Author Archive

John Ferrari

Senior Nonresident Fellow, AEI

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Ferrari is a senior nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank. Ferrari previously served as a director of program analysis and evaluation for the Army.  
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The Pentagon has been learning the wrong lessons for three decades

The Gulf War sowed the seeds of future defeat. We must uproot them—and urgently.

  • John Ferrari
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Fixing Army Recruiting: Take Care of the Soldiers and their Families

Rather than read the Army’s recent call-to-arms memo, service leaders should focus on the recent Military Family Support Survey.

  • John Ferrari and James Mismash
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Four Lessons that Should Upend the Pentagon’s Five-Year Strategy

From the quick consumption of weapons in Ukraine to rising inflation, the current resourcing plan is untenable.

  • John Ferrari