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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
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 ...
MOBILIZATION TO DEMOBILIZATION: THE LIFE OF THE MINUTEMAN (DUSTY SHELVES)
He was a competent but not flamboyant officer, commanding at an echelon that attracted ...
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981 AT 70: WHAT INTEGRATION MEANS FOR TODAY’S MILITARY
As we wind down Black History Month the Editorial Team thought it most appropriate ...
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981 AT 70: DESEGREGATING THE ARMED FORCES
As we wind down Black History Month the Editorial Team thought it most appropriate ...
LIBERATION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE LIBERATED
If you go into reading history with an open mind what you’re looking for ...
THE UNITED NATIONS’ GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: A WHITEBOARD
26 COUNTRIES SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 1 JANUARY 1942 THAT ...
“TECHNOCRATS AND OPERATIONAL EXPERTS” (DUSTY SHELVES)
Murray…highlights the German military’s failure as a whole to understand how the Industrial Revolution ...
OBSERVATIONS FROM NATO’S NORTHERN FRONT (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
What I think is important is to do your current job as good as ...
LOOKING TO THE PAST TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
Back in the 1930s, Air Force officers who were assigned instructor duty at the ...
STRATEGY WHILE SHAVING WITH A BLOWTORCH (DUSTY SHELVES)
[King’s] autobiography is superb reading for those interested in leadership, and it contains two ...