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📚 Friday Formation | 20 February 2026

This week’s Friday Formation is live — and it centers on one idea:

Resilience.

Not just personal resilience, but institutional, intellectual, and operational resilience — the kind required for competition and conflict long before first contact.

This week’s readings explore:
⚔️ Integrated fires and network modernization
🌍 Adversary probing and irregular warfare realities
🔧 Sustainment innovation in contested environments
🧠 Intelligence and information advantage
💪 Leader resilience, habits, and professional growth

The throughline is clear:

Preparation isn’t an event. It’s a culture.

If you’re thinking about how the Army learns, adapts, and fights in the modern era — this week’s dispatch is worth your time.

👉 Read deliberately. Think deeply. Strengthen the formation.

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/hardingproject/p/the-friday-formation-6be?r=13o008&utm_medium=ios

🧠 How do you win the talent war?

Most orgs spend money, build programs, and work hard to figure it out…

Turns out, the answer is simple — but not easy. 👇

✨ Culture of mentorship.

Not programs. Not forms. Not checkboxes.

Real growth comes from informal mentorship — those human relationships that flourish when we:

🔹 Have clarity
🔹 Stay curious
🔹 Challenge each other
🔹 Co-elevate through the process

That’s what I’m calling dynamic mentoring — a living, adaptive way to develop people.

Want the full nerd-level breakdown? Link in comments. 📚