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WHERE DOES INTELLIGENCE GO FROM HERE? AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CLAPPER
The intelligence community typically focuses too much on the here-and-now and urgent, as opposed ...
MY LAI: A STAIN ON THE U.S. ARMY
we must revisit such terrible episodes in the Army’s history, however painful; remembering My ...
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND CHANGING THE US ARMY IN EUROPE
You talk about the capabilities of the War College graduates and the ability as ...
WHITEBOARD: HOW WELL DOES THE ARMY DEVELOP STRATEGIC LEADERS?
Whatever roles military strategic leaders play… they do so as experts in the fighting ...
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! — INTRODUCING WHITEBOARD
We invite you, our WAR ROOM readers, to join in the conversation and add ...
NEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS: ANALYZING TODAY’S FLOOD OF INFORMATION
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material ...
THE CHALLENGES OF SENIOR LEADER COMMUNICATION
30 years ago, we still talked about deterrence a lot in this country. We ...
STRATEGIC ATTACKS AND THEIR FALLOUT
It’s silly to expect that intelligence will always get it right. WAR ROOM welcomes ...
IMPACT (OR NOT) OF INTEL ON STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING
What a President or any other senior leader brings with him or her to ...
THE SENIOR NCO AS A STRATEGIC LEADER — A PODCAST
If they come out with an after-action review or lessons learned from Iraq and ...
POLICY SUCCESS VS. INTEL FAILURE?
Failure is not just the result of one part of the equation. [Sometimes] you ...
THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE TODAY
For national security officials who are wading through floods of information, how do they ...
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE — A PODCAST
There’s an old saying, “Command can be lonely.” But it doesn’t have to be. ...
WHAT DO THE BRITS THINK OF AMERICAN OFFICERS? — A PODCAST
You assume professional competence at [the strategic] level, … but the more senior you ...
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARIES?
Sadly, historical events seem to require a round number of years to draw attention ...
ERIN GO BRUSSELS: TREATY OF BRUSSELS AT 70
Five allied powers … set out a bold program of cooperation in areas ranging ...
COOK’S ‘MIDNIGHT DRAWINGS’ AND THEIR HAUNTING VIEWS OF WAR (DUSTY SHELVES)
[COOK SAID,] ‘These faces. I didn’t get to know all their names. They joined ...
THE TET OFFENSIVE: 50 YEARS LATER — A PODCAST
What becomes the dominant narrative? [The Vietnam War has] been examined principally through American ...
PERSPECTIVES ON STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP — GEN. ROBIN RAND, U.S. AIR FORCE GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND
I tell people today that history makes you smarter, but your heritage makes you ...
BUILDING THE CONTINENTAL ARMY: VON STEUBEN’S “BLUE BOOK” (DUSTY SHELVES)
[VON STEUBEN] WAS THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND THE RIGHT TIME. ...