiment, task force and brigade levels over the past 35 years. His operational service includes deployments to East Timor, Iraq, and southern Afghanistan. He has also served as a strategist on the United States Joint Staff in the Pentagon.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of New England and is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force School of Languages. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and a graduate of the USMC School of Advanced Warfighting. In 2012, he graduated with distinction from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.

Gen Ryan has a long-standing interest in military history and strategy, advanced technologies, organizational innovation, and adaptation theory. He was inaugural President of the Defence Entrepreneurs Forum (Australia) and is a member of the Military Writers Guild. He is a keen author on the interface of military strategy, innovation, and advanced technologies, as well as how institutions can develop their intellectual edge. He has contributed to several books, including Strategy Strikes Back (2018), Why We Write (2019), On Strategy(2020) and To Boldly Go (2021). Mick has also authored major reports that include the Ryan Review (2016) and Thinking About Strategic Thinking (2021). The Krulak Center was also excited to include a contribution from Gen Ryan and his team at the Australian Defence College in volume 2 of their award-winning PME graphic novel series Destination Unknown.

Over the past four years, Mick has led a series of reforms at the Australian Defence College to adapt curriculum, academic service contracts, teacher training, international engagement, infrastructure and learning culture for the rigors of the 21st century security environment.

On 27 February 2022, Mick retired from the Australia Army after 35 years continuous service.

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War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict

In this episode, we continued our special focus on #Russia and #Ukraine. Last time we were here, Russian President Vladimir Putin had just recognized the “People’s Republics” of Luhansk and Donetsk, delivered a speech filled with historical myths and grievances, and Belarus had announced that the Russian military units there for exercises were not, in fact leaving. Only a few days later, Russia launched its long-feared invasion of Ukraine, attacking from multiple directions, bombarding cities with missile and artillery strikes, and causing a humanitarian crisis that now stands at over 1,000,000 refugees having fled Ukraine. To tell us where things stand and what more might unfold, we welcome two of our Krulak Center Fellows.

Dr. Yuval Weber is one of our Distinguished Fellows here at the Krulak Center. He is a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC. Prior to Texas A&M, Dr. Weber served as the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School, as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Dr. Weber has held research positions at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. He has published on a range of Russian and Eurasian security, political, and economic topics in academic journals and for the popular press in the United States and Russia.

Dr. Rosella Cappella Zielinski is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University specializing in the study of political economy of security. Her book How States Pay for Wars (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016) won the 2017 American Political Science Association Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics. Her other works can be found in Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Security Studies, as well as Foreign Affairs, Texas National Security Review, and War on the Rocks. She is one of #TeamKrulak's Non-Resident Fellows, and is also affiliated with the Costs of War Project. In addition to her academic research, she is committed to promoting the study of political economy of national security, and is the founder and Co-Director of Boston University’s Project for the Political Economy of Security.

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The United States is reducing its military presence in the Horn of Africa and Red Sea Zone while its main strategic competitors, China and Russia, are increasing their presence in the military, political, and economic spheres. This virtual lecture examined the ways China and Russia are using to expand their influence in Africa, consider how Chinese and Russian efforts differ, and evaluate the effectiveness of their approaches. The lecture also discussed how the U.S. and its allies should respond, arguing for proportional, tailored responses according to the actual threat levels posed by Chinese and Russian influence in the region.

Guest Speaker, Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen

Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Master's Program in International Affairs at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He has advised and been an invited subject matter expert for CENTCOM, AFRICOM, USSOCOM, the NATO Intelligence Center and NATO Defense College, and the British Military Mission to Nigeria. He is the author most recently of Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group (Oxford University Press, 2013), Horn, Sahel, and Rift: Fault-lines of the African Jihad (Oxford University Press, 2019), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement (Routledge, 2020).

Dr. Hansen is also the author of a two-article series for MES Insights on strategic competition between the U.S., China, and Russia in the Red Sea zone and East Africa:

*Vol. 12, Issue 3: "Dragon Rising? Evaluating Chinese Power in the Horn of Africa"

*Vol. 12, Issue 5: "Specters of the Past, Prospects for the Future? Russian Engagement in the Horn of Africa"

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Continuing our focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, #TeamKrulak Distinguished Fellow Dr. Yuval Weber reviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions and statements up to today (Feb. 21), and what path Putin may follow against Ukraine in the coming days and weeks.

Dr. Yuval Weber is one of our Distinguished Fellows at the Krulak Center. He is a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC. Prior to Texas A&M, Dr. Weber served as the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School, as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Dr. Weber has held research positions at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. He has published on a range of Russian and Eurasian security, political, and economic topics in academic journals and for the popular press in the United States and Russia.

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As part of our special focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, #TeamKrulak brought you our first panel event of 2022 with a unique group of individuals focusing on a unique topic. How does wargaming help when the problem is a rapidly unfolding crisis in a fluid environment, such as the Russian build-up near Ukraine, when an off-the-shelf option, or deliberately designed wargame, isn’t readily available? This is what our panel discussed, examining the challenges of rapidly developing a wargame framework for a dynamic crisis, the specific aspects of the crisis near Ukraine that decision-makers and policy framers would want to simulate, and different approaches for developing useful wargame options in such a scenario.

Our panelists were: Dr. Emma Ashford, Dr. James "Pigeon" Fielder, Dr. Andrew Reddie, Damien O’Connell, and Sebastian J. Bae.

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Continuing our focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, we were pleased to welcome back on short notice #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Col Sönke Marahrens. In this episode, Col Marahrens discussed how the Western approach to “shaping the battlefield” fails to keep pace with the authoritarian regime's approach to hybrid war, and offers some expanded models for grappling with this problem.

Colonel Marahrens is the Director Community of Interest - Strategy and Defense Hybrid Center of Excellence - The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. He is a trained Air Defense Officer and held various positions including Battalion Command, Defense Planning Office and Ministry of Defence. His past writing has focused on innovation, concept development & experimentation of applied (military) scientific issues in the field of cyber and digitization. In 2018 he graduated from the Canadian National Security Program with a Master in Public Administration. His current work focuses on aspects of leadership, leadership processes and leadership in the 21st century, modern forms of conflict, cyber, artificial intelligence and the military as well as the Prussian war game.

Follow the work of the Hybrid Centre of Excellence here: https://www.hybridcoe.fi/

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This episode continues our special focus on #Russia and #Ukraine, and we were very happy to welcome back for his third appearance on the BruteCast the very first guest we had on the series: Dr. Christopher C. Harmon. In this discussion, Dr. Harmon looks at the similarities - and differences - between the activities and intentions of Adolf Hitler's Germany in the late 1930s, and Vladimir Putin's Russia today.

Dr. Christopher Harmon is lead author or editor of seven books, and has done extensive research into several British archives with a special focus on allied coalition warfare and Winston Churchill. He has long been a part of the Marine Corps University community, having taught at Expeditionary Warfare School, Command and Staff College, and the Marine Corps War College. Dr. Harmon previously held the Bren Chair of Great Power Competition at the Krulak Center, and is currently one of #TeamKrulak's esteemed Distinguished Fellows.

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In this special #BruteCast episode, we were joined #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Dr. James Holmes as part of our focus on #Russia and #Ukraine. He is a professor of strategy, the inaugural holder of the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy, and a two-time visiting professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College. Dr. Holmes is also a prolific author, with hundreds of book chapters and essays under his belt, and his book Red Star Over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy is on the Navy Professional Reading List, and U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Professional Reading Lists. Finally, he’s the first #BruteCast guest to have a three-peat on the show, so we’re very grateful for his generous donation of time to our series.

Dr. Holmes recently published a companion piece to this episode at The National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-russian-aggression-revive-monroe-doctrine-199882

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In this episode, we welcome back for an encore #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Col Sönke Marahrens. Colonel Marahrens is the Director Community of Interest - Strategy and Defense Hybrid Center of Excellence - The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. He is a trained Air Defense Officer and held various positions including Battalion Command, Defense Planning Office and Ministry of Defence. His past writing has focused on innovation, concept development & experimentation of applied (military) scientific issues in the field of cyber and digitization. In 2018 he graduated from the Canadian National Security Program with a Master in Public Administration. His current work focuses on aspects of leadership, leadership processes and leadership in the 21st century, modern forms of conflict, cyber, artificial intelligence and the military as well as the Prussian war game. This episode focuses on that last topic, looking at the origins of Prussian kriegsspiel in “To Dice or Not To Dice.”

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We’re in to a new year, and #TeamKrulak is very excited to kick off the 2022 #BruteCast season with this special episode. It features Col Andy Milburn, USMC (Ret.), who spent a couple of days here at Marine Corps University in support of several academic programs, and was gracious enough to carve some time out of his schedule to visit us at the Center. Col Milburn retired from the Marine Corps in 2019 as the Deputy Commander of Special Operations Command Central, the headquarters responsible for all US special operations in the Middle East. As an infantry and special operations officer, he has had operational command at every rank, to include leading the Marine Raider Regiment and a multinational special operations task force given the mission of defeating the ISIS in Iraq.

He’s a prolific author on military affairs, with publications that include his critically acclaimed memoir, When the Tempest Gathers, and articles for a number of publications to include the Atlantic, USA Today, the Hill, War on the Rocks, the Modern War Institute, and Task and Purpose. He is on the Adjunct Faculty of the Joint Special Operations University and teaches classes on leadership, planning, ethics, command and control, mission command, risk, special operations, and irregular warfare at U.S. and British military schools. He is a co-host of the Modern War Institute’s Irregular War Podcast and Irregular War Initiative, and also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute.

We discussed several articles written by Col Milburn, which can be found below:

"Losing Small Wars: Why U.S. Military Culture Leads to Defeat"

"Taking Down the Caliphate: The Story of The Ad Hoc SOF Task Force That Helped Turn the Tide Against the Islamic State"

"No ‘surrender’ — What really happened between US and British Marines at a training exercise"

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The end of 2021 is almost here, and #TeamKrulak was grateful and excited to have a fantastic guest on its final #BruteCast of the year. We were joined by Col Anthony A. Wood, United States Marine Corps (retired), whose service in uniform extended over three decades. In addition to commanding infantry and reconnaissance units at many levels, his wide-ranging career impacted a number of forward-thinking Marine Corps efforts. On assignment to Marine Corps Headquarters he served as the principal author in developing the US Navy and Marine Corps “Maritime Prepositioning Concept”, and then supervised the implementation of a national strategic response capability based on forward positioning three squadrons of specially configured ships filled with the supplies and equipment to support Marine Brigades.

While serving as Chief of Staff for Marine Forces in the Pacific, Col Wood was dispatched to Russia in 1993 where, over a three-week period of negotiations, he successfully concluded a major tension reduction agreement and multi-year exercise program with senior Russian military leaders in the Pacific theater. His last Marine Corps billet was as founder and first Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory from 1995-1998, where under his leadership the laboratory spearheaded the four-year series of Marine Corps Sea Dragon experiments designed to recast military capabilities in a mold appropriate to emerging counter terrorist requirements.

But in this episode, he focused on a story from the earlier part of his career. In January 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed on Saigon, Major General Homer Smith, United States Army, the Defense Attache in Saigon, transferred then-Captain Wood to the Defense Attache Office where has was directed to join the newly formed Special Planning Group with the mission of secretly developing a plan for the evacuation of Saigon. In the course of that operation he worked with a group of over 100 American civilian volunteers who assumed great risk to remain without protection and evacuate over 5000 persons from the collapsing capital to the safety of waiting Marine helicopters. A fascinating story in its own right, the evacuation also holds a number of lessons for contingency planning that remain highly relevant in the present day.

Col Wood referenced the Marine Corps History Division publication U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Bitter End, 1973-1975 several times in his presentation; you can find a digital copy of the book here: https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/U.S.%20Marines%20in%20Vietnam_The%20Bitter%20End%201973-1975%20%20PCN%201900310900_1.pdf

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This episode is adapted from a lecture recently given to our Women, Peace, and Security Scholars program, and the feedback from that lecture was so strong that we knew we had to get it into the #BruteCast line-up.

Presenting on today’s topic – “Gender Integration and Citizenship: A Civil-Military Perspective" we pleased to welcome Dr. Bradford Wineman. Dr. Wineman is a professor military history at Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University. He was appointed to the Command and Staff College teaching faculty in July 2008, serving as War Studies Department head from 2012-15. Prior to this position, he has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College since 2006. He received his B.A. in History from the Virginia Military Institute in 1999. He earned his M.A. (2001) and PhD (2006) in History from Texas A&M University, where he research focused on antebellum Southern military education. Dr. Wineman is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. His research specialties include American military education and civil-military relations.

Joining Dr. Wineman to moderate today’s discussion and give an overview of the WPS Scholars, we welcome Dr. Lauren Mackenzie. Dr. Mackenzie is Chair of Military Cross-Cultural Competence at Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University. She also currently serves as the Marine Corps University faculty council president as well as an adjunct Professor of Military/Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. From 2009-2014, Dr. Mackenzie served as Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural Communication at the U. S. Air Force Culture and Language Center where she taught resident electives at the Air Command and Staff College and designed and delivered the "Introduction to Cross-Cultural Communication" on-line course, completed by over 1,000 Airmen annually. Dr. Mackenzie earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts and has taught intercultural competence courses throughout the Department of Defense for more than a decade. She conducts research relating to cross-cultural competence, oversees culture-related curriculum development and outcomes assessment, and delivers communication and culture lectures across the Professional Military Education spectrum.

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This episode is exciting for a couple of reasons. First, we got a chance to talk to one of the authors whose books was selected for the most recent iteration of the Commandant’s Professional Reading Program. And second, we were joined by a ‘guest host’ from one of the entities inside EDCOM that helps develop that Reading Program.

Starting with the author: a third generation naval aviator, Dan Sheehan was a designated AH-1W Cobra gunship pilot, and did two tours in Iraq – first as a pilot, and then from the ground side as a forward air controller attached to Marine Corps SOCOM Det One. Dan’s book "After Action" talks about those experiences, but it also talks about the many burdens brought home by those who see combat, especially those burdens that are not manifested physically. There are mental, moral, and emotional burdens - "After Action" discusses those, what the warfighting can do to seek help in shouldering, and perhaps more importantly, what military institutions need to do to be more active in helping their warfighters deal with that load.

Our second guest, and the 'guest host' for this interview, was Ms. Monika Maslowski. She is Head of the Virtual Branch at the Library of the Marine Corps, is a committee member for the Commandant’s Professional Reading Program selection board and manages the Reading Program’s website and social media outreach; and she also served in the Marine Corps Reserves as an 0621 Field Radio Operator.

"After Action" is in the "Profession of Arms" category of the Commandant's Professional Reading Program, available here: https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list-2020/profession

Learn more about the author here: https://www.dansheehanauthor.com/

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For those of you who joined us for the historical case study that looked at the Tentative Manual for the Defense of Advanced Bases, this epiusode brings something in the same line, except this time in execution. Mr. Timothy “Skip” Crawley will take us through the defense of Wake Island. Skip Crawley is a former Infantry Officer who lived “Expeditionary Force-in-Readiness”. On 31 July 1990, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines was finishing up the Summer Package at Bridgeport and 15 days latter 1/7 was getting off of airplanes in Saudi Arabia. Skip was the Platoon Commander of Weapons Platoon, Alpha Company, 1/7 and Desert Shield/Desert Storm was the highlight of his career. Skip has studied military history since his youth, and regularly publishes in the Marine Corps Gazette.

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Welcome to another installment of the MES Research Talk series! In this lecture, Ms. Yun Sun focused on China's strategic vision for Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal, including its planned political, economic, military, and diplomatic engagement and planning, which is happening on several levels: unilateral, bilateral, multilateral, regional, and global. Ms. Sun also discussed China's contingency planning on Afghanistan, especially in the event of renewed civil unrest on the ground or terrorist attacks against China.

Ms. Yun Sun is the Director of the China Program and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and China's relations with neighboring countries and authoritarian regimes. Previously from 2011 to 2014 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution with a joint appointment with the Foreign Policy Program and the Global Development Program where she focused on Chinese national security decision-making processes and China-Africa relations. From 2008 to 2011 she was the China Analyst based in Beijing for the International Crisis Group specializing on China's foreign policy towards conflict countries and the developing world. She holds a master's degree in international policy and practice from The George Washington University and an MA in Asia Pacific Studies and a BA in international relations from Foreign Affairs College in Beijing.

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We’re excited to wrap up our focus on wargaming by welcoming #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow Sebastian J. Bae back to the #BruteCast. Sebastian is a research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), where works in wargaming, emerging technologies, the future of warfare, and strategy and doctrine for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, where he teaches a graduate course on designing educational wargames. He teaches similar courses at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the U.S. Naval Academy. Sebastian is also the faculty advisor to the Georgetown University Wargaming Society, the Co-Chair of the Military Operations Research Society Wargaming Community of Practice, and serves on the Executive Committee for the Educational Wargaming Cooperative. Previously, he served six years in the Marine Corps infantry, deploying to Iraq in 2009 and leaving as a sergeant.

Sebastian talks about how he designed the educational wargame FMF INDOPACOM, which went from being a COVID interest project to a tool whose use across the Marine Corps and joint force has grown exponentially in the last year.

The Georgetown University Wargaming Society (GUWS) has been a key #TeamKrulak partner in sharing #wargaming knowledge and opportunities. Learn more about GUWS here, and check out their extensive library of #wargaming videos here.

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This episode continues our recent wargaming theme, and hones in on one of the most challenging topics to effectively wargame: cyber operations. To help us better understand how we can the realms of cyber and wargaming to work with each other, we were excited to welcome two faculty members from the Naval War College. Our first guest was Professor Benjamin Schechter, who is an instructor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department and a founding faculty member of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute. His research interests include cyber, wargaming and political psychology. His recent work has focused on experimental wargaming and methods for cyber wargaming. Prior to joining the U.S. Naval War College, he was a research specialist supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Our second guest was Dr. Nina Kollars, who first and foremost, at least in our book, is one of our Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellows. Dr. Kollars is an associate professor in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in political science and an M.A. from GWU in international relations. Along with being one of our Non-Resident Fellows, Dr. Kollars is also a senior adjunct scholar at Center for a New American Security; an executive board member of Cyber Conflict Studies Association; and an editorial board member for Texas National Security Review. She publishes on cybersecurity, hackers and military innovation. She presented her own hacker project at DefCon27, "Confessions of a Nespresso Money Mule." She will soon publish “Trustworthy Deviants: White Hat Hackers and Security.”

Foundational content for this episode came from a joint report our guests published earlier this year: Pathologies of Obfuscation: Nobody understands cyber operations or wargaming

Our guests also referenced the 2019 dissertation by Andreas Haggman: Cyber Wargaming: Finding, Designing, and Playing Wargames for Cyber Security Education. Finally, the offered the east coast hacker conference ShmooCon as a resource for further information on this topic.

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We talk a lot at the Krulak Center about educational wargaming and wargaming mechanics; but there are other games, and thus other game mechanics, that the educator can use to enhance the learning experience from a vanilla wargame. To lay this out for us, this episode features #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellow and #BruteCast alum Dr. James “Pigeon” Fielder!

Dr. James "Pigeon" Fielder joined Colorado State as an Instructor after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, develops organizational wargames under the name Liminal Operations, and is a roleplaying game content creator for Evil Beagle Games. Pigeon researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments, with recent project including an ethnographic study of live-action role-players published in "The Politics of Horror" and a manuscript under review on player coordination in EVE Online. Pigeon has over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging 5,000+ participants, and is a co-editor of the forthcoming book "Games without Frontiers: Simulations in the Political Science Classroom" with Mark Harvey and Ryan Gibb.

Dr. Fielder references a game design checklist in the presentation, which can be downloaded here.

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This episode features a return guest to the #BruteCast, and if you joined us last summer for our wargaming panel, you’ve seen some of his work. Dr. Andrew Reddie is an assistant professor of practice at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information and senior engineer at Sandia National Laboratories where he works on projects related to cybersecurity, nuclear weapons policy, wargaming, and emerging military technologies. Andrew is currently a Bridging the Gap New Era fellow, Hans J. Morgenthau fellow at Notre Dame University, a non-resident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, and research director at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. His work has appeared in Science, the Journal of Cyber Policy, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists among other outlets and has been variously supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, MacArthur Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Science and Security Consortium.

So, on our wargaming panel you got a taste of his work; this episode is a deep dive, in his discussion on From Art to Science: Analytical Wargaming and Behavioral Research.

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This episode introduces the last of our new cadre of #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellows, Capt Walker Mills, USMC. Capt Mills is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer serving as an exchange officer in Cartagena, Colombia and is the 2021 Military Fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, and a Non-Resident WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum. He has published over 50 essays in articles in outlets like War on the Rocks, the Marine Corps Gazette, USNI Proceedings and Military Review.

It’s in that capacity as published writer that Capt Mills talked to us, to share some his insights on what it takes to get one’s foot in the door of the world of professional military writing.

Check out some of Capt Mills' greatest hits below:

“Illegal Fishing is a National Security Problem,” Defense One, 29 April 2021.

“The Future is Unmanned: Why the Navy’s Next Generation Fighter Shouldn’t Have a Pilot,” with Trevor and Dylan Philips-Levine, CIMSEC, 25 February 2021.

“Sustainment Will Be Contested,” with Erik Limpaecher, USNI Proceedings, Vol 146, No 11, November 2020.

“Cocaine Logistics for the Marine Corps,” with Dylan Phillips-Levine and Collin Fox, online, War on the Rocks, July 22, 2020.

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In this episode, we were thrilled to bring you the newest of the new cadre of #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellows - Dr. James Holmes, who is both a new Fellow, but a #BruteCast alumnus, having joined the show back in March for a panel event focusing on the South China Sea. He is a professor of strategy, the inaugural holder of the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy, and a two-time visiting professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College. He has published over 25 book chapters and 350 scholarly essays, along with hundreds of opinion columns, think-tank analyses, and other works. Dr. Holmes has been quoted or cited in outlets ranging from The Economist to Xinhua and appeared on such broadcast outlets as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR, and the BBC. His most recent books are A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy and a second edition of Red Star Over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy. Red Star Over the Pacific was named to the Navy Professional Reading List as Advanced Reading and was also selected for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Professional Reading Lists.

Dr. Holmes referenced a previous article, "Visualize Chinese Sea Power," in this presentation; it is available as a downloadable attachment here.

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In this special episode of the #BruteCast, Dr. Amin Tarzi, director of Middle East Studies at the Krulak Center and Marine Corps University, provides background, context, and key analyses of the Islamic State - Khurasan Province (ISKP), the terrorist group responsible for the recent bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of 13 American Servicemembers, dozens of Afghans, and wounded hundreds more.

Several of Dr. Tarzi's written assessments of ISKP are available on our website at The Landing here.

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In this episode, we are excited to welcome another member of the newest cadre of #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellows. We were joined from down under by Group Captain Jo Brick. Group Captain Brick is a Legal Officer in the Australian Air Force. She has served from the tactical to strategic levels of the Australian Defence Force, and has deployed on a number of domestic and international operations, including Iraq and Afghanistan. She is a Senior Editor for The Strategy Bridge, and an editor for The Central Blue, which is a forum designed to promote informed discussion of air power issues affecting Australia; and to enhance professional development of Air Force personnel in order to create a new generation of air power thinkers. Her interests are in military law and ethics, strategy, remote warfare, and wargaming and education.

This #BruteCast focuses on the intersection of two those of interests; specifically, military ethics and wargaming. Behaving ethically and making ethical decisions are responsibilities of military leaders regardless of rank. They are also inherently practical matters that can’t be learned solely through books and lectures. As such, ethical behavior is a 'practice' that can be tested and exercised through the use of wargames.

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This episode features one of our new slate of #TeamKrulak Non-Resident Fellows, Col Sönke Marahrens. Colonel Marahrens is the Head of the Research Department "Strategy and Armed Forces" at the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (GIDS) in Hamburg. The GIDS is a cooperation between the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College and the Helmut Schmidt University to promote public discourse and strategic culture in Germany. He is a trained Air Defense Officer and held various positions including Battalion Command, Defense Planning Office and Ministry of Defence. His past writing has focused on innovation, concept development & experimentation of applied (military) scientific issues in the field of cyber and digitization. In 2018 he graduated from the Canadian National Security Program with a Master in Public Administration. His current work focuses on aspects of leadership, leadership processes and leadership in the 21st century, modern forms of conflict, cyber, artificial intelligence and the military as well as the Prussian war game. His presentation today will focus on Germany’s strategic culture, or “Why the German Armed Forces are the way they are.”

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TeamKrulak is excited to invite you to our first panel event of the Academic Year 2022 webcasting season! To discuss the research and conclusions of the project on Civil Wars, Violence, and International Responses by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, we are proud to present Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Professor Stephen Krasner, Professor Steven Heydemann, and Dr. Michele Barry. You can learn more about the project here: https://www.amacad.org/project/civil-wars-violence-and-international-responses

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How do Marines - how do leaders of all kinds - make the right decisions in technology-enhanced warfare?

Historically, people were trained on how to reliably react in highly predictable and reoccurring conditions. However, in the Digital Age, the past will no longer be a good predictor of the future. Technology will have the ability to continuously create new ways of doing – reacting at a speed faster than humans can normally react. So, how will you train leaders and Marines to react quickly and correctly in continuous changing environments enabled by technology? How does an individual train him or herself to be highly adaptable real-time so she or he can process incoming stimuli quickly and correctly without “bias”? What state of “being” do people need to be in to excel in such environments?

This brings us to Hyper-Learning. Why Hyper-Learning? The past will no longer be a reliable predictor of the future because of the pace of technological change & its impact. Human Agility & adaptation will become strategic imperatives. Human cognitive, behavioral & emotional excellence will be key. Hyper-learning is high-quality, continual, fast learning, and will be necessary to keep pace with the speed of change and to successfully explore the unknown, adapt continually, and upgrade our internal cognitive operating system—our mental models.

Learn – Unlearn – Relearn @ the speed of change.

Edward D. Hess is Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, and the author of Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change, which was published by Berrett-Koehler in August 2020. Professor Hess spent twenty years in the business world as a Senior Executive and has spent the last 18 years in academia. He is the author of 13 books and over 140 articles and 60 Darden Case studies. His work has appeared in over 400 global media outlets including Fortune magazine, European Business Review, HBR, SHRM, Fast Company, WIRED, Forbes, INC., Huffington Post, Washington Post, Business Week, the Financial Times, CNBC Squawk Box, Fox Business News with Maria Bartiroma, Big Think, WSJ Radio, Bloomberg Radio with Kathleen Hayes, Dow Jones Radio, MSNBC Radio, Business Insider, and Wharton Radio. His recent books and research has focused on “Human Excellence in the Digital Age: A New Way of Being; A New Way of Working; Humanizing the Workplace; and Hyper-Learning”.

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In this episode, we take a look at mission set that has generated increased discussion with our renewed emphasis on competition and operations in INDO-PACOM region. Amphibious aircraft and seaplanes - once a staple of American naval aviation arms - are getting reexamined as a way to transport large amounts of cargo over long distances, to areas that do not necessarily have improved airfields. To talk about the background of this subject, we’re joined by Dr. James Roche. Dr. Roche is a Professor of Systems Engineering Management in the Department of Engineering and Technology, the Capital Northeast Region (CNE) at the Defense Acquisition University. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Over the past 30 years, he has worked in academia, industry and the federal government. His work on fundamental and applied research, and development and policy applications spans from Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps systems (e.g. systems engineering and software development for the warfighter) to collaboration with managers, interdisciplinary scientists and engineers to accomplish projects at the intersection of engineering, science and technology, and management.

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This episode is very timely, and ties into several of our previous episodes where our guests have looked at the different challenges and problems of regaining the strategic initiative in the South China Sea and INDOPACOM region overall. One of those challenges is how to compete, and compete advantageously, below the threshold of armed conflict; for a military organization, it’s equally challenging to find tools to put in the hands of warfighters that operate below that threshold. This episode lets us learn about some of those tools available to Marines. Our guest is Colonel Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr. (USMC), Director of the DOD’s Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office located on MCB Quantico. Col Leimbach is a former Tank Officer currently serving as a Ground Marine Acquisition Officer. Col Leimbach’s previous acquisition assignments include service as; Acquisition Team Leader for Individual Body Army and Load Carriage, Program Manager for Tank Systems, Deputy Director for the Marine Personnel Carrier Program; Deputy Program Manager and Acting Program Manager, Advanced Amphibious Assault. He discusses some of the Intermediate Force Capabilities Marines can consider as that stand-in force operating in an environment of strategic competition.

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Olivia Garard, former Marine captain and prolific author, joins the #BruteCast on its 1-year anniversary to talk about her newly released book from Marine Corps University Press, An Annotated Guide to Tactics: Carl von Clausewitz’s “Theory of the Combat.” This little-known work by the Prussian military theorist should seem familiar to Marines because it houses the common tenets on which the Corps' warfighting philosophy is based. But it is also a bit different too. It is more abstract; it wrestles with questions such as what is combat, what is the offense, and what is a plan. As Marines face the unceasing, continued evolution of the character of warfare it is worth reflecting on these basics—the underlying theory of tactics—to understand how they are manifesting in the current competition and how they will manifest in the next fight.

Olivia Garard is a former Marine captain who spent much of her time in uniform as one of the first Group 3 UAS MAGTF Officers. She also worked for the Ellis Group inside the Futures Directorate of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab before leaving active service. Ms. Garard has written extensively on future employment of UAS, and future warfare in general, in The Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, Marine Corps Gazette, Orbis, and the U.S. Army War College’s War Room. She has also published a good amount of poetry, in the Collateral Journal, the Wrath-Bearing Tree, a forthcoming piece with The Line Literary Review, and our personal favorite, “Every Brief Ever” which may be the only piece of poetry ever published on War on the Rocks.

An Annotated Guide to Tactics can be downloaded here.

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It is increasingly clear that the lack of a coherent and consistent lens through which to understand Islamic State’s (ISIS) transnational enterprise is undermining how scholars and practitioners alike are interpreting the significance of the group’s global agenda. This lecture, based on Dr. Whiteside's current research and a recent co-authored study published by the Hudson Institute, attempts to bring some nuance to the table, aiding our understanding of how Islamic State conceptualizes—and then operationalizes—its international endeavors. Islamic State's self-proclaimed "caliphate" today is best understood as an adhocratic global insurgency—an irregularly managed collection of diverse, geographically dispersed militant groups competing to govern in suitable areas—the character of which is reflective of the ideological compulsion, strategic principles, and organizational traits that underpin the ambitions of its larger political project. In doing so, Islamic State's forays abroad are impacted by both top-down and bottom-up forces that can lead to synchronicities and tensions—both globally and at an affiliate level. Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the lecture will address what these mean for both Islamic State’s core and its global provinces. The full research paper is available here.

Dr. Craig Whiteside is an Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College at its resident program at the Naval Postgraduate School where his research and teaching focuses on counterterrorism, information operations, and irregular warfare. He is also a senior associate with the Naval War College’s Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, a fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague, and a fellow with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Washington State University and is a retired U.S. Army officer (Lt. Col.) with combat experience in Iraq. He most recently is the co-author of The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement (Oxford University Press).

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This episode features a timely discussion that, as today’s Marine Corps develops its concept of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations in the context of competing in the Pacific, looks back to our historical roots to a time when the Corps had a similar problem in a similar part of the world. The 1920s saw the U.S. Marine Corps come out of conventional ground operations in France and then out of small wars operations in Latin America in the 1930s. The United States military’s strategic posture also shifted outward across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. During those interwar years, the U.S. Marine Corps made critical strides toward fulfilling war plans, formulating amphibious doctrines, creating force structures, and procuring landing craft. Today in the 2020s, the Marine Corps is again coming out of ground and counterinsurgency operations and reorienting toward amphibious missions during another interwar era. This presentation will glean insights and lessons from the twin amphibious studies, Tentative Manual for Landing Operations (1934) and Tentative Manual for Defense of Advance Bases (1936), and find connections to the recently completely Tentative Manual for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (2021).

Dr. David Ulbrich joins #TeamKrulak for this #BruteCast. Dr. Ulbrich is associate professor and director of the online Masters of Arts in History and Military History Programs at Norwich University. He also served as a civilian historian at the U.S. Army Engineer School in 2009-2013. Dr. Ulbrich’s books include Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps 1936-1943. The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation honored this book with the “2012 General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Book Award.” The U.S. Marine Corps History Division also recognized Dr. Ulbrich’s historical scholarship with the inaugural “Brigadier General Edwin Simmons-Henry Shaw Award” in 2012. More recently, Dr. Ulbrich has co-authored the 6th edition of World War II: A Global History, which will be published in about three weeks from now.

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The Arctic and Antarctica are well-known Cold War theaters. While these frozen frontiers hosted strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, they also produced legacies of cooperation that have extended through the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Indeed, the polar regions continue to host cooperative relations between Washington and Moscow, despite cooler ties elsewhere. Why is this the case? Perhaps more crucially, how can this current climate of cooperation between Russia and the West within these regions be bolstered for another thirty years? And what might fracture it?

Project 6633, launched by the Modern War Institute of West Point, seeks answers to these questions. For this event, we will be joined by the Project's cofounders:

Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan is a lecturer in strategic studies for the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian War College in Canberra, a fellow at the Modern War Institute, and co-director of Project 6633.

Dr. Ryan Burke is an associate professor of Military & Strategic Studies at the US Air Force Academy, a fellow at the Modern War Institute, and co-director of Project 6633.

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Col Gerald Acosta is currently the chief for the Director’s Action Group, J3, of the Defense Logistics Agency. In this episode, he presents some of the research he has done on the nexus between China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative, and the Suez Canal.

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In this fourth episode of our "Regaining the Strategic Initiative" series, our esteemed panel examines different aspects of operation energy in support of deterrence in the South China Sea, and elsewhere. Our panelists are:

Erik Limpaecher - Erik leads the Energy Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Department of Defense Federally Funded R&D Center. His team focuses on contested fuel logistics solutions and the energy resilience of DoD installations. Erik’s team has engineered advanced fuels for ground and undersea platforms, hybrid power system for remote bases, and performs power outage exercises of large defense installations. His teams have won three R&D 100 awards for transitioning technology to industry. Prior to coming to MIT, Erik was co-founder and CTO of two profitable companies—backed by investors such as Gates, Khosla, and Olsen—that built some of the first microgrids in the U.S. Erik holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Finance from Princeton University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Benjamin Richardson - Ben is the Director of the Advanced Energy and Materials (AE&M) Portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). Ben and his team are responsible for delivering strategic energy and materials capabilities to the military by accelerating the adoption of commercial technology and strengthening the national security innovation base. The AE&M Portfolio is focused on three primary lines of effort: Advanced Energy & Storage, Alternative Storage & Mobility, and Materials & Sustainment. Prior to joining DIU, Ben served in various senior positions in the Pentagon to include the Director of Critical Technology Protection in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and the Director of Global Markets and Investments in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. In these roles, he developed and promulgated policies to protect critical Department of Defense technologies, through oversight of Industrial Base Policy, Supply Chain Risk Management, Industrial Security, Information Security, and the Joint Acquisition Protection and Exploitation Cell. In addition, Ben served as the DoD lead on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

James Caley - Jim was appointed as the Director for Operational Energy in September 2016. He serves as the Secretary of the Navy’s focal point on all matters pertaining to Operational Energy. A former Marine colonel, he served in the transportation, logistics, and communications fields since 1989. He is an experienced operational and strategic planner on issues relating to the Asia-Pacific, South Asia, and the Middle East. His current focus is on fuel distribution in contested environments, power and energy for directed energy weapons systems, advanced batteries, advanced propulsion, persistent intelligence surveillance, and reconnaissance.

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In this episode, #TeamKrulak is excited to bring back the very first guest we had on the #BruteCast series: Dr. Christopher C. Harmon, the Krulak Center’s Donald Bren Chair of Great Power Competition for Marine Corps University and its Foundation. He is lead author or editor of seven books, and his research into two British archives is reflected in his essay about Churchill called “Vision of Victory” in World War II magazine (2005). He has written on the Allies’ coalition warfare and done a study of area bombing entitled “Are We Beasts?”—the title being a question Churchill put to himself. This month Dr. Harmon concluded an elective course at Expeditionary Warfare School on “Churchill and WWII” and he has taught many related classes at Marine Corps University’s Command & Staff College and War College. He serves on the board of academic advisors for the International Churchill Society and has published essays with “The Churchill Project” at Hillsdale College. He is also on the board of advisors for the website “Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy.”

Dr. Harmon joins us on this episode because March 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the Fulton Missouri address by Winston S. Churchill, where Churchill invoked the clattering down of a communist “iron curtain” across Europe. The British statesman voiced many themes and broad hopes in that address, as he did in speeches and state papers of the years 1944, 1945, and 1946. As examples, he advocated a “World Organization” for international security, a formally-unified Europe, and a summit with the Soviet Union. In this episode, Dr. Harmon explores what we can learn from those themes in today’s world of renewed great power competition.

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In this episode, #TeamKrulak was fortunate to host two distinguished guests to talk about the challenges facing the United States and its allies in the South China Sea. Dr. James R. Holmes is a professor of strategy, the inaugural holder of the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy, and a two-time visiting professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College. He has published over 25 book chapters and 350 scholarly essays, along with hundreds of opinion columns, think-tank analyses, and other works. Dr. Holmes has been quoted or cited in outlets ranging from The Economist to Xinhua and appeared on such broadcast outlets as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR, and the BBC. His most recent books are A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy and a second edition of Red Star Over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy. Red Star Over the Pacific was named to the Navy Professional Reading List as Advanced Reading and was also selected for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Professional Reading Lists. Dr. Holmes is also a former U.S. Navy surface-warfare officer and combat veteran of the first Gulf War, where served as a weapons and engineering officer in the battleship Wisconsin. In this billet he held the distinction of being the last gunnery officer in history to fire a battleship’s big guns in anger.

Hunter Stires is a Fellow with the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the U.S. Naval War College and is a Strategy and Policy Professional at Cydecor supporting the OPNAV N522 Navy Warfare Group. His area of inquiry centers on strategy and logistics in the Western Pacific and maritime irregular warfare. Mr. Stires has been recognized twice in the U.S. Naval Institute’s General Prize Essay Contest. His 1st prize winning entry is published as “The South China Sea Needs a ‘COIN’ Toss” in the May 2019 issue of Proceedings alongside a companion piece, “Why We Defend Free Seas,” and his 2nd prize entry, “Win Without Fighting,” is published in the June 2020 issue. His related article, “’They Were Playing Chicken:’ The U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s Gray-Zone Deterrence Campaign against Japan, 1937-40,” is featured in the Summer 2019 issue of the Naval War College Review. His most recent Proceedings piece, “Littoral Combat Ships for Maritime COIN,” coauthored with Captain Dan Straub, Ph.D, is published in the January 2021 issue. Mr. Stires is a graduate of Columbia University.

Finally, our moderator is Dr. Lesley Wilhelm, from the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy – Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, who chaired our previous panel on the South China Sea on February 4.

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In this episode, we're excited to host four contributors to the newly released volume "On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare," now available from Marine Corps University Press (MCUP). Co-editors Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman, and chapter authors Sulakshana Komerath and Ellen Ahlness, discuss the role of naval special warfare in great power competition, Russian operations in the Arctic, what lessons Marine Corps readers should take from this volume, and much more!

Free copies of "On Contested Shores" are available via email from MCUP at mcu_press@usmcu.edu, and you can download the PDF here.

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This was a fantastic episode, featuring two guests who talked about the Women's Initiative Team (WIT) project, but more than that, how to do common-sense barrier analysis to remove impediments to full and purposeful service for everyone in uniform. "That's how we've always done it" is not the answer! Major Alea Nadeem, United States Air Force, is a Congressional Budget and Appropriations Liaison assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management & Comptroller at the Pentagon. She also chairs the Department of the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team. Major Sharon Sisbarro, United States Marine Corps, currently serves as a Communications Strategy Officer in the Information Plans and Strategy office of the Deputy Commandant for Information. She recently provided executive support to the Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion for its six-month sprint. She is also the host of the “Marine WIT” podcast, available on SoundCloud here.

Our guests also referenced this piece on the impact of COVID-19 on military families.

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Col Art Corbett, USMC (Ret.). Semper fidelis.

The Krulak Center was pleased to present the first #BruteCast panel event of 2021, on the South China Sea. The panel was facilitated by Dr. Lesley Wilhelm (office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy – Research, Development, Test & Evaluation).

The panel referenced two documents: the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy "Advantage at Sea," and MCDP 1-4 "Competing."

Ms. Bich Tran - How Vietnam Uses Comprehensive and Strategic Partnerships to Advance its Interests in the SCS - Ms. Bich T. Tran is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and a visiting research fellow at the Global Affairs Research Center (Japan). Previously, she was an Asian Studies visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington. Her research interests include Vietnam’s foreign policy, Southeast Asian states’ relations with major powers, and political leadership.

Dr. Carlyle Thayer - Code of Conduct - Dr. Carlyle Thayer is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, in Canberra. His academic career includes PME at all levels including the Australian Command and Staff College, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, and coordinator of Australia's most senior defence course at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College. He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio and Johns Hopkins Universities. He is currently the Director of Thayer Consultancy, providing political analysis of current regional security issues for select clients.

Mr. Drake Long - Legal (Chinese and International) Developments and non-Code of Conduct Diplomatic Developments (EU, India, Australian approaches) Over the Past Year - Mr. Drake Long is the former South China Sea Correspondent for Radio Free Asia, covering South East Asia and the South China Sea. He was a 2020 Asia Pacific Fellow for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. He has written extensively on conflict studies, interstate negotiations, China’s foreign policy, territorial conflicts, and international legitimacy. He was previously the co-host of the South-China Sea Currents podcast.

Mr. Greg Poling - China’s Continued Militarization amid COVID and Opportunities for Policy Shifts Under the New Administration - Mr. Greg Poling is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at CSIS. He oversees research on U.S. foreign policy in the Asia Pacific, with particular focus on the maritime domain and the countries of Southeast Asia. His research interests include the SCS disputes, democratization in Southeast Asia, and Asian multilateralism.

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You can learn more about this topic from this piece, published by the presenters, in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Ukraine environmental issues in late 2018: https://thebulletin.org/2018/10/war-related-environmental-disaster-in-ukraine/

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Live from New Zealand! This was the first of our #BruteCasts

featuring an allied nation Non-Resident Fellow - Sgt Chris Elles of the New Zealand Army (Reserves) discusses "Move, Shoot, Communicate, Innovate: How Might We Enhance Innovation and Innovative Thinking in the Military?"

Chris can be found on Twitter at @InnovatorHB.

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Dr. Chris Anzalone is the new Research Assistant Professor at Middle East Studies. Dr. Anzalone studied at George Mason University completing a B.A. double major in History and Religious Studies. He did graduate work at Indiana University, Bloomington, completing an M.A. in Near Eastern studies, and earned his doctorate through McGill University in Islamic Studies with a primary geographical focus on the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly East Africa), and additional research on South Asia. His main research focuses broadly on contemporary Islam and Muslim societies with a particular interest on Islamic political thought and different Muslim social and political movements. Dr. Anzalone has special interest in radical and militant Islamist movements and organizations, both Sunni and Shi'ite, and issues of sectarianism in Islam. His dissertation and ongoing early stage first book project looks at the use of symbols and symbolic power as a tool of soft power by Islamist rebel/insurgent groups that seek to set up proto-states/territorial governance (for example, Al-Shabaab in Somalia and Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL). He has published on these topics and most of his publications can be freely viewed and downloaded here: https://gmu.academia.edu/ChristopherAnzalone.

In this episode, Dr. Anzalone examines the advent of Islamist rebel governing projects in different regions of the world as an opportunity to link the empirical study of these groups with the broader, emerging academic literature on rebel governance as well as studies of political Islam(s) and religion and violence. He considers how Al-Shabaab as a governing organization uses symbols as a form of soft power to complement their military forces, examining, where appropriate, the Somali group alongside other Sunni Islamist rebel proto-state actors including Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

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Mr. Art Corbett is a retired Marine infantry officer with 31 years commissioned service who commanded at every rank and retired in 2009. He is a graduate of the Navy War College, Army War College and the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting. He currently serves as a concept developer at the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab where he develops future operating concepts for the Marine Corps and the Naval Service. His current focus areas are Expeditionary Advance Base Operations and Stand-in Forces, and Logistics Subsidiarity Concepts. Today he’ll be discussing an area near and dear to our work here at the Krulak Center: “The Military Innovator’s Dilemma.”

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Today we’re excited to welcome Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Mike Dana. Lieutenant General Dana was an armor officer, logistics officer, and strategic planner in the Marine Corps for 37 years. During his career he deployed ten times to include deployments to Desert Storm, Operation Restore Hope, the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Iraq, Haiti, and Afghanistan. He did joint tours in NORTHCOM, EUCOM, and PACOM. As a three-star he was the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics from 2015-2018, and the Director of the Marine Corps Staff from 2018 to 2019. LtGen Dana is an Executive Fellow with the Institute for Defense and Business, and a Principal with PALLAS Advisor. He holds a Master’s Degree from the Naval War College and is a graduate of the School of Advanced Warfighting. He has a B.A. from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Now, LtGen Dana has also given special focus to innovation and future warfare. As DC for Installations and Logistics, he formed a next generation logistics team (NEXLOG) focused on innovation. This team was instrumental in the fielding of additive manufacturing into the Marine Corps. NEXLOG also spearheaded experimentation with unmanned air, sea and land logistics delivery platforms. Additionally, this team was the incubator for the first ever Marine Corps innovation challenge, an event that provided Marines around the world a venue to express their ideas and develop solutions for tough logistical problems. Shortly before his retirement in 2019, LtGen Dana also published an assessment of the complexities of the current and future operating environment in an article for War on the Rocks entitled “Future War: Not Back to the Future.” His perspectives on innovation and future warfare are part of why we’re excited to have him here today.

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Mr. Steve Leonard is an author, speaker, and currently serves as the director of the graduate program in business and organizational leadership at the University of Kansas. After serving 28 years in the U.S. Army, he turned to writing and speaking, and is the cofounder of the national security blog "Divergent Options;" cofounder of the "Smell of Victory" podcast; and cofounder and board member of the Military Writers Guild. Steve also serves as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute, West Point. He's the creator of the well-known "Doctrine Man," a defense and national security micro-blog with nearly 200,000 followers across social media. He writes on foreign policy, strategy, and leadership, and has also discussed the usage of fictional realms to explore modern strategic issues in books like Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict; Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict; and the forthcoming To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond.

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Emma Moore is a Research Associate for the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Moore is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University.

Prior to joining CNAS, Moore served as Executive Assistant and Social Media Lead for Narrative Strategies, a group of experts using strategic communication to combat violent extremism. Previously, she worked as a Program Manager with ProVetus, a veteran peer-mentoring organization, interned at the US Naval War College's Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, and worked with Brown University's the Cost of War Project. Moore earned a Master of Arts in War Studies from King's College London and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University.

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August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” storytelling, and serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning. With Peter W. Singer, he is the co-author of the best-seller Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (2015) and Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robot Revolution (2020).

A former Wall Street Journal reporter, besides being a Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow, he is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project, which explored creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict, from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He also consults on creative foresight at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. He’s long been a friend and contributor to the Krulak Center’s activities, acting as a writing mentor for the “Destination Unknown” graphic novel series, and a judge for several of the Center’s creative writing contests.

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Professor Edward D. Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Faculty Fellow, and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Professor Hess spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. He joined academia in 2002 as an Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University where he was the Founder and Executive Director of The Values- Based Leadership Institute. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business. He is the author of 13 books and over 150 articles dealing with optimizing individual and organizational performance. His work has been featured in more than 400 leading global media publications. His book Humility Is the New Smart was a best seller and his new book Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change was recently published on September 1st, 2020.

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Maj Ian T. Brown is a CH-53E pilot by trade, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the INDO-PACOM region. He’s also written extensively on maneuver warfare, military history, and future war, including the book A New Conception of War, published with Marine Corps University Press in 2018. He holds a master’s in military history from Norwich University. Today he’s going to talk a little about the story he covered in his book – we’ll explore the conflict ideas of Air Force colonel John Boyd, the “intellectual renaissance” that took place inside the Marine Corps after the Vietnam War, and how those two threads converged in the official adoption of maneuver warfare as the Marine Corps’ philosophy of conflict, as well as the continued relevance of these ideas today.

His book "A New Conception of War" can be found here: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf?ver=2018-11-08-094859-167

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Mr. John Kroger is a former Marine who recently served as the Navy’s first Chief Learning Officer. In that capacity he was charged to align the many educational institutions within the Department of the Navy, such as the Naval Academy, Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School, our own Marine Corps University, and future Naval Community College – with the goal of ensuring that the nation’s sailors and Marines entered any future conflict with a cognitive advantage. In this episode, Mr. Kroger talks about his experiences in that billet, and answers questions on the current state and future of professional military education in the Department of the Navy.

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This episode features two Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellows, both with backgrounds in military history and institutional innovation The first guest is Dr. Aimée Fox, a historian of warfare who explores military innovation and change in historic and contemporary armed forces. She is an assistant professor in King’s College London’s Defense Studies Department based at the United Kingdom’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. Her first book, Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded both the Templer Medal for Best First Book by the Society for Army Historical Research and the British Army Military Book of the Year prize in 2018. Her current research explores the importance of social relations and informal networks to the process of innovation, and the ways in which the social politics of military organizations helps or hinders innovation with a particular focus on the role of command and leadership.

The second guest is Dr. Heather P. Venable, Associate Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of Airpower at the United States Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College. She has also served as a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, where she taught naval and Marine Corps history. Last year Naval Institute Press published her new book, How the Few Became the Proud: The Making of the Marine Corps’ Mythos, 1874-1918. This book has been strongly recommended by digital military journals such as the Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, and the Modern War Institute, where Dr. Venable has also written extensively about airpower and the current United States Air Force. Her current research centers on intersections between theory and pre-war thinking and the application of airpower in combat.

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This #BruteCast featured a wargaming panel of practitioners across the many different wargaming communities. Join Andrew Reddie, James Fielder, Damien O'Connell, and Sebastian Bae as they discuss their myriad experiences in using wargames for training, education, and analytics.

The panelists provided a number of resources for those interested in learning more, which are included below:

https://eduwargaming.org/

https://paxsims.wordpress.com/

https://www.mors.org/

https://www.guwargaming.org/

GUWS YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0nVuQu5KoHv0kFiC9yX4Q?view_as=subscriber

https://connections-wargaming.com/connections-2020/

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Kyleanne Hunter, PhD, is a Marine Corps combat veteran with multiple combat deployments as an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack pilot. She is Assistant Professor of Military and Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force Academy and co-founder of Athena Leadership Project. She is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for New American Security, and an Adjunct Researcher for RAND. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, and a Masters of Arts and a Doctorate from University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Dr. Hunter is also an adjunct professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the former Chair of the Employment and Integration Subcommittee for the Secretary of Defense’s Advisory Committee of Women in the Services (DACOWITS). She serves on the advisory board for Impact: PEACE. While completing her dissertation was a researcher in residence at University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace and Justice. She is co-editor of "Invisible Veterans: What Happens When Women Become Civilians Again" (Preager Press, 2019) with Kate Thomas Hendricks. Her forthcoming book with Dr. Jeannette Haynie, "How Gender Shapes Security: The Wars We Fight," is forthcoming in December 2021. Dr. Hunter’s research focuses on the intersection of public policy and military effectiveness. Her work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, Armed Forces & Society, Georgetown Security Studies Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and numerous news outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic.

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Dr. Amin Tarzi is the director of Middle East Studies for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. He is also a senior non-resident Fellow for the Program on the Middle East at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Dr. Tarzi regularly lectures on broader Middle Eastern security issues at US and foreign governmental institutions and think tanks as well as operational Marine Corps units. He is currently working on the maritime security and policy issues in the Gulf and in Eastern Mediterranean.

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Dr. Yuval Weber is the Donald Bren Chair of Russian Military and Political Strategy for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. Before joining the Krulak Center, he served as the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, DC, where he taught courses on Russian politics and statecraft, International Relations theory, and research methods. He has also taught at Harvard University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department on Government and a Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is a frequent guest on US and international media, including CTV (Canada) and CGTN (China) and publishes regularly to American and Russian newspapers.

The slides accompanying Dr. Weber’s lecture may be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4d1dk68f0alc3gf/Weber_BruteCast%20slides.pptx?dl=0

Those interested in additional sources on this subject can find the bibliography used to build this lecture here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vn0c0b6st20m6y1/Weber_BruteCast%20talk%20bibliography.pdf?dl=0

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Dr. Christopher C. Harmon is the Donald Bren Chair of Great Power Competition for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. Before assuming duties as a Bren Chair, Dr. Harmon was a course director at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. He has also worked as a Professor of International Relations at Marine Corps University, taught strategy at the Naval War College, and worked on foreign affairs for the House of Representatives. His previous publications include lead editor for Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism, published by McGraw Hill; author of "Innovation & Historical Continuity in Great Power Competition," in the fall 2019 issue of the Marine Corps University Journal; and "Iran As Competitor: Measured, Violent, Relentless," a paper published on the Krulak Center website in May 2019.

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