Oral comprehensives at the U.S. Army War College have become a rite of passage in the last...
Theories of War and Strategy
This tag relates to all articles, podcast episodes, and features related to the resident program course Theories of War and Strategy, which covers both the theories and the key theorists of war and strategy (e.g., Clausewitz, Jomini, Sun Tzu, and so on). It excludes the implementation of the theories in matters of policy and national strategy (explored in National Security Policy and Strategy).
Bernard Fall was a man of many talents. A veteran of both the French resistance and Free...
WAR ROOM welcomes back Lou Beres to examine how Clausewitz's concept of friction can help U.S. policy...
A BETTER PEACE welcomes Ian Ona Johnson to the studio to discuss his new book Faustian Bargain:...
Colonel (retired) Arthur F. Lykke was a faculty instructor in the Department of National Security and Strategy...
The charter was…to look at preparation of the Navy for the defense of maritime security and the...
In this episode in our Great Strategists series, U.S. Army War College historians Bill Johnsen and Con...
Would a cyberattack that takes down the Texas power grid in the peak of summer be an...
One weakness of the way we view strategy … is that we neglect the environment Professional military...
The ritual of retaliation codified what makes you legitimate [as a combatant] and what makes you not...
Propagandists now exercise increasing sophistication in their communications In February 2019, in (Indian-administered) Southern Kashmir, a Jaish-e-Mohammed...
Prototype warfare is more than the rapid prototyping of technology … It is a mindset In motor...
These two commanders, Scipio Africanus vs. Hannibal … demonstrated [strategic leadership] to a great degree A BETTER...
Misusing protected persons in war presents real and present challenges in the Middle East Remember Saddam Hussein’s...
It’s natural to ask what can we gain from this ‘old war’? … You can read [history]...
Conflicts, both in Afghanistan as well as at home, will continue to have both a complex civilian...
‘Is Remote Warfare Cheaper?’ ‘So that’s a really hard question to answer. … We actually have very...
What if we spent one day on Herodotus, one day on Thucydides, and one day on Xenophon...
attributes essential for field army command: professional competence, courage (physical and moral), initiative, self-confidence, and intuition, the...
The great benefit of looking at John Warden’s system is that it [employed] effects-based objectives [for] attacking...