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July 2025

Announcing the Rickover Corpus
A digital library for leadership and reform.
 • 
Charles Yang
Eugene Fubini, Heretic in the Control Room
He jammed Axis radars, then built the bridge between industry and government in the Cold War.
 • 
Ross Fubini
Mike Gallagher Breaks Down the '12 Day War,' Operation Midnight Hammer
First Breakfast sat down with Mike Gallagher, Head of Defense at Palantir, to discuss “The 12 Day War” and Operation Midnight Hammer, the American…
 • 
Blake Seitz
 and 
Mike Gallagher
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Independence Day
A reflection on America's first national mobilization.
 • 
Shyam Sankar
, 
Greg Little
, 
Madeline Zimmerman
, and 
Blake Seitz
Joseph Desch, American Codebreaker
A quiet engineer in Ohio united government and industry to break the Nazi Enigma.
 • 
Peter Minetos

June 2025

Reshaping America’s Critical Materials Strategy
The Arlington Doctrine is a demand-driven approach to securing defense-critical supply chains.
 • 
Hanna Tomory
 and 
David Argyle
Winter Is Coming: The Pentagon’s Game of Thrones
The great houses of defense must unite to defeat the White Walkers of modern warfare.
 • 
Greg Little
The Army Is ‘Transforming in Contact.’ Here’s How.
We are putting soldiers and their needs at the forefront—not requirements.
 • 
Alex Miller
Announcing the American Tech Fellowship
American workers built the 20th century. They will build the 21st.
 • 
Shyam Sankar
New Dimensions of Strategic Depth
Updating an old concept for an age of satellites and small drones.
 • 
Nadia Schadlow
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