An oath is a solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior. Military members and government officials swear an oath to the Constitution of...
Civil War
WAR ROOM welcomes back featured contributor, Mari K. Eder to take a look at the strategic accomplishments of President Abraham Lincoln. Inspired by a print of Lincoln signing the...
The DUSTY SHELVES series welcomes Mitchell Klingenberg to dust off Victor Davis Hanson's The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished...
These accounts and portraits exemplify a conflict fought parallel to, but distinct from, the fight for physical territory… As the threat of disinformation enters the public consciousness, the scale...
Before speculating about another civil war, one should properly understand the first – the reasons for it, its conduct, and its legacy. Many of the tumultuous events in the...
It’s very hard to implement a long term development project when rebels might overrun and destroy or steal whatever you’ve implemented. To say that Central Africa has been a...
As the Campaigns of 1862 move forward, Lee turns to Jackson more and more for counsel A BETTER PEACE continues its Great Captains series with a look at a...
He understands the psychology of war matters, and he is intent on trying to get the war over as quickly as possible. We continue our series on Great Captains...
It is difficult to describe just the unbelievable amount of destruction that Syria has gone through… since 2011. WAR ROOM welcomes Dean of the U.S. Air War College...
American national security strategy is generally unimaginative. It is too often constrained by a rigid, unimaginative pursuit of optimal objectives… It needs the constructive, creative impulse that characterizes great...