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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Rich are joined by special guest Vice Admiral (ret) Craig Clapperton - the former Commander of Navy’s Fleet Cyber Command. They discuss how technical mastery, leadership development, and career progression differ across ranks, and why early-career officers and operators must prioritize deep warfighting competence before broadening into team leadership and enterprise impact. They also explore how to brief and influence senior leaders effectively, integrate kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities, and build trust through competency, character, and integrity in high-stakes cyber and joint operations. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle kick off 2026 with a jam-packed current events roundup covering the React to Shell vulnerability (think Log4Shell but for the front end), the Marine Corps' new drone training requirements, Google's TPU announcements that might have NVIDIA sweating, and the launch of GenAI.mil. They also share some exciting podcast milestones, dish out their 2026 predictions, and Kyle reveals his holiday vendetta against PowerPoint that resulted in building his own AI-powered presentation tool. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links Kyle’s “The 8 Levels of AI Learning for Modern Commanders”https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-levels-ai-learning-modern-commanders-kyle-kmo-moschetto-mxuyc ReactShell: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/01/top-cves-of-december-2025/ TorchTPU: https://hyperframeresearch.com/2025/12/24/can-googles-torchtpu-eventually-bridge-nvidias-cuda-moat/  WSJ: “Why AI Will Widen the Gap Between Superstars and Everybody Else”https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/ai-workplace-tensions-what-to-do-c45f6b51?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink  USMC drone program:  https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4366306/approved-training-requirements-for-small-unmanned-aerial-systems/ USMC AI WORKSHOP MARADMINhttps://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4367572/united-states-marines-corps-generative-and-agentic-artificial-intelligence-work/ II MEF Leadership AI: https://www.iimef.marines.mil/News/article-display/Article/4364616/ii-mef-advanced-ai-command-course/  Self-Paced AI Training (Military discount available) https://ftcg.io/self-paced-training  Vibe Coding book (Gene Kim and Steve Yegge): https://itrevolution.com/product/vibe-coding-book/ Gas Town: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest LtGen Jerry Carter, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Information. They discuss the evolution of the DCI role, the cultural and organizational challenges of building a cohesive information warfare community, the urgency of adapting faster in cyberspace and AI, and why winning future conflicts requires rethinking how the Marine Corps fights, learns, and innovates in a persistent state of competition. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: Books mentioned: -The Kill Chain - https://a.co/d/iWefKB4 -Next War: Reimaginging How We Fight - https://a.co/d/8l0dDqz-Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War - https://a.co/d/faqu9uZ

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest MajGen (ret) Ryan Heritage - the former J3 (Director of Operations) for US Cyber Command, and Commander of Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command.  We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest Capt Chris Clark - the Marine Corps Artificial Intelligence Lead in the Marine Corps Deputy C Links: -(USMC Fellowships) https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4315247/fy26-artificial-intelligence-fellowship-programs/ -https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4325857/update-to-maradmin-46025-fy26-artificial-intelligence-fellowship-programs/  -(Private Sector Solutions) https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-s-eagleeye-puts-mommandant for Information Service Data Office to discuss Marine Corps AI.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! ission-command-and-ai-directly-into-the-warfighter-s-helmet/  -(Inference at the Edge) https://research.ibm.com/blog/northpole-ibm-ai-chip  Kurzgesagt video on AI Slop AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet 

In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guests Cols Russ Belt and Kevin Stepp, the II MEF and I MEF G-6s.  They continue the discussion started by Col Matt Schroer on Episode 122, and LtCols Berdela and Henderson on Episode 123 about the future of communications formations.  We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guests Josh Stiefel and LTG (ret) Edward Cardon, the architects of CSIS’ Cyber Force project.  We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: CSIS announcement:  https://youtu.be/f-u_P9yp6AI?si=ykRebsVoEtFC3BkP CSIS 16 Sept panel:  https://www.csis.org/events/launch-commission-us-cyber-force-generation McCrary Institute: Cyber Force, ROI, and the Case for Reform with Ed Cardon & Josh Stiefel

What should leaders take from Brickstorm, a 150-year-old company felled by one password, and an easy Microsoft global-admin misstep—plus how agent-to-agent payments could evolve? In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle connect the dots for you. Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-brickstorm-malware-used-to-steal-us-orgs-data-for-over-a-year/ https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/how-one-bad-password-ended-158-year-old.html?m=1don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/ https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/understanding-a2a-ap2-protocols-builder-guide

Continuing the conversation from Episode 122 with Col Matt Schroer, The Phoenix Cast hosts John, Rich, and Kyle sit down with Glenn Berdela and John Henderson—Commanding Officers of 2d Network Battalion and 8th Communications Battalion—to explore where communications formations are headed next. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Col Matt Schroer - Enterprise and Expeditionary Communications Branch Head, Deputy Commandant for Information (DC I), Information Command, Control, Communications and Computers (IC4).  They discuss the future of Marine Corps communications and some of the work being done to move the Marine Corps enterprise forward.  We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest LtCol Brian Kerg - Commanding Officer of Comm Squadron 38 to discuss the basics of a Communications Squadron, and an upcoming competition that MWCS-38 will be having - Thunderstruck.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: ThunderStruck Announcement on LinkedIn: https://rb.gy/19d6y2 ThunderStruck Announcement from ‘Do You Even Comm, Bro?’ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVcy-msnoM/?hl=en MWCS-38 Homepage: https://www.3rdmaw.marines.mil/Units/MACG-38/MWCS-38/ Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-20: Aviation Operations https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCWP%203-20%20Formerly%20MCWP%203-2.pdf?ver=2017-10-11-094942-787 MWCS-38 at Project Convergence Capstone 5: https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/14/marines-accomplish-two-communications-firsts-at-armys-project-convergence/ MWCS-38 Developing the Comm-Sensor Integration Team: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/492346/project-convergence-capstone-5-returns-california-expands-indo-pacific-aor Marine Corps Aviation Learning Management System (MCALMS): https://mcalms.usmc.mil/ Maneuver Chess: Integrating Think and Fight Drills into Military Training:  https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/november/maneuver-chess-integrating-think-and-fight-drills-military Internal MWCS-38 Super Squad Competition review on LinkedIn :   https://shorturl.at/6c9Gi

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle discuss MCP, and MCP vulnerabilities, and GPU Hammer.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: MCP -  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/supercharging-aws-database-development-with-aws-mcp-servers/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=DBA_AWS_for_Data&sc_publisher=LINKEDIN&sc_country=global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&sc_category=Amazon%20Q&linkId=835893819 Vulnerabilities -  https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/critical-vulnerability-in-anthropics.html https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/gpuhammer-new-rowhammer-attack-variant.html

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle discuss AI 2027.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: https://ai-2027.com/ https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new-research-shows-openai-s-la-l4Sns0ZRR6K7266VFz6HuA https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alignment_Problem_Machine_Learning_a/Lh_WDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover https://www.nist.gov/caisi https://fedscoop.com/trump-administration-rebrands-ai-safety-institute-aisi-caisi/ https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Problem-Machine-Learning-Values/dp/0393635821 https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598  https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-first-Centurys/dp/0593593952  https://www.amazon.com/Human-Machine-Team-Artificial-Intelligence-Revolutionize/dp/B0948LGS3K https://www.csis.org/podcasts/ai-policy-podcast

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Robert Teller and they talk through some of the scarier sides of AI. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @ThePhoenixCast (Now verified!) and join our LinkedIn group to interact with other Phoenix Casters. 

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest Capt Dan Choi for the first episode in a series about quantum technologies.  Have a listen, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your thoughts! Tweet us at our new handle, @ThePhoenixCast, and don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Links: Videos: -Introducing: Quantum 101 with Katie Mack | Playlist (Perimeter Institute) -A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll -Companies, countries battle to develop quantum computers | 60 Minutes -Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits -Understanding Quantum Information & Computation Series Trailer | Playlist (IBM) -Quantum communication | QuTech Academy -Secure quantum communication: Safe from hackers -The Quantum Internet | Stephanie Wehner | TEDxVienna -Quantum Sensing Explained | SandboxAQ Books: -What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics -Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Papers: -Quantum Information Processing, Sensing and Communications: Their Myths, Realities and Futures -Quantum Technology and the Military-Revolution or Hype?  News/Blogs:-The Quantum Insider