Milvet-Focused

11th March 2021

11 Reasons to Hire Veterans for Pretty Much Anything

1. Vets are resilient: between basic training, AIT, specialized schools, qualification courses, military bureaucracy, and war, veterans possess a resilience foreign to most civilians.

12th April 2019

Fire Teams and Ice: Green Berets Discuss How They'd Take Down House Lannister in 'Game of Thrones'

Fire Teams and Ice: Green Berets Discuss How They'd Take Down House Lannister in 'Game of Thrones'

From the very start, House Lannister has been the villains of the TV version of Game of Thrones. They've murdered some of our favorite characters and attempted to maim, rape or kill the rest. So far there have been at least two attempts to overthrow their rule over Westeros - both unsuccessful - leading us to wonder as we move into the final season: what would it take to successfully depose Cersei

A Plus • 26th August 2015

EXCLUSIVE: What This Former CIA Officer Wants You To Know About Terrorism

Outer Places • 17th October 2017

How ‘Hollywood Weapons’ Green Beret Host Terry Schappert Would Train The Rebel Alliance in ‘Star Wars'

During a conversation with retired Green Beret Master Sergeant Terry Schappert , you could find yourself talking about anything. He is conversant on topics ranging from film history to literature to the physics of firing a .454 Casull pistol underwater, speaking with an engaging erudition often punctuated with laughter that belies his physical gravitas....

LinkedIn • 16th May 2019

The SHALL To Power: Creeds, Communication, and Culture Through a Linguistic Lens

During a discussion about what separates military culture from corporate culture, Brady Moore and I stumbled onto the topic of creeds and how there really isn’t a civilian counterpart (aside from, perhaps, The Nicene Creed).

LinkedIn • 16th May 2019

The Art of What? The Strategy Book You Need Isn't 'The Art of War'​

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is one of the most widely read – and wildly interpreted – books co-opted by business and corporate thinkers. The gist is fairly simple: it’s an extension of the aphorism offered by von Clausewitz: “War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.”

A Plus • 23rd March 2016

5 Benefits Of Waking Up Early, As Told By Former Navy SEALs, Green Berets, And Other U.S. Veterans

Outer Places • 4th April 2019

DARPA Seeks to Make AI Robots More Moral and Less Potentially Psychopathic By Teaching Them Manners

DARPA Seeks to Make AI Robots More Moral and Less Potentially Psychopathic By Teaching Them Manners

In the original 1979 Alien, the crew of the Nostromo is effectively sabotaged by its science officer, Ash, a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 android programmed to ensure that Weyland-Yutani obtains a living xenomorph specimen, regardless of the cost to human life in doing so. In doing so, Ash deceives his human colleagues, violates security protocol (disobeying a direct order), and later tries to murde

GetGlobal • 5th July 2017

Psssst... Know How To Design A Rifle? You Might Want To Call India.

Outer Places • 5th March 2018

Interview: Jack Murphy Discusses Nikola Tesla's Death Ray and Mysterious Death

On January 8, 1943, inventor Nikola Tesla was found dead in room 3327 in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel where he spent the last years of his life. It was soon discovered that his room's safe had been broken into by his nephew Sava Kosanović and was missing a number of documents, plans, and journals.Within days, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the remainder of Tesla's papers which had been kept in a number of trunks at a storage facility. Investigators turned them over to the Office of