Ultimately, a positive end for Israel will lead to a dual benefit of strengthened regional security and stronger bonds with the wider Arab world. The current sectarian violence in...
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Before speculating about another civil war, one should properly understand the first – the reasons for it, its conduct, and its legacy. Many of the tumultuous events in the...
Adversaries will deliberately create situations for which U.S. military leaders have not been educated, trained, or equipped to overcome. The United States’ enemies are smart, dedicated, and determined. They...
The sparks that had defined the previous weeks promptly fizzled out. Two and a half years of relative tranquility on the Korean Peninsula was shattered in the month of...
As global politics and the international order destabilize, planners, strategists, and warfighters the world over are reminded that the threat of armed, large-scale conflict is a central feature in...
Given the constraints on future U.S. defense spending, European states should expect U.S. defense spending to prioritize the threats to U.S. national interests emanating from Asia over European defense...
A war plan develops a concept to win a war militarily and politically; it is the detailed ways and means of an overarching strategy. The Department of Defense has...
China's treatment of the Uighur population in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has been covered widely in the world news arena. Many around the globe have called for an...
As the American national security apparatus again focuses on peer-to-peer combat after thirty years of assumed supremacy on the battlefield, the Gaither Report is vital reading… If you were...
Before we get too far, let’s address some of the baggage that comes with wargaming. “SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?” These are the iconic words from the 1983 movie...
The American model of innovation has long depended on public support and funding through both the national laboratory system and university-based research that American industry has commercialized into products....
War College students are at a point of significant departure in their careers, as their post-study assignments will generally put them in rapid-paced, constantly shifting circumstances. For this...
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, characters who increase in wisdom are those who ascend from the cave’s darkness (ignorance, crudeness) to the surface’s daylight (knowledge, sophistication). In early...
Considering the mutual relation between strategy and tactics helps establish the extent of what is possible, or necessary, in strategic competition. Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by...
There is no good reason to think that there are only two forms of strategy, or that they are annihilation and exhaustion. It is long past time to kill...
Today, as the United States once more finds itself in a situation of near-peer competition with China and Russia, this four-decade old novel seems relevant once again. Sir John...
National security analysts primarily consider external threats before assessing whether or how the nation can and should secure itself. They rarely focus on the importance of internal stability and...
All games can be used to understand how humans make decisions in environments shaped by competition. While this is a Whiteboard post we thought it would be a great...
Leaders affect change at the individual, unit, and enterprise levels both in response to the external environment and internal pressures to build and sustain readiness for the next mission....
Wars are expensive in terms of blood lost and treasure spent, but there are other, more subtle costs. The long road to the trilateral U.S.-Afghanistan-Taliban memorandum of agreement was...