Podcasts
BEYOND TASK FORCE SMITH: ‘NATIONAL’ UNPREPAREDNESS FOR WAR IN KOREA
In the States, we hadn’t had tanks coming off the assembly line in months ...
FORECASTING THE 2019 SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS
Democracy in South Africa is still fairly young. … The people of South Africa ...
TENSIONS AND PARADOXES FACING SENIOR LEADERS (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
The common thread [in addressing key strategic problems] is the requirement to convert operational ...
RUSSIA’S VIEW OF THE WEST: IT’S COMPLICATED
Russia still needs to be a part of the West. … Our position should ...
RELIVING THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH BATTLEFIELD STAFF RIDES
It’s natural to ask what can we gain from this ‘old war’? … You ...
REMOTE WARFARE & RISKS OF RELYING ON LOCAL FORCES
‘Is Remote Warfare Cheaper?’ ‘So that’s a really hard question to answer. … We ...
RUSSIA, GREAT POWER COMPETITION, & POLITICS OF HYBRID WAR
At the end of the day, what Putin really wants to re-structure European relationships ...
BEYOND THUCYDIDES: HERODOTUS, XENOPHON & UNDERSTANDING WAR (GREAT STRATEGISTS)
What if we spent one day on Herodotus, one day on Thucydides, and one ...
KNOW THY ENEMY: OSAMA BIN LADEN & RISE OF THE NON-STATE ACTOR (GREAT CAPTAINS)
Armed conflict is a deadly business. We in the military profession have a moral ...
GEORGE C. MARSHALL & LEADING THE NATIONAL WAR EFFORT (GREAT CAPTAINS)
As the ‘global’ commander, he oversees all of the Army including the Army Air ...
WHY DOES THE MEDIA COVER STORIES IN SOME COUNTRIES … BUT NOT OTHERS?
If Moldova is never in the news, I doubt policy makers are ever really ...
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS & THE DANGERS OF BEING A HIGHLY TRUSTED INSTITUTION
Don’t love the military too much, and don’t love the other institutions too little ...
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & NATIONAL SECURITY
The approach that the government often takes to acquisition of [intellectual property] rights is ...
REFLECTIONS ON THE HUE CITY MASSACRE (ANNIVERSARIES)
It was the largest battle in the [Vietnam] war in terms of numbers of ...
ROLES (AND PERILS) OF BEING A WATCHDOG: THE PRESS AND GOVERNMENT
The relationship is complex because journalists and politicians depend on each other A free ...
THE PARTNERSHIP OF ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON (GREAT CAPTAINS)
As the Campaigns of 1862 move forward, Lee turns to Jackson more and more ...
JOHN WARDEN AND THE ENEMY AS A SYSTEM (GREAT STRATEGISTS)
The great benefit of looking at John Warden’s system is that it [employed] effects-based ...
LEADING AND MANAGING CHANGE: MORE THAN JUST A PROCESS
[Kotter’s] first step is to establish a sense of urgency. … But then the ...
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH FORCE AFTER YOU WIN?
We don’t have a sophisticated genre about what do militaries do in the wake ...
A ‘BIG DATA’ APPROACH TO WINNING THE ASYMMETRIC FIGHT
Fundamentally in asymmetric conflicts, the struggle is over information that comes from the [local] ...
