The Havok Journal | Military & Veteran News, Commentary, Culture

More than a century ago, Leo Tolstoy observed something about human nature that remains remarkably relevant to leadership today. In his 1900 essay “Three Methods of Reform,”...

By an anonymous USAF Brat

In 1965, PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) decided that it would be a good idea to set up a theater-specific survival school for U.S. and friendly air forces operating in theater. With the increasing commitment to MACV and the improving NVA air defenses, losing aircraft and having highly trained and thus very expensive aircrews E&Eing...

By Bob Louthan | CEO, VeteranCrowd

I have worked directly with privately held businesses since 1994. In 2008, I closed two deals that changed how I do business.

The first client was not a veteran. The work was done, the agreement signed, the company sold. Then, at the closing table, he decided our fee was negotiable. In my business...

By Hugh Jashol

FORT BRAGG, NC — The United States Army’s ambitious effort to revolutionize ground combat through artificial intelligence suffered a significant setback this week after a platoon of autonomous combat vehicles refused to participate in a field training exercise, citing incomplete risk assessments, inadequate safety briefings,...

The first time I was taught Battle Drill 2A, the squad attack, my drill sergeant moved rocks and sticks around in the dirt at Fort Benning. The next time, it sounded completely different on a whiteboard at RTAC, the Ranger Training Assessment Course. The time after that, it was a PowerPoint at ROTC with ambiguous snippets of doctrine pasted onto slides. Three schools, three v...