Meditations for Military Leaders

Newsletters are distributed monthly. For questions and feedback, please contact Connor Tracy, editor.

Each Meditations newsletter includes

• our latest Vital Remnants podcast episode
• next month's reading assignment (part of our challenge to engage ideas from classic texts and apply them to present-day leadership)
• Download Gregg's Reading Guide to Thinking with Plato (target reading assignments in a 7-month window)
• Download Gregg's Leadership Guide to Machiavelli's The Prince (target reading assignments in a 9-month window)
• Download Gregg's Leadership Guide to The Last Day's of Socrates (target reading assignment in a 4-month window)
• book recommendations from McConnell Center associates. Recommendations include new books or a pitch for classic or overlooked titles to add to military leaders' bookshelves.
• featured student projects or notable student highlights, including:
• Charles K. Djou on "Make China More Like Hong Kong: A New U.S. National Security Policy Approach Toward China" (published at RealClearDefense.com) 
• Trivius Caldwell on "Contrarian Leadership through Self-Education"
• Jeff Fanelli on "Building a Soldier: Educating Soldiers to Win in a Complex World"
• Taylor Durling on "Oath of Office: A Call to Revisit Civic Education in the Military"
• Trivius Caldwell on "A Wise Academy: The Un-Coddled American Minds at West Point" (published at the Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse, relinked with permission)
• Alfonso Castillo on "The Constitutional Creation of a New Branch of the Military"
• Kane Tomlin on "Intelligence’s Correlation to Special Operation’s Mission Success"
• Leyland "Lee" Torres on "The Constitution and War"
• additional McConnell Center educational resources

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