Nick Alexander (he/him)

Interests in Combat Health | Communications Director @GroundCuriosity | Member @MilWritersGuild | Husband, Father & Geek. All views my own

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

So I've been trying to work out how to ensure we don't open up an asymmetrical disadvantage in military imagination. It's an incomplete thought at this stage so would love your ideas to round out my thinking. #imagination #doctrine #thinking

[Grounded Curiosity @GroundCuriosity]

Our Comms Director @Nick_Alexander4 has been considering military imagination and whether our doctrine promotes or constrains it #military #futurefight #sundayread
https://t.co/cm1zMKf9RA

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@silentrunner71 Hey Pete, the solution as I see it is use the principle based stuff that's good and provide clear rationale for why you're disregarding the prescriptive stuff and then show your approach works in a safe to fail environment to ease any command concern.

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@maz_jovanovich We spent a whole day looking at the weapon of a human that was Nancy Wake @acsc_j a couple of weeks ago. Incredible human, and such a bad ass!

[#PropelHerAUS @PropelHerAUS]

'… if I fail to drive change further – I have fallen short.'

A powerful piece on work-life balance to launch Annie North’s new #PropelHerAUS series ‘Pursuing Work Life Balance in the Military’.

A must-read for all #YourADF members.

https://t.co/SFLwdhEW6O

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

This is a fascinating thread with lots to think about for combat health professionals.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

That's why most soldiers who have seen war never want to see it again.

And why some professional soldiers do all they can to prevent wars in the future, with an understanding of what is at stake.

And why Putin's illegal & criminal war in Ukraine is such an abomination. 25/25

[Grounded Curiosity @GroundCuriosity]

We're back for 2022 and contributing author Darren Cronshaw is getting us started with this excellent review of Peter Brune's 'Ralph Honer Kokoda Hero'. Check it out
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[Task & Purpose @TaskandPurpose]

The Army is testing drones that can deliver life-saving blood to the battlefield
(By @DavidSRoza) https://t.co/ig31URlRWR

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@keirinjoyce @USArmy @AustralianArmy @HLCAusArmy @AARCAusArmy @SYPAQ_Official @choisheungkay @GroundCuriosity @TheCentralBlue What happened to the trial though? This isn't really experimental tech anymore it's proven and rolled out in austere environments is Africa. We seem to have fallen behind the curve after initially being near the front...
https://t.co/nA3Idv10CH

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

So I recently wrote a #TinyLeadershipTale for @GroundCuriosity but the trigger to my leadership realisation came from none other than #DrWho. People laugh when I tell them a two hearted, time travelling, alien that cruises the galaxy in a police box is a mentor but...

[Nataliya Polyakova @tala201677]

"I reminded myself that if I care about my people – which I do – nothing they do can change my desire to be better, for them, every day." - @Nick_Alexander4 | @GroundCuriosity

#TinyLeadershipTales #leadership #PME #MilTwitter
https://t.co/iarB8Cqteh

[Expressions Training @LeaderRepeater]

Shared by @Nick_Alexander4: This is such a great series of #leadership gems. Glad I could make my own little 100 word contribution
#LeadershipDevelopment https://t.co/bZbB02tiRu

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

This is such a great series of #leadership gems. Glad I could make my own little 100 word contribution
#LeadershipDevelopment

[Grounded Curiosity @GroundCuriosity]

Lead self before others, it's often easier said than done but it's the theme of the last installment of #TinyLeadershipTales. | Thanks to @K8Yaxley @julian_hohnen @Boxcarwilly85 and @Nick_Alexander4 for sharing and all our other contributors over the month https://t.co/wd2jHMgHOO

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@MT_ONeill 2/2 this type of thinking has been more 'tolerated' and then vindicated at the next major conflict. US Navy between WW1 and 2 and Patton and his tanks as a couple of examples. But we seem to have short memories on the importance or imagination and creativity to provide agility.

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

So I've been trying to work out how to ensure we don't open up an asymmetrical disadvantage in military imagination. It's an incomplete thought at this stage so would love your ideas to round out my thinking. #imagination #doctrine #thinking

[Grounded Curiosity @GroundCuriosity]

Our Comms Director @Nick_Alexander4 has been considering military imagination and whether our doctrine promotes or constrains it #military #futurefight #sundayread
https://t.co/cm1zMKf9RA

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@MT_ONeill Those are really interesting points. What's the fix there then, if the endstate is imagination for success, but the imaginative are 'deviants' how do we instill the change long term. Interwar periods (like the one we're in now) have traditionally been the period where a lot 1/2

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@ChesterfieldO5 @Mick_Cook Haha, excellent point! This is what I mean, we can't help ourselves. The indoctrination is so strong and if the doctrine that's indoctrinating is anti-creative we're up a stinky creek.

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

@ShamsaLea 100% there is a real requirement to find a way to reform the 'bits broken on scan so it's real' approach across health. So much evidence now that this approach makes people worse. We're all more than a single part and to think lived experience can be reduced as such is folly.

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

It's been a looooong time since I've posted anything physio related, but even in health management now I am bamboozled by how bad the majority of clinicians are at managing pain in relatively fit, young individuals. This may help. #painiac #personfirst #pain

[Nick Alexander (he/him) @Nick_Alexander4]

Being part of this team has been so rewarding. I love the work we do generating discourse and introducing people to the power of the written word. Happy Birthday team! #itsourbirthday

[Grounded Curiosity @GroundCuriosity]

Today's the day! It's our Birthday! 7 years young. To celebrate here is the most read article of everything we've published from @WarintheFuture and Marcus Thompson. #challengetheaccepted #makePMEfun #digitalmentors https://t.co/0MdkTisJST