Roman Operating System

An Admiral Rome Would Have Recognized

What Nimitz's career reveals about promotion, failure, and where the truth lives in a large organization

The Senate's Paperclip

Operation Paperclip and the Roman art of absorbing a defeated enemy

Alea Lacta Est

Caesar’s most famous words were not a risk assessment. They were an identity claim.

The Men Who Slept on Water

The Refusal Was Already In Ink

In 1783 the most powerful man in America could have taken a crown. His own army was offering. He reached for his reading glasses instead.

By This Cue, Remember Your Purpose

In hoc signo. By this sign, conquer.

Who Is in Charge of You?

Rome sorted every person into one of two legal conditions. Only one of them is yours to choose.

The American Fabius

Washington is remembered for the most audacious night of the Revolution. He won the war by refusing, for years, to be audacious at all.