In our recent four-part series on learning lessons from present conflicts, Gian Gentile questioned whether all lessons...
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.
Civilian control of the military is a foundational concept of democracy in the United States. In recent...
You might have noticed the U.S. government has had a few problems keeping secrets in recent years....
Max Margulies is in the studio with guest host Carrie Lee for the fifth episode in our...
It's time for another entry in the Dusty Shelves series. Rick Chersicla dusts off Anthony Quayle's Eight...
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...
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established on April 25, 2013 to...
It's not odd for discussions about civil-military relations to focus on the civilian control exercised by the...
When a new piece of technology arrives in your unit, your service, or your national defense organization,...
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established on April 25, 2013 to...
The U.S. military is to a certain extent a microcosm of the population it serves. While this...
History is a powerful tool, but like all tools it can be misused, causing even greater damage...
The United States Air Force Security Service (USAFSS) was created in October 1948, just 13 months after...
Joint. The term is used ubiquitously in the U.S. Department of Defense. Joint operations, joint professional military...
How soon is too soon? Well, if you're talking about lessons learned from an ongoing conflict, there...
Earlier this year, Ehud Eilam set out to examine the shared lessons that the U.S. Army and...
It's tough to imagine a topic less sexy than the process that "aligns directed readiness, force assignment,...
The invasion of Crimea in 2014 and the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022...