With the invasion of Poland in 1939, Nazi Germany set the stage for conflict and strife that has repercussions to this day. Jadwiga Biskupska is an expert on Poland...
War Policy and National Security
It's time for another episode of On Writing with Michael Neiberg. For this conversation, Michael is joined by Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War: How World War II...
The final episode of our three-part series on Afghanistan looks at rebuilding trust in the civil-military relationship. Twenty years of warfare presented a number of civil-military interactions, some positive...
2023 is, of course, the 20th anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq. There has already been and surely will be much more examination of the event and...
On 4 October 2022, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan that prompted citizens of Japan to seek shelter. The editorial team thought an examination of previous escalations...
In light of a recent open letter by eight former Secretaries of Defense and five former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the War Room editorial team thought...
We'll wrap up back to school week at the U.S. Army War College with the re-release of a great discussion between Ed Kaplan, Mike Baim and former Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline...
As we continue back to school week at the U.S. Army War college the editorial team wants to add to the resident students' tool kit with another great article...
A BETTER PEACE welcomes author and analyst Ali Wyne to the studio for a conversation about the intricacies of the concept of great power competition as a policy framework....
Many of our readers grew up during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, some may have served in the military or government during that time. Others have only...
Define victory. It's a task often undertaken in professional military education (PME) classrooms. The answer seems relatively easy when there is a staggering military overmatch, though the last several...
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...
What went wrong in Afghanistan? Did anything go right? We're definitely not going to thoroughly answer those questions in a thirty eight minute podcast episode, but any answer to...
Coup d'etats are sadly a fact of life on the African continent. Since 1950, of the 486 attempted coups in the world, 214 occurred in Africa with 106 of...
It's time again for the Eisenhower Series College Program (ESCP). Established over 50 years ago, the ESCP engages colleges, voluntary organizations, think tanks and other public forums across the...
This week we are celebrating WAR ROOM's fifth birthday! We published our first article on 1 May 2017 and our first podcast episode a couple of weeks later on...
Four years ago the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) underwent a name change in hopes of signifying a change in thinking in the region. The new name, United States...
Conditional statements or as they're more commonly known, IF-THEN statements, are the foundation of almost all programming languages. They allow an automation that looks for a certain circumstance, and...
The United States and its allies have options when it comes to the Middle East. In between the extremes of total disengagement and guaranteed security in the region surely...
What does it mean to keep the peace? Well, since World War II keeping the peace internationally has been at the discretion of Western society and the free nations...