Articles
From special articles just for this site to featured articles in leading sites, such as USA Today, The U.S. Army War College, and The Wall Street Journal, you can find a list of my published articles sorted by topic below.
Newsletter Issues
The Wide World of Women’s Sports
It is nearly time. Yes, back to school in September but it is also time for fall and winter sports seasons to begin. Its NFL of course but there is so much more! The professional alpine skiing season will begin in late October in Europe. By that time the World Acquatics Swimming cup will be well...
Do Things History Could Only Dream Of
Here it comes on September 8th! But Book #3 in the girls series is already on Amazon – so you can pre-order it now! Check out this cover! This is a book about girls and women who...
Making the Team
“At Barbie we believe girls can be and do anything.” Those were the words of Krista Berger, Senior Vice President of Barbie at Mattel. On October 6, 2025, Mattel launched a new...
First to Win Gold
Gretchen Kunigk didn’t step into a pair of skis until she was fifteen years old. But she took to it like a natural. In the 1930s, most skiing was not downhill but instead was...
Strategic Communications
Strategic Communication: Key to Deterrence and Defense
Strategic Communication is the lens, the filter. and the focus. It is the way and the means that gives purpose and vision to all command-led mission communications. Audiences who hear the communications but cannot discern the purpose and vision cannot make sense of why the U.S. military is doing...
Lincoln As Strategist: Exercising the Elements of National Power
WAR ROOM welcomes back featured contributor Mari K. Eder to take a look at the strategic accomplishments of President Abraham Lincoln. Inspired by a print of Lincoln signing the...
This Pioneering Officer Led an All-Black Women’s Army Corps Battalion in a Daunting World War II Mission: Saving Soldiers’ Mail
Charity Adams was already on her way to the European theater in January 1945, and there was a sealed envelope on her lap. It was time to find out where she was going. She tore...
The Strategic Six Seconds
Several weeks ago, In the music section of the Sunday Washington Post an article caught my attention, “Launching a Pop Career in Six Seconds.” It was about a young, unknown...
Opinion, Editorial, and Commentary
The War Correspondents
As published in the July - August 2023 edition of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution National Defender. A recent military magazine article on WWII journalists neglected to mention any women correspondents aside from Martha Gellhorn, and gave her a mere nod in passing. Yet...
Mary, Mae, and Many More!
Mary Agnes Sullivan built a remarkable 35-year career as a pioneering policewoman in New York City. She became the first woman homicide detective in the New York City Police...
Who’s On First?
Ellen O’Grady claimed to be the first female detective. So did Mary Sullivan, but Ellen O’Grady had been a matron first, and Mary Sullivan hadn’t been through basic police...
The Fearless Capt. Edna Pitkin
One of Mae Foley’s friends in the Women’s Police Reserve was Capt. Edna Pitkin. Edna was a Broadway regular, and Mae thought her a bit impulsive. One day she told Mae that she’d...
Ethics
After the Info-Apocalypse (AA) (Part 1) – Tech the Untamed
The Information Apocalypse series examined the decline of trust and truth in American Institutions over the past several years, from the effects on news and information but more critically, on ideas and values. The series explored the role of leaders in a polemicized society, and the necessity for...
The Information Apocalypse, Part X: The Road Ahead
The future is replete with opportunities for managing the pace of change, responding to change, and determining how information is protected and revealed. As the pandemic...
The Information Apocalypse Part IX: Art Versus Science
The Information Apocalypse has eaten away at the foundations of society – in our institutions, through trust in our professions, and in denigrating respect for the pronouncements...
The Information Apocalypse, Part VIII: Civics Lessons
Studies, polls, and surveys continue to demonstrate that Americans’ trust in democratic and civil-society institutions is at rock bottom. Given that fact, how can Americans...