War
Joshua Rovner on Iraq and the Politics of Intelligence
In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem ...
The Future of Americas All-Volunteer Force
For the sake of our military and the Republic it defends, we must cultivate a societal and organizational shift that ...
It is Time to Retire Weapons of Mass Destruction
The West has been using the terms WMD and “weapons of mass destruction” to describe an expanding list of ...
The July Crisis: WWI Lessons for Gaza, Ukraine, and Iraq
The hot months of summer are always ripe for war. As battles continue today in Gaza, Syria, and Iraq and ...
A Cure For Americas Iraq Syndrome
America finds itself sitting on the fence in the debate over the use force in not one but two conflicts: ...
Voices of Pashtun Women from Wartime Afghanistan
I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan Translated by Eliza Griswold, photographs by Seamus Murphy Farrar, Straus ...
What 1914 Teaches Us About Naval Warfare Today
When we think about World War I, or “the Great War,” we think about Flanders’ Fields, doughboys, the trenches, and the ...
Revisiting COIN Strategies in Vietnam
That “Generals are always fighting the last war” may be true, but this is often because they are fighting a ...
Revisiting COIN Strategies in Vietnam
That “Generals are always fighting the last war” may be true, but this is often because they are fighting a ...
How War Has Shaped American Exceptionalism
War is the most unifying, and yet simultaneously divisive, of all human activities. Democracies justify acts of war through the ...