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George Orwell is credited with the quote "Football is war minus the shooting." He's not alone in comparing sports to military matters. There are a number of familiar quotes...
Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie was a brilliant military and naval strategist whose “Reflections on the War in the Pacific” had far reaching influence on U.S. Navy strategy after World...
Heather Venable is back with another Dusty Shelves entry that looks at William C. Sherman's "Air Warfare." When most airpower advocates championed theories of strategic bombardment in the inter-war...
There are an abundance of lessons to learn from Afghanistan. Assad Raza is back to explore one recurring theme throughout many of these major lessons of the war, short-termism....
War Room has asked the question before "What's the best movie to teach leadership?" Everyone has their favorite. Todd Moulton is back with an outstanding example in Crimson Tide....
The 2022 U.S. National Defense Strategy makes "integrated deterrence" of China one of the military's essential tasks. John Mauk is back, and he's concerned that if deterrence fails, the...
In the Spring of 2020 the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) released their vision and guidance for officer professional military education (PME). The document called for a significant change...
The Dusty Shelves series is back with a look at the 1968 classic Unless Peace Comes: A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, a collection of essays written by several...
As most folks are aware this week marks twenty years since the United States began Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). War Room is pleased to welcome Michael Marra to recall...
Garri Hendell has written several articles for us before and each of them was a bit controversial, generating some interesting conversations. His latest thought piece is no different and...
Our long-time readers may remember an article we published titled New Recruits Get Two Blankets; Mobilizing Reservists, One. At release it generated quite a bit of conversation. Well, the...
Oral comprehensives at the U.S. Army War College have become a rite of passage in the last decade. A shared trial testing students' comprehension of the lessons of the...
Bernard Fall was a man of many talents. A veteran of both the French resistance and Free French Army during World War II, an award-winning journalist and author, an...
WAR ROOM welcomes back Lou Beres to examine how Clausewitz's concept of friction can help U.S. policy makers and strategists develop effective plans in the face of Russia's nuclear...
"What if?" It's a powerful question that can be an incredible tool. As a tool for intelligence analysts, "what if" helps suspend disbelief and free us from cognitive biases....
Readers will recall that for this year’s Thanksgiving message, we turned the page back to 1968 for the proclamation issued that year by President Lyndon Johnson. Even in a...
It seems like just a year ago that the dedicated War Room editorial staff brought you the latest edition of our Holiday Gift Guide. Oh, wait…
Yes, that’s right. We’re...
Though much of the focus of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) since 2001 has been on counter-terrorism and direct action, ARSOF has much to offer in strategic competition....
From the first days of the war in Ukraine, it was evident that Russia's aggression would have far reaching effects beyond the battlefield from NATO politics to global food...