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...
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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...
More important than the number of troops or their force capability is the authority the Blue Helmets are granted… A headline about one of the many of today’s ongoing...
These groups, although a strategic and powerful asset for the U.S. mission in fighting terrorism, are disruptive to forms of justice of Afghan society and weaken Afghan institutions. The...
Churchill, an avid painter, ‘saw the beauty and vitality of details, and their effect on larger strategic issues, and demanded that they be scrutinized all the time.’ You have...
So it’s not shaping up to be a normal summer. Your vacation plans may have changed. Your kids may not be able to go to camp or the pool....
Any attempt to securitize a pandemic response must of course be mindful that a ‘war’ framework cannot be the only approach to fighting a pandemic, especially as our ‘fight’...
WHAT IF COVID-19 ENTERED THE CARLISLE BARRACKS?: A SIMULATION OF INSTALLATION CONTAGION
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What if Carlisle Barracks went back to a “business as usual” model and faculty, staff, or students happened to be infected with COVID-19? Throughout the United States, governments are...
Much of the structure is the same as it was in the late 1940s and early 1950s when the state achieved its independence. In early 2020, India became a...
While joint doctrine and most service-specific doctrines have banished EBO as a concept, effects remain one of the elements of operational design. For a time, effects and Effects-Based Operations...
Most Latin American countries are resource-dependent, some excessively, meaning that their central governments rely on rents from the extraction of natural resources to finance a significant portion of their...
If we’re all being honest, what we’ve really missed while not traveling is the joy of capturing our adventures in the conveniently-automated Defense Travel System (DTS) upon our returns....
LOSING THE STRATEGIC “BATTLE” AGAINST THE PRC (BUT NOT THE “WAR”): PT II – TALENT MANAGEMENT
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U.S. military culture revolves around the ‘cult of command.’ (In Part I of this two-part series, Hugh Harsono suggested the U.S. military loosen its “inflexibility” as to what it...
LOSING THE STRATEGIC “BATTLE” AGAINST THE PRC (BUT NOT THE “WAR”): PT I – EMERGING CONFLICT DOMAINS
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Despite facing innovative, global rivals, the U.S. military remains a downward-directed, personality-driven organization – one that lacks the flexibility it needs to meet current threats. The word “military” conjures...
The Quds Force, however, has been incredibly adaptive in sustaining a substantial cash flow with help of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Despite the decapitating...
In reality, the threat eventually became defined not only by ISIS’s ability to control territory, but also its ability to conduct and inspire acts of terrorism worldwide. United States...
Wargames may not predict the future, but a well-designed and well-executed wargame can better equip both analysts and practitioners in facing an uncertain future – filled with unknown dangers....
And although the Army was down 5,500 recruiting contracts in April, it appears to have had significant success with its efforts in—wait for it—video games. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc...
We've discussed bias in the media in the past and we've looked at the behavior of senior civilian leaders just recently. Today on WAR ROOM we welcome Todd Schmidt...