The military prides itself on its ability to conduct honest, sometimes brutal, after action reviews of operations and events to assess performance and establish lessons learned. But rarely has...
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Michael Neiberg is back in the studio for the next installation of the On Writing series. This week's guest is Shashank Joshi, Defense Editor for The Economist. This episode...
Almost forty years of experience in the Royal Air Force provide Dye with significant operational experience that is greatly enhanced by his gifted descriptive and analytical writing ability. The...
Regular listeners might remember previous episodes in which we looked at the 2022 National Security Strategy and the 2022 National Defense Strategy. In this episode, we continue the examination...
One of the most important building blocks of a successful strategic endeavor is a capable and effective intelligence community. In preparation for great power competition, Todd Moulton feels the...
We're back with another visit to the Dusty Shelves with a look at Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s 1993 book “War and Anti-War.” J. Overton examines how the Tofflers applied...
Heather Venable is back with another Dusty Shelves entry that looks at William C. Sherman's "Air Warfare." When most airpower advocates championed theories of strategic bombardment in the inter-war...
It’s time for another episode of On Writing. A Better Peace welcomes William Inboden to the studio to discuss his book, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and...
The final episode of our three-part series on Afghanistan looks at rebuilding trust in the civil-military relationship. Twenty years of warfare presented a number of civil-military interactions, some positive...
The first episode of our three-part series on Afghanistan lessons discussed building armies. This episode focuses exclusively on assessing them. In the studio for this second episode are LTG...
The United States spent over 20 years in Afghanistan and while a lot has been written about the missteps, there is much to be written about the solutions that...
The Dusty Shelves series is back with a look at the 1968 classic Unless Peace Comes: A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, a collection of essays written by several...
General Charles Flynn, Commanding General of U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC), was in Carlisle to address the AY23 resident class of the U.S. Army War College. He took the time...
Historical Mindedness is a form of reasoning that deals with historical material and present-day problems and it is woven throughout the U.S. Army War College curriculum. It doesn't predict...
Bernard Fall was a man of many talents. A veteran of both the French resistance and Free French Army during World War II, an award-winning journalist and author, an...
It's time for another episode of On Writing. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Tami Biddle to the studio to discuss her newest history project, Taking Command: The United States at...
Any conversation has two very basic players, the sender and the receiver. The intelligence conversation, at its most basic level, has the producer and the consumer. There are volumes...
The war in Ukraine has been a fascinating study of the democratization of intelligence. That's a phrase coined by David Gioe in a recent article he wrote with Ken...
A BETTER PEACE welcomes Ian Ona Johnson to the studio to discuss his new book Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War. Ian...
DUSTY SHELVES is back and this time Rick Chersicla is taking a look at John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down. Published in 1942 and then made into a movie...