Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz...
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Combating prejudice is the responsibility of every national security professional. Whether it is based on sex, race...
Professional historians often dismiss alternative or counterfactual history as nothing more than entertaining—the fodder of fantasy sci-fi...
Understanding the history, or perhaps more importantly, the treatment of history in China, is a critical skill...
There are plenty of studies of armies at war or in pre-war periods as preparations were made...
In our recent four-part series on learning lessons from present conflicts, Gian Gentile questioned whether all lessons...
Whenever Kara Dixon Vuic comes through Carlisle, we are sure to bring her into the War Room...
The U.S. Department of Defense underwent several significant changes in 1973. First, the law that empowered the...
The word strategy gets overused. People have a strategy for getting fit. They have a strategy for...
In every conflict, there are lessons to be observed, but should they all be "learned"? Should the...
When a new piece of technology arrives in your unit, your service, or your national defense organization,...
History is a powerful tool, but like all tools it can be misused, causing even greater damage...
How soon is too soon? Well, if you're talking about lessons learned from an ongoing conflict, there...
It's time for another episode of On Writing with Michael Neiberg. For this conversation, Michael is joined...
The invasion of Crimea in 2014 and the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022...
The military prides itself on its ability to conduct honest, sometimes brutal, after action reviews of operations...
Last week War Room published an article by former Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History, Ian...
What happens when you drop a "pure civilian" academic into a visiting professor chair position at the...
Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie was a brilliant military and naval strategist whose “Reflections on the War in...
Bernard Fall is considered by many to be one of the finest analysts and writers of the...