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THE LAST LION AND THE NEXT WAR: LESSONS FROM CHURCHILL (DUSTY SHELVES)
Churchill, an avid painter, ‘saw the beauty and vitality of details, and their effect ...
THE MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: ALEXANDRA RICHIE (ON WRITING)
A BETTER PEACE welcomes Alexandra Richie, internationally acclaimed and award-winning writer and historian, and one ...
SARS-COV-2 AND THE WAR AGAINST WMD (COVID-19 SERIES)
Any attempt to securitize a pandemic response must of course be mindful that a ...
WHAT IF COVID-19 ENTERED THE CARLISLE BARRACKS?: A SIMULATION OF INSTALLATION CONTAGION
What if Carlisle Barracks went back to a “business as usual” model and faculty, ...
OWING AND OWNING: LATIN AMERICA, CHINA, AND THE PANDEMIC
Most Latin American countries are resource-dependent, some excessively, meaning that their central governments rely ...
ONE HELL OF A TRAVEL VOUCHER (DUSTY SHELVES)
If we’re all being honest, what we’ve really missed while not traveling is the ...
WAR(GAMING) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? A WHITEBOARD
Wargames may not predict the future, but a well-designed and well-executed wargame can better ...
FACT AND FICTION: THE RECOUNTING OF WWII WITH JAMES HOLLAND (ON WRITING)
Suddenly I was distracted by this amazing roar…and I turned to the umpire and ...
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE LAST: MARINE CORPS RECRUITING AND GAMING IN A COVID-19 WORLD
And although the Army was down 5,500 recruiting contracts in April, it appears to ...
MILITARY SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: ANDRÉ CORVISIER (DUSTY SHELVES)
The historical profession in the mid-twentieth-century decisively shifted its focus to social and cultural ...
THE DODO’S PROBLEM (AND THE REASON FOR WAR ROOM) – THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
The vision of our first Editor-In-Chief, Andrew Hill, WAR ROOM began three years ago ...
LEADERSHIP ROLE MODELS IN FICTION REVISITED: A WHITEBOARD
[Darth] Vader has many admirable qualities; he did not rise to the level of Sith ...
CULTURAL TERRAIN IN DOMESTIC OPERATIONS
We can’t function in a vacuum without understanding who the people are that we’re ...
ELLUL’S “PROPAGANDA”: OVER FIFTY YEARS’ WARNING, BUT ARE WE LISTENING? (DUSTY SHELVES)
Western nations have again become concerned about propaganda and disinformation due to the actions ...
THE U.S. ARMY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: AN INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN LINN (ON WRITING)
I think in a lot of ways our job…is to move the dialog out ...
A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE ON NATO (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
My abiding memory of colonels is that they really are the pivot between the ...
A NEW WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE FOR A POST-COVID WORLD?
International leaders might do well to look to an idea from a century ago, ...
WHAT GOOD IS GRAND STRATEGY? A WHITEBOARD
A grand strategy defines a country’s interests, the threats to those interests and the ...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ODNI: AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CLAPPER
The President, and all policy makers should have the unvarnished truth as best as ...
LESSONS FROM 1918: GET A FLU SHOT, WASH YOUR HANDS
What we do know is that all of the movement of people and animals ...