The real competitive strength of the U.S. is in our [political and economic] system, particularly the interaction between the two. The politics generally keeps its hands off. C. Richard...
Month: August 2018
Young people are capable of extraordinary things as long as they are given the opportunity by the adults in their lives An all-volunteer force depends on the willingness, capabilities,...
They saw airplanes … come into reality as weapon systems … and they became strong advocates. We continue our Great Strategists series with a look at three pioneers of...
This is the real danger: that people become numbed by the daily dose of news disguised as outrage. “We are careening towards a future where the ability to distort...
Subsequent events after the election seem to bear out that perhaps we do have old wine in new bottles. In February 2018, Chris Wyatt and Jacqueline E. Whitt discussed...
It is striking how much difficulty the United States has had converting its tactical advantages into clear strategic ‘Wins’ in the post-Cold War period The next Whiteboard tackles a thorny...
For the past decade or so, the economics profession has been scratching its head hard to figure out why has [the engine of U.S. production] started to falter? Without...
the problem at hand is one of enforcing laws rather than of imposing political aims by force. We thank everyone who submitted responses for our second Whiteboard! Below (in...
We should focus [artificial intelligence] in assisting and helping us make more timely and effective decisions Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a lot of noise today, what does its...
[The Harold K. Johnson Chair] is an effort to bring civilians into the military in order to chip away at the gap that exists … between the civilian world...
Thermobaric weapons in high-intensity conflict dramatically change the quantity and severity of blast injuries In April of 2017, in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, the US used a Massive Ordinance Air...
There is one thing for the event to occur; but the manner in which it was handled was more institutionally damning. In a follow-up to his article published in...
Stumbling block number one: You start to believe the hype. … Two: You somehow start to think you deserve it, as opposed to think that you’ve still got to...
Leaders both inside and outside the professional military education system are often skeptical of basic research. It is inefficient by nature. Should military institutions pursue research that is not...