The #BruteCast

(NOTE: there were minor audio issues with the host's equipment, but LtGen Dana's comments are loud and clear) Today we’re excited to welcome Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Mike Dana. Lieutenant General Dana was an armor officer, logistics officer, and strategic planner in the Marine Corps for 37 years. During his career he deployed ten times to includ...

Mr. Steve Leonard is an author, speaker, and currently serves as the director of the graduate program in business and organizational leadership at the University of Kansas. After serving 28 years in the U.S. Army, he turned to writing and speaking, and is the cofounder of the national security blog "Divergent Options;" cofounder of the "Smell of Victory" podcast; and cofounder and board member of...

Emma Moore is a Research Associate for the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Moore is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University. Prior to joining CNAS, Moore served as Executive Assistant and Social Media Lead for Narrative Strategies, a group of experts using strategic communica...

August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” storytelling, and serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning. With Pete...

Professor Edward D. Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Faculty Fellow, and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Professor Hess spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. He joined academia i...

Maj Ian T. Brown is a CH-53E pilot by trade, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the INDO-PACOM region. He’s also written extensively on maneuver warfare, military history, and future war, including the book A New Conception of War , published with Marine Corps University Press in 2018. He holds a master’s in military history from Norwich University. Today he’s going to talk a little about t...

Mr. John Kroger is a former Marine who recently served as the Navy’s first Chief Learning Officer. In that capacity he was charged to align the many educational institutions within the Department of the Navy, such as the Naval Academy, Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School, our own Marine Corps University, and future Naval Community College – with the goal of ensuring that the nation’s sail...

This episode features two Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellows, both with backgrounds in military history and institutional innovation The first guest is Dr. Aimée Fox, a historian of warfare who explores military innovation and change in historic and contemporary armed forces. She is an assistant professor in King’s College London’s Defense Studies Department based at the United Kingdom’s Joint Ser...

This #BruteCast featured a wargaming panel of practitioners across the many different wargaming communities. Join Andrew Reddie, James Fielder, Damien O'Connell, and Sebastian Bae as they discuss their myriad experiences in using wargames for training, education, and analytics. The panelists provided a number of resources for those interested in learning more, which are included below: https://edu...

Kyleanne Hunter, PhD, is a Marine Corps combat veteran with multiple combat deployments as an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack pilot. She is Assistant Professor of Military and Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force Academy and co-founder of Athena Leadership Project. She is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Ne...

Dr. Amin Tarzi is the director of Middle East Studies for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. He is also a senior non-resident Fellow for the Program on the Middle East at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Dr. Tarzi regularly lectures on broader Middle Eastern security issues at US and foreign governmental institutions and think tanks as well as operational Marine Corps units. He is...

Dr. Yuval Weber is the Donald Bren Chair of Russian Military and Political Strategy for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. Before joining the Krulak Center, he served as the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, DC, where he taught courses on Russian politics and statecraft, International...

Dr. Christopher C. Harmon is the Donald Bren Chair of Great Power Competition for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. Before assuming duties as a Bren Chair, Dr. Harmon was a course director at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. He has also worked as a Professor of International Relations at Marine Corps University, taught strategy at the Naval War C...