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The Angry Staff Officer – Of history, warfare, leadership, and alcoholOf history, warfare, leadership, and alcoholThe Angry Staff Officer – Of history, warfare, leadership, and alcohol Skip to content The Angry Staff Officer Of history, warfare, leadership, and alcohol Menu Home About the Editor History World War I Military Warfighter Exercises Foreign Policy Life Fiction Satire Guest Posts Star Wars War Stories Podcast The NCO Club The NCO Club Scroll down to content Posts Posted on November 29, 2025November 30, 2025Don’t bother improving your chess Civil discourse requires a shared allegiance to civil society “If every time you play chess, your opponent punches you in the face, getting better at chess is not the solution.” – Andrew Thomas An important life lesson came out of my early career as a civil litigator. I practiced law in Canada for eleven years; … Continue reading "Don’t bother improving your chess"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on November 27, 2025Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American history before everyone started killing each other. Thanksgiving as a national holiday is actually about another time when everyone was … Continue reading "Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on November 12, 2025“After me, the flood:” recovering the Army’s accountability Much has been written elsewhere regarding the unforgivable sin of failing to plan for known contingencies. Whatever one thinks of the current changes undergoing our Army here in the United States, the least controversial thing to be said about them is that they certainly represent a change from what has come before. And regardless of one what thinks, or refuses to … Continue reading "“After me, the flood:” recovering the Army’s accountability"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on September 8, 2025The General Who Defied a President Perhaps no period characterized chaos about the future of the Republic than the years 1866-1868. And perhaps no one individual did so much to save it in those years as the man who had labored so hard to preserve it from 1861-1865: Ulysses S. Grant.  Pres. Andrew Johnson (LoC) One would think that having put … Continue reading "The General Who Defied a President"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on September 5, 2025A Badly Belated June Reading List Weird, just the other day it was July and I was thinking that my book review post wouldn't be colossally late again. Yet, here we are, unaccountably in September and I'm still writing about June. Time is a construct and I am against it. Still, we press on. Maybe, unlike the US strike on Iran … Continue reading "A Badly Belated June Reading List"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on August 6, 2025August 6, 2025Viewers Like Us: A Love Letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Dear PBS, So, I don't say this enough, but I really doggone love you. You launched my passion for history. You made me read more books. And you made me tolerate and almost become interested in science. Which, as my mother could tell you, is a real feat. And you did this at the cost … Continue reading "Viewers Like Us: A Love Letter to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on July 22, 2025Thoughts While Visiting the U.S. National World War I Memorial The other day I went and stood in front of the new section of the World War I memorial in Washington, DC and looked at it. Memorials are meant to make you feel something. I felt nothing. I felt nothing when I looked at the figures. So I looked at the equipment. I looked at … Continue reading "Thoughts While Visiting the U.S. National World War I Memorial"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on July 2, 2025June 29, 2025All I Really Need to Know about Leadership I Learned from Spaceballs Spaceballs (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Brooksfilms)   Editor's note (with apology built in): Reader, if as you peruse the following, you wonder whether the author is sick in the head or does not understand FM 6-22 but at all, rest easy. This, but for the negligence and oversight of the editor, should have run on the 1st … Continue reading "All I Really Need to Know about Leadership I Learned from Spaceballs"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on June 29, 2025June 29, 2025What are the Obligations of Leadership? I was in Hawaii for the first time earlier this year. Expecting a sunny beach vacation, it was actually more of a profound learning experience. I was not expecting to be provoked in thought as much as I was. For our purposes, the thing that stayed with me most was the state motto, formerly the … Continue reading "What are the Obligations of Leadership?"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posted on June 29, 2025April Showers Bring May Books I will not apologize for my horrendous title. You deserve it. When the world is a mess, you lean into your reading list. Hard. This month was a solid mix of military history and historical fiction, with author Naomi Novik once again dropping some bangers. She is rapidly turning into one of my favorite authors. … Continue reading "April Showers Bring May Books"Share this:Tweet Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit MoreShare on Tumblr Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Like Loading... Posts pagination Page 1 Page 2 … Page 36 Next page Follow The Angry Staff Officer on WordPress.com Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Subscribe Join 11.3K other subscribers Top Posts & PagesArmy Unit Numerical Designations: Where do they come from?About the Editor" Look! Here are the Americans!" 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