HeyJaredDonald Vandergriff
A 26 year Marine and US Army officer. I served enlisted time as a Marine infantryman and enlisted tanker. Author or editor of 11 books and over a 100 articles on leader development, military culture and Maneuver Warfare.
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Outcomes-Based in Name, Industrial-Age in Practice (opens the original)
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The Shepard Scale: Does Decentralized Leadership Have a Fatal Flaw? by Kit Perez Sep 23, 2026 (opens the original)
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The Unpopular Ones Who Were Right, Part 3 of 3 (opens the original)
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Part 1 was the tradition and the schoolhouse: Scharnhorst to Khan. Part 2 was the fight after Vietnam and into the street: Hackworth, Leland, Wass de Czege, Macgregor. Part 3 is the rest of the war the institution still pretends it is not fighting—the money, the next generation of conflict, the airplane built for the grunt instead of the contractor, and… Read more
The Lens of History, The Spear Point: Part Two Book review of Book 2 Desert Fang (opens the original)
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For the reader who is new to The Spear Point, see the introduction. [1] This reviewer explains the series’ rationale in the intro. Part one of the series covers Donald Vandergriff’s Reforging the Sword, the first book in the series of that name. [2]Readers unfamiliar with the military history – netball hybrid are welcome to explore that topic. [3] This reviewer will employ that hybrid below. He also dealt with Vandergriff’s take on Culture Marxism in the first instalment of The Spear Point.The S
Can This Officer Command in War? (opens the original)
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IntroductionLt. Col. Asad “Genghis” Khan’s The Sentinel took up Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Joint Warfighter Evaluation (JWE) in Episode 241, “Can Our Generals Actually Fight? The Pentagon’s New Test,” and asked the question the profession has spent decades avoiding. Colonels and Navy captains competing for one star will now face an assessment designed to measure operational planning, decision-making, and leadership under simulated combat pressure. Hegseth compared the idea t
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