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What is Great-Power Competition, Anyway? | Posted : Sun, 04/19/2020 - 7:01am
Game of DIMEs: Power and Strategy in a West Point Classroom | Posted : Sat, 04/18/2020 - 7:00am
Emailing Your Military Career into the Dumpster: A How-Not-To Guide | Posted : Thu, 04/16/2020 - 7:59am
Servicemembers and Side Hustles: Revisiting Ethical Conduct Regulations in the Age of Social Media | Posted : Mon, 04/13/2020 - 12:20pm
When War Goes Underground | Posted : Fri, 04/10/2020 - 8:49am
The Missing Domain of War: Achieving Cognitive Overmatch on Tomorrow’s Battlefield | Posted : Thu, 04/09/2020 - 9:57am
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Overcoming the US Military’s Pro-Innovation Bias | Posted : Thu, 04/02/2020 - 9:13am
COVID-19 is a Millennial Call to Arms | Posted : Wed, 04/01/2020 - 6:44am
The Military and the Pandemic: An Explainer of the National Guard’s Role in the COVID-19 Response | Posted : Tue, 03/31/2020 - 5:33am
Where Are All the People in the Army’s Future Fights? | Posted : Fri, 03/27/2020 - 8:30am
How Grunts and Coders Can Coexist | Posted : Thu, 03/26/2020 - 8:38am
On Killing Tanks | Posted : Tue, 03/24/2020 - 6:17am
Why is the Army Preparing for 21st-Century War with a 19th-Century Approach to Learning? | Posted : Fri, 03/20/2020 - 8:31am
Harnessing Innovative Capacity in the Ranks | Posted : Tue, 03/17/2020 - 8:49pm
War in the Time of Coronavirus: To Prepare for Great-Power Conflict, Plan for Epidemics | Posted : Thu, 03/12/2020 - 12:58pm
The Army in a New Era of Competition—for Labor | Posted : Tue, 03/10/2020 - 11:48am
The City Is Not Neutral: Why Urban Warfare Is So Hard | Posted : Wed, 03/04/2020 - 9:26pm
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Rotation at a Combat Training Center: Lessons Learned from Combined Resolve XII | Posted : Tue, 03/03/2020 - 11:32am
Accelerating into the Next Fight: The Imperative of the Offense on the Future Battlefield | Posted : Wed, 02/26/2020 - 10:32am
Maximum Pressure and Maximum Strategic Patience: The Long Game Against North Korean Nuclear Weapons | Posted : Mon, 02/24/2020 - 8:21am
Airpower and the Future Urban Battlefield | Posted : Tue, 02/18/2020 - 7:24am
Extending the American Century: Revisiting the Social Contract | Posted : Sat, 02/15/2020 - 9:27pm
War Books: Preparing for Underground Warfare | Posted : Wed, 02/12/2020 - 11:16pm
I Took Part in the Army's New Battalion Commander Assessment Program: Here's What I Learned - Modern War Institute | Posted : Sat, 02/08/2020 - 6:16pm
The Military Is Not the Nation’s Emergency Room Doctor | Posted : Sat, 02/08/2020 - 6:15pm
A Privatized Army, a Civ-Mil Chasm, and the Long Path to the Crisis of 2050 | Posted : Fri, 02/07/2020 - 10:09pm
Krulak Revisited: The Three-Block War, Strategic Corporals, and the Future Battlefield | Posted : Tue, 02/04/2020 - 6:05am
The Army has a Physical Fitness Problem, Part 2: Toward a More Combat-Ready Force | Posted : Mon, 02/03/2020 - 6:21am
Self-Development in the Army: We’re Doing it Wrong | Posted : Thu, 01/30/2020 - 8:59am
The Army Has a Physical Fitness Problem, Part 1: Eight Myths that Weaken Combat Readiness | Posted : Sun, 01/26/2020 - 10:48am
How to Waste a Peace Dividend | Posted : Fri, 01/24/2020 - 6:11am
Software Wins Modern Wars: What the Air Force Learned from Doing the Kessel Run | Posted : Wed, 01/22/2020 - 10:08pm
Software Wins Modern Wars: What the Air Force Learned from Doing the Kessel Run | Posted : Tue, 01/21/2020 - 8:20pm
Gangs of Baghdad | Posted : Tue, 01/21/2020 - 9:27am
The Army’s NFL Combine: The Battalion Commander Assessment Program | Posted : Fri, 01/17/2020 - 11:06am
Half Measures Just Don’t Work: The Case Against Bringing Back the Punitive Expedition | Posted : Fri, 01/17/2020 - 2:36am
Half Measures Just Don’t Work: The Case Against Bringing Back the Punitive Expedition | Posted : Thu, 01/16/2020 - 8:17am
So You’re Going to Be a Staff Officer: Five Pieces of Advice for Success and Personal Satisfaction | Posted : Tue, 01/14/2020 - 5:01pm
The Death of Soleimani and America's Strategic Disconnect | Posted : Fri, 01/10/2020 - 8:11pm
Strategic Opportunity in an Era of Change or: How Australia Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Coming Multipolar World Order | Posted : Fri, 12/20/2019 - 6:21am
Bringing Back the Punitive Expedition | Posted : Wed, 12/18/2019 - 11:27am
Unwelcome on Campus: National Security, Public Service, and the Misguided Effort to Block the CIA’s University Recruitment | Posted : Tue, 12/10/2019 - 8:06am
MWI Video: FIghting Terrorism in the City | Posted : Wed, 11/20/2019 - 11:06pm
How Afghanistan Prepared NATO for Great-Power Competition | Posted : Fri, 11/15/2019 - 3:13pm
The US Army Will Experience Battlefield Surprise— Here’s How to Prepare Leaders and Organizations to Overcome It | Posted : Thu, 10/31/2019 - 8:55am
Going All in On the Great Game? The Curious and Problematic Choice of Kiplingesque Inspiration in US Military Doctrine | Posted : Wed, 10/30/2019 - 10:58am
What the Mosul Study Group Missed | Posted : Wed, 10/23/2019 - 10:54am
The Hard Choices That Will Define the Army of Tomorrow (and Beyond) | Posted : Mon, 10/21/2019 - 12:04pm
Part-Time Service, Full-Time Value: Renewing the Call for a Civilian Reserve Corps | Posted : Tue, 10/15/2019 - 9:53am
What the Critics Miss About The Army Combat Fitness Test | Posted : Thu, 10/10/2019 - 11:33am
Deterrence: I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means | Posted : Tue, 10/08/2019 - 10:32am
Back in the Fight: Divisions, Corps, and Armies in Competition and Conflict | Posted : Fri, 10/04/2019 - 7:37am
Mission Accomplished? The Perils of Declaring a Premature Victory Over ISIS | Posted : Wed, 10/02/2019 - 10:59am
How America Got Dragged into the Saudi-Iranian Proxy Game | Posted : Tue, 09/24/2019 - 9:55am
While the North Korean Nuclear Button Cools, the Threat of the Underground Lingers | Posted : Mon, 09/23/2019 - 1:21pm
What Are We Fighting For? - The Political Aim in War and the American Civil-Military Divide | Posted : Tue, 09/17/2019 - 8:41am
Seventeen Great War Films: One Army Officer’s List | Posted : Mon, 09/09/2019 - 9:22am
Battlefield Lessons: Irregular Warfare of the Early American Navy | Posted : Sat, 09/07/2019 - 5:09am
Speak Fluently and Carry a Big Stick: Strengthening Language Training to Enhance Capability | Posted : Fri, 09/06/2019 - 1:06am
Getting Advising Right: The Army Needs a Fundamentally Different Approach to Building Partner Forces | Posted : Fri, 08/30/2019 - 6:03am
How Kashmir Could Become the Wild Card that Extends the War in Afghanistan | Posted : Wed, 08/28/2019 - 5:16pm
Putting the Enemy Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Multi-Domain Operations in Practice | Posted : Tue, 08/27/2019 - 9:13am
War Books: War and the Art of Management | Posted : Thu, 08/15/2019 - 12:17am
Intuition, the City, and War | Posted : Sun, 08/11/2019 - 12:22am
War Books: The Commander and the Staff | Posted : Wed, 08/07/2019 - 7:28am
The Military and the Internet: Will War as We Know It Become Outmoded? | Posted : Sat, 07/20/2019 - 1:04pm
Nothing is Forever: When the US Military Leaves the Middle East | Posted : Mon, 07/15/2019 - 12:13pm
War Books: Summer Reading List | Posted : Wed, 07/03/2019 - 11:52am
As ’90s as America Online and Dial-Up Internet: Fixing the Army’s Horribly Outdated Digital Information Systems | Posted : Fri, 06/28/2019 - 8:14am
Multi-Domain Lessons From the Pacific Campaign of WWII | Posted : Wed, 06/26/2019 - 1:23pm
It’s Time to Fix the Way the Army Selects Commanders | Posted : Sat, 06/22/2019 - 4:34am
My Unpopular Opinion: Army Writing is Good Writing | Posted : Fri, 06/21/2019 - 7:21pm
Highly Specialized, Highly Lethal: Why the Army Should Replace its One-Size-Fits-All Infantry Model | Posted : Fri, 06/21/2019 - 7:32am
Learning to Disrupt Ourselves: Why the Army Needs an Experimental Culture and How to Create It | Posted : Mon, 06/17/2019 - 2:29pm
More than Killer Robots: Artificial Intelligence Will Displace More Soldiers than It Kills | Posted : Thu, 06/13/2019 - 9:29pm
War Books: Intelligence, Forecasting, and Modern War | Posted : Tue, 06/11/2019 - 8:25am
NATO at a Crossroads: Why Turkey is Becoming Such a Problem for the Alliance | Posted : Sun, 06/09/2019 - 12:01pm
The Inescapable Truths of Urban Warfare: Five Lessons from Basra 2007 | Posted : Thu, 06/06/2019 - 6:44pm
13 Tips for New Lieutenants from a Former SOCOM Commander | Posted : Mon, 06/03/2019 - 11:08pm
War Books, Special Edition: Max Brooks on Reading Comics to Understand War, Part 2 | Posted : Mon, 06/03/2019 - 8:21am
Lessons for America’s Longest-Running War from the Americas’ Longest-Running Insurgency | Posted : Fri, 05/31/2019 - 12:09pm
Every City is Different. That’s Why a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Urban Operations Won’t Work. | Posted : Thu, 05/30/2019 - 12:59pm
The Army Innovates Better Than You Think: A Guide to Thinking About Multi-Domain Operations and Fighting Future Wars | Posted : Thu, 05/30/2019 - 10:35am
Social Media Warriors: Leveraging a New Battlespace | Posted : Thu, 05/16/2019 - 1:28pm
Multi-Domain, Unpredictable, and Politically Dynamic: What Army Training Should Really Be Like | Posted : Thu, 05/16/2019 - 11:29am
War Books: The Theory and Practice of War | Posted : Wed, 05/01/2019 - 2:09am
Book Review - "Blunder: Britain’s War in Iraq" by Patrick Porter | Posted : Mon, 04/22/2019 - 12:51am
It Takes Two to Tango: The Journalist’s Role in a Healthy Military-Media Relationship | Posted : Fri, 04/19/2019 - 3:09pm
Does Innovation Need a Commanding General? | Posted : Fri, 04/12/2019 - 2:07pm
'Combat Patch' Culture in an Era of Persistent Competition | Posted : Wed, 04/10/2019 - 7:48am
The Destructive Age of Urban Warfare; or, How to Kill a City and How to Protect It | Posted : Thu, 03/28/2019 - 6:46am
Up-Gunning the Queen of Battle: How the Army Can Fix the Infantry’s Anti-Armor Problem | Posted : Sun, 03/24/2019 - 2:48pm
Book Review - "The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder" by Sean McFate | Posted : Thu, 03/21/2019 - 9:36am
Preparing to Fight and Win Underground | Posted : Tue, 03/19/2019 - 9:46am
Winning the Deep Fight: Why We Should Return to Echeloned Reconnaissance and Security | Posted : Sat, 03/16/2019 - 2:14pm
Unmasking War’s Changing Character | Posted : Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:45pm
War Books: Clausewitz for Trigger Pullers | Posted : Mon, 03/04/2019 - 8:07pm
Lessons Not Learned: Why Our Post-9/11 Counterterrorism Experiences Should Inform Our Cybersecurity Strategy | Posted : Sat, 03/02/2019 - 9:46am
When the Radios are Jammed, Fight Like Ants: Swarms of Soldiers on the Future Battlefield | Posted : Wed, 02/27/2019 - 8:37am
Terrain Matters: Training and Basing in Alaska | Posted : Fri, 02/22/2019 - 11:16pm
My Underground Warfare Wish List | Posted : Tue, 02/19/2019 - 10:06am
Moving Beyond the Post-9/11 Manhunt: Translating Tactical Wins into Strategic Success | Posted : Wed, 02/06/2019 - 8:12am
US Military: Women Aren’t the Problem. Standards Are. | Posted : Tue, 02/05/2019 - 4:19pm
Stealing the Enemy’s Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City | Posted : Thu, 01/31/2019 - 4:42pm
You Can’t Build an Army in a State That Can’t Sustain One: Explaining America’s Problem with Security Force Assistance | Posted : Mon, 01/28/2019 - 10:12am
Disruptive Writing and the Army’s Fight for Tomorrow | Posted : Thu, 01/24/2019 - 9:24am
The Unfinished Business of Baltic Security | Posted : Wed, 01/23/2019 - 12:08am
Heavyweights on the Battlefield: Why the US Army Will Need its Largest Armored Vehicles in the Next War | Posted : Tue, 01/08/2019 - 10:58pm
Four Problems Army Futures Command Needs to Solve | Posted : Sun, 01/06/2019 - 8:44am
War Books: The Best Book I Read in 2018 | Posted : Fri, 01/04/2019 - 8:37pm
Light, Mobile, and Many: Rethinking the Future of Armor | Posted : Fri, 01/04/2019 - 6:36am
The US Army is Wrong on Future War | Posted : Wed, 12/19/2018 - 11:30am
War Books: Major General Mick Ryan’s 2019 Reading List | Posted : Tue, 12/11/2018 - 9:36am
Four Logistics Dilemmas Facing the Army on the Modern Battlefield | Posted : Fri, 11/30/2018 - 8:02am
War Books: Building a Counterinsurgency Library | Posted : Tue, 11/27/2018 - 9:20pm
A Soldier’s Urban Warfare Christmas Wish List | Posted : Sat, 11/24/2018 - 12:36pm
What the Armed Forces Can, Can’t, and Might Do at the Border | Posted : Thu, 11/22/2018 - 10:03am
Why Militaries Must Destroy Cities to Save Them | Posted : Fri, 11/09/2018 - 7:55am
On Drones and Tactics: How Unmanned Platforms Will Change the Way the Infantry Fights | Posted : Wed, 11/07/2018 - 8:50am
Why Airpower Needs Landpower | Posted : Tue, 11/06/2018 - 9:01am
Strategic Intelligence and the Decision to Go to War | Posted : Sat, 11/03/2018 - 5:38pm
The Real Key to Protecting US National Security Interests in Space? Launch Capability | Posted : Thu, 11/01/2018 - 2:19pm
Cities Pose Huge Challenges to Military Forces. The Biggest Might be Just Crossing the Street. | Posted : Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:47pm
How Did Afghanistan Become a War Without End? | Posted : Tue, 10/23/2018 - 6:22pm
We Run Wargames Programs for the Joint Staff. Here’s What We’ve Learned. | Posted : Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:52pm
If We Want Security Force Assistance Missions to Succeed, Give Advisers Control of the Purse Strings | Posted : Thu, 10/18/2018 - 9:56pm
How the Military Can Finally Get Mission Command to Work: Lessons from Tech Companies | Posted : Wed, 10/17/2018 - 11:33am
To Build Infantry for the Future, Look First to the Past | Posted : Tue, 10/16/2018 - 9:32am
Book Review - "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media" by Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking | Posted : Mon, 10/08/2018 - 6:14am
Once More, Unto The Breach: What Makes Supreme Commanders Successful | Posted : Sun, 09/30/2018 - 10:31pm
Artillery in Tomorrow’s Wars: Maximizing the Power of the King of Battle | Posted : Tue, 09/25/2018 - 9:25am
Flight Simulator to Fight Simulator: Virtual Reality at War | Posted : Mon, 09/24/2018 - 10:11am
The Case for Realistic Generals | Posted : Fri, 09/21/2018 - 9:22pm
Getting Beyond Door Kicking: Four Tasks for Urban Warriors | Posted : Tue, 09/18/2018 - 8:38am
The Crisis of American Military Assistance: Strategic Dithering and “Fabergé Egg” Armies | Posted : Tue, 09/11/2018 - 11:44pm
Humanitarian War Is an Oxymoron, So Why Do We Keep Doing It? | Posted : Tue, 09/11/2018 - 9:51am
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Case for the Cynical Military Leader | Posted : Fri, 09/07/2018 - 9:26am
Why America Needs Optimistic Generals | Posted : Thu, 09/06/2018 - 9:55am
The Tiger and the Dragon: India as a Counterbalance to China in the Indo-Pacific | Posted : Tue, 09/04/2018 - 7:29am
While the North Korean Nuclear Button Cools, the Threat of the Underground Lingers | Posted : Fri, 08/31/2018 - 10:28pm
Book Review - "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States" by Jeffrey Lewis | Posted : Fri, 08/31/2018 - 12:46am
What Precision Strikes in Syria Mean for Civil-Military Relations | Posted : Thu, 08/30/2018 - 10:12pm
War Books: Bestselling Author P.W. Singer | Posted : Wed, 08/29/2018 - 4:02pm
Iraq And The End of “The End of Sykes-Picot” | Posted : Tue, 08/28/2018 - 4:05pm
Six Months in Afghanistan: A Progress Report from the 1st SFAB’s Inaugural Deployment | Posted : Thu, 08/23/2018 - 9:56am
On "Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict" - The Force of Law Awakens | Posted : Thu, 08/23/2018 - 9:47am
The Intelligence Reachback Conundrum | Posted : Fri, 08/10/2018 - 11:42am
PRC Movie Reviews - A Tale of Two Dragons: Chinese Power Projection on the Silver Screen | Posted : Thu, 08/09/2018 - 7:22pm
The Spear – A Green-on-Blue Attack in Nangarhar | Posted : Mon, 08/06/2018 - 1:30pm
Book Review - "The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq" by C.J. Chivers | Posted : Mon, 08/06/2018 - 9:43am
Three Reasons America Must Be a Leader in Space | Posted : Fri, 08/03/2018 - 10:54am
Is the Customer Always Right? What Economics Tells Us about Risk, Biases, and Battlefield Decisions | Posted : Wed, 08/01/2018 - 10:49pm
Iran’s Human Geography: The Wicked Problem of People, Places, and Things that Complicates US Strategy | Posted : Wed, 08/01/2018 - 9:01pm
I Was a US Liaison Officer to Lithuania. Here’s What I Learned. | Posted : Tue, 07/31/2018 - 9:16pm
Lives on the Line: The A2AD Challenge to Combat Casualty Care | Posted : Mon, 07/30/2018 - 6:53pm
The A2/AD Challenge to Combat Casualty Care | Posted : Mon, 07/30/2018 - 8:46am
War Books: The Era of Drone Warfare, with Dan Gettinger | Posted : Sat, 07/28/2018 - 2:57pm
Getting Defensive: Observations from the National Training Center | Posted : Fri, 07/27/2018 - 8:43am
The Pentagon Should be Planning for an Occupation of Iran, Even Though It’s a Nightmare Scenario | Posted : Wed, 07/25/2018 - 2:32pm
Accelerating Multi-Domain Operations: Evolution of an Idea | Posted : Mon, 07/23/2018 - 12:55pm
Winning in the Information Environment | Posted : Sat, 07/21/2018 - 12:10pm
Buying Victory: Money as a Weapon on the Battlefields of Today and Tomorrow | Posted : Tue, 07/03/2018 - 4:08pm
Rule of Law in the Gray Zone | Posted : Mon, 07/02/2018 - 6:51am
We Crowd-Sourced Your Thoughts on the Challenges of Urban Warfare. Here’s What You Said. | Posted : Sat, 06/30/2018 - 12:47am
Israel is Being Criticized over Civilian Casualties, But Would US Forces Perform Any Better? | Posted : Fri, 06/22/2018 - 9:13am
Large-Scale Combat Operations: How the Army Can Get Its Groove Back | Posted : Tue, 06/19/2018 - 7:58am
How Can the US Defeat North Korea’s 'Attack Diplomacy'? | Posted : Wed, 06/13/2018 - 11:22am
From Guerrilla to Maneuver Warfare: A Look at the Taliban’s Growing Combat Capability | Posted : Wed, 06/06/2018 - 9:10pm
Lessons on Leadership from a Dusty Helicopter Landing Zone in Afghanistan | Posted : Mon, 06/04/2018 - 8:40am
Preapare the Army for Future Urban Battlefield | Posted : Mon, 05/21/2018 - 1:27pm
The Good and the Bad of the Army’s New Physical Fitness Test | Posted : Thu, 05/17/2018 - 5:45am
Baptism by Fire: A Survey of First Combat Experiences | Posted : Tue, 05/15/2018 - 8:49am
War Books: Cmdr. BJ Armstrong, Naval Historian | Posted : Tue, 05/15/2018 - 7:42am
Book Review - "The War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence" by Ronan Farrow | Posted : Fri, 05/11/2018 - 8:19am
Report: Capability and Resolve in US–Iranian Competition | Posted : Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:02pm
What the Army’s Return to Large-Scale Operations Means for the Intelligence Warfighting Function | Posted : Tue, 05/08/2018 - 6:45am
The Good Operation: Notes on a Whole-of-Government Approach to National Security | Posted : Fri, 05/04/2018 - 6:57am
The US Military Can’t Just “Hire” Cyber Expertise. Here’s Why. | Posted : Wed, 05/02/2018 - 11:37am
War Books: Preparing for Urban Warfare | Posted : Mon, 04/30/2018 - 5:32am
What Will Make Great Generalship in 2030? | Posted : Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:33am
President Trump’s 2019 Defense Budget: Where Does It Really Rank, Historically? | Posted : Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:46am
Tactics and the Human Factor | Posted : Wed, 04/25/2018 - 6:29am
War Books: AI for the Military Generalist - A Reading List | Posted : Mon, 04/23/2018 - 6:52am
Culture Wars: What We Can Learn from North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra - Modern War Institute | Posted : Tue, 04/17/2018 - 2:50pm
Book Excerpts - "War and Moral Injury: A Reader" | Posted : Mon, 04/16/2018 - 11:20pm
War Books: Matt Larsen, “Father of the US Army’s Modern Combatives Program” | Posted : Mon, 04/16/2018 - 5:26am
Beyond SFABs: Getting the Most Out of the Army's Planned Higher-Echelon Advisory Units | Posted : Fri, 04/06/2018 - 9:17am
13 Tips for New Lieutenants From the SOCOM Commander | Posted : Thu, 04/05/2018 - 7:11pm
MWI Deputy Director Maj. John Spencer on Federal News Radio: More Emphasis Needed on Close Combat Resources | Posted : Thu, 04/05/2018 - 6:31pm
Soldier Swarm: New Ground Combat Tactics for the Era of Multi-Domain Battle | Posted : Thu, 04/05/2018 - 12:12pm
Baltic Trainspotting: Railways and NATO’s Logistics Problem in Northeastern Europe | Posted : Mon, 04/02/2018 - 8:04am
Book Review - "The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World" By Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro | Posted : Fri, 03/30/2018 - 10:02pm
Search for the Philosopher's Stone: Improving Interagency Cooperation in Tactical Military Operations | Posted : Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:50am
Dancing with the Devil? Why John Bolton Could be the Man Who Keeps America out of War | Posted : Tue, 03/27/2018 - 11:33am
Analyzing the Russian Way of War: Evidence from the 2008 Conflict with Georgia | Posted : Sat, 03/24/2018 - 6:49pm
Who Says Cyber Warriors Need to Wear a Uniform? | Posted : Sat, 03/24/2018 - 5:56pm
Countering Russian Aggression in the 21st Century | Posted : Wed, 03/21/2018 - 7:40am
Towering Over Rocket Man: President Trump Should Go To North Korea | Posted : Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:32pm
You Can Lead, But Can You Plan? | Posted : Fri, 03/09/2018 - 5:31pm
Reel War at the Oscars: Lessons for Warriors from the Red Carpet | Posted : Fri, 03/09/2018 - 4:53pm
Vehicle Ramming, From the Middle East to Charlottesville: How do Tactics Spread? | Posted : Thu, 03/08/2018 - 8:08am
Book Review - "Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days" By Eric Trager | Posted : Wed, 03/07/2018 - 1:58pm
Book Review - "Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss" By Carmen Gentile | Posted : Tue, 03/06/2018 - 8:02am
War Books: Defense and the Silicon Valley Way of Innovation | Posted : Mon, 03/05/2018 - 3:13pm
Strategic Counterterrorism Failure? Why We Continue Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results | Posted : Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:45am
War and Public Opinion: The Myth of the 'Cronkite Moment' | Posted : Tue, 02/27/2018 - 7:57am
War Books: A Practitioner’s View From Across the Pond | Posted : Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:01am
Navigating the Minefield: A Creative Solution to Defuse the US-Turkish Crisis in Kurdish Syria | Posted : Sun, 02/25/2018 - 9:35pm
Charting the Course for Technology in War | Posted : Tue, 02/20/2018 - 7:03pm
Yes, Unfortunately, Sometimes Militaries Must “Destroy the Town to Save It” | Posted : Tue, 02/06/2018 - 10:40pm
Not Your Mother’s Coast Guard: How the Service Can Come Into Its Own Against 21st Century Threats | Posted : Fri, 02/02/2018 - 9:49am
Pakistan: Graveyard of Strategy | Posted : Wed, 01/31/2018 - 8:17am
War Books: August Cole, Co-author of “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War” | Posted : Mon, 01/29/2018 - 1:06pm
Unity of Effort: Why Military and Political Coordination is Vital to Success in Iraq and Syria | Posted : Fri, 01/26/2018 - 12:34am
Compete, Deter, and Win: Making the National Defense Strategy Great Again? | Posted : Wed, 01/24/2018 - 7:33am
Compete, Deter, and Win: Making the National Defense Strategy Great Again? | Posted : Wed, 01/24/2018 - 7:32am
War Books: “The Management of Violence” | Posted : Mon, 01/22/2018 - 8:26am
A Means of First Resort: Explaining “Hot Pursuit” in International Relations | Posted : Thu, 01/18/2018 - 10:41pm
The Rise of the Revisionists: What to Do About Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran? | Posted : Thu, 01/18/2018 - 10:32pm
A New Dependency: Our Addiction to Information and Approval are Killing Mission Command | Posted : Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:06am
Balance of Power, Balance of Resolve: How Iran Is Competing With the United States in the Middle East | Posted : Fri, 01/12/2018 - 8:26am
Pipedreams and Policy: The Problem With Hoping for North Korea’s Collapse | Posted : Fri, 11/17/2017 - 7:29am
War Books: P.W. Singer | Posted : Mon, 11/13/2017 - 5:37am
“Thank You For Your Service” is More than Enough | Posted : Fri, 11/10/2017 - 7:39am
The Command Philosophy of Private Mulvaney | Posted : Tue, 11/07/2017 - 11:39am
Here’s the Big Change Seoul Wants to Make to the US-South Korean Military Command Relationship | Posted : Mon, 11/06/2017 - 8:15pm
In the US-China Relationship, Time is Not on Our Side. Or Is It? | Posted : Sat, 11/04/2017 - 3:53pm
Tabs and Badges and Berets, Oh My! The Big Distraction the Army’s New Advisory Unit Really Didn’t Need | Posted : Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:19pm
Four Deaths in Niger and the Savage Logic of Military Operations | Posted : Tue, 10/31/2017 - 10:12am
War Books: LTG (Ret.) Mark Hertling | Posted : Mon, 10/30/2017 - 12:27pm
The Road to Multi-domain Battle: An Origin Story | Posted : Fri, 10/27/2017 - 3:53pm
The Intelligence Cycle is Broken. Here’s How to Fix it. | Posted : Tue, 10/24/2017 - 6:30am
Proof of Concept: Big Questions the Army’s New Foreign Advisory Units Must Address | Posted : Fri, 10/20/2017 - 7:55am
The US Army's High-Intensity Problem | Posted : Thu, 10/19/2017 - 11:08am
Las Vegas Shooting: America's Mumbai | Posted : Tue, 10/17/2017 - 6:57pm
War Books: The Era of the Drone (Reading List) | Posted : Mon, 10/16/2017 - 7:23am
Fourth Time a Charm? The Army’s Chance to Get Advisory Operations Right | Posted : Sun, 10/15/2017 - 12:59pm
Secretary Mattis at AUSA: The Threats the US Military Must be Prepared For | Posted : Thu, 10/12/2017 - 2:45pm
No, Sending Civil Affairs Reservists through the Active Duty Training Pipeline Won't Solve the Army's Civil Affairs Problems | Posted : Tue, 10/03/2017 - 11:11pm
The Army’s Civil Affairs Problems | Posted : Tue, 10/03/2017 - 7:52am
Is There a Thai Way of Counterinsurgency? | Posted : Fri, 09/29/2017 - 9:37am
Civilization of Soldiers: Was the Western World Forged by the Fire of War? | Posted : Wed, 09/27/2017 - 6:29pm
Understanding 9/11 and the Terrorist Threat Today | Posted : Mon, 09/11/2017 - 12:28pm
The Army Reserve’s Troubling Little Secret: Cheap, Inadequate Training | Posted : Sun, 09/10/2017 - 1:11am
Book Review: "Reflections on Anbar" | Posted : Tue, 09/05/2017 - 9:30am
Negotiating Afghanistan: The New US Strategy and the Pursuit of a Deal | Posted : Fri, 09/01/2017 - 11:23am
War Books: Something Missing From the CSA's Reading List | Posted : Mon, 08/28/2017 - 7:05am
Finally, an Afghanistan Strategy that Puts Pressure on Pakistan | Posted : Fri, 08/25/2017 - 10:45am
The Rotational Force Fig Leaf | Posted : Thu, 08/24/2017 - 10:42pm
How New Is the New Afghanistan Strategy? | Posted : Wed, 08/23/2017 - 10:13am
4 Ways New Ideas Get Implemented in DoD | Posted : Thu, 08/10/2017 - 7:44am
Abundant Vulnerability: Why Military Millennials Might Be America's Achilles' Heel | Posted : Thu, 08/03/2017 - 9:02am
Maintaining a Deep Bench: Why Armored BCT Rotations in Europe and Korea are Best for America’s Global Security Requirements | Posted : Wed, 08/02/2017 - 7:52am
It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ends, Ways, and Means | Posted : Mon, 07/24/2017 - 11:07am
Fixing the Way the Army Trains for Urban Warfare | Posted : Tue, 07/18/2017 - 9:18am
Bringing Modern War to Military Training | Posted : Thu, 07/13/2017 - 8:15am
Terrorists and Territory: What Jordan Can Teach Us about Managing Jihadists | Posted : Tue, 07/11/2017 - 9:23am
Book Review - "The Battle Within" (PTSD) | Posted : Wed, 07/05/2017 - 9:52am
Three "Warhacks" for Urban Combat | Posted : Mon, 07/03/2017 - 10:29am
Urban Warfare in 140 Characters — Top Tweets | Posted : Fri, 06/30/2017 - 2:34pm
America Must Confront Pakistan’s Support of Afghan-Based Terrorism | Posted : Tue, 06/27/2017 - 8:53pm
A Multilateral Approach to Cybersecurity | Posted : Fri, 06/16/2017 - 7:23am
The Un-Mighty American Pen | Posted : Tue, 06/13/2017 - 8:05am
Objective Metropolis: The Future of Dense Urban Operational Environments | Posted : Fri, 06/02/2017 - 10:23am
Tale of the Tape: What Would North Korea Bring to the Fight? | Posted : Tue, 05/30/2017 - 10:58am
How NATO Endures in the Twenty-First Century | Posted : Thu, 05/25/2017 - 12:01pm
Broken and Unreadable: Our Unbearable Aversion to Doctrine | Posted : Thu, 05/18/2017 - 7:43am
The Adviser's Dilemma: Endemic Challenges and Unrealized Opportunities in the Training Mission in Afghanistan | Posted : Wed, 05/17/2017 - 9:19am
So You Think the Army Can Avoid Fighting in Megacities | Posted : Tue, 05/16/2017 - 7:50am
War Books Profile: Lieutenant Colonel Eric Murphy, US Air Force | Posted : Mon, 05/15/2017 - 7:15am
Book Excerpt: Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations | Posted : Sun, 05/14/2017 - 12:47am
Multi-domain Battle and the Masks of War: Why It’s Time to Eliminate the Independent Services | Posted : Thu, 05/11/2017 - 8:49am
Slow, Inflexible, and Micromanaged: The Problems of a Military that Overstates Risk | Posted : Tue, 05/09/2017 - 3:02pm
War Books: CDR BJ Armstrong, US Navy | Posted : Mon, 05/08/2017 - 8:54am
Never Bring a Stryker to a Tank Fight | Posted : Tue, 05/02/2017 - 8:09am
Multi-Domain Battle Will Require a Different Type of Leader | Posted : Fri, 04/28/2017 - 5:40pm
Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea's War Plan | Posted : Tue, 04/25/2017 - 8:18am
War Books Profile: Col. (Ret) Stephen Mariano, US Army | Posted : Mon, 04/24/2017 - 6:21am
Rationality and Sarin Gas: What Social Science Tells Us About Assad’s Chemical Weapons Attack | Posted : Sat, 04/22/2017 - 1:19am
Thinking Through a North Korean 'Downfall' | Posted : Wed, 04/19/2017 - 2:13pm
Causality Collisions: Why Special Operations Forces Remain the Best Weapon to Defeat ISIS in Syria | Posted : Tue, 04/18/2017 - 3:58pm
Genius and Mastery in Military Innovation | Posted : Mon, 04/17/2017 - 11:17pm
Russian Operations in Ukraine | Posted : Mon, 04/17/2017 - 10:31am
The Taming of the Tigers: A Contemporary Battlefield Assessment of Counterinsurgency in Sri Lanka | Posted : Sat, 04/15/2017 - 7:19am
War Books: August Cole, Co-author of “Ghost Fleet” | Posted : Fri, 04/14/2017 - 12:00am
Professional Reading: My Reluctant Journey | Posted : Thu, 04/13/2017 - 11:58pm
Lethality Upgrade: New Stryker Variant is Needed | Posted : Wed, 04/12/2017 - 9:42am
Evaluating “Pre-Surge” Counterinsurgent Strategy in Iraq | Posted : Tue, 04/11/2017 - 11:35pm
An Analysis of “Insider Attacks” in Afghanistan | Posted : Tue, 04/11/2017 - 11:31pm
What an Army Megacities Unit Would Look Like | Posted : Sat, 04/08/2017 - 2:12pm
It’s Time to Create a Megacities Combat Unit | Posted : Sat, 04/08/2017 - 2:09pm
The Army Needs an Urban Warfare School and it Needs it Soon | Posted : Sat, 04/08/2017 - 2:08pm

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