As part of our ongoing collaboration between A BETTER PEACE and the Army War College Civil-Military Relations Center, Celestino Perez joins podcast editor Ron Granieri for a wide-ranging discussion...
The U.S. military has long realized the importance of preventive medicine to proactively reduce disease and non-battle injury as part of the larger health force protection effort. Greg Gharst,...
In October 2022 we published an episode examining the newly released National Security Strategy (NSS) and comparing it to its interim predecessor. Once the NSS is published there are...
Everybody wants more data. Data makes for better informed decisions. It can lead to effective and streamlined processes or accurate measurements of readiness, capability and sustainability. The right data...
Every year the amount of sheer talent, knowledge and experience that comes through the little town of Carlisle, PA is astounding. There is the student body at the Army...
There are multiple facets to the civil-military relationship. How the military interacts with the civil society, or other governmental agencies or the relationship between the military and the civilian...
For the last 20+ years U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have been deployed around the globe, operating in as much as 70% of the world's countries. And in pursuit...
Dating back to 1987 and the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the National Security Strategy (NSS) has become perhaps the most powerful single document to communicate the Executive branch's vision to Congress,...
The U.S. military has often been responsible for or associated with great innovations in the world of technology. But increasingly the commercial market has outpaced its government partner on...
Successful military organizations are always assessing and adapting; this includes methods of command and control. The joint task forces with constituent air, land, and maritime components currently used by...
On 4 October 2022, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan that prompted citizens of Japan to seek shelter. The editorial team thought an examination of previous escalations...
Since President Eisenhower first named and warned against the military-industrial complex in his farewell speech, the relationship between "the military and the market" has been the subject of heightened...
There is a deep and intimate relationship between national purpose and the moral sphere of war. Both Washington and Lincoln used the principles of the Declaration of Independence to...
Getting faculty governance right in higher education can be a difficult endeavor. There are multiple models that can be employed, personalities always play a role and leadership has to...
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...
The U.S. military is struggling to recruit and it's not just quality, it's quantity as well. The all volunteer force is at risk. Falling recruiting rates can be compensated...
In light of a recent open letter by eight former Secretaries of Defense and five former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the War Room editorial team thought...
It has been recognized since antiquity that victory in war often goes to those who best organize "the sinews of war" (money, equipment, and supplies). Yet at the U.S....
John Roderick is back in the studio w/ Ron Granieri for pt 2 of their discussion but the topic has moved on to #podcasting & the power of #conversations...