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“Clausewitz”
Reconsidering Clausewitz on Friction
Olivia Garard
Clausewitz as The Last Jedi? Culminating Points of Victory, Civil-Military Relations, and Strategy in Star Wars
Theo Milonopoulos
When Clausewitz Meets Cézanne: Mastery and the Art of Future War
Nina Kollars
The Wages of War without Strategy, Part I: Clausewitz, Vietnam, and the Roots of Strategic Confusion
Robert Cassidy
and
Jacqueline Tame
Clausewitz and the Crackhouse
Paul Kan
Clausewitz Would Not Like America’s Islamic State Strategy
James Holmes
A Portrait of Clausewitz as a Young Officer
Vanya Eftimova Bellinger
(W)Archives: What a Letter from Clausewitz Tells us About the Prussian Master and his World
Vanya Eftimova Bellinger
If Clausewitz Were Alive Today
Todd Greentree
Clausewitz: The Fighting Soldier
Christopher Mewett
Ain’t No Party Like a Clausewitz Party: Part 3
Christopher Mewett
Ain’t No Party Like a Clausewitz Party: Part 2
Christopher Mewett
Ain’t No Party Like a Clausewitz Party: Part 1
Christopher Mewett
Reading Clausewitz in Riyadh
John Amble
Is Clausewitz irrelevant?
David Maxwell
Contrasting Clausewitz and Contemporary Conflict
Frank Hoffman
Sun Tzu in the Supply Chain: The New Face of Economic War With China
Tim Welter
and
Margaret McWeeney
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
Marco Lyons
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
Carrie Lee
Thinking First, Adapting Fast: Debating the Marine Corps’ Need for the Information Group
Brian Kerg
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Peter Mitchell
NATO’s Air Defense Dilemma
Robert Hamilton
Building a New Brain: Transforming Military Schoolhouses into AI Battle Labs
Benjamin Jensen
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
Military Revolutions from the Spanish Tercio to First-Person View Drones
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
Bruce Stubbs
Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare
Iskander Rehman
Russians Do Break: Historical and Cultural Context for a Prospective Ukrainian Victory
Ben Connable
In War and Society, Large Language Models Are What We Make of Them
Benjamin Jensen
,
Yasir Atalan
, and
Ian Reynolds
Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan
Iskander Rehman
Will Fearless and Tireless Robots Lead to More Terrifying Wars?
Antonio Salinas
Bringing the Swarm to Life: Roles, Missions, and Campaigns for the Replicator Initiative
Benjamin Jensen
Learning Lessons from the Prussian Past?
Alexander S. Burns
Operational Art for the Replicator Initiative: Confessions of a Swarming Addict
Benjamin Jensen
The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part III: Stagnation
Benjamin Jensen
,
Christopher Whyte
, and
Scott Cuomo
Full-Spectrum Integrated Lethality? On the Promise and Peril of Buzzwords
Elena Wicker
How Large-Language Models Can Revolutionize Military Planning
Benjamin Jensen
and
Dan Tadross
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
See Power? Seapower!
Kevin McCranie
Airpower and Interdiction: Overcoming Defender Advantages
John D. Maurer
Getting Serious about the Threat of High Altitude Nuclear Detonations
Robert "Tony" Vincent
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part II
David Johnson
Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I
David Johnson
“Win the War Before the War?”: A French Perspective on Cognitive Warfare
David Pappalardo
The Future of China’s Cognitive Warfare: Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Koichiro Takagi
Sabotage and War in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
Driving the Dark Road to the Future: A Guide to Revitalizing Defense Planning and Strategic Analysis
Benjamin Jensen
and
Michael Rountree
Strange Debacle: Misadventures in Assessing Russian Military Power
Christopher Dougherty
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Would We Do Better? Hubris and Validation in Ukraine
David Johnson
Are the Marines Inventing the Edsel or the Mustang?
Owen West
The Changing Character of Combined Arms
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Strohmeyer
Start with the Political: Explaining Russia’s Bungled Invasion of Ukraine
Jeffrey Edmonds
The Army, the Government, and the People in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Michael Kofman
,
Mark Pomar
,
Alexandra Sukalo
, and
Doyle Hodges
The Wargame Before the War: Russia Attacks Ukraine
James Lacey
,
Tim Barrick
, and
Nathan Barrick
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
This Land Is No Longer Your Land: A Primer on Territorial Disputes
Paul Poast
The Once and Future Defeat in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin
Forward to the Past? Weigh Covert Options in Afghanistan Carefully
Thomas Waldman
and
Rory Cormac
‘Bombing to Win’ at 25
Heather Venable
and
Sebastian Lukasik
Remembering What I’ve Never Known
Doyle Hodges
All About EVE: What Virtual Forever Wars Can Teach Us About the Future of Combat
Thomas Shugart
Why Space Force Needs a War College Just Like Everyone Else — and Why It Should Be Different
Jonty Kasku-Jackson
An Irregular Upgrade to Operational Design
Brian Petit
,
Steve Ferenzi
, and
Kevin Bilms
The Marine Corps Under the Nuclear Shadow: A Great-Power Problem
Nathan Fleischaker
and
Shawna Sinnott
Whispers from Wargames About the Gray Zone
Robert C. Rubel
Kill the Homothetic Army: Gen. Guy Hubin’s Vision of the Future Battlefield
Michael Shurkin
The Need to Inoculate Military Servicemembers Against Information Threats: The Case For Digital Literacy Training for the Force
Peter W. Singer
and
Eric B. Johnson
It’s Time to Move the Army Ladder
Eric Wesley
and
Robert Simpson
Confidence and Catastrophe: Armenia and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Michael A. Reynolds
How the Army Out-Innovated the Islamic State’s Drones
Kyle Brown
,
Jonathan Askonas
, and
T.S. Allen
Israeli National Intelligence Culture and the Response to COVID-19
Itai Shapira
Every Brief Ever
Olivia Garard
Grand Strategy Is Total: French Gen. André Beaufre on War in the Nuclear Age
Michael Shurkin
Space Force Creation Warrants Revisiting Defense Unification
James W. E. Smith
On the Need for a Blue Theory of Victory
Brad Roberts
Bending the Principle of Mass: Why That Approach No Longer Works for Airpower
David Alman
and
Heather Venable
The Gulf War 30 Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Blind Spots
Richard A. Lacquement, Jr.
Distilling the Essence of Strategy
Frank Hoffman
Modern War for Romantics: Ferdinand Foch and the Principles of War
Michael Shurkin
Colin S. Gray: A Reminiscence
David J. Lonsdale
Want Better Strategists? Teach Social Science
Jim Golby
Tension High, Altitude Higher: Logistical and Physiological Constraints on the Indo-Chinese Border
Aidan Milliff
Reflections on Reading Great Books with Colonels
Jacqueline E. Whitt
Getting the Context of Marine Corps Reform Right
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Olivia Garard
Preparing for War in the Fog of Peace: The Transatlantic Case
Jordan Becker
and
Robert Bell
Stop Declaring War on a Virus
Mark Hannah
When Systems Fail: What Pandemics and Cyberspace Tell Us About the Future of National Security
Benjamin Jensen
Technology-Enabled Mission Command
B. A. Friedman
and
Olivia Garard
Clarifying Command: Keeping Up with the (John Paul) Joneses
B. A. Friedman
and
Olivia Garard
Fog, Friction, and Thinking Machines
Zach Hughes
Captain Professor Sir: Some Lessons from Michael Howard
Beatrice Heuser
From Deception to Attrition: AI and the Changing Face of Warfare
Dumitru Minzarari
Wargaming Lessons from Exercise Sea Dragon
Von Lambert
and
Tyler Quinn
The Creation of a U.S. Space Force: It’s Only the End of the Beginning
John J. Klein
Expeditionary Advanced Maritime Operations: How the Marine Corps Can Avoid Becoming a Second Land Army in the Pacific
Jake Yeager
Michael Howard: A Reminiscence
Lawrence Freedman
Corbett offers more on Space than Mitchell
James W. E. Smith
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
Hypersonic Weapons: Tactical Uses and Strategic Goals
Alan Cummings
Military Deception: AI’s Killer App?
Edward Geist
and
Marjory Blumenthal
The Lost Art of Exiting a War
Adam Wunische
A Revolution at Sea: Old is New Again
James Lacey
Measuring War: Cognitive Effects in the Age of AI
Brad DeWees
The President’s Own as a Model for the Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary
Patrick Cirenza
Doors of Perception
Thomas Brady
and
Jim Perkins
Covert Wars, To What End?
Christopher Preble
Are U.S. Diplomats Ready for War?
Caleb D. Becker
Do Generals Matter?
Cathal J. Nolan
Explaining the Poverty of Germany’s Strategic Debate
Walter Haynes
On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
Oil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Anand Toprani
Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
David Johnson
The Hypocrisy of the Techno-Moralists in the Coming Age of Autonomy
Frank Hoffman
Winning in the Cognitive Age: Is ‘Education for Seapower’ Enough?
Ian Brown
The Warlord on Careers in National Security: Seven Forks in the Road
John Collins
Do Great Nations Fight Endless Wars? Against the Islamic State, They Might
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Benjamin Jensen
A Fourth Way in Professional Military Education
Bruce Gudmundsson
Social Media as War?
Kori Schake
How the Marines will Help the U.S. Navy and America’s Allies Win the Great Indo-Pacific War of 2025
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Jeff Cummings
Passed Over, But Not Out: Thriving as a Career Major
Daniel Corindia
What Military Education Forgets: Strategy is Performance
Celestino Perez, Jr.
McRaven’s Message, Leadership, and the Profession of Arms
Carrie Lee
Approaching a Fork in the Road: Professional Education and Military Learning
David Morgan-Owen
Marine Warbot Companies: Where Naval Warfare, the U.S. National Defense Strategy, and Close Combat Lethality Task Force Intersect
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
War in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Wargaming with Athena: How to Make Militaries Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient with Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Chris Whyte
A New Blueprint for Competing Below the Threshold: The Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning
Phillip Lohaus
Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?
Ian Brown
Trump’s Instincts on Afghanistan Are Right, So What Happened?
Daniel L. Davis
Warfare as Violent Politics: An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Armed Threats
David H. Ucko
and
Thomas A. Marks
Vulpine Virtues and Strategic Success
Frank Hoffman
The War Between People in Ukraine
Ilmari Käihkö
A White Hull Approach to Taming the Dragon: Using the Coast Guard to Counter China
Shawn Lansing
The 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Gaming to Victory: Synthetic Training for Future Combat
Jennifer McArdle
Open Your Eyes and See the 21st Century MAGTF
Scott Cuomo
,
Jeff Cummings
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
Churchill and Orwell: Writers and Heroes for Freedom
Williamson Murray
The Path to Prototype Warfare
Robert Kozloski
Afghanistan and Considerations of Supply
Barnett Rubin
Seapower, Seablindness, and National Security: A German Perspective
Moritz Brake
A Military Assessment of the Islamic State’s Evolving Theory of Victory
Michael J. Mooney
The Theory and Reality of the Battle
Michael V. Samarov
On Cyber Coercion: Lessons from the Sony Hack that We Should Have Learned, But Didn’t
Travis Sharp
Three Things the Army Chief of Staff Wants You to Know
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
History’s Guide to Contested Liberalism
A. Bradley Potter
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part II: Keeping Pace with Changes
Mick Ryan
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part I: The Enduring Nature
Mick Ryan
Emergence: The Changing Character of Competition and Conflict
Benjamin Jensen
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
High Times with Narcotic Nazi Warfare
Lukasz Kamienski
Everything You Think You Know About Limited War is Wrong
Donald Stoker
War and The Treacheries of Taxonomy
Tim Feist
Why the Flying IED Threat Has Barely Started
Mark Jacobsen
Air-Sea Battle and Naval Strategy: Looking Forward or Looking Back?
John Callaway
Losing the Peace is Still Losing
Paul Scharre
The Shadow of Air-Sea Battle and the Sinking of A2AD
B.J. Armstrong
Cooling the Controversy over Sino-Russian Naval Exercises
Ryan W. French
and
Peter Dombrowski
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
Paul Miller
Three Lessons on our Third Anniversary: The Hard and Lovely Things About War on the Rocks
Ryan Evans
A New Generation of Unrestricted Warfare
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Under my Umbrella: The No-Fly Zone Fallacy
Lionel Beehner
Professor, Tear Down This Wall: Is the Divide Between Security Studies and Strategic Studies Permanent?
Adam Elkus
Warring Tribes Studying War and Peace
Joshua Rovner
The Military is From Mars, Civilians are From Venus: Avoiding Planetary Collisions in the Conference Room
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Beyond Iron and Blood: The Complex History of Realpolitik
Iskander Rehman
Combing Through an Invaluable Resource on the People’s Liberation Army
Peter Mattis
Carnage and Connectivity: How Our Pursuit of Fun Wars Brought the Wars Home
David Betz
The CIA’s Constant Battle Between Secrecy and Effectiveness
Mark Stout
The Gulf War’s Anniversary: Reflections on 25 Years of U.S. Military Involvement in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. McCausland
What Vicenza, Home of the 173rd Airborne, Looked Like Two Centuries Ago
Vanya Eftimova Bellinger
Nuclear Cruise Missile Opponents are Pushing a Dangerous Line
Bruce M. Sugden
Living With Fog and Friction: The Fallacy of Information Superiority
Mike Pietrucha
Wars of Ideas: From the Taliban to the Islamic State
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
The Strange Words of Strategy
B.J. Armstrong
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: You Cannot Save the Gray Zone Concept
Adam Elkus
50 Shades of Gray: Why the Gray Wars Concept Lacks Strategic Sense
Adam Elkus
Myth-Busting French Counterinsurgency
Terrence Peterson
America’s Victory Disease Has Left it Dangerously Deluded
Mike Pietrucha
Where Has All the Hatred Gone?
Mark Stout
Life and Death in a Minefield with Kilo Two Bravo
ML Cavanaugh
American Leadership Against ISIL Starts in Congress
Brian Fishman
CSI: Pentagon — Who Killed American Strategy?
Adam Elkus
Corbett vs. the Caliphate: What a long-dead naval strategist tells us about combatting Islamic State
Ralph Peters
On America’s Way of Battle
Antulio J. Echevarria
Fabian Strategies, Then and Now
James Holmes
Is the Islamic State Winning or Losing?
John Ford
The Military’s Purpose is Not to Kill People and Break Things
ML Cavanaugh
Political Scientists and the Military
Paula Thornhill
and
Rachel Whitlark
Weekend Reading: July 31 – August 2 Edition
Rick Berger
Riesling as Recompense: Wine and the Franco-Prussian War
Paul Lewandowski
Is Stan McChrystal Right About Adapting to Win?
Kori Schake
The Fog of Peace: Defense and Uncertainty
Patrick Porter
Hybrid Warfare: Where’s the Beef?
Jyri Raitasalo
In Search of Post-9/11 Veterans’ Missing Perspectives
Corri Zoli
,
Rosy Maury
, and
Danny Fay
America Did Hybrid Warfare Too
Todd Greentree
The Problem with Hybrid Warfare
Nadia Schadlow
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
There Are No Tea Leaves to Read About the “Mosul Plan”
Mark Safranski
The Strategy of Savagery: Explaining the Islamic State
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
Dr. Dave’s Hypothetical Institute for the Advanced Study of Stupid Shit
David Betz
Breaking the (Algorithmic) Black Box in Security Affairs
Adam Elkus
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The British War Movie America Needs
T.S. Allen
Weekend Reading: November 21-23
John Waters
Weekend Reading: November 14-16
John Waters
(W)Archives: Dissecting Fleet Admiral Nimitz’ Grad School Thesis
Mark Stout
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: It Was an Accident
Mark Stout
The Master Strategist is Still a Myth
Lawrence Freedman
The Great Revamp: 11 Trends Shaping Future Conflict
Frank Hoffman
and
Pat Garrett
It’s Time for a National Border Security Strategy
Tom Leonard
and
Joshua Katz
Plucking and Promotion: Military Talent Management Lessons from the Past
B.J. Armstrong
Eyeless in Gaza — Are we blind to an enduring reality of war?
Michael Vlahos
Flaring Up: “War and Peace” and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Olivia Garard
The Great War: Myths about Myths
John T. Kuehn
(W)Archives: Germany’s Violation of Belgian Neutrality in 1914
Mark Stout
On Not-So-New Warfare: Political Warfare vs Hybrid Threats
Frank Hoffman
Is the Navy Writing Strategy?
B.J. Armstrong
Strategy: Renewing the Center of Gravity
Daniel Steed
Strategy: Does the Center of Gravity Have Value?
John Haines
Climbing the Cellar Stairs or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Status Quo
Peter Munson
Go Ahead, Forget Center of Gravity…
Jeff Becker
and
Todd Zwolensky
The Key to the Country—er, I mean…Center of Gravity
Crispin Burke
Stop Looking for the Center of Gravity
Lawrence Freedman
National Security Education: The View from Newport
James Holmes
National Security Education: A User’s Manual
Audrey Kurth Cronin
A Terrible Beauty: The Gerry Adams Story Continues
Timothy Hoyt
A Rational Approach to Nuclear Weapons Policy
Al Mauroni
Introducing The Art of War
Kathleen J. McInnis
(W)Archives: You’re Fired!
Mark Stout
To Crush Or Not To Crush: The State and Protest Movements
Jack Mulcaire
War Is A Video Game, And We’re Losing
Adam Elkus
Weekend Reading: March 7th
Lauren Katzenberg
Artificial Intelligence: War’s New Grammar
Adam Elkus
Winning the Third War in Pakistan
Jason Turse
A Second Look at the Powell Doctrine
Frank Hoffman
The Future of War: Less is More
Michael Cohen
Weekend Reading: February 7
Usha Sahay
A Sailor’s Perspective on the United States Army
Admiral William H. McRaven
Get Real(ist) About the Geneva Talks
Timothy Hoyt
No COIN for You? The Most Stagnant Debate in Strategic Studies
Brett Friedman
With Friends Like These: Al Qaeda and the Assad Regime
Brian Fishman
Understanding War’s Enduring Nature Alongside its Changing Character
Christopher Mewett
On Strategy: Building the Whole House
Frank Hoffman
Adding to Odierno’s Reading List
Frank Hoffman
Odierno’s Reading List
Lauren Katzenberg
The War over Future War: Repelling a Ground Assault on AirSea Battle
Elbridge Colby
The Human Domain – From the Sea
B.J. Armstrong
Threats and the Words We Use: A Thought Experiment
David Maxwell
Counterinsurgency was never about Afghanistan
Ryan Evans
Do Some Men Want to Watch The World Burn?
Adam Elkus
5 Reasons We Don’t Have Good Strategic Thought about Cyber
Mark Stout
Why the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum Matters: Peripheral Networks & Innovation
Mark Jacobsen
,
Nate Finney
, and
Ben Kohlmann
Flipping the COIN
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Politics and the American Way of War (and Strategy)
Frank Hoffman
What Is This “Credibility” You Speak Of?
Peter Munson
Cyber War, let’s get real(ist)
Daniel Steed
Strategy from Achilles to the RAND Corporation
Mark Stout
Are We Winning Yet? Led Astray By Metrics
Mark Stout
How To Improve U.S. National Security Strategies
John Collins
National Security Career Choices
John Collins
When War Isn’t War
Ryan Evans
It’s All About the Narrative, Stupid
Elton C. Parker, III
A Look in the Mirror
Frank Hoffman
An Attack on Syria: Probably Unlawful; Possibly Justifiable
Phillip Carter
Things to remember before going to war in Syria
Ryan Evans
Petraeus on Small Wars
Frank Hoffman
The Asia-Pacific rebalance cannot be “strategy”
Christopher Mewett
Weekend Reading, August 23
Usha Sahay
Plato was Dead Wrong: Embracing our Better Angels?
Frank Hoffman
You May Not Be Interested in Cyber War, but It’s Interested in You
Frank Hoffman
In Search of an End-State for Syria, or Not
Timothy Hoyt
Repairing America’s Strategy Bridge
Frank Hoffman
Thank you to our readers, Welcome to new contributors
Ryan Evans
