The U.S. intelligence community … is the singular community that Americans need to trust to feel secure It’s that midnight kind of anxiety, where you wake up – or...
They’re outgoing. They’re adventurous. They want to do something for the war effort. They want to do their bit. While contemporary conversations about women and the military focus on...
[The U.S.] must suppress its appetite to rely on Cold War-era hardware The Division Commander, Major General (MG) Smith, was pleased. His lead armor brigade was making steady progress...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The current temporary theme we are using only credits a single guest. This podcast featured Roland Murphy and Chris Wyatt The western African nation of Liberia underwent...
[Congress] is flexing its muscles by using the power of the purse, lawmaking and, most visibly, oversight Last year, conservative commentator George Will accused congressional leaders of “leaving dormant...
The Army War College isn’t a year to ‘take a knee’ So, you’re on your way to the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) and the School of Strategic Landpower....
From the WAR ROOM Editorial Staff: What happens when a DBA from the Harvard Business School lands at the U.S. Army War College? There’s the inevitable push-back against the...
could someone as young and unfamiliar with the military as I was make it at the War College? A cardinal rule in making a wedding toast is to focus...
an organization trained to overcome the seeming impossible will have a natural blind spot for the actual impossible Most readers who have served within a high-level headquarters will have...
How important is enhancing unity of effort … [so] all the differences in culture, values, caveats, mindsets, etc. are harmonized for a common objective? Service at the strategic level...
Criminal states have infused their national instruments of power with an ethos that more closely resembles organized crime At a press conference in Pyonyang last year, U.S. Secretary of...
Space is important and we would notice if it went away Indeed, so much of what the global public relies upon for work and life depends on space capabilities....
Better Army recruiting will yield a healthier force structure Recruiting is critical for sustaining the All-Volunteer Force. Under U.S. Federal Code Title 10, each service performs its own recruiting...
There is nothing we do in the joint force that isn’t enabled by space. Nothing. A lot of attention is being paid to the space domain, and so A...
Sleep deprivation is a problem at all levels in the military Technology now gives people around the world constant, unlimited access to information. Despite the opportunities this brings, research...
General Frederick C. Weyand served as the 28th Chief of Staff of the Army in the 1970s but, as Dr. Frank Jones of the U.S. Army War College explains,...
Units have ignored clear evidence that Bayonet Hill actually took place more than a dozen miles away On February 8th, 2019, the Eighth U.S. Army Facebook page celebrated the...
Military intelligence is important, but it isn’t the whole world As quoted from David Oakley’s book, Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship How has the relationships among intelligence agencies...
Humanitarian Mine Action is one way for the DoD to really support the other three instruments of national power Explosive Remnants of War, or ERW, is a significant problem...
Would a cyberattack that takes down the Texas power grid in the peak of summer be an act of war? “There is no spoon.” The 1999 film, The Matrix,...