Leadership

How tyrants begin with sincere narratives that justify their actions.

The aftermath of the Honda Point disaster, including the court martial and the establishment of new naval principles for leadership and safety.

A historical analysis of the Honda Point disaster, examining the systemic failures that led to the greatest peacetime naval tragedy in U.S. history.

Exploring the events leading to the Honda Point disaster and the systemic failures that caused seven destroyers to wreck on the California coast.

Everyone knows WWI was a pointless stalemate that ended in exhausted armistice. Everyone is wrong. The Hundred Days Offensive was a stunning military achievement that broke the German Army—and nobody remembers it.

Douglas Haig led the largest army in British history through history's most technologically intense war. His background was horses. The results—spectacular failure followed by eventual success—offer lessons for any leader facing technology they don't understand.

Between 1916 and 1918, the British Army underwent one of history's most remarkable institutional transformations. How did a hidebound Victorian organization become a dynamic learning machine while fighting the deadliest war in history?

Case studies of how perfect compliance with systems and procedures can produce catastrophic outcomes.

The greatest military strategists understood that wars are won and lost in supply depots, not just on battlefields. This introduction explores why logistics—the unsexy science of getting the right things to the right place at the right time—is the true determinant of military victory.