One of the things we’re trying to do is encourage people…to start talking about older books, older readings, older things that are lost or never really well known that...
War Policy and National Security
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...
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...
Our students come with a professional ethos and a professional mindset of being apolitical and fundamentally the decisions… we’re talking about often are happening in the political realm. In...
These capabilities must seamlessly integrate commercial and military communication networks to the warfighter’s devices. Roll out the talking robots – or at least the artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...
In political terms, the operation helped improve public perceptions of the United States across Southeast Asia, at a moment when approval of the United States had reached a nadir....
I think it makes…strategic thinkers think that they’re saying something profound when in fact they are not. Scholars have long held that the nature of war is enduring...
A new kind of threat requires significant changes in the way that soldiers make decisions – doubling down on the importance of environmental training. In a recent Foreign Policy...