Audio by Maj. Victoria Smith, Capt. Erin Davis and Capt. Charlton Hedden | Air Force Judge Advocate General's School | 08.10.2022
In this episode, as part of the Great Powers Competition series, Maj Davis and Maj Hedden sit down with Air War College professor Dr. Liz Woodworth and AFJAGS Law Chair Lt Col Charles Gartland to review The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. The Good Earth is a novel set in early 20th century China and describes the life of Wang Lung, a peasant farmer, and the privations his family overcomes while......
Audio by Capt. Erin Davis and Capt. Charlton Hedden | Air Force Judge Advocate General's School | 06.07.2022
In this episode we review A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella by Nobel laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Set in a soviet labor camp in the 1950s, the visceral one-day account of that life was one of the first widely available portraits of life in the Gulag. As such, we review it for what we can learn about our great power competitor Russia by examining this part of that nation’s......
Audio by Capt. Erin Davis and Capt. Charlton Hedden | Air Force Judge Advocate General's School | 02.25.2022
In this episode, your hosts sit down with Air University Law Chair Lt Col Charles Gartland and discuss The Caine Mutiny, the 1951 Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. We’ll discuss this monumental work of World War II historical fiction and extract its lessons for today on leadership, followership, and the nature of military command....
Audio by Capt. Erin Davis and Capt. Charlton Hedden | Air Force Judge Advocate General's School | 12.01.2021
In this Episode, hosts Maj Erin Davis and Capt Charlie Hedden, along with guest Lt Col Charles Gartland, review the Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times, by Donald T. Phillips (Warner Books)....
