George says:
Very good article. Ambition is the double-edge sword that has driven me in my business life and the fuel...
JKL says:
I am forwarding this to my Son asap. Thank you Mr. Pressfield for continuing to be write this blog. Of all...
Andrew Lubin says:
Hey Steve – you certainly nailed ‘ambition.’ If I want to succeed (my book in...
Ahsan Ali says:
Nice story, Frank
Clint says:
I used to run into so many people who would act like my having ambition for myself was the mark of a...
Subscribe to SPO.
Site of the tribal gathering in Zazi, Paktia province
They say that every enterprise, from D-Day to a kitchen remodel, takes three times as long as you think and costs three times as much. I must apologize: our two new series have run afoul of this same syndrome. Here’s the latest: (more…)
Three items will be coming up this week (and in the following weeks) in this space that I think will be extremely interesting and provocative. I can say that with confidence because none of them will be coming from me.
First, in the next day or two, we’ll post a response from Michael McClellan to George Will’s recent “This Week” comments and Washington Post column. Mike is an extremely thoughtful and articulate young lawyer and Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. I don’t know what he’ll say but I’m really looking forward to seeing it. (more…)
Tribal elders tell US Special Forces about their "muj days," fighting the Russians
A week ago I ran a post about two young Army captains—Jim Gant and Michael Harrison—who served in the same valley in Konar province, Afghanistan. Their service was six years apart, yet the two were linked by their bonds with a tribal chief named Noorafzhal and by a gift of honor—a shotgun that Capt. Gant and his Special Forces ODA 316 had presented to the tribal elder in August 2003. Just three weeks ago, June 2009, Noorafzhal was still showing that gun off—this time to Capt. Harrison. (more…)
First, many thanks to all correspondents and contributors for the tremendous and very thoughtful response to the previous post, “A Tale of Two Captains.” More to come in a couple of days about Capt. Harrison’s work, including an update dispatch from him in Konar.
But first, here’s a strikingly apt flashback to 2006—when Army Times journalist (and author of the excellent Not A Good Day To Die) Sean Naylor and I did an interview together for C-SPAN’s “BookTV.” The topic was “The War in Afghanistan.” (more…)
