A BETTER PEACE welcomes Major General Torgeir Gråtrud, commander of the Norwegian Special Operations Command, to the studio to discuss his perspectives on strategic leadership. Major General Gråtrud was...
Military Strategy and Campaigning
This tag relates to all articles, podcast episodes, and features related to topics taught in the Military Strategy and Campaigning course of the U.S. Army War College resident program. This applies to the intersection of military strategies with those of other agencies in operational contexts, not the theoretical frameworks. The tag also applies to matters of joint and service doctrines.
We must anticipate the implication of new technologies on the battlefield, rigorously define the military problems anticipated in future conflict and foster a culture of experimentation and calculated risk-taking....
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...
Operational art had become all-encompassing, because the Joint community called all war making at the national and theater level ‘campaigns.’ Ten years ago, Australian defense experts Justin Kelly and...
[King’s] autobiography is superb reading for those interested in leadership, and it contains two specific documents that encapsulate King’s leadership and remain testaments for senior military leaders today. When...
In September 1944 defeat looked not only likely but imminent for the German Army. And It was at that point that Adolf Hitler told his generals that he was...
Perhaps the biggest most powerful thing they can do is in the field of logistics. They can be prepared for the reception, staging and onward movement and integration of...
The U.S. Army’s experience over the last 18 years shows a vigorous demand from the Joint Force for deployable Army operational headquarters. A crisis in the Indo-Pacific triggers...
When the local belligerents are still willing to fight and they’ve not stopped the war, dropping peacekeeping forces in the middle of that is not a recipe for immediate...
It is no secret that the U.S. and Chinese currently compete for influence throughout the world, not only in the Asia-Pacific, but also in regions such as Latin America,...
To delay action in an emergency because of insufficient information shows a lack of energetic leadership and may result in lost opportunities. The commander must take calculated risks. ...
We need to go back and think big, and We need to think big fast. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Major General Eirik Kristoffersen, Chief of the Norwegian Army,...
Abandoning an ally or proxy because they no longer serve your interest may be good strategy, but it does carry a cost. U.S. President Donald Trump has been...
Is this a strategy for building a budget? For fighting in a future environment? Or is it designed to provide internal guidance and policy? In the Pentagon everyone fancies...
What are the costs for the U.S. of losing the war? And it’s a sort of uncomfortable conversation in some ways because the answer may be not all that...
From an American-centric scholarship standpoint, I think much of it is driven by this search for finding a scapegoat to make it understandable for why we lost. A...
The very existence of the draft motivated enough men to enlist voluntarily that all branches of service were able to fill their quotas, often without conscripts. For this whiteboard...
As long as reporters abide by agreed-upon rules of operational security and attribution and make a good-faith effort to provide context and fact-checking regarding the news of the day,...
The general public often assumes a great deal about the relationship between the media and the military. This topic has been in the news a lot in 2019, with...
The jungle is the natural refuge of the weak. René Riesen, Jungle Mission In many military cultures and in the Western popular imagination, individuals who go native or...