In modern warfare, the front line no longer begins where supply trucks stop. It begins wherever a drone can see. When a blue force commander says during an after-action...
Gain Positional Advantage
We gain positional advantage through posture that comes in many forms: from forward basing to campaigning to stockpiling supplies. We continually reinforce forward areas, harden lines of communication, and exploit opportunities.
The U.S. Air Force is undergoing a massive transformation to prepare for large-scale combat operations by replacing legacy expeditionary models with Deployable Combat Wings (DCWs). Patrick Lysaght explains how...
Fight the closest alligator to the boat. A useful maxim in the tactical realm but never a prudent method of prioritization at the strategic level. While Russia wages war...
From 10-12 May 2022 the War College hosted the first annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners the symposium displayed original research and presented solutions to...
Climate change is still a divisive topic and some countries are doing better at addressing it than others. China’s economy depends largely on “dirty energy” and their belligerent nature...
In recent months, China has increased its rhetoric and threats to halt exports of rare earth elements to the United States, as it ratchets up pressure in an ongoing...
This episode is another in a series of releases on the Emerging Environment in the Indo-Pacific Region, produced in collaboration with the United States Military Academy at West Point’s...
Joel Hillison examines the criticisms against NATO, that it is a weakened entity carrying on in the body of its former self. In other words, a "zombie." Instead, Hillison...
War is complex. States often have multiple objectives for sending their sons and daughters in harm’s way Editor’s Note: In February 2019, the Institute for the Study of War...
It seems that Western military forces are doomed to reinvent the wheel every time they are confronted with insurgencies Editor’s Note: In February 2019, the Institute for the Study...
regaining national sovereignty poses problems for cybersecurity because the internet is inherently transnational Cybersecurity experts have long focused on protecting the information and networks of individuals and organizations. Now...
The way we should approach this is ‘How do we put ourselves out of a job? How do we make it so logistics is not the operational constraint?’ This...
If you go to Disney World, twenty years ago there were no express lines. … Now we have an express pass where you pay a little extra, you get...
The National Defense Strategy is explicit in its recognition that U.S. strategic advantage is eroding. Competition does not always mean hostility…an America that successfully competes is the best way...
Just as a chess master with a positional advantage is willing to trade queens with his opponent, an adversary prepared to operate in a degraded electronic environment may be...