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Jacqueline E. Whitt
UNDERSTANDING A DIFFERENT PEOPLE: THE OKINAWAN IDENTITY
When planning for interactions with foreign countries, whether in peace or in war, it ...
WAR ROOM ON STAYCATION
So it’s not shaping up to be a normal summer. Your vacation plans may ...
THEY REALLY READ IT FOR THE ARTICLES
Playboy magazine first hit newsstands in December 1953, so it was quite well established ...
NEGLECT AND ATTENTION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
There is no “Latin America” right? It is a region made up of independent ...
CULTURAL TERRAIN IN DOMESTIC OPERATIONS
We can’t function in a vacuum without understanding who the people are that we’re ...
A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE ON NATO (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
My abiding memory of colonels is that they really are the pivot between the ...
THE MARTIAL CITIZEN
Martial Citizenship…is the concept that since soldiers serve the state the state therefore owes ...
THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A WATER COOLER DISCUSSION ABOUT MOVIES
If he didn’t do that, he should have. If you’ve ever spent any time ...
LESSONS FROM 1918: GET A FLU SHOT, WASH YOUR HANDS
What we do know is that all of the movement of people and animals ...
CHINA’S GRAND STRATEGY AND THE BRI
There has never been anything like it in recorded history where a country has ...
AI ON THE BATTLEFIELD? – IT’S ALREADY HERE
I worry that we’re going to field many of these systems without really thinking ...
HUMANITARIAN OPS: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS
To really have a successful mission you have to be willing to stay A ...
LOOKING TO THE PAST TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
Back in the 1930s, Air Force officers who were assigned instructor duty at the ...
LESSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRITISH LIGHT INFANTRY
It’s not that Dundas was opposed to the use of light infantry he thought ...
LYKKE’S LITTLE THREE-LEGGED STOOL (PART 2)
This was never meant to be the be all and the end all…let’s remember ...
LYKKE’S LITTLE THREE-LEGGED STOOL (PART 1)
The Vice [Chief of Staff] of the Army…came to the War College…and the first ...
THE WEST POINT CLASS OF 1829
Quite frankly a number of times in [Lee’s] career he debates getting out of ...
WAC MARRIAGE CASE: THINKING ABOUT GENDER, SEX, AND MILITARY SERVICE
The law only required that both parties be consenting adults…which tells us something about ...
RETHINKING STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AFTER TET – EPISODE 2
What are the costs for the U.S. of losing the war? And it’s a ...
RETHINKING STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AFTER TET – EPISODE 1
From an American-centric scholarship standpoint, I think much of it is driven by this ...