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“civil-military relations”
Keeping Civil-Military Relations Civil
Risa Brooks
,
Alice Hunt Friend
,
Doyle Hodges
, and
Ronald R. Krebs
The Civilian and the State: Politics at the Heart of Civil-Military Relations
Alice Hunt Friend
To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations
Open Letter
Healthy Worry About Healthy Civil-Military Relations
Kori Schake
Another “Crisis” in Civil-Military Relations?
Andrew Radin
and
Thomas Szayna
Civil-Military Relations from Trump to Biden
David Barno
,
Peter Feaver
,
Kori Schake
, and
Jim Golby
It’s Time to Crowd-Source Questions About Civil-Military Relationships
Dan Maurer
WOTR Podcast: Civil-Military Relations Gone Wild?
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Steven Foster
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Alice Hunt Friend
Post-CHAOS Homework on Civil-Military Relations
Loren DeJonge Schulman
In the Wake of CHAOS: Civil-Military Relations Under Secretary Jim Mattis
Jim Golby
Technology and Future War Will Test U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Risa Brooks
Cyber Civil-Military Relations: Balancing Interests on the Digital Frontier
Benjamin Jensen
and
J.D. Work
The Precarious State of Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Trump
Lindsey P. Cohn
Clausewitz as The Last Jedi? Culminating Points of Victory, Civil-Military Relations, and Strategy in Star Wars
Theo Milonopoulos
Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Trump
Jason Fritz
Khalifa Haftar and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in Libya
Lydia Sizer
Bryan McGrath on James Fallows, the Draft, and Civil-Military Relations
Bryan McGrath
MOLLE, PALS, and the Empty Loops of America’s Civil-Military Divide
Jim Perkins
Colombia’s New President and the Challenges to the Bilateral Relationship
Andrew Ivey
Closing the Civil-Military Trust Gap
Paula Thornhill
Biden Inherits a Challenging Civil-Military Legacy
Jim Golby
and
Peter Feaver
Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America
David Pion-Berlin
and
Andrew Ivey
“Beyond the Beltway” — What’s the Civil-Military Crisis?
Paula Thornhill
An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil
Kori Schake
The (Four) Stars and the State: Civil-Military Affairs in 2019
Risa Brooks
,
Peter Feaver
,
Jim Golby
,
Alice Hunt Friend
, and
Ryan Evans
Technological Prowess, Lethality, and the Civil-Military Divide
Torey McMurdo
and
Christopher Hocking
Looking Beyond the Generals in the Room: The Real Cause of America’s Civil-Military Malaise
Raphael S. Cohen
An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil
Kori Schake
Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Mara Karlin
Civ-Mil Relations in the U.S. and Strategy Tales from Australia
Richard Fontaine
,
Gen. James Mattis
,
Kori Schake
, and
Ryan Evans
Weathering the Storm: Civil-Military Tension During Presidential Transitions
Kathleen Hicks
Media Lessons Learned and Civil-Military Divides
Michael Noonan
What Will Hegseth’s “State of the Force” Reprise Reveal?
Peter Feaver
Nicaragua’s Army Will Decide What Comes After Ortega
Orlando J. Pérez
and
Randy Pestana
Russia’s Next Top General: Promotions in Russian Military Leadership
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Julian G. Waller
,
Gabriela I. Rosa-Hernandez
, and
Cornell Overfield
The Next School of War: Educating for Tomorrow’s Battlefield
Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy
and
Benjamin Jensen
The Blood Price: In Israel, Military Sacrifice Is Becoming Political Power
Guy Ziv
The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military Professionalism
Jason Dempsey
and
Matthew Rambo
Practice Makes Deterrence: India’s Next Nuclear Challenge at Sea
Kunal Singh
Indonesia’s Blue-Water Ambition Requires Sustained Overseas Deployments
Muhammad Fauzan Malufti
Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
Indonesia’s One Million Soldiers Questions
Muhammad Fauzan Malufti
Obedience, Ambiguity, and Punishment: The Chinese Military at Tiananmen Revisited
Joseph Torigian
Colombia’s Security Situation Under Petro
Alfonso Camacho-Martinez
After Maduro: Trump’s Managed Authoritarianism Trap in Venezuela
Orlando J. Pérez
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
Carrie Lee
The Day After: What Successful Regime Change in Venezuela Would Really Take
Orlando J. Pérez
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Peter Mitchell
Explaining Trump’s Surprising Turn to Pakistan
Muhib Rahman
A Strait Comparison: Lessons from the Dardanelles for a Strait of Hormuz Closure
Jonathan Schroden
Marching to Different Drums: The Army’s Birthday Parade as Seen from China
J. William DeMarco
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Arctic Threat is Not Frozen
David Auerswald
The 2024 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Dangers of Intertwining Politics and Military
David Pion-Berlin
and
Andrew Ivey
Back to the Basics: How Many People Are in the People’s Liberation Army?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
Rewind and Reconnoiter: China’s Multifaceted Arctic Strategy with David Auerswald
David Auerswald
Every Arsenal Needs Its Fans: The Missing Piece in the National Defense Industrial Strategy Is Voters
Dan Vallone
American Military-Civil Fusion at Risk with the Loss of the Shift Fellowship
Jake Chapman
Taiwan’s Theory of the Fight
Tommy Jamison
In Brief: A Wave of Coups in Africa
Ebenezer Obadare
,
Raphael Parens
,
Vanda Felbab-Brown
, and
Tatiana Smirnova
Goldwater Ripples: How Defense Reform Made the Fighting Force More Diplomatic
George Greanias
The Opponents of Marine Reform Have Lost, But Won’t Move On
Robert Work
In Brief: The Turkish Elections
WOTR Staff
Xi Jinping’s Worst Nightmare: A Potemkin People’s Liberation Army
Andrew Scobell
Renewing Democracy Through Oath Education at the Air Force Academy
Marybeth Ulrich
,
Lynne Chandler Garcia
, and
Sydney Fitch
How the Anti-Woke Campaign Against the U.S. Military Damages National Security
Risa Brooks
Toward a More Dynamic Italian Military
Federico Borsari
Don’t Drag the Military into Politics
Kori Schake
The Gap Has Been Bridged!
Francis J. Gavin
They Make You Take an Oath to the Constitution: They Don’t Make You Read It
James Joyner
and
Butch Bracknell
Will Putin’s War in Ukraine Continue Without Him?
Shawn Cochran
Beating the Authoritarian Legacy: Upgrading Conscription in Greece and Taiwan
Antonis Kamaras
Not Their Plane to Land: Generals Thwarting the Chain of Command?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The Case Against Security Cooperation in Fragile States
Barbara Salera
A More United, Better-Armed Opposition Can Bring Democracy to Myanmar
Ye Myo Hein
and
Lucas Myers
Cyber Signaling and Nuclear Deterrence: Implications for the Ukraine Crisis
Erica Lonergan
and
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Great-Power Competition Comes for Latin America
Adam Isacson
How a Russian-Led Alliance Keeps a Lid on Central Asia
Polina Beliakova
The 2021 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
More Deferential but Also More Political: How Americans’ Views of the Military Have Changed Over 20 Years
Ronald R. Krebs
and
Robert Ralston
The Scylla and Charybdis of Duty Discharge: Military Dilemma with Undemocratic Leaders
Manaswini Ramkumar
Succeeding Xi Jinping
Nan Li
Prosecuting Western and Non-Western Islamic State Fighters
Ayesha Ray
The Subprime Strategy Crisis: Failed Strategic Assessment in Afghanistan
Cole Livieratos
Ten Things the United States Should Do to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel
Michael Shurkin
and
Aneliese Bernard
Twitter Doesn’t Have to be the End of the Conversation
James Joyner
Twitter Will Not Steward the Profession
Theo Lipsky
A Peacetime Army Goes to War
Aaron Edwards
Education Against Extremism: Suggestions for a Smarter Stand-Down
Carrie Lee
and
Celestino Perez, Jr.
An Urgent NATO Priority: Preparing to Protect Civilians
Victoria Holt
and
Marla Keenan
A U.S. Security Strategy for the Arctic
David Auerswald
The Great Churning: Modi’s Transformation of the Indian Military
Anit Mukherjee
Turkey’s Talk Show Nationalists
Ryan Gingeras
Short-Term Action Items for Lloyd Austin’s Pentagon
Christopher Dougherty
Bureaucratizing to Fight Extremism in the Military
Doyle Hodges
What’s in a Name? Reimagining Irregular Warfare Activities for Competition
Kevin Bilms
The Post-Conflict Colombian Military Looks for a Development Role
Andrew Ivey
Will the Military Become Just Another Politicized Institution?
Walter Haynes
2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Israeli National Intelligence Culture and the Response to COVID-19
Itai Shapira
Making Waves: Militant Maritime Operations Along Africa’s Eastern Coast
Tyler Lycan
,
Christopher Faulkner
, and
Austin C. Doctor
Should the Military Protect the Election?
Joshua Rovner
NATO in the Arctic: Keep Its Role Limited, For Now
David Auerswald
Let the Generals Speak? Retired Officer Dissent and the June 2020 George Floyd Protests
Risa Brooks
and
Michael A. Robinson
Space Force Creation Warrants Revisiting Defense Unification
James W. E. Smith
The Dangerous Myths About China’s Nuclear Weapons
David Logan
Subtweets Are Partisan Too: Why Retired Generals Can’t Avoid the Parties
Luke J. Schumacher
Strategic Outpost’s Fifth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Generals Shouldn’t be Welcome at These Parties: Stopping Retired Flag Officer Endorsements
Heidi Urben
Revenge of Cartography
MADELYN CREEDON
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Is Veterans’ Preference Bad for the National Security Workforce?
Frances Tilney Burke
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Trump Has Arranged for a Military Mulligan. Will He Make the Most of It?
Peter Feaver
For a Grander Army of the Republic: Better Names for Bases
Will Quinn
and
Jason Fritz
Towards a Concept of Good Civilian Guidance
Alice Hunt Friend
and
Mara Karlin
This Memorial Day, Let’s Finally Start Having an Honest National Conversation About Military Service
Ronald R. Krebs
and
Robert Ralston
No Sure Victory: The Marines New Force Design Plan and the Politics of Implementation
Matthew Fay
and
Michael A. Hunzeker
Tunisia’s Military and the Economic Fallout of COVID-19
Frederic Wehrey
COVID-19 and the Limits of Putin’s Power
Polina Beliakova
Is Human Rights Training Working with Foreign Militaries? No One Knows and That’s O.K.
Emily Knowles
and
Jahara Matisek
Africa’s Pandemic Catch-22
Christopher O. Ogunmodede
Weapons, Viruses, and the New Defense Reality in Southeast Asia
Zachary Abuza
Will the Pandemic Affect America’s Confidence in the Military?
Neil Snyder
What Can Military and Civilian Leaders Do to Prevent the Military’s Politicization?
Risa Brooks
Paging a Joint Task Force: Cyber Defense of Pandemic Medical Infrastructure
J.D. Work
Learning from the Banality and Aftermath of Bolivia’s Coup
Drew Holland Kinney
America’s Special Operators Will Be Adrift Without Better Civilian Oversight
Mark E. Mitchell
,
Zachary Griffiths
, and
Cole Livieratos
Guardians or Guardrails? The Role and Rule of Law in the Military
Doyle Hodges
Turkish Public Diplomacy and Operation Peace Spring
Ozlem Kayhan Pusane
Community, Culture, and of course, Competition: What We Learned from What You Read in 2019
Rebecca Zimmerman
How Churchill Waged War
Allen Packwood
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: The Politics of the Afghanistan Papers
Carrie Lee
Disgraceful Pardons: Dishonoring Our Honorable
Bradley J. Strawser
and
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
A State with Four Armies: How to Deal with the Case of Iraq
Sardar Aziz
and
Erwin van Veen
With AI, We’ll See Faster Fights, but Longer Wars
Margarita Konaev
Now is Not the Time for a FONOP in the Arctic
David Auerswald
Revisiting Iraq in the Shadow of Syria
Joshua Rovner
Recalling the Other “Supreme” Allied Operation of 1944
Cameron Zinsou
Thank You for Your Lip Service? Social Pressure to Support the Troops
Jim Golby
and
Peter Feaver
How Does the Kremlin Kick When It’s Down?
Polina Beliakova
Explaining Mission Creep in Afghanistan
Rick Berger
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
What Discord Follows: The Divisive Debate over Military Disobedience
Lindsay Cohn
,
Max Margulies
, and
Michael A. Robinson
When Not to Obey Orders
Andrew Milburn
Can Sudan’s Military Be Convinced to Support Democracy?
Nathaniel Allen
and
Sharan Grewal
What a U.S. Operation in Russia Shows About the Limits of Coercion in Cyber Space
Benjamin Jensen
China’s Multifaceted Arctic Strategy
David Auerswald
Hope as a Method: Maxwell Taylor and America’s Cold War
Gregory Daddis
and
Jesse A. Faugstad
Pressing the Button: How Nuclear-Armed Countries Plan to Launch Armageddon (And What to Do About the U.S.)
Jeffrey Lewis
and
Bruno Tertrais
The Hidden Costs of Strategy by Special Operations
Walter Haynes
Building Modern Screw-Sloops? Strategic Choices about Artificial Intelligence in Defense
Nina Kollars
and
Doyle Hodges
Debunking the Myths of the War in Afghanistan
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Coming to Terms with America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
Jason Dempsey
Strategic Outpost Exclusive: Santa’s 2018 NatSec Gift List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East in the Post-Khashoggi Era
Michael Singh
Bombshell: Come What May
Lindsay Cohn
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Remembering the French War in Afghanistan
Olivier Schmitt
McRaven’s Message, Leadership, and the Profession of Arms
Carrie Lee
Danger Close: Military Politicization and Elite Credibility
Michael A. Robinson
Strategic Outpost’s Third Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Brazil’s Simmering Democratic Demise
Katie Hillegass
Military Superiority: More Than Meets the Eye
Mara Karlin
Can We Talk? The Obligation of Military Service
Charles Dunlap
You’re Imagining Things: Pop Culture, Warfare, and the Real-Life Lessons of ‘Star Wars’
Erin Simpson
The Greatest Sacrifice: Why Military Service Should Not Be an Obligation of Citizenship
Max Margulies
A New Blueprint for Competing Below the Threshold: The Joint Concept for Integrated Campaigning
Phillip Lohaus
Just Say No? Military Dissent From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the Trump Era
Rosa Brooks
Did you miss…
Ryan Evans
Bombshell: Long Legs and Brains
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
,
Kori Schake
, and
Radha Iyengar
Walls and Ladders: The Latest UN Panel of Experts Report on North Korea Sanctions
Andrea Berger
and
Shea Cotton
Revising Japan’s Peace Constitution: Much Ado About Nothing
Jeffrey W. Hornung
The Military Needs Reform, Not a Raise
Jim Perkins
The Destabilizing Dangers of U.S. Counterterrorism in the Sahel
Nathaniel Powell
Stripping the Altars of Long-Term Defense Planning
Thomas-Durell Young
How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington At Once?
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Lauren Fish
Strategic Outpost’s 2017 Holiday Shopping List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Sparked Zimbabwe’s Succession Coup de Grace?
Alexander Noyes
The Center Cannot Hold: Continuity and Change in Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy
James Benkowski
and
A. Bradley Potter
What Political Science Tells Us About the Risk of Civil War in Spain
Sara Plana
The Rorschach Test of New Nuclear Powers: Analogies for North Korean Command and Control
Austin Long
Why No General Should Serve as White House Chief of Staff
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Chain of Command Problem in Central and Eastern Europe
Thomas-Durell Young
Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection Between U.S. Training and Military Coups
Jesse Dillon Savage
and
Jonathan Caverley
The Unvarnished Tyrant: American Soldiers and the Final Months of Saddam
David Eisler
NATO’s Blind Spot: Getting to “Honest Defense”
Thomas-Durell Young
Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Bombshells
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Dereliction of Duty Reconsidered: The Book that Made the National Security Advisor
Kori Schake
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part I: The Enduring Nature
Mick Ryan
The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Mattis is Outstanding, So What’s the Problem?
Alice Hunt Friend
Getting South Asia on Track: Ideas for the Next President
C. Christine Fair
Elephants in Afghanistan: The Military’s Counterinsurgency Failure
Jason Dempsey
I Love Mattis, But I Don’t Love Him as SecDef
Erin Simpson
Trump Will Need a New Law to Put Mattis Back in the Pentagon
Robert Chesney
The Oversight Gap: The Role of the Military in a Civilian Transition
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How to Get Generals out of Politics
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Case for Revising India’s Counterinsurgency Strategy in Kashmir
Ayesha Ray
Can Militarization Be a Good Thing for America’s Police?
Jason Fritz
Repairing the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
Generals and Political Interventions in American History
James Joyner
Speaking Nonsense to Power: Misadventures in Dissent Over Syria
Jeremy Shapiro
The Price of Perpetual War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Rebooting the Selective Service
Jason Mangone
Afghanistan, Bowe Bergdahl, and the Lessons of Serial
Jason Dempsey
The Syrian Civil War and the End of Turkey’s Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
The Zombie Myths of Conscription
Phillip Carter
The Cost of Credible Deterrence in Taiwan
Jennifer M. Turner
What the Latest Ousting of a Chinese General Means
Peter Mattis
Understanding the Abrams Doctrine: Myth versus Reality
Conrad Crane
and
Gian Gentile
Dayton’s Lessons for Syria
Stefano Recchia
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
CSI: Pentagon — Who Killed American Strategy?
Adam Elkus
Political Scientists and the Military
Paula Thornhill
and
Rachel Whitlark
China: The Adversary Has Arrived
Robert Haddick
The Not-Yet-Chiefs’ Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
The New Chiefs in Town
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
So You Want to Be an Indian Armed Forces Expert?
Shashank Joshi
Getting Involved in Policy: An Overworked Grad Student’s Guide
Lena Andrews
,
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
,
Julia Macdonald
,
Jacquelyn Schneider
, and
Rachel Whitlark
The Most Underrated Military Strategist?
Michael Horowitz
A View from the Trenches of IR Training
Lena Andrews
,
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
, and
Julia Macdonald
An Admiral in the Storm: Stavridis on Leadership and Civility
Ryan Evans
Besting Boko Haram
Alice Hunt Friend
Not So Chickenhawk: Pushing Back Against Fallows
Michael Cohen
(W)Archives: Dissecting Fleet Admiral Nimitz’ Grad School Thesis
Mark Stout
Back to the future in Turkish politics?
Kristin Fabbe
and
Joshua Walker
A New American Military Ethic
Frank Hoffman
Military intervention, Iranian-style
Farzan Sabet
Less than 10K in the Graveyard of Empires
Thomas Lynch
5 Questions with Kim Dozier on Resilience and Hash Brownies
Ryan Evans
This QDR Is a Budget Document, Not a Strategy Document
Kori Schake
Winning the Third War in Pakistan
Jason Turse
A Conversation with the Chairman: General Martin E. Dempsey
Ryan Evans
and
Jason Fritz
A Second Look at the Powell Doctrine
Frank Hoffman
We Don’t Know the Root of the Problem
Jason Fritz
Learning Large Lessons from Small Wars
Frank Hoffman
20YY: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
and
Shawn Brimley
Failure to Learn: Reflections on a Career in the Post-Vietnam Army
David Johnson
Adding to Odierno’s Reading List
Frank Hoffman
Top 25 from our first year
Ryan Evans
,
John Amble
,
Usha Sahay
, and
Lauren Katzenberg
99 Problems But a Draft Ain’t One
Phillip Carter
The Brits, Blair, and War
Robert Goldich
A Look in the Mirror
Frank Hoffman
The 1980 Coup and a Slow Transition: The Real Turkish Model for Egypt?
Ryan Evans
Ten Wartime Technologies at America’s 250th
Cogs of War Staff
MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation
George M. Dougherty
Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense
Fanny Chao
and
Sam Bresnick
From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence
Ofek Riemer
,
Ehud Eiran
, and
Daniel F. Wajner
Iran and the Indispensable Broker: How Pakistan Outmaneuvers India on the World Stage
Farah Jan
The Limits of Trump’s Regime Capture Strategy from Venezuela to Cuba
Charles Larratt-Smith
10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
Bryan Daugherty
The Danger of Vibe Patriotism in Defense Tech
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
Military Senior Service Colleges Require Reform, But There Sure Are Some Bad Ideas Out There
Bradford T. Duplessis
Fighting an Economic War Without Fused Intelligence
Karyn Eliot
and
Jennifer Buss
The Burden That Should Not Be Theirs: How Congress Turned the Military into the Last Check on Illegal War
Rachel E. VanLandingham
The Danger in the Middle: Will Xi’s Purges Increase the Risk of War?
Joel Wuthnow
Is the Age of Drones Really the Age of Poor Maneuver?
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
Washington’s Risky Bet on Pakistan and the F-16
Sajjan M. Gohel
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Michael Borja
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
Zenel Garcia
and
Alexandra Meise
Gutting U.S. Government Humanitarianism Makes the Defense Department’s Job Harder
Michael C. Loftus
Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond
Ofek Riemer
,
Daniel F. Wajner
, and
Ehud Eiran
The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Scott Cooper
Rough Seas Ahead: Steering the Military Profession
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
Israel’s Oct. 7 Early Warning Failure: Who Is to Blame?
Ehud Eiran
,
Ofer Guterman
, and
David Simantov
Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China
Liza Tobin
,
Addis Goldman
, and
Katherine Kurata
Russia’s Mercenary-Industrial Complex in Africa
Christopher Faulkner
and
Raphael Parens
Why Washington Failed in Niger
Nathaniel Powell
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Public Politics in the Wartime Russian Dictatorship with Julian Waller
Julian Waller
Empty Promises? A Year Inside the World of Multi-Domain Operations
Davis Ellison
and
Tim Sweijs
Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater Nor the Wagner Group
Alessandro Arduino
The Allure of Conscription
Ryan Pallas
It’s Time to Revise Guidance On Political Activities For Members of the U.S. Military
John Childress
,
Dave Richardson
, and
Heidi Urben
Moral Injury, Afghanistan, and the Path Toward Recovery
Katherine Selber
and
Will Selber
Addressing the U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis
Nora Bensahel
and
David Barno
Army at 250: Beyond a Slogan, the Army Needs a New Narrative Strategy
Dan Vallone
Reliance on Dual-Use Technology Is a Trap
Jake Chapman
The Grand Race for Techno-Security Leadership
Tai Ming Cheung
and
Thomas G. Mahnken
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part I
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
As Silicon Valley Tries to Enlist, the Pentagon Strangles Innovation
Steve Blank
Oft Forgotten But Critical Elements of Ukrainian Resistance
Walter Haynes
Unleashing the U.S. Military’s Thinking about Cyber Power
M.A. Thomas
Beyond Biological Defense: Maintaining the U.S. Biotechnology Advantage
Rob Carlson
,
Chad Sbragia
, and
Kate Sixt
Build a More Effective Cyber Force, Not More Bureaucracy
Jason Blessing
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Francis J. Gavin
The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Scott Cooper
Rethinking the Past
Francis J. Gavin
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
China’s Post-Pandemic Future: Wuhan Wobbly?
Andrew Scobell
To Learn the Army’s Ethic, Officers Should Study the Army’s History
Theo Lipsky
Focusing the Military Services’ Arctic Strategies
Joshua Tallis
The Gulf War 30 Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Blind Spots
Richard A. Lacquement, Jr.
Brent Scowcroft and American Military Intervention
Philip Zelikow
Distilling the Essence of Strategy
Frank Hoffman
Who Guards the ‘Maritime Silk Road’?
Veerle Nouwens
China’s Strategic Assessment of the Ladakh Clash
Yun Sun
A Healthy Dose of Realism: Stopping COVID-19 Doesn’t Start with the WHO
Frank L. Smith III
A Defense Management Reform Agenda for the Next Administration
Peter Levine
Fifty Years After the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force
Brandon J. Archuleta
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Symbol or Substance? Modi’s Decision to Appoint a Chief of Defense Staff
Anit Mukherjee
Revisiting the Vietnam War at Home — And What It Means for Today
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Experimentation Can Help Build Better Security Partners
Thomas-Durell Young
Artificial Intelligence Meets Bureaucratic Politics
Andrew Imbrie
The Increasingly Dangerous Politicization of the U.S. Military
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Explaining the Poverty of Germany’s Strategic Debate
Walter Haynes
The Other Stolen Valor: Unrecognized Heroism in Our Recent Wars
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Why Not a Space Force? Cautions of Organizational Re-Design
Kevin L. Parker
WOTR Podcast: Mayhem and Misadventures in the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
,
Elizabeth Saunders
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Nick Danforth
Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Technology Is Only Half the Battle
Michael Horowitz
and
Casey Mahoney
Murphy’s Law and Learning to Love the Pentagon
Rachel Webb
The 2018 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Rethinking Enlisted Education: Expanding the Professional Military Education Debate
Matthew Reed
How Close Did the United States Actually Get to Using Nuclear Weapons in Vietnam in 1968?
Theo Milonopoulos
Applying America’s Superpowers: How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Informatization Strategy
Charles Rybeck
,
Lanny Cornwell
, and
Philip Sagan
Save the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute: An Open Letter
WOTR Staff
Looking Beyond Professional Military Education to Evaluating Officers
Jaron Wharton
,
Aaron Martin
,
Quintin Jones
, and
Antonio Fernando Nunez Martini
Diverging From the Arbitrary: The Gray Scholars and Innovation in the U.S. Marine Corps
Benjamin Jensen
Buyer’s Remorse: Pakistan’s Elections and the Precarious Future of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Andrew Small
Xi Looks to China’s Private Sector as He Pursues a Slimmer, Smarter PLA
Meia Nouwens
and
Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Xi Jinping and His Generals: Curiouser and Curiouser
Dean Cheng
Mali is France’s Afghanistan, But With a Difference
Stephanie Pezard
and
Michael Shurkin
Iraq’s Competing Security Forces After the Battle for Mosul
Renad Mansour
and
Erwin van Veen
Scientist-Warrior Geeks: Turning Knowledge Into Power
Lukasz Kamienski
Maj. Smith Goes to Washington: In Defense of Citizen-Soldiers in Congress
John Amble
Three Things the Army Chief of Staff Wants You to Know
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Debating the Nuclear Legacy of India and One of Its Great Cold War Strategists
Yogesh Joshi
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part III: Competencies Today and into the Future
Mick Ryan
An Active-Duty National Security Advisor: Myths and Concerns
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Mastering the Profession of Arms, Part II: Keeping Pace with Changes
Mick Ryan
Hard Men in a Hard Environment: Indian Special Operators Along the Border with China
Iskander Rehman
If Duterte Kicks Out U.S. Special Operators, a Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Ryan Rockwell
A Military Guide to Accessing Research on Fragile States
Jacob N. Shapiro
and
Caitlin Tulloch
There’s No Place Like Home: Southeast Asia’s Security Priorities
Natalie Sambhi
The U.A.E. Approach to Counterinsurgency in Yemen
Michael Knights
How Good Are They? The Latest Insights into China’s Military Tech
Andrew Erickson
Radically Rethinking NATO and the Future of European Security
Job C. Henning
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Reestablishing Deterrence: A Guide for Taiwan’s New President
Lauren Dickey
A Strategic Framework for the Fight Against ISIL
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
Why Does Pakistan Accuse Indian Spies of Terrorism?
Michael Kugelman
The Role of the U.S. Army in Asia
Thomas Bickford
and
Albert Willner
The Dilemma of an African Soldier
Jeffrey Meiser
The Odd Sheikh Out: A Complex Problem
Adam Elkus
Killing Hakimullah Mehsud
Stephen Tankel
Repairing America’s Strategy Bridge
Frank Hoffman
