was pleased to read this 2014 post on Foreign Policy magazine’s website by Marine Captain Jordan Blashek: “Rather than trying to remember 69 different TTPs [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures], I would suggest that 2nd lieutenants focus on just one: ‘Think deeply about your job and figure out the why behind everything.’…To face the confusion of the modern battlefield…requires a nuanced mind capable of critical thought and the humility to ask the right questions.” Jordan Blashek, “68 TTPs Too Many! Or, Why Lists Like That Won’t Help Improve Our Junior Officers,” Best Defense (blog), Foreign
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