Don Vandergriff joins the Fabius Maximus team

A new addition to the FM website team: Don Vandergriff

William Lind tells us that Donald Vandergriff has another book out: Manning the Future Legions of the United States: Finding and Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Donald Vandergriff has a blog now

via DNI: Don Vandergriff

He is the author of Path to Victory and Raising the Bar.

Raising the Bar, by Major Don Vandergriff
Unit Manning will Benefit the Many by MAJ Donald Vandergriff
The People Side Of Transformation: A Path to Victory
Atlantic Unbound | Fallows@large | 2003.01.15
Careers and Cohesion for Effective 21st Century Leadership: By Don ...
Not a Good Day to Die, Reviewed by MAJ Don Vandergriff

Summary of the 2007 Boyd Conference

by Chet Richards and Donald Vandergriff, here

Don Vandergriff and George Reed, Old Dogs and New Tricks

Old Dogs and New Tricks: Setting the Tone For Adaptability, by MAJ Don Vandergriff and COL George Reed, both USA, Ret. Fingerspitzengefühl (intuition and judgment) and Auftragstaktik (ability to use mission-type orders) are great things to have, but how do you develop them? [739 KB PDF - ignore the white space, from deleted advertisements]

Plus, Don't go to Pakistan, by Adam Elkus. Some unintended consequences are predictable.

10 Questions for Don Vandergriff

Developing Adaptive Army Leaders: 10 Questions For Don Vandergriff, By Elaine M. Grossman, Inside the Pentagon.

See also the following from DNI:
War Clouds Gather Over the Golan, by Martin van Creveld.

The Iraq insurgency has ended, which opens a path to peace, by Fabius Maximus. The insurgency has indeed ended, but not for the reasons you might imagine.

On War #209: Conversations, By William S. Lind

DNI review of Andrew Cockburn's Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, by Chuck Spinney

Don Vandergriff to Brief On New Book

Don Vandergriff to Brief On New Book

The Straus Military Reform Project is sponsoring a briefing next week on a new publication just now being released.

Major Donald E. Vandergriff (US Army Retired) is the author of over 50 articles and two books on military personnel and leadership. His newest work is Raising the Bar: Creating and Nurturing Adaptability to Deal with the Changing Face of War. He addresses fundamental reasons why America’s military leadership has failed to adapt quickly and effectively to unfolding events in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he describes what actions are needed to produce an officer corps that can cope effectively with the form of warfare we face today (“4th Generation Warfare”).

Vandergriff will summarize his work in a 20 minute on-the-record briefing. I hope you can attend. Please let me know if you plan to.

When: Thursday, January 11 at 10:00 AM

Where: The Carnegie Building, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW (2 blocks from the DuPont Circle [south] Metro stop) in the Choate Room on the first floor.

Copies of Vandergriff’s new publication, “Raising the Bar,” will be provided at attending the briefing.

Winslow T. Wheeler
Director
Straus Military Reform Project
Center for Defense Information @ www.cdi.org/smrp
202 797-5271 in DC
301 840-8992 in MD
301 221-3897 cell
winslowwheeler@comcast.net

I wish I could attend. Or perhaps Sarge could go, even though he doesn't want to be a commissioned officer. But he will be in Richmond. Are you going to St. Joseph's? You should drop by and try to meet up with the Dorans. Seriously. I can even get their contact info from Br. Boniface if you would like.