when the “threat” along the border grows … to an intersection between transnational organized crime and transnational...
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U.S. Army strategic leaders must be ‘War Winners,’ not ‘War Managers.’ The responses to our first Whiteboard were...
Employing the military to supplement civil law enforcement can be risky. Consider the following vignette. A mobilized...
Mongolia always will be sensitive to its location and attentive to the influence of its powerful neighbors...
Process and organization are merely the context within which the real, human, work of leadership occurs. West...
we must revisit such terrible episodes in the Army’s history, however painful; remembering My Lai may help...
Whatever roles military strategic leaders play… they do so as experts in the fighting and winning of...
We invite you, our WAR ROOM readers, to join in the conversation and add to the Whiteboard....
One point is unequivocal: U.S. engagement had not adequately facilitated Mali’s security abilities During a visit to...
Army leadership should inject more ‘college’ in the War College by hiring more civilian academic instructors. When...
The U.S. can do worse than emulate the strategy of an empire that survived for a thousand...
DoD will continue to struggle to develop and employ effective cyber capabilities if it continues putting old...
to use intelligence properly, commanders must exercise the operational art to integrate ends, ways, and means, while...
Reduced to its raw essence, foreign policy is still about the calculation of power. No more euphemisms....
Traditional deterrence is transparent, certain, and rational. … The new approach to deterrence … embraces the chaos....
The National Defense Strategy is explicit in its recognition that U.S. strategic advantage is eroding. Competition does...
In an organization in which … ‘manageR’ is an insult, it is not easy to convince people...
Gaming is a useful method for educating Army strategists. … Command and General Staff College [has] already...
So far, President Trump’s Korea strategy seems to be working: Kim Jong Un has moved from recalcitrance...
There is something to the saying, … ‘to be young and conservative is to have no heart;...