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Is a Big Tax Refund a Good Thing?

March 14, 2012

By USAA

Submitted by USAA on March 14, 2012 - 12:18pm

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Crackpot, Problem Child, Great Fighting Leader

August 29, 2011

By Steven Pressfield

Submitted by Steven Pressfield on August 29, 2011 - 1:35pm

By Callie Oettinger | Published: August 29, 2011

One of these things is not like the others:

Crackpot. Problem Child. Great Fighting Leader.

Or is it?

What does a leader look like?

Eisenhower called Patton a “crackpot” and a “problem child” and a “great fighting leader in pursuit and exploitation.” (See letter below from General Eisenhower to General Marshall.)

Defining the Marine Corps’ Strategic Concept

August 16, 2011

By GI Wilson

Submitted by GI Wilson on August 16, 2011 - 11:09am

FM contributors GI Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired) and H. T. Hayden (Lt Colonel, USMC, retired).

(Published with permission of Fabius Maximus. We will publish one blog per week from this great site. See their blog here!)

Memorial Days Past

May 26, 2011

Submitted by Anonymous on May 26, 2011 - 12:59pm

Guest blogger, W.M. Stahl, author of The Traveler’s Adventure’s in Valdore: The BeginningTales From the Strange Mind of Me: Short Stories and Essays. See more about W.M. Stahl HERE.

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