Vultures' Row

The 21st century military shouldn’t work and train like the 19th century

Hopefully we’ll come to recognize more forms of courage than just “going downrange,” and it turns out even your grocer has some.

Perhaps the military is learning about the sunk cost fallacy.

Be careful out there.

[shortcode-Op-Ed-disclosure] A recent RAND study on military compensation has recently garnered some attention, with the main takeaway of many being...

Please stop.

Hazing represents the opposite [of discipline]... it is the product of a lack of self-control and laziness.

We see ourselves as upholding a higher standard. We aren't just some overgrown banana republic. We're a "shining city on a hill."

The U.S. has to make hard choices about whether spending that money is worth it. Unfortunately, our approach has been that of the Yankees great Yogi Berra. "When faced with a fork in the road, take both."

While the SEALs seem to have conduct issues disproportionate to the size of their organization, this idea that service — especially combat service — somehow earns one a free pass, seems to have some currency today.

Popcorn sales will be through the roof in 2020, but recruitment numbers won't skyrocket like they did in 1986

In the real world the number of jobs where run time and pull-ups are part of your performance evaluation is vanishingly small.

Perhaps people feel compelled to come up with these excuses because this country idolizes military service so much.

"The military owes it to itself to find outlets for exceptional individuals to contribute. Priebus owes it to the country to be honest with himself and find a more productive outlet to serve"

"As much as I'm adapting to corporate life, I wish the civilian world would take at least a few military terms onboard."

"As much as the U.S. military and veteran community says they are destigmatizing mental health treatment, it's still regarded as personal weakness and not as a health problem — and to some extent, the military's own policies promote that outlook."

Unfortunately, too many vets believe their own PR, and subscribe to what I’d call the “veteran superiority complex.”

I don't claim to have any special insight other than a combination of stumbling and success, which might be the right combination of experiences to give others some tips.

A movie meant to mock the daily drudgery of office drones also captured the lives of everyone from admin clerks to grunts to pilots.

Too often, people who would be innovators either give up too early or never put the work in to see their ideas through. Then they get disillusioned and blame the system for their own failures.

Some people are legitimately outraged by the idea that young men shouldn't be giving each other beatdowns. A not insignificant group feels seriously threatened by being told to be better.

The origins of the challenge coin have been lost to antiquity. It’s really anyone’s guess as to how these trinkets...

When discussing societal ills, people start talking about mandatory national service as a solution. A lot of this comes from...

When it comes to deciding whether to leave the military or to make it a career, too many folks just...