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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: EAT YOUR ACADEMIC SPINACH: DEFENSE MANAGEMENT
Description: It has been recognized since antiquity that victory in war often goes to those who best organize "the sinews of war" (money, equipment, and supplies). Yet at the U.S. Army War College the Defense Management course that teaches these topics has often been maligned. For a time, a heavy focus on acronym-heavy process caused many students to roll their eyes and ask, "Why do I have to learn this? I'm not a force manager, or budgeteer, or program manager etc."
Tom Galvin and Doug Waters are in the studio to explain how the course is evolving to better demonstrate...