The recent 2024 declaration of martial law in South Korea brought back memories of the country’s turbulent...
Dusty Shelves
Dusty Shelves is a recurring series in War Room that focuses on the thousands of artifacts—writings and objects—sitting on dusty shelves in libraries, museums, repositories, or trunks in attics. Some of them reinforce well-known and traveled stories, but others have unique tales to tell on their own. In an ever-evolving strategic environment, some of these older tales may now be very relevant.
It’s time to head to the Dusty Shelves once again. Rick Chersicla revisits Robert Leonhard's seminal work...
In 1988, the Department of Defense produced a revision of "The Armed Forces Officer." Originally published in...
Nesting tactical operations, objectives and training into the operational and strategic goals and guidance of higher headquarters...
It's time for another entry in the Dusty Shelves series. Rick Chersicla dusts off Anthony Quayle's Eight...
The military prides itself on its ability to conduct honest, sometimes brutal, after action reviews of operations...
Almost forty years of experience in the Royal Air Force provide Dye with significant operational experience that...
We're back with another visit to the Dusty Shelves with a look at Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s...
Heather Venable is back with another Dusty Shelves entry that looks at William C. Sherman's "Air Warfare."...
The Dusty Shelves series is back with a look at the 1968 classic Unless Peace Comes: A...
DUSTY SHELVES is back and this time Rick Chersicla is taking a look at John Steinbeck’s The...
The DUSTY SHELVES series takes looks at a book out of the not too distant past. WAR...
The DUSTY SHELVES series is happy to welcome back J. Overton as he takes a look at...
DUSTY SHELVES welcomes Sam Wilkins as he takes a look at One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of...
It's been a while but the DUSTY SHELVES series is back with a new look at an...
The circumstances for both exercises centered on an imagined invasion and occupation of Oahu, including the naval...
The DUSTY SHELVES series welcomes Mitchell Klingenberg to dust off Victor Davis Hanson's The Soul of Battle:...
DUSTY SHELVES welcomes Mark Lottman as he examines Herbert Tint’s French Foreign Policy since the Second World...
In October 1962, during what become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Navy evacuated nearly 3000...
With such overwhelming numbers, how could the Allies not win? The numbers in World War II are...