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Aerospace Advantage – Russian Airpower in Ukraine

In Episode 110 of the Aerospace Advantage podcast, Russian Airpower in Ukraine: Lessons for the West, John “Slick” Baum chats with Dr. Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies along with Heather “Lucky” Penney and Lt Col Michael “Mongo” Kingry of our Mitchell Institute team about key takeaways from the Ukraine-Russia war. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Abraham Lincoln – History Channel

From the impoverished childhood of Lincoln to his days as a young prairie lawyer and budding politician, through his unlikely election to the presidency and his assassination only five days after the end of the Civil War, “Abraham Lincoln” offers viewers new and surprising insights into the man consistently ranked by historians and the American people as the country’s greatest president. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Gillian Tett’s The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers illustrates how the principles of anthropology can help us break down barriers and promote a greater degree of interdependence. Our innovative success emerges not from formal organizational “silos,” but through informal and unplanned interactions across our departments, staffs, and disciplines. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy

The story of Andrew Marshall in The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy is a profound account of a virtually unknown, yet brilliant strategic thinker who was enormously influential in shaping American military thought for nearly half a century. Today, Marshall’s hallmark methodology, the “Net Assessment,” remains an essential diagnostic framework for understanding strategic competition through the lenses of capabilities, challenges, and perceptions. (Courtesy Graphic)

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All Blood Runs Red

All Blood Runs Red is the inspiring untold story of an American hero, a thought-provoking chronicle of the twentieth century and a portrait of a man who came from nothing and by his own courage, determination, gumption, intelligence and luck forged a legendary life. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Prince: Searching for Xi Xinping

The Economist’s The Prince: Searching for Xi Xinping podcast is a perceptive and compelling eight-episode narrative that lifts the veil behind the PRC leader’s early life and rise to power. By scanning the past for indications and trends, we minimize uncertainty about our present operating environment and use that knowledge help us manage strategic competition and gain competitive advantages. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Thanks for the Feedback is the first book to address this tension head on. It explains why getting feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, and offers a powerful framework to help us take on life’s blizzard of off-hand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited advice with curiosity and grace. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Playbook

The Playbook profiles legendary coaches as they share the rules they live by to achieve success in sports and in life. Featured coaches include the Los Angeles Clippers' Doc Rivers; two-time FIFA World Cup-winning coach Jill Ellis; Premier League’s José Mourinho; Serena Williams’ famed tennis coach, Patrick Mouratoglou; and hall of fame basketball player and coach Dawn Staley. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard

Transformation requires we aggressively overcome the organizational inertia of the status quo. Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard is a story-driven account that reveals insights into the heuristics of our rational and emotional minds and how they relate to each other. I need your help implementing Action Order-B Mod 1 to switch our organizational behavior to streamline decision-making, eliminate redundancy, and limit bureaucratic layers. (Courtesy Graphic)

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A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

In A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia, and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and try to influence their future. In turn, this self-invented history has come to affect not just their constant nation-building project but also their relations with the world. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Long Game

What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? The Long Game draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, as well as careful analysis of China's conduct, to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Red Tail Angels: The Story & Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen

Red Tail Angels is a three part documentary series on the formation, early years, contributions and legacy of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Featuring interviews with historians, pilots, and many of the Tuskegee Airmen themselves. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military

As we continue to Accelerate Change to the Air Force our Nation needs, we must be mindful of organizational lessons from the past. Historical analysis allows us to synthesize patterns in the character of warfare and incorporate them into our future Air Force design through initiatives like Action Order D and the Operational Imperatives. In Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military, Stephen Rosen analyzes military and technological innovations during war and peacetime and offers prescriptions for managing uncertainty. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security

The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security is as much the story of Boyd’s innovative spirit as his groundbreaking ideas on warfare. Alongside a tenacity for out-maneuvering bureaucracy, Boyd was a maverick, and had innovation baked into his DNA. Who is the “Maverick” in your squadron? (Courtesy Graphic)

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The concept of Multi-Capable Airmen represents a foundational change in how we think, fight, and empower our Airmen to operate amidst multi-domain challenges in an expeditionary environment. David Epstein brilliantly characterizes this philosophy in Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by emphasizing a formula of breadth, cognitive diversity, and generalized experience. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Warriors in Their Own Words: Colonel “Bud” Anderson, America’s last living triple fighter ace

Colonel Anderson’s autobiographical account in the Warriors in Their Own Words podcast is another enthralling and heroic personification of Airmen rising to the challenge to meet seemingly impossible tasks and defeat the enemies of their time. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Infinite Game

The more Simon started to understand the difference between finite and infinite games, the more he began to see infinite games all around us. He started to see that many of the struggles that organizations face exist simply because their leaders were playing with a finite mindset in a game that has no end. The leaders who embrace an infinite mindset, in stark contrast, build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. They have the resilience to thrive in an ever-changing world, while their competitors fall by the wayside. Ultimately, those who adopt an infinite mindset are the ones who lead the rest of us into the future. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Nudge

Tomorrow’s Airmen face renewed 21st-century challenges of managing deterrence, preparing for near-peer conflict, and innovating an updated force design. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness illustrates how to reframe these wicked problems by using “nudges” to avoid bias and recognize subtle cues to modify how we make decisions. (Courtesy Graphic)

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Veteran Chronicles: In Their Own Words

In Veteran Chronicles: In Their Own Words, Brig. Gen. Charles McGee reflects on his remarkable thirty-year career as one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. Although Gen McGee passed away in January at the age of 102 after “a life well lived,” his courage and embodiment of the core values continue to buoy us into the future. (Courtesy Graphic)

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The Social Dilemma

Discusses how social media is deliberately designed to nurture addiction, manipulate people and governments, and spread conspiracy theories. Features many former employees and executives from top tech companies and social media platforms who offer their insight into how a relatively small number of engineers make decisions that impact billions of people, and closely examines the current state of social media platforms focusing on the problems with the industry. Conversations during the film tackle concepts in technology such as data mining, technology addiction, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and surveillance capitalism. (Courtesy Graphic)

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