We know that the next few episodes are a little bit of inside baseball. But one of the things we like to do at War Room is highlight the...
Richard Lacquement
Richard Lacquement is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army and Professor and Director, National Security Policy Program in the Department of National Security and Strategy (DNSS) at the U.S. Army War College. He was the first Dean of the School of Strategic Landpower at the U.S. Army War College.
We continue our Great Strategists series with an episode on the man whose works serve as a foundation of strategic thought about war. Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) was a...
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...
We must revisit such terrible episodes in the Army’s history, however painful; remembering My Lai may help us avoid repeating it elsewhere. From March 16-19, 1968, U.S. Army troops...
This [National Security Strategy] sort of fits the mold, in that it is strong on ends, aspirations, and vision, but vague on ways. In this podcast, four members of...
Imposing an artificial simplicity on Thucydides’s work makes it harder to understand the full range of warnings that his history gives. Great works of human pathos rarely distill to...