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title: "Introducing ‘The Long March With Tom Ricks’"
date: "2018-01-15"
modified: "2018-01-15"
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  - name: "Tom Ricks"
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# Introducing ‘The Long March With Tom Ricks’

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Yes, the Tom Ricks defense column, once hosted by Foreign Policy and known as “The Best Defense,” has moved here to Task & Purpose. It is now called “The Long March with Tom Ricks,” as you can plainly see.

It will continue largely as you have known it. I’ll write items as observations about national security as they strike me. I’ll also have guest columns, with an eye particularly to running contributions by people with personal experience of the subject they are writing about. And, thankfully, the Council of the Former Enlisted has packed its trash and moved with me.

But I am open to new ideas. Is there anything you’d like to see more of? Or less of? (Okay, Okay, I promise no more [rude columns about Ben Rhodes](<https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/28/a-stunning-profile-of-ben-rhodes-the-asshole-who-is-the-presidents-foreign-policy-guru-4/>).)

Email me at [TheLongMarch@taskandpurpose.com](<mailto:thelongmarch@taskandpurpose.com>) or leave a comment below.

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## More

- [It’s Time For ‘The Long March’ To Come To A End](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/tom-ricks-the-long-march.md>)
- [Want To Write For ‘The Long March’? We Want To Hear From You](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/want-to-write-tom-ricks-blog.md>)
- [Lessons Learned From More Than 10 Years Of Reading Tom Ricks’ Blogging](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/lessons-learned-from-more-than-15-years-of-reading-tom-ricks-blogging.md>)
- [Introducing Gearhead Wednesday, A Weekly Column From Retired Navy SEAL Kristin Beck](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/gearhead-wednesday-kristin-beck.md>)
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- [Task & Purpose has a new comments section, and we want to hear from you](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/task-and-purpose-comments.md>)
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