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You’re Imagining Things: Pop Culture, Warfare, and the Real-Life Lessons of ‘Star Wars’
Erin Simpson
The Pragmatist’s Case for Keeping China in RIMPAC
Travis Sharp
How Democracies Can Defend Against Disinformation
Alina Polyakova
and
Daniel Fried
Secrets of a Successful Spy Marriage
Alex Bollfrass
Defending the Indefensible: A New Strategy for Stopping Information Operations
Daniel Gordon
Explaining the ‘Mystery’ of Numbers Stations
Māris Goldmanis
A New Blueprint for Competing Below the Threshold: The Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning
Phillip Lohaus
Doing More With Less: How To Optimize U.S. Counterterrorism
Stephen Tankel
Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?
Ian Brown
What Did Russian Trolls Want in 2016? A Closer Look at the Internet Research Agency’s Active Measures
Tricia Jenkins
U.S.-China Relations: From ‘Beijing Consensus’ to Cold War?
Iskander Rehman
What’s Wrong with the Defense Department’s 2019 Budget Request – and What Congress Can do to Fix It
Susanna Blume
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
Air Superiority Under 2000 Feet: Lessons from Waging Drone Warfare Against ISIL
Pablo Chovil
Re-Orienting American Seapower for the China Challenge
Ryan D. Martinson
and
Andrew Erickson
‘It’s Either a Panda or a Gibbon’: AI Winters and the Limits of Deep Learning
Robert Richbourg
Trump’s Instincts on Afghanistan Are Right, So What Happened?
Daniel L. Davis
Trump’s Dumb Decision to Withdraw from the Deal Gave Iran the Advantage
Aaron Stein
A Primer on Mac Thornberry’s Fourth Estate Reforms
Mackenzie Eaglen
Wind in the Sails: China Accelerates Its Maritime Strategy
Liza Tobin
Pioneers of Deception: Lessons from the Ghost Army
Jennifer McArdle
Winter Isn’t Coming, but HAL’s Grandkids Are
Frank Hoffman
Renewing Defense Innovation: Five Incentives for Forming Pentagon-Startup Partnerships
Jeff Decker
Just Say No? Military Dissent From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the Trump Era
Rosa Brooks
Warfare as Violent Politics: An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Armed Threats
David H. Ucko
and
Thomas A. Marks
Xi Jinping Gives China’s United Front a Bureaucratic Boost
Graeme Smith
Horns of a Dilemma: Russia’s Ambitions, Fears, and Future
Angela Stent
Virtuous Leadership and Restoring the American Dream
David McCormick
Beyond the State Sponsors List: Finding the Right Tools to Counter Russia
Stephen Tankel
Yes, It Is a New Cold War. What Is To Be Done?
Raymond Smith
Why Washington’s New Drone Export Policy Is Good For National Security
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Countering China’s Militarization of the Indo-Pacific
Michael J. Green
and
Andrew Shearer
The U.S. Military’s Dangerous Embedded Assumptions
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Students: Submit Your Papers for the Inman Award!
WOTR Staff
Competitive Strategies Against Russia Are Seductive, Dangerous, and Unnecessary
Joshua Rovner
Does the West Have a Vision for the Western Balkans?
Michael Carpenter
and
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
Building the Hierarchy of Innovation in the Defense Department: A Plan for Action
Peter Newell
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
15 Big Ideas to Operationalize America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Eric Sayers
China Welcomes Its Newest Armed Force: The Coast Guard
Lyle Morris
Entry 77: The Big, Hairy PhD Question
Van Jackson
Trust, Troops, and Reapers: Getting ‘Drone’ Research Right
Cory T. Anderson
,
Dave Blair
,
Mike Byrnes
,
Joe Chapa
,
Amanda Collazzo
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Ariel M. Schuetz
, and
Scott VanOort
Failures of Imagination: The Military’s Biggest Acquisition Challenge
Jarrett Lane
and
Michelle Johnson
War Planning Must Include Domestic Plans, Too
J. Michael Barrett
With Its New ‘White Book,’ France Looks to Become a World-Class Player in Cyber Space
Boris Toucas
Looking Beyond the Generals in the Room: The Real Cause of America’s Civil-Military Malaise
Raphael S. Cohen
The Navy and Marine Corps Need to Prepare for the Swarm of the Future
David Pinion
Entry 74: A Mysterious Train Ride
Van Jackson
The Once and Future InfoWars
T.S. Allen
A Way Forward For NATO Allies: Cope With Trump While Preparing for a Post-Trump Future
Stanley R. Sloan
Red Glare: The Origin and Implications of Russia’s ‘New’ Nuclear Weapons
Austin Long
Truth, Power, and the Academy: A Response to Hal Brands
John Glaser
The Psychology of Perceiving Uncertainty
Brad DeWees
Notes of Caution on the Navy’s Forthcoming Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Death of a General: What Shaban Nasiri Reveals About Iran’s Secretive Qods Force
Amir Toumaj
How the U.S.-China Intellectual Property Dispute Could Play Out
John Edwards
From Al-Qaeda to ISIL: Continuity and Change in the Jihadist Movement
Stephen Tankel
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands: India’s Eastern Anchor in a Changing Indo-Pacific
Darshana M. Baruah
Bombshell: Not Bringing Rexy Back
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Lindsey Ford
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
How the Network Generation Is Changing the Millennial Military
KC Reid
Russia’s Chemical Romance: Don’t Call It a WMD Attack
Al Mauroni
A Crucial First Step for Negotiating With North Korea
Jon Wolfsthal
Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario: Building Coalitions Left of Boom
Mike Nelson
Why America Must Modernize Its Nuclear Forces
Peter Huessy
Commercial Accelerators and the Defense Department: A Blueprint for Collaboration
Joshua Israel
10 Takeaways From the Fight Against the Islamic State
Michael P. Dempsey
America is Well Within Range of a Big Surprise, So Why Can’t It See?
T.X. Hammes
The Sunset of the Predator: Reflections on the End of an Era
Joe Chapa
At a Crossroads, Part I: How Congress Can Find Its Way Back to Effective Defense Oversight
Tressa Guenov
and
Tommy Ross
Rock the Casbah: Tales of a Female Bomber
Lincoln Krause
Was There a Nuclear Revolution? Strategy, Grand Strategy, and the Ultimate Weapon
Joshua Rovner
Revisiting the Value of the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella in East Asia
Eric Gomez
On Anticipating Surprise
Frank Hoffman
Strategic Progress Remains Elusive in America’s Expanded Air Campaign Against Al-Shabaab
Tricia Bacon
No, Iran Does Not Have an ICBM Program
Michael Elleman
and
Mark Fitzpatrick
This Isn’t the Surprise You Were Expecting
Mark Cancian
#NoImpunity: Will the Newest International Effort to Stop Chemical Attacks in Syria Succeed?
Gregory D. Koblentz
Combating the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Success Story for the U.S.-E.U. Partnership
Joelle Jenny
and
Simon Limage
Addressing Fears About the Nuclear Posture Review and Limited Nuclear Use
Frank Miller
The National Security Case for Immigration: How Immigrants and Minorities Have Boosted U.S. Hard Power
Mark Stout
Shock of the Mundane: The Dangerous Diffusion of Basic Infantry Tactics
Leo Blanken
,
Kai Thaxton
, and
Michael Alexander
Iraq’s Real Weapons of Mass Destruction Were ‘Political Operations’
Samuel Helfont
Theses on Peacemaking in Afghanistan: A Manifesto
Barnett Rubin
Xi Looks to China’s Private Sector as He Pursues a Slimmer, Smarter PLA
Meia Nouwens
and
Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Lessons Learned from the Air War Against the Islamic State
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
What If Kim Jong Un Decides to Bloody America’s Nose First?
Michael P. Dempsey
It’s Not Your Father’s PLAAF: China’s Push to Develop Domestic Air-to-Air Missiles
Douglas Barrie
Loyal Wingman, Flocking, and Swarming: New Models of Distributed Airpower
Daniel Wassmuth
and
Dave Blair
Strategic Outpost Debates a Cyber Corps
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Wall is the Wall: Why Fortresses Fail
Jack Anderson
Through Quiet Dealmaking, New Delhi Extends Its Influence in the Indian Ocean
David Brewster
Historians and Policymaking: A New Chorus Singing an Old Ballad
Andrew Ehrhardt
Germany Charts its Place in the World, But Struggles to Adapt to Changing Realities
Ulrike Franke
Israel’s Deepening Involvement with Syria’s Rebels
Elizabeth Tsurkov
To Help NATO Allies Get Off Russian Equipment, the United States Should Revive Defense Lending
Max Bergmann
The National Defense Strategy: A Compelling Call for Defense Innovation
Steve Blank
Less Whole, Less Free, Less at Peace: Whither America’s Strategy for a Post-Cold War Europe?
James Goldgeier
Scraping Rust From the Iron Triangle: Why the Pentagon Should Invest in Capability
Frank Hoffman
The Shutdown and the Spy
David Gioe
The Destabilizing Dangers of U.S. Counterterrorism in the Sahel
Nathaniel Powell
A Growing Strategic Gap Between America and Europe?
Olivier Schmitt
and
Stéphane Taillat
Geostrategic Nuclear Exports: The Competition for Influence in Saudi Arabia
Nicholas L. Miller
and
Tristan A. Volpe
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Could Obama Have Stopped the Election Hack?
Joshua Rovner
A New Era Beckons for Iraqi-Saudi Relations
Mehiyar Kathem
Entry 34: The Missed Bilateral Window for Denuclearization?
Van Jackson
The 2018 State of the Digital Union: The Seven Deadly Sins of Cyber Security We Must Face
Peter W. Singer
China’s ‘Three Warfares’ in Perspective
Peter Mattis
The Importance of the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive
Gregory Daddis
Has a Trumpian Grand Strategy Finally Stepped into the Light?
Simon Reich
and
Peter Dombrowski
Australia is Not on the Fence Between America and China
Arzan Tarapore
The Pentagon Should Adjust Standards for Cyber Soldiers — As It Has Always Done
Crispin Burke
When Dauntless Isn’t Enough: The Moral and Strategic Imperative to Fix America’s Close Combat Units
Robert H. Scales
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Jeff Cummings
From Marriage of Convenience to Bitter Divorce: The Unraveling Ties Between Hamas and ISIL’s Sinai Affiliate
Michael Shkolnik
The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
Jim Perkins
Turkey’s Bluster on Afrin: More Than Meets the Eye
Aaron Stein
The United States and Korea: Rediscovering Artifacts of the Naval Past
BJ Armstrong
Why Americans Aren’t Really Worried About War With North Korea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Contrasting China’s and Russia’s Influence Operations
Peter Mattis
Trust War: Dangerous Trends in Cyber Conflict
Neal A. Pollard
,
Adam Segal
, and
Matthew G. Devost
An Unconventional Proposal for Bringing the OA-X to Life
William Miller
Bombshell: Be Like Shawn
Christine Abizaid
,
Radha Iyengar
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
, and
Erin Simpson
No More Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones: Marines Need to Train Against Realistic Adversaries
Ryan Pallas
The Trump Administration is at a Crossroads on China Trade Policy
Aaron Friedberg
Blue Hair in the Gray Zone
Jacquelyn Schneider
Re-Imagining the World: Reflections on the Future of World Order
Francis J. Gavin
Is Estonia’s Approach to Cyber Defense Feasible in the United States?
Monica M. Ruiz
Meet France’s War Philosophers
Michael Shurkin
The Chairman the Pentagon Needs
Paula Thornhill
and
Mara Karlin
Cyber and Calvinball: What’s Missing From Trump’s National Security Strategy?
Ben Buchanan
A Comprehensive Roundtable on the National Security Strategy
William Inboden
Minsk is Dead! Long Live Minsk?
Michael Kimmage
On a Collision Course: Avoiding a War Between Israel and the ‘Axis of Resistance’
Daniel Sobelman
A Tale of Two Hegemons: The Anglo-American Roots of the Postwar International System
Kori Schake
When the Piper Cub Roamed the Battlefield
Frank Blazich
In Defense of Nothing
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Andrew Miller
The Ties that Bind: Families, Clans, and Hizballah’s Military Effectiveness
Michael Eisenstadt
and
Kendall Bianchi
Harnessing Iraq’s Deadly Array of Armed Groups After ISIL
Sarhang Hamasaeed
Invisible Doomsday Machines: The Challenge of Clandestine Capabilities and Deterrence
Brendan Rittenhouse Green
and
Austin Long
Marines, Algorithms, and Ammo: Taking ‘Team of Teams’ to the Contested Littorals
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
A Changing World Order Vindicates an Australian Iconoclast
Sam Roggeveen
Progress and Peril in North Waziristan
Michael Kugelman
From Security to Reconciliation: How Nigeria Can Win Its Bloody War With Boko Haram
Sam Wilkins
Do Trees Fall in Cyberspace?
H. Akın Ünver
Deterrence in Retreat: How the Cold War’s Core Principle Fell Out of Fashion
T. Negeen Pegahi
Why the Army Needs a Futures Command
Neil Hollenbeck
and
Benjamin Jensen
Playing Zone Defense: Niger and the Risk Versus Reward of Remote Operations
Brian Petit
When Routine Isn’t Enough: Why Military Cyber Commands Need Human Creativity
Max Smeets
A Guide to Better National Security Decision-Making
Michael P. Dempsey
Thucydides and the Long War Problem
Joshua Rovner
Hedging Our Bets: Reviving Defense Industrial Surge Capacity
Rep. Mike Gallagher
What a Year of Track II Discussions Says About the Future of U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Michael Kugelman
and
Raoof Hasan
Regional Security Means Border Security: New Data on Why Central American Children Flee to the United States
Michael Clemens
Australia Contemplates America’s Shifting Role in Asia
James Curran
The 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The False Promise of the OA-X
Adam Chitwood
Congress Asked for an Assessment of the War on Al-Qaeda. Here’s What We Told Them
Jonathan Schroden
and
Julia McQuaid
Franklin D. Roosevelt, ‘Gray Zone’ Warrior
Steven Wills
The Adventures of Intel in Trumpland
Carmen Medina
,
Mark Stout
,
Mark Zaid
, and
Ryan Evans
The (Last) King of Syria: The Feudalization of Assad’s Rule
Nick Grinstead
The Futures Problem: Why Big Organizations Have Problems Making Long-Term Forecasts and What to Do About It
Benjamin Jensen
and
Neil Hollenbeck
The Leap into Quantum Technology: A Primer for National Security Professionals
Michael J. Biercuk
and
Richard Fontaine
The False Allure of Escalation Dominance
Michael Fitzsimmons
Balancing China: How the United States and Its Partners Can Check Chinese Naval Expansion
Michael Beckley
Gaming to Victory: Synthetic Training for Future Combat
Jennifer McArdle
America’s Vital Interests in Georgia: The Case for Engagement
Batu Kutelia
,
Shota Gvineria
, and
David H. Ucko
Shining More Light Every Day on Russia’s Political Interference
Laura Rosenberger
and
Jamie Fly
Getting ‘Cyber’ Right for the Department of Defense
Gregory V. Cox
and
Priscilla E. Guthrie
The Next Military-Industrial Complex, Part I: Riding Venture Capital’s Coattails
Philip D. O’Neill, Jr.
A Small-Time U.S. Mission in Syria is a Dangerous Idea
Faysal Itani
The War on Terrorism as Imperial Policing
Joshua Rovner
Between Autonomy and Cooperation: The Role of Allies in France’s New Defense Strategy
Alice Pannier
Turkey’s Idlib Incursion and the HTS Question: Understanding the Long Game in Syria
Charles Lister
Chasing Grandeur? What You Need to Know About the 2017 French Strategic Review
Guillaume Lasconjarias
and
Florent de Saint-Victor
Debunking Myths About the Kurds, Iraq, and Iran
Denise Natali
Time to Step Back from the War on Terror
Erik Goepner
and
Trevor Thrall
Congress Owes Our Servicemembers an Authorization for the Use of Military Force
Nathan Smith
For the Philippines, More Money and Arms is Not the Answer
David Lewton
When the Unblinking Eye Closes: Digital Feast and Famine in the Marine Corps
Ian Brown
Transparency About the Costs of War Won’t Change Americans’ Minds
Matthew Fay
and
Karl Smith
A New Strategy for Deterrence and Rollback with North Korea
Michael J. Green
and
Matthew Kroenig
Deadly Overconfidence: Trump Thinks Missile Defenses Work Against North Korea, and That Should Scare You
Ankit Panda
and
Vipin Narang
Everyone, Not Just the Military, Has a Duty to Keep the Peace
Colette Rausch
Trump’s Threat to Nuclear Order
Kingston Reif
and
Kelsey Davenport
A Vicious Entanglement, Part V: The Body Count Myth
Jon Askonas
What’s Really Behind Tom Cotton’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Deal
Nicholas L. Miller
The Growing Danger of a U.S. Nuclear First Strike on North Korea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
NATO’s Expanding Military Exercises Are Sending Risky Mixed Messages
Ralph S. Clem
Nobody Loves Deterrence, But We’ll Keep Doing It Anyway
Joshua Rovner
The Rorschach Test of New Nuclear Powers: Analogies for North Korean Command and Control
Austin Long
A Vicious Entanglement, Part IV: If Only the North Vietnamese Had Read Galula
Jon Askonas
It’s Time for Special Operations to Dump ‘Unconventional Warfare’
Doug Livermore
The Middle Eastern Roots of Nuclear Alarmism Over North Korea
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Rules for Getting Defense Strategy Right
Thomas Spoehr
Not-So-Soft Power: Russia’s Military Police in Syria
Mark Galeotti
A Vicious Entanglement, Part III: The Asymmetries of Vietnam
Jon Askonas
Russian Active Measures in Germany and the United States: Analog Lessons From the Cold War
Laura Daniels
With Zapad Over, Is It Time for Conventional Arms Control in Europe?
Ulrich Kühn
Open Your Eyes and See the 21st Century MAGTF
Scott Cuomo
,
Jeff Cummings
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
The Myth of Russia’s Lowered Nuclear Threshold
Kristin Ven Bruusgaard
The French Turn to Armed Drones
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
History’s Model General? Reflections on the Life and Times of Belisarius
Iskander Rehman
Germany’s Election Won’t Stop the Slide in Relations with Turkey
Lisa Sawyer Samp
and
Jeff Rathke
Northern Syria’s Anti-Islamic State Coalition Has an Arab Problem
Daniel Wilkofsky
and
Khalid Fatah
Angling for Advantage: Iran’s Differential Approach to Southern Asia
Hussein Banai
Ukraine’s Volunteer Militias May Have Saved the Country, But Now They Threaten It
Kimberly Marten
and
Olga Oliker
The ABCs of Deterring North Korea
Joshua Rovner
Southern Asia is Heating Up: An Indian Perspective
Gurmeet Kanwal
Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose?
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
,
Derek Grossman
, and
Logan Ma
How to Step Up NATO’s Fight Against Terrorism
Kristian Søby Kristensen
and
Laura Schousboe
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part II: The Draft Was a Moral Disgrace
Arnold R. Isaacs
Trump and Counter-Terrorism, Sixteen Years After 9/11
Stephen Tankel
Self-Defense and Strategic Direction in the Skies Over Syria
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
Killing Sanctuary: The Coming Era of Small, Smart, Pervasive Lethality
J. Noel Williams
Decoupling is Back in Asia: A 1960s Playbook Won’t Solve These Problems
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Until He Ran Out of Fight: How Gorbachev’s Convictions Shaped the End of the Cold War
James Graham Wilson
Will Pakistan and the U.S. Make a Deal?
Shashank Joshi
The Trump Administration Has a Model in Andrew Jackson’s Navy
Claude Berube
Awaiting the New Defense Strategy
Shawn Brimley
Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition
Austin Long
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Seth G. Jones
Will the Army’s New Advisory Brigades Get Manning and Intel Right?
Noah B. Cooper
Getting to Ground Truth on the Elevation of U.S. Cyber Command
Michael Sulmeyer
The Heroic Leader and the Better War from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Jon Askonas
Want to Avoid Nuclear War? Reject Mutual Vulnerability With North Korea
Vince A. Manzo
and
John K. Warden
A Business Approach to America’s Warfighting Model
Benjamin Jensen
,
Neil Hollenbeck
, and
Arnel David
Cyber-Operations and the Misunderstood Doomsday Machine: A Rebuttal
Ben Buchanan
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Limits of U.S. Influence
Christopher Clary
Are Cyber Weapons Too Dangerous to Use?
Joshua Rovner
What I Saw in Charlottesville and What We All Lost
Robert Levinson
Ike’s Lament: In Search of a Revolution in Military Education
Robert H. Scales
This is Not the NATO You’re Looking For: A Practical Vision for Arab and Asian Security Networks
Lindsey Ford
and
Melissa Dalton
Long Ignored: The Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons Against Insurgents
Glenn Cross
War of the Words: North Korea, Trump, and Strategic Stability
Vipin Narang
and
Ankit Panda
Deterring North Korea: The Next Nuclear-Tailoring Agenda
David Santoro
The Leaks That Hurt Us All
Mark Stout
Making Sense of Turkey’s Syria Strategy: A ‘Turkish Tragedy’ In the Making
Burak Kadercan
The Disappearing Imam: Gulen and Uncovering the Mysteries of Turkey’s Coup Operation
John Butler
Five Lessons from Israel’s Wars in Gaza
Raphael S. Cohen
How the Enemy Could Hit the U.S. Army at Home
Patrick Duggan
North Korea and the ‘Blink’ of War
Patrick Cronin
Leadership in the Air: The Fighter Pilot, Part I
Mike Benitez
The Nuclear Ban Treaty Is Way Off Target
Matthew Costlow
The Not-So-Secret Ingredients of Military Coups
Danny Orbach
The National Security Act Turns 70
William Inboden
Bombshell: How to Lose a Clearance in 10 Days
Susan Hennessey
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Strategic Outpost’s Second Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Scientist-Warrior Geeks: Turning Knowledge Into Power
Lukasz Kamienski
When Can a Soldier Disobey an Order?
John Ford
The Future of Military Robotics Looks Like a Nature Documentary
Gregory C. Allen
Secretary Mattis’ “Guardian Angel” and How Marine Corps Aviation Can Get Back on Target
Scott Cuomo
Strategic Guidance for Countering the Proliferation of Strategic Guidance
Christopher Skaluba
and
Mara Karlin
Much Ado About Nothing? Cyber Command and the NSA
Michael Sulmeyer
The Best Thing America Built In Iraq: Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service and the Long War Against Militancy
Michael Knights
and
Alex Mello
MH17 Three Years Later: What Have We Learned?
Ralph S. Clem
Cyber-Attacks: Who’s Keeping Score?
Sean McBride
The Path to Prototype Warfare
Robert Kozloski
“Take to the Streets”: Turkey’s Failed Coup, One Year Later
Aaron Stein
Leave the Bureau of Consular Affairs in the State Department
Mark Stout
Home and Forward Commands Should Replace the Geographic Combatant Commands
Wilson VornDick
Adapting in Stride: Fighting Tomorrow’s Battle Today
Eric Winkofsky
,
Josh Nunn
,
Pete Marks
,
Richard Robinson
, and
Miguel Cruz
Afghanistan and Considerations of Supply
Barnett Rubin
Lady Gaga’s Air Force and the Grunt-Angel for Marines: An Infantry Officer’s Unlikely Exploration
Ben Brewster
Israel’s Forthcoming Security Dilemma
Nadav Pollak
National Security, Texas-Style: War on the Rocks Teams Up with the University of Texas
Ryan Evans
North Korea’s ICBM: A New Missile and a New Era
Ankit Panda
and
Vipin Narang
Strategic Outpost at 50 (Columns): Some Reflections
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Struggling with Cyber: A Critical Look at Waging War Online
Daniel Moore
Germans Should Accept What a Military is For, or Get Used to Disappointment
Mario Schulz
There is No Other Way with Pakistan
Hussain Nadim
“Drone Ethics” and the Civil-Military Gap
Joe Chapa
A Military Assessment of the Islamic State’s Evolving Theory of Victory
Michael J. Mooney
Attack! The Renaissance of the Air Force Tribe
Mike Benitez
Abbottabad Revisited
Bruce Hoffman
Washington Might Feel the Chill of a More United European Defense
Stanley R. Sloan
Pakistan’s Anxieties are Incurable, So Stop Trying to Cure Them
C. Christine Fair
Multi-Domain Battle: AirLand Battle, Once More, with Feeling
Shmuel Shmuel
How Could This Happen? The Fitzgerald, the U.S. Navy, and Collisions at Sea
Bryan McGrath
Trump, NATO, and Establishment Hysteria
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Joshua Shifrinson
Moscow’s Assaults on American Democracy Began 80 Years Ago
Ian Johnson
The Trouble with Tanf: Tactics Driving Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
The Roots of a Failing War Against Extremism, At Home and Abroad
Robin Simcox
Remembering Manuel Noriega and His Capture
Benjamin Runkle
How the International System Shapes the Character of War: Order, Geography, and Networks
Benjamin Jensen
The Future of War is Fast Approaching in the Pacific: Are the U.S. Military Services Ready?
Michael Horowitz
Iran’s Growing Casualty Count in Yemen
Joshua Koontz
On Cyber Coercion: Lessons from the Sony Hack that We Should Have Learned, But Didn’t
Travis Sharp
Cyber Officials Need Help, But Are Experts Up to the Task?
Brent Rowe
and
Eli Sugarman
Memorial Day: An Intensely Personal and National Holiday
John Amble
The Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Under Trump
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil
Kori Schake
Cuba: From Threat to Partner?
William Rosenau
and
Ralph Espach
Iran is Holding Presidential Elections: Here are Four Things to Know
Thomas Juneau
It’s About Time: The Pressing Need to Evolve The Kill Chain
Mike Benitez
The Cyber Workforce Gap: A National Security Liability?
Laura Bate
Swiping Left on Silicon Valley: New Commercial Analogies for Defense Innovation
Jacquelyn Schneider
Back to First Principles: Four Fundamental Questions about Afghanistan
Stephen Tankel
No Retreat: The American Legacy in Afghanistan Does Not Have to Be Defeat
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Good to Great: Innovation in the Industrial Base
Stephen Rodriguez
Mini-Hizballahs, Revolutionary Guard Knock-Offs, and the Future of Iran’s Militant Proxies in Iraq
Michael Eisenstadt
and
Michael Knights
Lee’s Lieutenants: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War for the Battlefield and the Boardroom
Mike Hennelly
You Get Deterrence, and You Get Deterrence, Everybody Gets Deterrence!
Mara Karlin
Entrepreneurship for Public Safety
Gen. Norton Schwartz
and
Norman C. Chambers
Charting the Future of the Modern Caliphate
Colin Clarke
and
Craig Whiteside
How the IED Won: Dispelling the Myth of Tactical Success and Innovation
Jason Shell
Echoes of the Past: Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Civilian Targeting
Luke O’Brien
Missing the Point on Iran’s Ballistic Missiles
Behnam Ben Taleblu
Read Any Good Books Lately? Adm. Jim Stavridis (ret.) Has Some Suggestions
Christopher Nelson
In His Own Words: Vladimir Putin’s Foreign Policy Analyzed
Stephen Benedict Dyson
and
Matthew J. Parent
It’s Much Bigger Than Afghanistan: U.S. Strategy for a Transformed Region
Barnett Rubin
Lone-actor vs. Remote-Controlled Jihadi Terrorism: Rethinking the Threat to the West
Sam Mullins
Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Mara Karlin
Unpacking the Fallacy that China Tests New Presidents
Steven Stashwick
Whispers from the Past: Political Figures Caught Up in NSA Intercepts
Mark Stout
Red, Red Lines
Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Finding Leverage in Syria
Aaron Stein
No Plan? No Strategy? No Problem! Syria and Why Trump’s Russia Policy Is Off to a Rough Start
Michael Kofman
Doubling Down on America’s Misadventure in Yemen
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and
Richard Sokolsky
The New Know-Nothings: National Security and Investment in the American Intellect
Anthony Eames
Once More Over There: European Security at the End of American Century
Jeffrey Mankoff
Forget the Subs: What Taipei Can Learn from Tehran About Asymmetric Defense
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and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
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Hannah Haegeland
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Benjamin Jensen
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Melissa Dalton
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Joe Federici
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Hijab Shah
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Joel Wuthnow
and
Phillip C. Saunders
When Clausewitz Meets Cézanne: Mastery and the Art of Future War
Nina Kollars
India is Not Changing its Policy on No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
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Some New, Some Old, All Necessary: The Multi-Domain Imperative
William Dries
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Yogesh Joshi
The Rebalance is Dead! Long Live the Rebalance!
Hannah Suh
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Harry Krejsa
, and
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Get Real on Iran’s Missile Program
Bharath Gopalaswamy
and
Amir Handjani
The Risks of Forgetting Yemen’s Southern Secessionist Movement
Brian M. Perkins
The Imperative of Integrated Israeli Power
Yair Lapid
How Putin Benefits from Trump’s Foreign Policy
Thomas Wright
Trumpeting the Alliance: How Much Will the United States and Japan Lean on Each Other?
Michael Auslin
Time to Push Back Hard Against North Korea
Michael McCaul
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Trump’s Misguided Views of European Defense Spending
Richard Sokolsky
and
Gordon Adams
Doomsday Cancelled: Trump is Good News for Allies and World Peace
Peter Viggo Jakobsen
“Shoulder-to-Shoulder” No More in Afghanistan?
Matt Dearing
and
Ahmad Waheed
De-Conflicting Turkish, Kurdish, and American Aims in Syria
Aaron Stein
“Bring Everything Crashing Down”: Bannon’s Reactionary Guard and U.S. National Security
Iskander Rehman
A Vietnam War Reading List, Brought to You by the War Hall
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Replaced? Security Force Assistance Brigades vs. Special Forces
Tim Ball
The Story of the War on the Rocks Membership and You
Ryan Evans
Seeing Gray in the Next World War
Neil Hollenbeck
and
Benjamin Jensen
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Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch
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Michael Kofman
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part II: Keeping Pace with Changes
Mick Ryan
I Got a Story to Tell: Who Does What in National Security Policy?
Van Jackson
A Guide to the Fleet the United States Needs
Bryan Clark
and
Bryan McGrath
National Security and Holding the Line Under Trump
Stephen Tankel
The Double-Edged Legacy of Obamawar
Rachel Tecott
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Mick Ryan
The War Among the Generals
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
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Colin Dueck
The Future of Asian (In)Stability: In Search of the Right Questions
Peter Mattis
The Border Wall: Making Mexican Drug Cartels Great Again
Paul Kan
How to Reform Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism
Michael Chertoff
The Secret War That Transformed the CIA
Arnold R. Isaacs
Political Airpower, Part III: Boots Off the Ground
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Training “No Huddle” Joint Offense
Chris Telley
and
Samuel Membrere
Isn’t One China Enough?
Van Jackson
,
Mira Rapp-Hooper
, and
Dean Cheng
Get Out of Your Lane: The End of Discrete Domains
Greg Grant
and
Paul Benfield
Welcome to the Competition
Nadia Schadlow
Hard Men in a Hard Environment: Indian Special Operators Along the Border with China
Iskander Rehman
Pakistan’s Unending War on Civil Society
C. Christine Fair
Monroe: “National honor is national property of the highest value”
President James Monroe
We Need a Two-Ocean Secretary of the Navy
Paul Giarra
The Intel Importance of Being Pence: The Vice President’s National Security Role
David Priess
The Past, Present, and Future of the War for Public Opinion
Matthew Armstrong
The Future of Air Superiority, Part IV: Autonomy, Survivability, and Getting to 2030
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
The Role of the Pentagon in the Trump Administration
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
The Future of Air Superiority, Part III: Defeating A2/AD
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
A Missing Shade of Gray: Political Will and Waging Something Short of War
Phillip Lohaus
Turkey is Tangled up in Terrorism
Aaron Stein
The Case for Strategic Discipline During the Next Presidency
Frank Hoffman
The Drone Threat to Israeli National Security
Michael Shkolnik
Walk, Don’t Run: Chinese Military Reforms in 2017
Dennis J. Blasko
Adapting the President’s Daily Brief to Trump
Derek Grossman
He’s Just Not That Into You: Trump, Intel, and the American Presidency
Carmen Medina
,
David Priess
,
Mark Stout
,
Mark Zaid
, and
Ryan Evans
The Future of Air Superiority Part II: The 2030 Problem
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
The Wages of War without Strategy, Part I: Clausewitz, Vietnam, and the Roots of Strategic Confusion
Robert Cassidy
and
Jacqueline Tame
Cyber Beyond Third Offset: A Call for Warfighter-Led Innovation
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Nina Kollars
ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Madeleine Blackman
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Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
We Need to Talk: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Francis J. Gavin
Laying Bare the Enemy’s Aims: Defending Public Opinion in the 21st Century
Mark Beall
Thirteen Developments that Defined 2016
Ali Wyne
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2016
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Trump’s International System: A Speculative Interpretation
Justin Vaisse
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Rose Mary Sheldon
It is High Time to Outmaneuver Beijing in the South China Sea
Ross Babbage
Five Giant Leaps for Robotkind: Expanding the Possible in Autonomous Weapons
Andrew Hill
and
Gregg Thompson
Spy vs. Spy: The Bay of Pigs and the Battle for the Soul of the CIA
James Lockhart
America’s National Security Agencies Under Trump: Lessons from the Nixon Administration
Matteo Faini
The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Joe Dunford’s Holiday Shopping List: 2016 Edition
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
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An Eye for an Eye: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
Evan Perkoski
and
Michael Poznansky
A Quick Review of the Navy’s New Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Australia and President Trump: Four Risks and Twelve Opportunities
Richard Fontaine
Think Bigger: The Third Offset and Extending the Battlefield
Benjamin Jensen
Pakistan’s Naval Transformation: Dangerous Delusions, Soaring Ambitions
Abhijit Singh
Russia’s Hybrid War as a Byproduct of a Hybrid State
Mark Galeotti
The Islamic State and Israel’s Arab Citizens
Elisabeth Marteu
Cuba Embargo Myopia Misses the Strategic Point
Shawn Lansing
Drone Proliferation Matters, But Not For the Reasons You Think
Michael Horowitz
,
Sarah E. Kreps
, and
Matthew Fuhrmann
Getting South Asia on Track: Ideas for the Next President
C. Christine Fair
The Stage is Set for an Escalation: The Meaning of Syria’s Attack on Turkish Forces
Can Kasapoglu
From Apprentice to Master: Maximizing Junior Enlisted Talent in the Army Cyber Corps
Will Rinehart
,
Ronald Krause
, and
Charlie Lewis
The Trump Administration Will be Hawkish
Benjamin H. Friedman
The Danger of Inadvertent War in the Next Four Years
Mark Stout
It’s Not About the FAR, It’s About Building Relationships
Jackie Space
Observing Veterans Day
John Amble
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Colin Clarke
and
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Perils of Forgetting About Al Qaeda
Robin Simcox
The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be a Cyber-Strategy
Benjamin Runkle
Five Reasons Washington Should Rethink Selling Warplanes to Nigeria
Matthew Page
Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy
Andrew Weisburd
,
Clint Watts
, and
JM Berger
The Russians Read our Cold War Playbook
James M. Ludes
Offsetting Air Superiority with Air Force Special Operations
Mike Benitez
and
Peter Garretson
Staff Sergeant Disruptor: Observations on Leading Innovation
Sean Atkins
The Pentagon’s New Chief Innovation Officer Should Tread Lightly
Jonathan Wong
Emails and Influence: Investigating Russia’s Attack on the U.S. Political System
Dmitri Alperovitch
,
Ben Buchanan
,
Shane Harris
,
Susan Hennessey
,
Michael Poznansky
,
Benjamin Wittes
, and
Ryan Evans
Vice Presidents and Foreign Policy: A Forward-Looking Review of the Record
Aaron Mannes
Warning Orders: Strategic Reasons for Publicizing Military Offensives
Carrie Lee
Clinton-Cartwright Comparisons Don’t Hold Up
James Joyner
and
Butch Bracknell
What a Real Review of U.S. Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia Would Say
Richard Sokolsky
and
Jeremy Shapiro
Politics, Population, and Hydrocarbons: Preparing for Mosul’s Aftermath
H. Akın Ünver
Turkey’s Syria Intervention: No Guarantee of Easy Victory at al-Bab
Rao Komar
Political Airpower, Part I: Say No to the No-Fly Zone
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Whodunnit? Russia and Coercion through Cyberspace
Robert Morgus
Air-Sea Battle and Naval Strategy: Looking Forward or Looking Back?
John Callaway
After the Battle for Mosul, Get Ready for the Islamic State to Go Underground
Patrick Ryan
and
Patrick B. Johnston
Healey is Wrong: It’s Deterrence, Stupid
David Santoro
and
Brad Glosserman
Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up with Strategy
Walter Haynes
If Duterte Kicks Out U.S. Special Operators, a Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Ryan Rockwell
The Misadventures of Russia and the United States in Syria: Complete Strategy Implosion Edition
Michael Kofman
Andrew Jackson’s Marco Polo
James Lockhart
What American Credibility Myth? How and Why Reputation Matters
Alex Weisiger
and
Keren Yarhi-Milo
The Carrot or the Stick? Incentivizing Safe Cyber
Maria-Kristina Hayden
,
Michael David
, and
Brian Holmes
Note to Futurists: The Maximum Effective Range of a Prediction is 20 Years
Conrad Crane
A Plan for Winding Down the Syrian Civil War: Surge, Freeze, and Enforce
Charles Lister
Can Fancy Bear Be Stopped? The Clear and Present Danger of Russian Info Ops
Joshua Foust
A Cold War Execution Most Foul? Too Early to Close the Book on the Raoul Wallenberg Case
Vadim Birstein
and
Susanne Berger
Targeted Killing: Thinking Through the Logic
Rachel Tecott
What Coup-Proofing Will Do to Turkey’s Military: Lessons From Five Countries
Danny Orbach
First Things First: Rethinking the Defense Costs of Debt-Free College
Tyler Jost
Charting Boko Haram’s Rapid Decline
Nathaniel Allen
The Ghosts of Soviets Past: Unearthing the Memory of Occupation in Estonia
Adam Maisel
and
Will DuVal
The Phantom Menace: When Threat Capabilities Are Made Up
Mike Pietrucha
Cooling the Controversy over Sino-Russian Naval Exercises
Ryan W. French
and
Peter Dombrowski
The CIA and a Turkish Coup
Egemen Bezci
and
Nicholas Borroz
The Jihadist Entrepreneur: What the Anjem Choudary Case Can Teach Us
Assaf Moghadam
The Case for Revising India’s Counterinsurgency Strategy in Kashmir
Ayesha Ray
Turkey’s Kurdish Red Line in Syria and the Fight Against ISIL
Denise Natali
I Saw the Future of Defense in California, And It’s Coming to a University Near You
Ryan Evans
The War Doctrine Israel Does Not Talk About
Ron Tira
Defense Reform in the Next Administration
Brad Carson
and
Morgan Plummer
Will Brexit unravel the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy?
Joel Hillison
Restrained Strategy, Lower Military Budgets
Benjamin H. Friedman
Capturing Flying Insects: A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting
Charlie Lewis
Decisive Military Defections in Syria: A Case of Wishful Thinking
Rashad al Kattan
West of Suez for the United Arab Emirates
Alex Mello
and
Michael Knights
The Ordinary and Unique in Russia’s Electoral Information Warfare Game
Michael Poznansky
No More of the Same: The Problem with Primacy
Christopher Preble
and
William Ruger
The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
Tobias Schneider
When Intervention Works: The Instructive Case of Sierra Leone
David H. Ucko
Space Warfare: Deterrence, Dissuasion and the Law of Armed Conflict
John J. Klein
Bringing an End to the Forever War
Gene Healy
Top Cover for American Troops in Syria: A De Facto No-Fly Zone?
Ralph S. Clem
Intervention and the Looming Choices of Autonomous Warfighting
Jules Hurst
“Assad or We Burn the Country”: Misreading Sectarianism and the Regime in Syria
Emile Hokayem
Repairing the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
How Foreign Affairs Wrecked the British Labour Party
Geraint Hughes
Getting Real on the Terrorism Threat to the United States
John Mueller
The Second Coming of MIRVs: The Future of Strategic Arms Competition
Sameer Lalwani
and
Travis Wheeler
Getting China Right from Carter to Obama
Peter Mattis
Computing the Value of Stealth: It’s Not That Simple
Mike Benitez
and
Dave Deptula
The Crimean Crisis and Russia’s Military Posture in the Black Sea
Michael Kofman
The Moral Hazard of Inaction in War
Charles Dunlap
South Sudan and the Perils of America’s Peacekeeping Policy
David H. Ucko
Want to Build a Better Proxy in Syria? Lessons from Tibet
Steve Ferenzi
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
Cyrus Malik
OA-X: More Than Just Light Attack
Mike Benitez
The Meaning of Turkey’s Five Million Strong Nationalist Moment
Selim Koru
As Brexit Looms, Troubled Seas Around Gibraltar Should Have Washington’s Attention
Luke Coffey
Asia’s Looming Subsurface Challenge
John Schaus
,
Lauren Dickey
, and
Andrew Metrick
Bridging America’s Foreign Policy Elite-Main Street Divide
Sean Kay
and
Patrick Cronin
Right Ends, Wrong Means: What Congress is Missing on Defense Reform
Margaux Hoar
and
Dave Zvijac
Churchill and Ireland: The British Bulldog’s Complicated Relationship with the Emerald Isle
Timothy Hoyt
Averting the Coming Republican Foreign Policy Brain Drain
Russell Wald
My Droneski Just Ate Your Ethics
Joseph Brecher
,
Heath Niemi
, and
Andrew Hill
When the Islamic State is Gone, What Comes Next?
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
Air-Mindedness 2.0: We Need to Do Better Than “Fly, Fight, and Win”
Mike Benitez
After Brexit, a Bold Britain: A Game Plan for Remaking British Power
James Rogers
and
Philip Shetler-Jones
Generals and Political Interventions in American History
James Joyner
A Guide to Catching Up on China’s Politics and Military
Peter Mattis
What Turkey Can Learn from Russia About Coup-Proofing the Military
Mark Galeotti
The End of Globalization? The International Security Implications
T.X. Hammes
Turkey and the West are Heading for a Breakup
William Armstrong
Open Letter: Congress Must Investigate Russian Interference in the Presidential Election
WOTR Staff
The Threat is Here, It’s Just Distributed Unevenly: A2/AD and the Aircraft Carrier
Steve Blank
Keeping Up with the Policymakers: The Unclassified Tearline
Derek Grossman
What if a U.S.-Russian Deal in Syria Goes Exactly as Planned?
Faysal Itani
Tinker Tailor Soldier Hacker: The Russian Factor in the DNC Email Scandal
Matthew Rojansky
Strategic Outpost’s First Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
All Cards on the Table: First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
Al Mauroni
and
David Jonas
Nuclear Weapons in Turkey are Destabilizing, But Not For the Reason You Think
Aaron Stein
The Causes of the Coup Attempt in Turkey: A History of the Usual Suspects
Dov Friedman
The Logic for (Shoddy) U.S. Covert Action in Syria
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
Inside a Failed Coup and Turkey’s Fragmented Military
Aaron Stein
Bloody Ramadan: How the Islamic State Coordinated a Global Terrorist Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
If I Were President…
Tim Kane
Five Reasons Why Cooperating with Moscow on Syria is a Bad Idea
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
and
Lorianne Woodrow Moss
Managing the Power Within: China’s State Security Commission
Samantha Hoffman
and
Peter Mattis
Turkey and the Case of the Magical Vanishing Coup
Bill Park
Beyond the Power of the Coin: The Three Currencies of Military Innovation
Brad DeWees
and
Enrique Oti
Why Intent, Not Gross Negligence, is the Standard in Clinton Case
John Ford
Determined By History: Why Sweden and Finland Will Not Be More than NATO Partners
Carl Bergqvist
The Dysfunction Exposed by the Clinton Investigation in the State Department and Beyond
Michael Singh
For the U.S. Army, It’s Not About the Story
Nadia Schadlow
Digging into the Archeology of the Future
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Chilcot and Opening Old Wounds on WMD Intel
Al Mauroni
Chilcot and a Very British History of Dubious Military Decisions
Huw J. Davies
Man or Machine? Seeking Truth in Chinese Politics
Peter Mattis
Was the Russian Military a Steamroller? From World War II to Today
Reina Pennington
Pakistani Militants and the State: Friends, Foes, and Frenemies
Stephen Tankel
An Unholy Attack In A Holy Time: Turkey Suffers, the World Mourns
Joshua Walker
and
Selma Bardakci
A Not-So Secret History of Cyber War
Ben Buchanan
Brexit’s Roots in the Middle East
Jon Alterman
How Afghanistan Distorted Close Air Support and Why it Matters
Mike Benitez
America in the Looking Glass: All Questions and No Answers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Frank Hoffman
Swaggering in Cyberspace: Busting the Conventional Wisdom on Cyber Coercion
Craig Neuman
and
Michael Poznansky
All Eyes on Sirte: Beating the Islamic State, but Losing Libya
Amanda Kadlec
We Took West Point Cadets to (Cyber) War
Matt Hutchison
,
Erick Waage
, and
Brent Chapman
Civilian Lives and the Fate of Campaigns
Christopher Kolenda
When The Caliphate Crumbles: The Future of the Islamic State’s Affiliates
Clint Watts
The Other Legacy of Robert McNamara
Abhijnan Rej
From Strategy to Execution: Accelerating the Third Offset
Joshua Pavluk
and
August Cole
DIUx 2.0 Should Focus on Forging Pathways for Innovation
Patrick Ryan
War and Survivability of U.S. Naval Forces
Bryan McGrath
The Need for SEAD Part II: The Evolving Threat
Mike Pietrucha
Why Did Washington Wait So Long To Take Its Drone War to Baluchistan?
Michael Kugelman
#NatSec2016 Top Ten Reads, Ep. 2
Alex Ward
Don’t Kill the Caliph! The Islamic State and the Pitfalls of Leadership Decapitation
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
The Big Breach: Donald Trump and the Return of Ideological Espionage
Mark Stout
Missile Defense: How to Optimize U.S. Investments
Geoff Curfman
and
Ryan Hall
An Infantry Squad for the 21st Century
Jules Hurst
#NatSec2016 Top Ten Reads, Ep. 1
Alex Ward
Killing the Emir: What We Know About the Strike that Killed Mansour and What It Says About Pakistan and the Taliban
Sameer Lalwani
The Ghosts of Soviets Past: Crawling Through the Decayed Nuclear Missile Bases of the USSR
Adam Maisel
and
Will DuVal
The U.A.E. Approach to Counterinsurgency in Yemen
Michael Knights
DIY Insurgency: Emerging Technologies Threaten the SOF Mission
Joshua Steinman
and
Joshua Kvavle
A Deception Primer for the Fledgling Red Army
David M. Glantz
Go Big or Go Home: Applying the Full Force of the U.S. National Security Apparatus
Matthew Wein
#NatSec2016: Concerns about the Foreign Policies of the Top Candidates
Alex Ward
Levantine Labyrinth: Preparing for Subterranean Warfare in Iraq and Syria
Walter Haydock
How Good Are They? The Latest Insights into China’s Military Tech
Andrew Erickson
Why Unloading Wide Area Security Operations on the Reserve Component Will Not Work
James King
Nuts and Bolts Solutions to Deter a Resurgent Russia
R. Reed Anderson
,
Patrick J. Ellis
,
Antonio M. Paz
,
Kyle A. Reed
,
Lendy Renegar
, and
John Vaughan
Partitioning Iraq: Make a Detailed Case, or Cease and Desist
Ben Connable
Is the Islamic State Trying to Draw Turkey into Syria?
S.G. Grimaldi
and
Selim Koru
Exceptionalism or Expansionism? The American Dream Abroad
Sean Kay
Drones and the Future of Aerial Combined Arms
Jules Hurst
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Territorial Defense and the Twilight of Postmodern Europe
Iskander Rehman
Knock-on-the-Roof: The U.S. Air Force’s New Tactic
Elad Popovich
The West in Crisis: The Demise of Europe or Transatlantic Renewal?
Jeffrey Gedmin
Keeping up with China’s Evolving Military Strategy
Joe McReynolds
and
Peter Wood
Islands in the Foreign Fighter Stream: Trinidad’s Extremism Problem
Jason Fritz
Beyond Grand Bassam: Terrorism on the West African Coast
Phillip Carter
and
Michael W. Baca
Before We Head to Libya Again: Learning the Wrong Lessons From a Failed Intervention
Sumantra Maitra
On the Eternal Importance of Demographics and Allies
ML Cavanaugh
How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds into its Global Expansion Efforts
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
,
Nathaniel Barr
, and
Bridget Moreng
Power, Islam, and Pragmatism in Turkish Strategy
Richard Outzen
Give the Empire Its Due: Can the Fate of the Death Star Tell Us Anything About Aircraft Carriers?
Noah Kanter
Syria’s Toxic War: Chemical Weapons Are Undermining Deterrence and Nonproliferation
Rebecca Hersman
Use Outer Space to Strengthen U.S.-China Ties
Brian Weeden
and
Xiao He
Low-Altitude Penetration and Electronic Warfare: Stuck on Denial, Part III
Mike Pietrucha
Can Turkey and the United States Come Together on Drones?
Aaron Stein
Game of Drones: Reviewing “Eye in the Sky”
M.L.R. Smith
Is the Smartest Officer the Best Officer?
Matthew Cancian
Material Support: An Indispensable Counterterrorism Tool Turns 20
Jeff Breinholt
Counterterrorism or Repression? China Takes on Uighur Militants
Lauren Dickey
Forward Basing NATO Airpower in the Baltics Is A Bad Idea
Ralph S. Clem
Taking the Fight to “ISILstan”: Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
It’s Time to Start Talking About American Exceptionalism Again
Richard Fontaine
Meir Dagan: The Spy Who Learned the Limits of Power
Shay Hershkovitz
Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policies on Display
Alex Ward
The Democratization of Science Ushers in a New World Order
Christopher Zember
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Is a National Security Threat
Radha Iyengar
Warring Tribes Studying War and Peace
Joshua Rovner
Shrinking the Tactical Civilian–Military Divide
Kenny Sholes
The End of the American Empire
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
We Need to Speak Honestly About Nuclear Threats
Al Mauroni
The Islamic State in Turkey: A Deep Dive into a Dark Place
Aaron Stein
The Deceptively Romantic Historical Musings of the Russian Foreign Minister
Sumantra Maitra
Moscow’s Mercenaries in Syria
Mark Galeotti
The “Bow Wave” and the Military Balance
Matthew Fay
This Debate Over a New Cruise Missile Has Gone Nuclear
Kingston Reif
The Syrian Civil War and the End of Turkey’s Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Trump’s Worldview, President Mattis, and the EgyptAir Hijacking
Alex Ward
Beyond Brussels: Turning the Tide against ISIL in Europe
Frank J. Cilluffo
and
Sharon L. Cardash
Read My Mind: Why It’s Hard to See Things from the Enemy’s Point of View
Adam Elkus
Apple, the FBI, Extremists and Strategic Soft Targeting
William Braniff
How Ankara’s Policy Choices Enabled its Terrorism Problem
Dov Friedman
A More Granular Look at Death by Drone
Melissa S. Hersh
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Islamic State in Europe: Terrorists Without Borders, Counterterrorists With All Borders
Clint Watts
Are CIA-backed Syrian Rebels Really Fighting Pentagon-backed Syrian Rebels?
Sam Heller
A Tale of Two Terrorist Attacks in Brussels and Ankara
Joshua Walker
“Despite the Handicap of Her Sex”: Dr. Cora Du Bois, American Bad-Ass of the OSS in Southeast Asia
Jason S. Ridler
Belgium Attacks, Cuba, and Foreign Policy Teams Revealed
Alex Ward
Radically Rethinking NATO and the Future of European Security
Job C. Henning
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Getting the Law Right on Carpet Bombing and Civilian Casualties
Charles Dunlap
Time for Washington to Amp up the Power to Coerce
David Gompert
and
Hans Binnendijk
The Three Faces of Russian Spetsnaz in Syria
Mark Galeotti
Free Trade, Trump’s Brain, and Loose-Lipped Ben Carson
Alex Ward
Views from the Ground on the A-10 Debate
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
Russian Hybrid Warfare and Other Dark Arts
Michael Kofman
If Reconciliation Fails in Afghanistan, What’s Plan B?
Michael Kugelman
The Legacy of Pancho Villa’s Raid on America
Benjamin Runkle
The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
Tracking Refugees With Biometrics: More Questions than Answers
Sarah Soliman
Were Hillary Clinton’s Emails Classified? Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit
Mark Stout
Attribution and Secrecy in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
and
Evan Perkoski
The Weight of the Punch: British Ambition and Power
Patrick Porter
Manning the Frontier: Allies and the Unraveling of the World Order
Frank Hoffman
This is your Jihad on Drugs
Paul Kan
As Trump’s Lead Grows, GOP NatSec Community Falls in Line … Against Him
John Amble
To Better Understand Policy, Read (and Write!) Fiction
Joshua Foust
,
Michael Cecire
, and
Alex Hecht
The Promise and Peril of Changing U.S. Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
Asia’s Mediterranean: Strategy, Geopolitics, and Risk in the Seas of the Indo-Pacific
Michael Auslin
The Dangerous Diffusion of Cyber Operations
Ben Buchanan
Will Pakistan Draw Closer to Saudi Arabia to balance Iran?
Sameer Lalwani
Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
The Moral Hazard of the Fight Against the Islamic State in Iraq
Craig Whiteside
Five Costs of Military Innovation
Lena Andrews
and
Julia Macdonald
Imagine the Starling: Peak Fighter, the Swarm, and the Future of Air Combat
Joshua Steinman
The NCFA and the Apache Helicopter Olive Branch
Phil Ryan
Combing Through an Invaluable Resource on the People’s Liberation Army
Peter Mattis
Task Force Green Dragon: Preparation of the Environment in New England Taverns
Matt Hutchison
and
Erick Waage
Multicomponent Units and the Future of the Army
Benjamin Fernandes
The Syria Ceasefire Plan is a Sign of the Decaying World Order
Sen. John McCain
A Clear-Eyed Focus on Our Interests: A Guide for the Next President
Stephen D. Krasner
and
Amy Zegart
In Libya, No Unity without Security
Alice Hunt Friend
and
Anthony Bell
Beyond the Army Commission: Unifying the Army’s Components
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Putin’s Security Appointments Say About How Russia Works
Mark Galeotti
Prospects for a Turkish Incursion into Syria
Can Kasapoglu
The U.S. Navy’s Surface Force Just Got a Lot Deadlier
Bryan McGrath
Surprisingly Sound Answers on the Future of the Army
Robert H. Scales
Death Solves All Problems: The Authoritarian Counterinsurgency Toolkit
Daniel Byman
Killing Jihadist Hackers Sets a Flawed Precedent
Meg King
and
Grayson Clary
Coping with Reality: Alcohol in the Gulags
Ruben Gzirian
Known Unknowns: Iraqi WMD, 13 Years Later
Al Mauroni
The Cyber Threat to Nuclear Deterrence
Matt Caylor
There is Still Hope for the U.S. Relationship with Pakistan
Lisa Curtis
The Art of Barbarity: Propaganda from WWI to the Islamic State
Mark Stout
Iran, Terrorism, and Nonproliferation After the Nuclear Deal
Radha Iyengar
and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Small States Have Options Too: Competitive Strategies Against Aggressors
Thomas G. Mahnken
Preparing for the Next Big War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Why Choose the Littoral Combat Ship? Because it is the Best Option
Steven Wills
Turkey is an Intermittent Ally but an Indispensable Partner
Dov Friedman
From the First Gulf War to Islamic State: How America Was Seduced by the “Easy War”
Sebastian J. Bae
The CIA’s Constant Battle Between Secrecy and Effectiveness
Mark Stout
Navigating the Post-Iran Deal Waters in the Gulf
Melissa Dalton
A Cause For All Turks: Turkey and Syria’s Turkmen Rebels
Sam Heller
and
S.G. Grimaldi
How China’s New Russian Air Defense System Could Change Asia
Timothy R. Heath
Democrats Debate National Security, a Little Bit
John Amble
Regimes and Revolt: Authoritarian Ways of Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
Bringing Big Data to War in Mega-Cities
Robert Dixon
The Urgent Need for Real National Strategy
James Goldgeier
and
Jeremi Suri
The Islamic State’s Plans for Turkey
Hilmi Demir
and
Selim Koru
It’s Time to Change the Regulations that Stop Sikhs from Serving in the U.S. Military
Brian Wagner
Nuclear Cruise Missile Opponents are Pushing a Dangerous Line
Bruce M. Sugden
Killing Anwar: Targeting Jihadi Propagandists is Only Part of the Solution
Scott Englund
The Cost of Credible Deterrence in Taiwan
Jennifer M. Turner
On India–Pakistan: Hope for the Best, and Prepare for the Worst
Myra MacDonald
Artillery Returns to the Battlefield in the War against ISIL
James T. Quinlivan
Fighting Words: Spies, Soldiers, and Stylish Scribes
Jason S. Ridler
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
Ankara’s Hidden Hand: Turkish Covert Ops Then and Now
Egemen Bezci
21st Century Seapower, Inc.
Scott Cheney-Peters
Graham Bows Out, Bush v. Rubio, and the Politics of Regime Change
John Amble
Don’t Leave Jointness to the Services: Preserving Joint Officer Development amid Goldwater-Nichols Reform
Ryan Shaw
and
Miriam Krieger
Mosul: Turkey’s Fulda Gap
H. Akın Ünver
The Great Paradox of Swedish Neutrality in the Cold War and Today
Susanne Berger
3-D Printing Will Disrupt the World in Ways We Can Barely Imagine
T.X. Hammes
When the U.S. Government Took on the Sinister Santa Claus Threat
Mark Stout
War on the Rocks 2015 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Four Steps the Department of Defense Can Take to Fix its Broken Personnel System
Rob Albritton
The U.S. Navy’s Secret, 11-Page Plan to Conquer Canada
Scott Mobley
GOP National Security Debate Recap
John Amble
Peering into the Past and Future of Urban Warfare in Israel
David Betz
A Muslim Foreign Legion to Destroy ISIL?
Erik Carlson
The Gang Challenge in El Salvador: Worse than You Thought
R. Evan Ellis
5 Questions on the Islamic State for GOP Presidential Candidates
Clint Watts
As We Were Marching through Georgia
Mark Stout
Moscow’s Clients from Kabul to Damascus: Strength and Strategy in International Politics
Ryan Evans
The Forgotten Threat: North Korea as America’s Most Durable, Dangerous, and Diverse Enemy
ML Cavanaugh
Refugees and the Islamic State’s Colonization Strategy
Jeffrey Bristol
What Are the Chinese up to in Australia?
Lauren Dickey
Myth-Busting French Counterinsurgency
Terrence Peterson
This is How Europe Needs to Stand up to Terrorism
Martin Michelot
and
Benjamin Haddad
Campaign Focus: National Security is Here to Stay
John Amble
Will Putin Strike Back at Turkey from the Shadows?
Mark Galeotti
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part III
Iskander Rehman
The Maritime Dimension of Britain’s New Strategy
Matt Schnappauf
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part II
Iskander Rehman
Weekend Reading: Turkey Hangover Edition
WOTR Staff
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part I
Iskander Rehman
Thanksgiving: An American Holiday Forged in War
John Amble
Lessons from the Liberation of Sinjar
Denise Natali
This Thanksgiving, Start a Debate About Refugees
Loren DeJonge Schulman
Did Anonymous Just Save The World From ISIL?
Clint Watts
12 Other Clashes and Close Calls with the Russians
Mark Stout
and
B.J. Armstrong
Britain Released a New Strategy Document: What Does it Say?
Patrick Bury
Meet the New Islamic State: Same as the Old Islamic State
Nadav Pollak
Three Offsets for American Landpower Dominance
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
Jeb: Ready to Serve on Day One
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
The Mysterious Blunderings of the CIA
James Lockhart
What Crisis? Scholarship and National Security
Stephen Coulthart
and
Damien Van Puyvelde
America’s Victory Disease Has Left it Dangerously Deluded
Mike Pietrucha
How the Paris Attacks are Influencing U.S. Presidential Campaigns
John Amble
What Paris Taught Us About the Islamic State
Clint Watts
Where Has All the Hatred Gone?
Mark Stout
Observing Veterans Day
John Amble
Man, the Machine, and War
Adam Elkus
Six Rules for Wargaming: The Lessons of Millennium Challenge ‘02
Gary Anderson
and
Dave Dilegge
Why I Fear the Dirty Bomb and You Should Too
Joe Cirincione
and
Geoff Wilson
Drugs, Human Rights, Trade, and Distrust: The Evolution of U.S.–Mexican Relations
Tom Long
The SOCOM Commander’s Reading List
WOTR Staff
National Biodefense: You’re Doing It Wrong
Al Mauroni
Can Kennan Shake Us Out of Our Strategic Groundhog Day?
Kevin McCarty
U.S. and Russian Airpower in the Desert
Angelo M. Codevilla
The Economics of War with China: This Will Hurt You More than It Hurts Me
Mike Pietrucha
Friendly Fire: The Risks and Rewards of Red Teaming
Frank Hoffman
What Texas Hold ‘em Can Teach us about Geopolitics
Jonathan Altman
Campaign Acceleration: How to Build on Progress and Avoid Stalemate Against ISIL
Michael Knights
Technology and War: The Revolution that Never Arrived
Williamson Murray
Trans-Atlantic Bandwidth: Then and Now
Mark Stout
Remote Control Statecraft: The Limits of Offshore Balancing
Iskander Rehman
The Next Task Force Smith: The Danger of Arbitrary Headquarters Reductions
Conrad Crane
and
John Bonin
Let the Russians Bleed in Syria While We Focus on Containing Jihadists
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
How the U.S. Business Community Can Take on the Islamic State
Kevin Carroll
Benghazi: Questions Unasked and Opportunities Missed
Radha Iyengar
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Policy Options and Exit Strategies
Michael Kofman
Will America Make the Same Mistakes as China?
Ali Wyne
Putin Takes Center Stage in the Middle East
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Is the West’s Culture of Heroism Under Threat?
Kori Schake
The U.S. Navy’s Self-Imposed Blockade
Noel Williams
Russia’s Arsenal in Syria: What Do We Know?
Michael Kofman
Military Reading for Professional Development? Stop Being So Lazy
Mark Stout
Don’t Fear the Dirty Bomb
Al Mauroni
A Toast to Little Willie
Robert Tomes
More than Just Beheadings: How the Islamic State Sells Itself
Charlie Winter
Five Reasons Why the Iran Nuclear Deal is Still a Really Bad Idea
David Jonas
Great Power Rivalry: Anti-Access and the Threat to the Liberal Order
Iskander Rehman
CSI: Pentagon — Who Killed American Strategy?
Adam Elkus
Weekend Reading: October 9–11 Edition
WOTR Staff
George Washington, Confessed Assassin
Brice Coates
Why Israel Should Be Worried About Russia’s Role in Syria
Nadav Pollak
Lingering Questions over the U.S.–China Cyber Affirmation
Peter Mattis
The Fall of Kunduz and What it Means for the Future of Afghanistan
Jason Campbell
Corbyn’s Strategic Ignorance Would Make Him a Dangerous Prime Minister
Mark Stout
How Not to Fight the Islamic State
Burak Kadercan
Corbett vs. the Caliphate: What a long-dead naval strategist tells us about combatting Islamic State
Ralph Peters
Doting Father and Feminist: The Other Side of Saddam’s Half-Brother, the Head of the Iraqi Secret Police
Sarah R. Collins
The Wild West, the Wild South, and the Pope: What the pundits missed in Pope Francis’ address to Congress
Ralph Peters
How the OSS Shaped the CIA and American Special Ops
Douglas Waller
Why is America Tactically Terrific but Strategically Slipshod?
Keith Nightingale
Can the Libyans Close a Peace Deal?
Patrick Bury
New Revelations from Argentina’s Falklands Campaign
James Lockhart
In Search of Cyber Deterrence
Laura Bate
Patching the Pentagon’s Procurement Problem
Jonathan Wong
Secret Pact with the Nazis? Nyet, Never Heard of It
Mark Stout
Can America Compete with China’s Great Military Leap Forward?
Peter Dombrowski
What Should We Do If the Bomber Can’t Get Through?
E. John Teichert
NATO at the Tactical Level
Adam Maisel
Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woe: When the United States Goes Weak, Russia Strikes
Ralph Peters
Searching for Strategy in Putin’s Russia
Joshua Rovner
Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage: The Kaiser Would Be Jealous
Mark Stout
In Defense of Crazy Talk: Why Bradford’s West Point Article is Worth Talking About
James Joyner
The Case for a “Raqqa First” Strategy Against the Islamic State
Dan Trombly
and
Yasir Abbas
Is the Islamic State a Cyber Threat?
Benjamin Runkle
Good, Bad, and Ugly Options for Congress After the Iran Agreement
Ilan Goldenberg
and
Nicholas A. Heras
Putin’s Strategy is Far Better than You Think
Michael Kofman
(W)Archives: Cooking the Books on the Islamic State and the Viet Cong
Mark Stout
Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Patrick Porter
What the 1952 Republican Primary Teaches us about Today’s Primary
Kori Schake
Another Chance to Watch Star Wars with Sam: Marines in Ramadi
Vince Perritano
Is the Islamic State Winning or Losing?
John Ford
How the Iran Deal Could Complicate U.S. Efforts to Prevent a Nuclear Breakout
Michael Eisenstadt
(W)Archives: A Civil War Surgeon’s Thoughts on the Eve of a Bloody Battle
Mark Stout
Is America an Empire?
Tyrone Groh
and
James Lockhart
Scholars Help Policymakers Know Their Tools
Dan Reiter
GOP Presidential Hopefuls are Ignoring the Most Serious Foreign Policy Questions of our Era
Alex Ward
Bias in Battledress: Fixing the Hidden Problems of Military Prejudice
Bryan Coughlin
and
Katey van Dam
Calligraphy and Goat Cheese: Jaime Johnson at The Black Harpoon
Claude Berube
Man or Woman, Rangers Just Want the Best in their Formations
Ligeia Zeruto
How the AP Got the Iran Inspections Story Wrong
Cheryl Rofer
Hop to it: A Beer by Any Other Name
Alex Hecht
To Stem the Tide: Nuclear History, American Interests, and the Iran Deal
Francis J. Gavin
Airpower May Not Win Wars, But it Sure Doesn’t Lose Them
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
Frank Hoffman
Why the New Syrian Army Failed: Washington and Unconventional Warfare
David Maxwell
Jeb Bush Gets American Power
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal 10 Years Later: More Successful Than You Think
Daniel Byman
Pakistan’s “Strategic Shift” is Pure Fiction
C. Christine Fair
Falling Short of the Kennedy Mystique
James Goldgeier
Dealing with Putin’s Strategic Incompetence
Joshua Rovner
How Turkey’s entry into the anti-ISIL campaign might save the Islamic State
James Schmitt
Can History Save the World?
Nick Danforth
A Satisfying Debate, but Not Meaty on National Security
Bryan McGrath
8 Big Ideas to Turbo-Charge the U.S.–Australian Alliance
Ross Babbage
Twilight Struggle: The Cold War was Not Stable or Simple
Patrick Porter
(W)Archives: When “Safe Zones” Fail
Mark Stout
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 5: Forlorn Hope
Stephen Armitage
Time to Think About “Hybrid Defense”
Mark Galeotti
What’s Eating Turkey? Ankara and the Islamic State
Burak Kadercan
The Not-Yet-Chiefs’ Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
North Korea Is Not Iran
Christopher Lee
(W)Archives: Beating the Spies
Mark Stout
Fax Machine Radicalization: A Menace
Seamus Hughes
Fax Machine Radicalization
Seamus Hughes
Can U.S. Courts Stop Chinese Cyberspying?
Kevin Carroll
Three Big Ideas on the Future of British Defense
Patrick Bury
The OPM Cyber Blunder is America’s Fault, not China’s
Matthew Hipple
(W)Archives: That Time Britain and France Almost Bombed the Soviet Union
Patrick Osborn
The Case for Dumping the Iran Deal
Thomas C. Moore
Down and Dirty on the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Aaron Stein
Mabus and McCain Actually Agree … DoD is Broken
Robert Kozloski
(W)Archives: “C’s List” — How the British Debated Covert Action in the Early Cold War
Rory Cormac
What DARPA’s Naval Drone Could Mean for the Balance of Power
David Blagden
Chicken Little or Attacking Terrorist Strategy? Why the U.S. Issues Warnings about Attacks
David Maxwell
(W)Archives: The U.S. Army Unit that was Nominated for an Oscar
Mark Stout
The 9 Scariest Things That China Could Do with the OPM Security Clearance Data
WOTR Staff
Reforming the National Security Council: What the Next President Needs to Know
Shawn Brimley
,
Julianne Smith
, and
Jacob Stokes
Counterterrorism, Backdoors, and the Risk of “Going Dark”
Walter Haydock
How Pakistan Beguiles the Americans: A Guide for Foreign Officials
C. Christine Fair
The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
No Patch For Incompetence: Our Cybersecurity Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cybersecurity
Adam Elkus
Bad Guys Know What Works: Asymmetric Warfare and the Third Offset
Benjamin Locks
Weekend Reading: June 19-21 Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
(W)Archives: Prepositioning Combat Equipment in Europe? Been There, Done That
Mark Stout
Evans in WaPo: Why the latest government hack is worse than the Snowden affair
Ryan Evans
The Future of Close Air Support is Not What the Air Force Thinks
Benjamin Fernandes
False Equivalency in the “Indo-Pakistan” Dispute
C. Christine Fair
Is Stan McChrystal Right About Adapting to Win?
Kori Schake
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 3: Manifest Destiny
Stephen Armitage
(W)Archives: A Firsthand Account of the Battle of Manila Bay
Mark Stout
Practicing Innovation in the U.S. Navy
Ciro Lopez
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 2: The Midway Fleet
Stephen Armitage
Why Does Pakistan Accuse Indian Spies of Terrorism?
Michael Kugelman
The Myth of Entangling Alliances
Michael Beckley
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
(W)Archives: The Battle of Midway and What Defeat Looks Like
Mark Stout
A Farewell to Sobriety, Part Two: Drinking During World War II
Jake Hall
The Patriot Act and the History of American Code Breaking
Peter Mansoor
What Bin Laden Taught us about Jihad in Pakistan
Thomas Lynch
Iraq after Ramadi: Saving the Anti-ISIL Strategy
Douglas A. Ollivant
(W)Archives: Occupation and the “Black Shame” on the Rhine
Mark Stout
Close Air Support in 2030: Moving Beyond the A-10/F-35 Debate
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Trading Space and Time in the Cold War Offset Strategy
Robert Tomes
Honor our Fallen By Getting Real on Pakistan
C. Christine Fair
Terrorists Are Just Like Us: The Bin Laden Docs and the Future of al Qaeda
Brian Fishman
Weekend Reading: Memorial Day Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
(W)Archives: Fighting the Information War in Sweden
Mark Stout
Confessions of a Jihadi Nerd: A Guide to Reading the New Bin Laden Documents
Clint Watts
Read the New Bin Laden Docs
WOTR Staff
Short Legs Can’t Win Arms Races: Range Issues and New Threats to Aerial Refueling put U.S. Strategy at Risk
Greg Knepper
and
Peter W. Singer
(W)Archives: World War III, 1955-Style
Mark Stout
Getting the GCC to Cooperate on Missile Defense
Thomas Karako
Kill Ibrahim? The Pros and Cons of Targeting ISIL’s Leadership
Benjamin Runkle
Third Offset Tech: What the Experts Say
Alexandra Sander
Googling Iran: The Sources of Mistrust
Richard Klass
American Declinism Debated
Frank Hoffman
Secret Agent Man: How to Think about Autonomy
Adam Elkus
Weekend Reading: May 1-3
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(W)Archives: Vietnam and the Meaning of Defeat
Mark Stout
Parsimonious Albion: Is the UK Going Wobbly?
Frank Hoffman
What’s Past is Prologue: A Story of U.S. Army Lineage, from 1915 to 2015
John Amble
ISIL’s Small Ball Warfare: An Effective Way to Get Back into a Ballgame.
Craig Whiteside
How the Military Can Keep its Edge: Don’t Offset — Hedge
Ben FitzGerald
and
Scott Cheney-Peters
Autonomy Whether You Like It or Not
Matthew Hipple
The Navy’s New Museum Drone and Strategic Malpractice
Robert Martinage
and
Shawn Brimley
Ensign Bobby Fisk’s Three Lessons of Muscat Love: Great Games, Baseball, and Jameson
Claude Berube
The Method behind the Islamic State’s Madness
Burak Kadercan
Grand Theft Autocracy
Aaron Mannes
(W)Archives: It’s Not Easy Being a Terrorist
Mark Stout
Why Integrate Women into Ground Combat Units?
Anna Simons
The Naval Historian and His Library: An Interview with John Hattendorf
Christopher Nelson
Female Rangers Will Lead The Way, Sooner or Later
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Are Turkey and Saudi Arabia Going to War in Syria?
Aaron Stein
5 Questions with J.M. Berger on the Oklahoma City Bombing
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: Aerial Bombardment and Hitting the Broad Side of a Barn
Mark Stout
Preparing for Warfare’s Subterranean Future
Benjamin Runkle
Fight Boko Haram by Aiding Cameroon
Alexander Powell
Why An “Economic” Approach to Foreign Policy Fails
Adam Elkus
Sanctioning to Deter: Implications for Cyberspace, Russia, and Beyond
Eric Lorber
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
Does Mullah Omar Still Matter?
Michael Kugelman
Weekend Reading: April 10-12 Edition
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(W)Archives: Memorializing the Most Important Surrender in American History
Mark Stout
How U.S. Navy Intel Sees China’s Maritime Forces
Andrew Erickson
Groundhog Day in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
C. Christine Fair
Remaining Hurdles to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Ilan Goldenberg
Distributed Maritime Operations: Back to the Future?
Benjamin Jensen
The Iranian Nuclear Program and its Bureaucrat-in-Chief
Aaron Stein
Project Vulcan: Special Ops and the Tech Innovation End Game
Anthony Davis
,
James Geurts
,
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Jawad Rachami
, and
Christopher Zember
Weekend Reading List: April 3-5 Edition
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(W)Archives: The Battle of Okinawa and the Obscenity of War
Mark Stout
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Intel, Governance, and Ethics in Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms
Paul Scharre
What Comes After Strategic Surprise?
August Cole
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
(W)Archives: Rescuing Tommy
Mark Stout
Harry Potter and the Five-Sided Labyrinth
Anonymous
Jihadists as the Great Coalition Builders
Mark Stout
Commanding the Swarm
Paul Scharre
Resetting U.S.-Afghan Relations
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Mind the Gap: Spanning the Divide between Academics and Policy
Kathleen Hicks
It’s Time for a Tiger – and a Dragon
Claude Berube
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
Just How Dangerous Is It Really?
Frank Hoffman
(W)Archives: Knowledge Wins
Mark Stout
An American in Her Majesty’s Ministry of Defence
Scott Smitson
A Collapsing Regional Order: Turkey’s Troubles in Iraq and Syria
Aaron Stein
The Human Element in Robotic Warfare
Paul Scharre
Military Superiority in an Interconnected World
Bob Butler
and
Jim Gosler
(W)Archives: Another Munich or Another Cuban Missile Crisis?
Tom Wein
A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
Patrick Cronin
and
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
The National Security Marketplace Must Become Stronger
Chris Taylor
The Seductiveness of Special Ops?
Michael Noonan
China’s Menacing Sandcastles in the South China Sea
Andrew Erickson
,
Austin Strange
,
Dean Cheng
,
Ely Ratner
,
Shawn Brimley
,
Robert Haddick
,
Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Zack Cooper
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Michael Vurens van Es
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Mark Stout
Running (the World) in Circles
Frank Hoffman
A Shaky Case for Chinese Deception
Peter Mattis
Ten Reasons Why China Will Have Trouble Fighting a Modern War
Dennis J. Blasko
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Paul Scharre
More Mayhem from Moscow’s Victory in Minsk
Thomas C. Moore
Bridging the Air Gap: The Coming “Third Offset”
John Costello
Corruption in China’s Military: One of Many Problems
Dennis J. Blasko
Weekend Reading: Friday the 13th Edition
WOTR Staff
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Resetting the U.S.-Israel Alliance
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A New Beginning for the United States in Central America?
R. Evan Ellis
Our Great War Synthesis
August Cole
Rethinking Deep Strike in the 21st Century
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Mark Stout
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James Lockhart
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Stephen Tankel
A Fresh Take on the Military Pay and Benefits Debate
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and
Kevin Kenney
What to Look For in the DoD Budget
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Advice for France in its “War on Terror”
Thomas Lynch
,
Cindy Storer
,
Mark Stout
,
Stephen Tankel
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Clint Watts
Raffles and Slings in Singapore
Claude Berube
(W)Archives: Terrorism a Century Ago
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Wrong Assumptions: Integration, Responsibility, and Counterterrorism in France
Lorenzo Vidino
Military Command in the 21st Century Through the Eyes of Two Generals
Anthony King
Full Text: State of the Union Address
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Fear in the Pacific and Cyber Conflict in 2023
ML Cavanaugh
A Cold War Legacy: The Decline of Stealth
Andrew Metrick
Hollywood, Hackers, and HAL
Adam Elkus
Besting Boko Haram
Alice Hunt Friend
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Robert Tomes
Why The Draft is a Forlorn Hope
T.S. Allen
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Clint Watts
Weekend Reading: January 9-11
Chris Dehn
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Mark Stout
Counterbureacracy and Lawfare: The Question of Torture in the War on Terror
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
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Michael Cohen
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Adam Elkus
Brothers Forever at Rest in Arlington’s Section 60
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Van Jackson
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Dennis J. Blasko
U.S.-Cuban Relations: Lessons from China and the Soviet Bloc
James Lockhart
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John Waters
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C. Christine Fair
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R. Evan Ellis
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