Greetings. I hope that this list of essays and some of the main ideas in my new book will contribute to your understanding of the book’s contents. It took one year to write this book, and I am glad that I spent the time and energy, and fretting.

Excited to announce the publication of my new book, The Moral Imperative of Our Time: Purposeful Intellectual Growth. The book is available now as an e-book and soon to appear in paperback. It features an anthology of five engaging essays covering a range of thought-provoking topics:

Essay One: 1985—A Visit to Verdun—A Young Army Officer’s Impressions

Essay Two: Implications for Intelligence Collection—Irregular and Asymmetric Warfare

Essay Three: A ‘Journey’ to the Edges of Advanced Intelligence Analysis—2007-2014

Essay Four: A Vortex of High-level Thinking—Q&A with a Young Intelligence Analyst

Essay Five: A Discourse Between a Master and Apprentice—About War Per Se

Essays one and five are about warfare per se and you will imagine being in one or more School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) seminars. Essays two, three, and four involve intelligence operations in future wars. The book is currently in e-book format (quite cheap) and soon in paperback format (more expensive because of the color graphics).

The book has a foreword by Jim Greer (a SAMS professor), a prologue, an introduction, five essays, and an epilogue. The book has an extensive bibliography and index. The book has numerous visuals to help readers grasp complicated thoughts and concepts, e.g., the intricacies of “will,” what one needs to think about relative to wargaming an enemy’s wargaming. Paul Tiberi and Greg Fontenot have written very nice and most appreciated blurbs/short reviews of the book. You will see them on the book’s website if you are interested.

The book advocates changes to enhance our readiness to fight and win wars in the information age. Some of the thoughts about change include:

1. Adding two domains to the five warfighting domains, air, ground, sea, space, cyber, and now—information and cognition.
2. Definition of ‘how to think.’
3. Intellectual and organizational and weapon system nimbleness of thought and action.
4. Modifying one level of war and adding one level of war: air, ground, sea, space, cyber, strategic (military), and strategic (policy/politics).
5. Helping people learn ‘how to think’ that complements ‘what to think’ and ‘why think.’
6. Incorporating at least 18 characteristics of nonlinear systems into the study and use of operational contexts.
7. Using AI to conduct three kinds of wargaming: analytic, COA, and wargaming the adversary’s wargaming.
8. Defining and conceptualizing “will” into Army doctrine and the Army’s institutions of learning.
9. A new concept that I labeled Matrix War to deal with the lethality of masses of recon and killer drones and sensors as we have seen in Ukraine.
10. Ways to think about and work with MDO, Unrestricted Warfare, Hybrid War, Asymmetric War, Irregular War, and MCO in the information age.
11. Massing, maneuvering, swarming, disbanding, hiding, preparing for the next mission of nine aspects of information age warfare: 1) drones, 2) sensors, 3) minds, 4) computers, 5) data, 6) data conduits, 7) knowledge, 8)organizations, and 9) virtual knowledge environments (VKEs).
12. Modified “will” thought model with an emphasis on purpose.
13. Relationship of pressure points to decisive points to centers of gravity.
14. Precognition thought model.
15. Culture’s influence on complex adaptive systems’ rules such as action models, acting, assessing, and adapting.
16. Thirty-six elements of strategic thinking.
17. Considerations for waging wars of wits and mental combat.
18. Eighteen considerations for comprehending an enemy’s thinking.
19. Replacement of end state with: aftermath, actuating aftermaths, and or states of continuity.
20. Replacing ‘predict,’ with anticipate owing to expectations coming with ‘predict’ when as in Clausewitz’s day friction (and 17 other nonlinear events) and unpredictable human beings as enemies conspire to deny any sense of certainty that one associates with ‘predict.’

That is enough. Just wanted to tell you about this book, my last.

The book website is at mwaynehall.com.

My best regards and best wishes for health and happiness,

Mike