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 inc...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 3
#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-internation...
Jul 31, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 ...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 ...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 16
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 le...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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 wrestl...
May 28, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 14
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...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 13
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 al...
May 28, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 cooperat...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com ( https://www.bensound.com ) Follow the Krulak Center: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekrulakcenter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter YouTube: h...
May 28, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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 stud...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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, ...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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 vo...
Feb 26, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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. S...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 5
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 Comp...
Feb 06, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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/ Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com ( https://www.bensound.com ) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krulak.39 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekrulakcenter/ Twitter: @TheKrulakCenter ...
Feb 03, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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. Intro/outro music is "Evolution" from BenSound.com ( https://www.bensound.com ) Follow the Krulak Center’s activities below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brute.krula...
Feb 03, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 So...
Jan 30, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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 Force...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 2
(NOTE: there were minor audio issues with the host's equipment, but LtGen Dana's comments are loud and clear) 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, Ir...
Jan 27, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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, ...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 veter...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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...
Jan 27, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 ...
Jan 27, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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, t...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 ...
Jan 27, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 i...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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/ GUW...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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...
Jan 26, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 4
