The Red Queen Problem: Innovation in the Defense Department and Intelligence Community
Bolts from the Blue, Monsters Under the Bed, and the Pursuit of Absolute Security
The Royal Navy Has a Problem
Deadly Overconfidence: Trump Thinks Missile Defenses Work Against North Korea, and That Should Scare You
and
Everyone, Not Just the Military, Has a Duty to Keep the Peace
Defeat as Victory? How the Islamic State Will Rely on Hijrah to Claim a Win

Channels

Puerto Rico Shows Why the Army Needs to Look Beyond Helicopters
Zapad 2017: What We Learned
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part V: Bad Strategy, Bad Leadership Doomed South Vietnam as Much as the Curtailing of U.S. Aid
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part IV: U.S. Journalists Didn’t Lose the War, Celebrate the Enemy, or Vilify American Soldiers
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part III: Peace Marchers Didn’t Turn U.S. Policy Around
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part II: The Draft Was a Moral Disgrace
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part I: They Didn’t Fight with One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs
A Vietnam War Reading List, Brought to You by the War Hall
Don’t Believe the Hype: China’s North Korea Policy is All Smoke and Mirrors
Wanted: A New Member of the Business Team at WOTR
America’s Central Syria Strategy Problem
JOB: Managing Editor, New Print and Online Journal
WATM on Barno: A Vet to Watch
Let’s Make a (Nuclear) Deal
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2016

 

Did China Use Water as a Weapon in the Doklam Standoff?
Why The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Will Worsen Tensions in Southern Asia
“India Is Our Brother, China Is Our Friend”: Navigating Great Power Rivalry in Southern Asia
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Angling for Advantage: Iran’s Differential Approach to Southern Asia

Nora Bensahel
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Francis J. Gavin
Michael Kofman
Bryan McGrath
Vipin Narang
Christopher Preble
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Aaron Stein
In Between Security Arrangements: The Trojan Horse of Military Intermarium
The Section T Canard: The Drive for Decertification and ‘Bomb Iran’ Redux
Trump’s Threat to Nuclear Order
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A Vicious Entanglement, Part V: The Body Count Myth
Nothing New Under the Sun? Ethics and Service in the Age of Trump
, and
What’s Really Behind Tom Cotton’s Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Deal
The Storm Gathers and America is Unready
The Growing Danger of a U.S. Nuclear First Strike on North Korea
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NATO’s Expanding Military Exercises Are Sending Risky Mixed Messages
Nobody Loves Deterrence, But We’ll Keep Doing It Anyway
Adding Shots on Target: Wargaming Beyond the Game
The Rorschach Test of New Nuclear Powers: Analogies for North Korean Command and Control