Top 25 from our first year

January 1, 2014
Top 25 from our first year
Top 25 from our first year

Top 25 from our first year

January 1, 2014

Since we launched War on the Rocks on 8 July 2013, we have gone from strength to strength, exceeding our expectations by orders of magnitude.

Here are our 25 most-read articles from 2013:

  1. Benjamin Runkle: “The Lost Lessons of Black Hawk Down
  2. Matthew Hipple: “99 Red Balloons: How War with China Would Start
  3. David Maxwell: “Unconventional Warfare Does Not Belong to Special Forces
  4. Robert Killebrew: “Getting to the Army’s Better Argument
  5. Jason Glab: “Blockading China: A Guide
  6. Thomas Gibbons-Neff: “Is It Like Call of Duty?
  7. Bryan McGrath: “Five Myths about AirSea Battle
  8. John Kuehn: “Carrier Calculus: How Many Do We Need?
  9. Bryan McGrath: “The U.S. Navy: Five Questions to Ponder
  10. Kori Schake: “The Army Needs a Better Argument
  11. Nathaniel Rosenblatt: “ISIS’ Plan to Govern Syria – And What the US Should Do About It
  12. Thomas Gibbons-Neff: “Paul Walker and Civil-Military Relations
  13. Robert Killebrew: “Rapid Deployment: The Army and American Strategy
  14. Frank Hoffman: “Stabbed in the Back – Once Again?
  15. John C. Harvey: “Thoughts on the All-Volunteer Force from Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery
  16. Robert Scales: “Drafted Armies are Self-Killing Machines
  17. Elton C. Parker III: “Aircraft Carriers and What Comes Next
  18. Frank Hoffman: “5 Questions on Future War in the Pacific
  19. Ryan Evans: “When War Isn’t War
  20. David C. Fuquea: “Amphibious Ops in the 21st Century
  21. Phillip Carter: “99 Problems But a Draft Ain’t One
  22. TX Hammes: “Getting Our Money’s Worth: LCS vs Iver Huitfeldt-Class
  23. TX Hammes: “Strategy and AirSea Battle
  24. Scott Cheney-Peters: “How to Not Go to War with China
  25. Ryan Evans: “What’s the Deal with China’s New Air Defense Identification Zone?

Thank you to our readers and contributors! Lift your post-NYE hangover recovery drink into the air and toast to an even more successful 2014 for War on the Rocks.

 

Image: American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in the `Victory’ Parade.

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