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WAC MARRIAGE CASE: THINKING ABOUT GENDER, SEX, AND MILITARY SERVICE
The law only required that both parties be consenting adults…which tells us something about ...
ALLIES ARE MORE THAN FRIENDS (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
We need to go back and think big, and We need to think big ...
RETHINKING STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AFTER TET – EPISODE 2
What are the costs for the U.S. of losing the war? And it’s a ...
RETHINKING STRATEGY IN VIETNAM AFTER TET – EPISODE 1
From an American-centric scholarship standpoint, I think much of it is driven by this ...
BIAS IN THE MEDIA?…SAY IT ISN’T SO
If you read a story and it sounds just too good to be true ...
TEACHING GENDER AND RACE IN HISTORY AT USMA
HISTORICALLY WE WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO… READ ABOUT ANOTHER CULTURE, READ ABOUT ...
WE’RE ALL CONSTRUCTIVISTS NOW
Our students come with a professional ethos and a professional mindset of being apolitical ...
SOME THINGS CHANGE, SOME STAY THE SAME – EPISODE 3
Imagine a conflict, a real war with China…what does war termination look like in ...
SOME THINGS CHANGE, SOME STAY THE SAME – EPISODE 2
…the claim that AI is changing the nature of warfare…it doesn’t have to be ...
SOME THINGS CHANGE, SOME STAY THE SAME
I think it makes…strategic thinkers think that they’re saying something profound when in fact ...
THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN LETHALITY
When you’re more focused on lethality you’re less likely to look at ways the ...
IT’S A MATTER OF INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY
To me what intellectual leadership means is to read more and study more and ...
THE GENERAL STAFF THAT WASN’T
The charter was…to look at preparation of the Navy for the defense of maritime ...
THE EISENHOWER SERIES COLLEGE PROGRAM: 50 YEARS OF OUTREACH
Dickinson College…students marched on the War College but instead of violence we had discussion. ...
A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO WAR? ANTOINE-HENRI JOMINI (GREAT STRATEGISTS)
I see [Jomini] as one of the final products of the Enlightenment — the ...
THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF WAR — THUCYDIDES (GREAT STRATEGISTS)
[Thucydides] is one of the very few primary resources we have. If he hadn’t ...
FINDING “WOW” MOMENTS (AND OTHER WRITING TIPS FOR SENIOR LEADERS)
If you don’t end your essay with the ‘so what’ answered, you haven’t done ...
WORLD WAR I WAS ALSO FOUGHT IN AFRICA!
At the outbreak of the war, all of those armies were quite small but ...
A CAREER FULL OF ‘ZIGS’ AND ‘ZAGS’ — MAJOR GENERAL TAMMY SMITH (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
One of the things that will occur as you [move up the ranks] is ...
“GIRLS NEXT DOOR” — WOMEN AS EMOTIONAL LABORERS ON THE FRONT LINES
They’re outgoing. They’re adventurous. They want to do something for the war effort. They ...