Whatever roles military strategic leaders play… they do so as experts in the fighting and winning of...
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One point is unequivocal: U.S. engagement had not adequately facilitated Mali’s security abilities During a visit to...
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material and incorporate everything...
Army leadership should inject more ‘college’ in the War College by hiring more civilian academic instructors. When...
Instead of what the Melian dialogue tells us, which is that ‘Might Makes Right,’ … when it...
30 years ago, we still talked about deterrence a lot in this country. We still talked about...
The U.S. can do worse than emulate the strategy of an empire that survived for a thousand...
It’s silly to expect that intelligence will always get it right. WAR ROOM welcomes Dr. Richard Betts...
DoD will continue to struggle to develop and employ effective cyber capabilities if it continues putting old...
What a President or any other senior leader brings with him or her to office in inevitably...
to use intelligence properly, commanders must exercise the operational art to integrate ends, ways, and means, while...
If they come out with an after-action review or lessons learned from Iraq and all it talks...
Failure is not just the result of one part of the equation. [Sometimes] you can give the...
Reduced to its raw essence, foreign policy is still about the calculation of power. No more euphemisms....
People say, “Well, people break the rules of warfare all the time, so why should we have...
Traditional deterrence is transparent, certain, and rational. … The new approach to deterrence … embraces the chaos....
For national security officials who are wading through floods of information, how do they find that nugget,...
The National Defense Strategy is explicit in its recognition that U.S. strategic advantage is eroding. Competition does...
In an organization in which … ‘manageR’ is an insult, it is not easy to convince people...