AI is turning John Boyd’s OODA loop into a straight line: Predict-Act. Sam White warns that automated decisions risk deception and runaway crises. To stay in control, military commanders...
Warfighting
America’s Army applies violence decisively on battlefields marked by unrelenting speed, precision lethality, and persistent observation. We dominate from the outset to control escalation, prevent prolonged war and counter enemies who employ stand-off weapons, including unmanned systems and WMD.
On today’s high-tech battlefield, "safe" rear areas no longer exist. Combat units are bogged down dragging broken gear because the military lacks a middle tier for complex repairs. Octavia...
Wes Daugherty argues that while writing clarifies how a leader thinks, it can’t test how they handle a thinking adversary. Wargaming bridges the gap between theory & execution, transforming...
The USAWC is using AI to modernize wargaming. Inspired by 19th-century "Free Kriegsspiel" LLMs create detailed, realistic scenarios.
The "elastic mindset" & "effectual logic" focus on using available means to adapt, rather than an end-state approach based on specific threats like Russia & China.
The U.S. Army War College is undergoing its most significant curriculum overhaul in 70 years, known as Assessment Based Tailorable Education (ABTE). This transformation, driven by directives from Chief...
It's time to talk about the Harding Project once again. The project is the Chief of Staff of the Army's (CSA) effort to renew professional publications, strengthen the profession,...
Whether putting pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard, writing clarifies and improves ideas while also allowing those thoughts to be shared with others. But the idea of...
In today's security landscape, is it possible that the greatest threats come from actions that fall below the threshold of open warfare? These actions, known as hybrid threats, include...
In today's complex security environment, militaries rarely operate independently. The joint-service approach to military education and training has been the norm since the 1980s, recognizing the importance of preparing...
It's time to talk about the Harding Project once again. The project is the Chief of Staff of the Army's (CSA) effort to renew professional publications, strengthen the profession,...
The U.S. Army War College continues to support the Army Chief of Staff's (CSA) focus on warfighting. In this episode, podcast editor Ron Granieri sits with Isaac Henderson, Pamela...
Contractors have been employed on the battlefield by the United States since the Revolutionary War. So why is it that after all that time, there are still issues to...
Whether putting pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard, writing clarifies and improves ideas while also allowing those thoughts to be shared with others. But the idea of...
Depending on who you talk to, artificial intelligence (AI) will either be the ruination of mankind or its savior. As ever, the truth is likely somewhere between those extremes....
One of the priorities of U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Randy George is war fighting, particularly the charge to refocus and prioritize efforts that build lethality and cohesive...
Earlier this year, Ehud Eilam set out to examine the shared lessons that the U.S. Army and the Israel Defense Forces need to consider about rival anti-access/area denial (A2/AD)...
In our last episode, we examined the relationship between military medicine and tactical effectiveness, as well as some of the incredible advances in combat medical care over the last...
Once upon a time, a wound as simple as a scratch could lead to death. Many of incredible advances in medicine and medical care since were driven by the...
Fiction can be liberating. It offers authors latitude to think, propose, and prognosticate about real-world topics in ways that non-fiction does not allow. The ability to ask "what if?"...