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Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Is the traditional command-and-control operations management model — which reigned supreme for decades in an era of relative stability and predictability — finally dead? All the signs we see say it is ...

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June 2005 saw the release of Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Handbook 05-25, Leader’s Guide to A2C2 at Brigade and Below. This document updates the 2005 handbook and is informed by changes in ...

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The United States is a global power with global commitments. As such, it cannot focus on a single problem or threat to the exclusion of others, nor can it seek to minimize risk across the board. To do ...