It's back-to-school time across the United States, and it's no different here at the U.S. Army War College. What's different this year is that the resident class of academic...
What happens when you drop a "pure civilian" academic into a visiting professor chair position at the U.S. Army War College? A whole lot of learning and growth—by both...
Fifty years ago, the United States Department of Defense ended the draft and chose to rely exclusively on volunteers to fill the ranks. The all-volunteer force was born and...
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice agreement. A legal agreement that ended combat on the battlefield, it was hoped to be a...
In our last episode, we examined the relationship between military medicine and tactical effectiveness, as well as some of the incredible advances in combat medical care over the last...
War is brutal. It is violent, destructive, and sometimes senseless. To at least mitigate these horrors, the international community has developed laws of war and basic norms for the...
Once upon a time, a wound as simple as a scratch could lead to death. Many of incredible advances in medicine and medical care since were driven by the...
We may be taking a brief publication pause but there's still plenty of work going on and plenty to read or listen to in the archives. Our Editor-in-Chief, JP...
In May 2023, the War College hosted the second annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners, the symposium presented senior leaders with original research and recommendations...
In May 2023, the War College hosted the second annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners, the symposium presented senior leaders with original research and recommendations...
In May 2023, the War College hosted the second annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners, the symposium presented senior leaders with original research and recommendations for...
George Orwell is credited with the quote "Football is war minus the shooting." He's not alone in comparing sports to military matters. There are a number of familiar quotes...
Fiction can be liberating. It offers authors latitude to think, propose, and prognosticate about real-world topics in ways that non-fiction does not allow. The ability to ask "what if?"...
In May 2023, the War College hosted the second annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners, the symposium presented senior leaders with original research and recommendations...
Plan, Program, Budget and Execute - repeat. It's the strategic planning process for allocating resources in the Department of Defense that was first initiated in the early 1960s. The...
Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie was a brilliant military and naval strategist whose “Reflections on the War in the Pacific” had far reaching influence on U.S. Navy strategy after World...
Bernard Fall is considered by many to be one of the finest analysts and writers of the Vietnam War. Much of his insight about counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina was...
Sixty-six years ago, the Soviet Union placed Sputnik in orbit around the Earth and it changed everything. Since then, more than 80 nations and 100 commercial entities have also...
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...