It is striking how much difficulty the United States has had converting its tactical advantages into clear...
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the problem at hand is one of enforcing laws rather than of imposing political aims by force....
Stumbling block number one: You start to believe the hype. … Two: You somehow start to think...
We are better than we were, in that our communities [and individuals] are more integrated, but not...
Perhaps the most significant example of the tension between federal obligations and state loyalties in National Guard...
We are at an all-time high of African-Americans serving at the three-star level, [including two] women. In...
when the “threat” along the border grows … to an intersection between transnational organized crime and transnational...
U.S. Army strategic leaders must be ‘War Winners,’ not ‘War Managers.’ The responses to our first Whiteboard were...
We’re in a support role, and sometimes that’s a little bit challenges for folks to wrap their...
We tend to think about ‘strategic leaders’ as people who were successful…. But to me, it is...
The intelligence community typically focuses too much on the here-and-now and urgent, as opposed to the more...
we must revisit such terrible episodes in the Army’s history, however painful; remembering My Lai may help...
You talk about the capabilities of the War College graduates and the ability as a colonel to...
Whatever roles military strategic leaders play… they do so as experts in the fighting and winning of...
We invite you, our WAR ROOM readers, to join in the conversation and add to the Whiteboard....
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material and incorporate everything...
30 years ago, we still talked about deterrence a lot in this country. We still talked about...
It’s silly to expect that intelligence will always get it right. WAR ROOM welcomes Dr. Richard Betts...
What a President or any other senior leader brings with him or her to office in inevitably...
If they come out with an after-action review or lessons learned from Iraq and all it talks...