Units have ignored clear evidence that Bayonet Hill actually took place more than a dozen miles away On February 8th, 2019, the Eighth U.S. Army Facebook page celebrated the...
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Would a cyberattack that takes down the Texas power grid in the peak of summer be an act of war? “There is no spoon.” The 1999 film, The Matrix,...
Also listen to a related presentation on this topic on A BETTER PEACE: The WAR ROOM Podcast! The biggest challenge for any company in incorporating AI is its organizational...
The United States Institute of Peace found a ‘basic casual mechanism’ linking climate change to political violence in Nigeria Last month, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein...
MODELING COMPETITION AND COLLABORATION IN STRATEGIC GAMES: SOLVING THE “PRISONER’S DILEMMA”?
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Role-playing games [can create] conditions for real-world cooperation When I began my year at the U.S. Army War College (USAWC), I was looking forward to returning to an academic...
Propagandists now exercise increasing sophistication in their communications In February 2019, in (Indian-administered) Southern Kashmir, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist cell attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy with an improvised explosive...
The Army needs officers with experience working in foreign countries where the situation is complex and ambiguous Training foreign armies to do the work we would otherwise have to...
Prototype warfare is more than the rapid prototyping of technology … It is a mindset In motor racing there is very little time to either celebrate or dwell on...
Three visions currently compete for American strategy in the region, but none are likely to succeed At the beginning of April, West Point pivoted to Asia. Though the Army’s...
Fear of an artificial intelligence disadvantage is pushing the U.S. and other powers into another arms race Strategic leaders have wrestled with the use of various types of weapons...
There are times when Congress has to lead by bringing attention to an issue What makes for a successful nuclear arms control agreement? There is no one answer. The...
No amount of strategy, operational art, or tactics can overcome a lack of national will In the United States, the employment of military forces is controlled by the military’s...
Misusing protected persons in war presents real and present challenges in the Middle East Remember Saddam Hussein’s use of human shields during the Persian Gulf War? His illegal and...
Success demands readiness to ’embrace the suck’ [but also to] possess the judgment to temper brawn with thoughtfulness Life is too short for bad beer. People of all ages...
It is not hard to conceive various scenarios in which the U.S. and Chinese militaries would have to conduct combined operations History is replete with alliances among nations who...
Joel Hillison examines the criticisms against NATO, that it is a weakened entity carrying on in the body of its former self. In other words, a "zombie." Instead, Hillison...
[Americans] are latching onto narratives that they want to believe, regardless of how untruthful it may be The war on reality is taking its toll. Daily, millions of people...
War is complex. States often have multiple objectives for sending their sons and daughters in harm’s way Editor’s Note: In February 2019, the Institute for the Study of War...
It seems that Western military forces are doomed to reinvent the wheel every time they are confronted with insurgencies Editor’s Note: In February 2019, the Institute for the Study...
Observers figure that if the US, Mexico, or Brazil are unwilling to intervene in [Venezuela], they are presumably even less likely to care about dictatorships in countries with fewer...