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I’m Sorry, Dave. I’m Afraid I Can’t De-escalate: On (AI) Wargaming and Nuclear War
Ankit Panda
and
Andrew Reddie
Analysis and Education: Twin Tracks of Marine Wargaming
Joseph Wehmeyer
The Emerging Emphasis on Enlisted Wargaming
Nicole Wiley
Put Educational Wargaming in the Hands of the Warfighter
Sebastian J. Bae
Wargaming Climate Change: Who Plays for the Red Team?
Andrea H. Cameron
and
Sharon E. Burke
A Tale of Two Wargames: An Entirely Fictitious Tale of Wargaming Woe and Tragedy
Jon Compton
Is It a Wargame? It Doesn’t Matter: Rigorous Wargames Versus Effective Wargaming
Jeremy Sepinsky
Is the Department of Defense Making Enough Progress in Wargaming?
Yuna Huh Wong
and
Garrett Heath
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter: Wargaming the Role of Law in War
Thomas J. Gordon IV
,
Adam Oler
,
Laurie Blank
, and
Jill Goldenziel
Bringing Congress to the (Wargaming) Table for a Bigger and Better Navy
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Wargaming Cyber Security
Benjamin Schechter
May Madness: Competitive Wargaming in a Pandemic
Thomas J. Gordon IV
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James Joyner
, and
Jorge Benitez
Wargaming Lessons from Exercise Sea Dragon
Von Lambert
and
Tyler Quinn
Getting the Story Right about Wargaming
ED McGrady
Rolling the Iron Dice: From Analytical Wargaming to the Cycle of Research
Peter P. Perla
,
Web Ewell
,
Christopher Ma
,
Justin Peachey
,
Jeremy Sepinsky
, and
Basil Tripsas
The Obstacles on the Road to Better Analytical Wargaming
Jon Compton
Roll for Initiative: NATO’s Navies Need a Wargaming Series
Jared Samuelson
Wargaming Has a Place, But Is No Panacea for Professional Military Education
Carrie Lee
and
Bill Lewis
Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future
Benjamin Jensen
Building a Pipeline of Wargaming Talent: A Two-Track Solution
Elizabeth Bartels
An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Clayton Schuety
and
Lucas Will
Wargaming with Athena: How to Make Militaries Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient with Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Chris Whyte
Adding Shots on Target: Wargaming Beyond the Game
Elizabeth Bartels
Wargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey
James Lacey
Play On: Supporting Decision-Makers by Sustaining Wargaming
Joshua Jones
Gaming the System: Obstacles to Reinvigorating Defense Wargaming
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
and
David A. Shlapak
Revitalizing Wargaming is Necessary to Be Prepared for Future Wars
Robert Work
and
Gen. Paul Selva
Six Rules for Wargaming: The Lessons of Millennium Challenge ‘02
Gary Anderson
and
Dave Dilegge
The People’s Liberation Army on Wargaming
Dean Cheng
Acquisition Reform Needs Its Own Wargame
Stephen Bittner
From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass
Mike Benitez
The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War
John G. Ferrari
and
Dillon Prochnicki
From Filament to Firepower: 3D Printing’s Impact on Warfare
Travis Veillon
The U.S. Military Risks Letting Contractors Define How It Sees the Battlefield
David Kamien
Every Soldier a Software Builder: Governing the Army’s New Digital Workforce
Anthony A. Joyce
Five Wargames Every Force Design Process Needs
Nathaniel Ambler
,
Maegen Nix
, and
Travis Reese
The Battlefield is the Next Betting Market
Jonathan Walberg
Military Operational Thinking in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Anders McD Sookermany
and
Thomas Slensvik
AI Is Being Misunderstood as a Breakthrough in Planning. It’s Not.
Christopher Denzel
Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans?
Alexandra Gerber
Gamified War in Ukraine: Points, Drones, and the New Moral Economy of Killing
Hadi Al-Majdalani
The Affordable Mass the Air Force Is Looking For Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Ben McNally
Chasing True AI Autonomy: From Legacy Mindsets to Battlefield Dominance
Vitaliy Goncharuk
Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
Marco Lyons
Operating AI in the Gray Zone: Drawing Clear Lines Before They Blur
Morgan Plummer
The Coming Wave: Chinese Doctrine on the Tabletop?
Cornell Fuka
Two Dangerous Assumptions in U.S. Defense Planning and How to Fix Them
Noel Williams
A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective
Jeffrey Michaels
and
Michael John Williams
The Evolution of How We Interpret (and Misinterpret) AI
Vincent J. Carchidi
Crafting a Successful U.S. Force Posture Abroad
David Ochmanek
and
Andrew Hoehn
Data Centers on the 21st Century Battlefield
Alex Rough
Military Gaming to Stay Ahead, But Not the Kind You Think
Joseph L. Votel
Building a New Brain: Transforming Military Schoolhouses into AI Battle Labs
Benjamin Jensen
Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland
Michael Poznansky
and
Erik Sand
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Putting the Defense Industry Through Wargames
Sandra R. Thomas
Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames
Jonathan Compton
,
Joseph Mroszczyk
, and
Matthew Tattar
Crucibles, Not Comfort, Shape Future Military Leaders
J. William DeMarco
Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming European Command
Bryan Quinn
,
Bobby Sickler
, and
David Wiltse
Peering into the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Classroom
James Lacey
It’s Time to Build the Digital Century Series
Ben McNally
Rolling Back Naval Forward Presence Will Strengthen American Deterrence
Jonathan Panter
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
American Defense Planning in the Shadow of Protracted War
Evan Braden Montgomery
and
Julian Ouellet
Next-Generation Decoys for the Marine Corps
Jorge Rivero
The Wargames That Prophesized America’s Defeat in Vietnam
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Jacob Ganz
In War and Society, Large Language Models Are What We Make of Them
Benjamin Jensen
,
Yasir Atalan
, and
Ian Reynolds
China’s Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction
M. Taylor Fravel
,
George Gilboy
, and
Eric Heginbotham
Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic
Taren Sylvester
and
Katherine Kuzminski
How to Make Military AI Governance More Robust
Brianna Rosen
NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility
Benjamin Jensen
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Marine Corps
Will McGee
Denial Is the Worst Except for All the Others: Getting the U.S. Theory of Victory Right for a War with China
Jacob Heim
,
Zachary Burdette
, and
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?
Jason Vogt
,
Nina Kollars
, and
Michael Poznansky
Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling Across the Department of Defense
Robert Work
,
Michael Brown
, and
Ellen Lord
Train, Harden, Sustain: Maintaining the Army’s Lethality in the Nuclear Shadow
Michael Losacco
Uncrewed Systems and the Transformation of U.S. Warfighting Capacity
Mick Ryan
and
Clint Hinote
Trends in Maritime Challenges Indicate Force Design 2030 Is the Proper Path
C. Travis Reese
,
Ian Brown
,
Zach Ota
,
Travis Hord
,
Leo Spaeder
, and
Brian Strom
Bind Ukraine’s Military-Technology Revolution to Rapid Capability Development
Mykhaylo Lopatin
The True Military Assistance Tradeoff Is Between Israel and Taiwan
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
Inflection Point: How to Reverse the Erosion of U.S. and Allied Military Power and Influence
David Ochmanek
and
Andrew Hoehn
Nuclear Brinkmanship in AI-Enabled Warfare: A Dangerous Algorithmic Game of Chicken
James Johnson
Where the Wargames Weren’t: Assessing 10 Years of U.S.-Chinese Military Assessments
Matthew Tetreau
Carrier Strike Groups Should Be Ready to Go Dark in Conflict
Nick Danby
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons & Dragons and Military Intelligence
Ian Strebel
and
Matt McKenzie
Facing Down an Arsenal: Considering Agile Combat Employment in Korea
Zach Hughes
Survivability and What It Means to Risk It
Josh Portzer
What the Ukrainian Armed Forces Need to Do to Win
Erik Kramer
and
Paul Schneider
What Washington Gets Wrong About Deterrence
Raphael S. Cohen
The Opponents of Marine Reform Have Lost, But Won’t Move On
Robert Work
Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
Competition is Inevitable, War is Not: Using Games to Rethink the U.S.-Chinese Relationship
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
AI’s Inhuman Advantage
Paul Scharre
Why The Marines Matter
Joslyn Fleming
,
Katherine Guthrie
, and
Colin Smith
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
It’s Time to Recognize Sustainment as a Strategic Imperative
Antulio J. Echevarria
The Kadena Conundrum: Developing a Resilient Indo-Pacific Posture
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
,
Andrew Metrick
, and
Becca Wasser
The Rise and Fall of the Pentomic Army
R.F.M. Williams
A Chat With Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos of Air University
Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos
and
Ryan Evans
Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Kyle Cregge
, and
Collin Fox
An Alliance Division of Labor in East Asia
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
AI, Autonomy, and the Risk of Nuclear War
James Johnson
Driving the Dark Road to the Future: A Guide to Revitalizing Defense Planning and Strategic Analysis
Benjamin Jensen
and
Michael Rountree
Priors and Prejudice: Planning the U.S. Navy’s Future
Emma Salisbury
Feedback Loops and Fundamental Flaws in Autonomous Warships
Jonathan Panter
and
Johnathan Falcone
Let the Commandant Lead the Marine Corps
Nicholas Hanson
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens
Are the Marines Inventing the Edsel or the Mustang?
Owen West
The Changing Character of Combined Arms
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Strohmeyer
On Future Wars and the Marine Corps: Asking the Right Questions
Tim Barrick
We Need Senior Cyber Leaders. Service War Colleges Can Train Them
Alfredo Rodriguez
Why Russian Cyber Dogs Have Mostly Failed to Bark
Jelena Vićić
and
Rupal N. Mehta
The Wargame Before the War: Russia Attacks Ukraine
James Lacey
,
Tim Barrick
, and
Nathan Barrick
The Full Potential of a Military Metaverse
Jennifer McArdle
and
Caitlin Dohrman
Gen. David H. Berger on the Marine Corps of the Future
Gen. David H. Berger
and
Ryan Evans
The Uncomfortable Reality of the U.S. Army’s Role in a War Over Taiwan
Jacquelyn Schneider
Taiwan’s Defense Plans Are Going Off the Rails
Michael A. Hunzeker
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
MAD COWs and Practical Wisdom
John Emery
and
Doyle Hodges
Confronting Chaos: A New Concept for Information Advantage
Chris Dougherty
Credibility Controversies: The Implications of Afghanistan for the Indo-Pacific
Evan Braden Montgomery
A Better Approach to Organizing Combatant Commands
Margaux Hoar
,
Jeremy Sepinsky
, and
Peter M. Swartz
The Challenge of Educating the Military on Cyber Strategy
Erica Borghard
,
Mark Montgomery
, and
Brandon Valeriano
Conflicts in Wargames: Leveraging Disagreements to Build Value
Thomas Nagle
Rescuing the Rescuers: A Guide to Revitalizing an Air Force Community
Christian Braunlich
How the Defense Department Can Move from Abstraction to Action on Climate Change
Samuel Brannen
,
Sarah Ladislaw
, and
Lachlan Carey
Joint Force Operating Scenarios: Improving Analysis and Oversight of Force Development
Leo Spaeder
,
John K. Adams
,
C. Travis Reese
, and
John T. Quinn II
Simulating War: Three Enduring Lessons from the Louisiana Maneuvers
Jennifer McArdle
Redefine Readiness or Lose
Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.
and
Gen. David H. Berger
The Marine Corps Under the Nuclear Shadow: A Great-Power Problem
Nathan Fleischaker
and
Shawna Sinnott
Whispers from Wargames About the Gray Zone
Robert C. Rubel
Advantage At Sea Requires Rethinking Influence
Erika De La Parra Gehlen
and
Frank L. Smith III
Five Reasons Not to Split Cyber Command from the NSA Any Time Soon – If Ever
Chris C. Demchak
Time For A Fully Integrated Dual-Fleet Force Model
Dan Owen
Strategic Tradeoffs in U.S. Naval Force Structure — Rule the Waves or Wave the Flag?
Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
Short-Term Action Items for Lloyd Austin’s Pentagon
Christopher Dougherty
The Six Blind Men and the Elephant: Differing Views on the U.S. Defense Budget
Thomas Spoehr
Convoy Escort: The Navy’s Forgotten (Purpose) Mission
David Alman
The Next SIMNET? Unlocking the Future of Military Readiness Through Synthetic Environments
Jennifer McArdle
and
Caitlin Dohrman
More Space Wargames, Please
Shane Bilsborough
Getting the Fait Accompli Problem Right in U.S. Strategy
Michael Kofman
Why the Pentagon Should Focus on Taiwan
Elbridge Colby
and
Jim Mitre
Arming Without Aiming? Challenges for Japan’s Amphibious Capability
Benjamin Schreer
Bring Back the Seaplane
David Alman
You Can Teach a Marine Deterrence: Understanding Coercion Requires Changing PME
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Van Echo
Professional Military Education Needs More Creativity, Not More History
Adam Lowther
and
Brooke Mitchell
Reflections on Reading Great Books with Colonels
Jacqueline E. Whitt
Finally Getting Serious About Professional Military Education
James Lacey
A Healthy Dose of Realism: Stopping COVID-19 Doesn’t Start with the WHO
Frank L. Smith III
The Future of Warfare Will Continue to Be Human
Peter L. Hickman
Getting the Context of Marine Corps Reform Right
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Olivia Garard
The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons
Andrea Howard
The Rest of the Story: Evaluating the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030
Benjamin Jensen
Supporting Joint Warfighting with Mission-Level Simulations
Robert Richbourg
,
June Rodriguez
,
David M. Gohlich
, and
James N. Bexfield
Creating a Curious, Ethical, and Diverse AI Workforce
Carol Smith
To Deter China, the Naval Services Must Integrate
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Time to Revive Joint Concept Development and Experimentation
Robert G. Angevine
Don’t Go Too Crazy, Marine Corps
Mark Cancian
Reflections on Teaching Wargame Design
James “Pigeon” Fielder
Community, Culture, and of course, Competition: What We Learned from What You Read in 2019
Rebecca Zimmerman
Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful
Benjamin Jensen
and
John Paschkewitz
Corbett offers more on Space than Mitchell
James W. E. Smith
The (War)Games We Play
Ellie Bartels
,
ED McGrady
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Peter P. Perla
Getting the Most out of Your Wargame: Practical Advice for Decision-Makers
Elizabeth Bartels
Can the Cycle of Research Save American Military Strategy?
Phillip Pournelle
Will Artificial Intelligence Imperil Nuclear Deterrence?
Rafael Loss
and
Joseph Johnson
Stop Bombing Dirt: Resolving a Decade of Failed Aerial ISR Management
F. Jon Nesselhuf
Empowering Girls in National Security
Lauren Bean Buitta
How Does the Next Great Power Conflict Play Out? Lessons from a Wargame
James Lacey
Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
Iskander Rehman
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
Game of Drones: What Experimental Wargames Reveal About Drones and Escalation
Erik Lin-Greenberg
It’s the People, Stupid: The Year in Airpower
Mike Benitez
Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Technology Is Only Half the Battle
Michael Horowitz
and
Casey Mahoney
Imagining War With Musang: What a Wargame Explains About Indonesia’s Foreign Policy
Caleb Slayton
Just Let Them Compete: Raising the Next Generation of Wargamers
Sebastian J. Bae
Diverging From the Arbitrary: The Gray Scholars and Innovation in the U.S. Marine Corps
Benjamin Jensen
The Road Less Traveled: Both Sides Are Right About Professional Military Education
Tammy S. Schultz
Exploiting the Wellspring: Professional Military Education and Grassroots Innovation
Austin Duncan
and
Adam Yang
But First, Infrastructure: Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
Richard Kuzma
Intellectual Preparation for Future War: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Professional Military Education
Mick Ryan
On Anticipating Surprise
Frank Hoffman
Entry 51: Create Your Own Reality
Van Jackson
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Searching for Strategy in Washington’s Competition with Russia
Michael Kofman
From the Battle of Britain to Waze: Envisioning an Advanced Battle Management System
Nicholas Sigler
We Shall Fight Them on the Tabletop: What the Game of “Churchill” Teaches Us About Alliance Politics
Michael Peck
The Futures Problem: Why Big Organizations Have Problems Making Long-Term Forecasts and What to Do About It
Benjamin Jensen
and
Neil Hollenbeck
NATO’s Expanding Military Exercises Are Sending Risky Mixed Messages
Ralph S. Clem
A Fleet to Do What?
Phillip Pournelle
Chinese Bomber Flights Around Taiwan: For What Purpose?
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
,
Derek Grossman
, and
Logan Ma
Repeating the Miracle of ’42: Fixing Army Mobilization
Ken S. Gilliam
You Get Deterrence, and You Get Deterrence, Everybody Gets Deterrence!
Mara Karlin
Get Out of Your Lane: The End of Discrete Domains
Greg Grant
and
Paul Benfield
The Future Soldier: Alone in a Crowd
Conrad Crane
The Future of Air Superiority, Part III: Defeating A2/AD
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2016
WOTR Staff
In Defense of a Big Idea for Joint Warfighting
J.P. Clark
Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up with Strategy
Walter Haynes
Digging into the Archeology of the Future
Matthew Kirschenbaum
The Expensive Pretzel Logic of Deterring Russia by Denial
Michael Kofman
In Defense of a Wargame: Bolstering Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank
Karl Mueller
,
David A. Shlapak
,
Michael W. Johnson
, and
David Ochmanek
Fixing NATO Deterrence in the East or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love NATO’s Crushing Defeat by Russia
Michael Kofman
Outnumbered, Outranged, and Outgunned: How Russia Defeats NATO
David A. Shlapak
and
Michael W. Johnson
For Peace with Russia, Prepare for War in Europe: NATO and Conventional Deterrence
Elbridge Colby
and
Jonathan Solomon
Close Quarters Anarchy: Megacity Warfare Brought to Life in The Division
August Cole
Run, Freeze, or Fight? “Occupied” and the Future of Warfare
August Cole
Agenda SecDef: Crafting the Next Defense Strategy
Shawn Brimley
and
Loren DeJonge Schulman
Is the U.S. Military’s Plan to Keep its Edge Fatally Flawed?
Robert Haddick
The Strange Words of Strategy
BJ Armstrong
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part III
Iskander Rehman
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part II
Iskander Rehman
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part I
Iskander Rehman
How Do We Make Our Carriers Deadlier With What We Already Have?
Jack Curtis
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Self-Delusions of American Naval Power
Robert C. Rubel
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
Frank Hoffman
Time to Think About “Hybrid Defense”
Mark Galeotti
Secret Agent Man: How to Think about Autonomy
Adam Elkus
When the U.S. Navy Enters the next Super Bowl, Will It Play like the Denver Broncos?
Phillip Pournelle
What Critics of the Navy’s Strategy Get Wrong
Robert C. Rubel
Needed Now: A Realistic Strategy Force Structure for the 21st Century
Harlan Ullman
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
A Wargamer’s Response to Dave Anthony: Welcome!
Elizabeth Bartels
Why “Call of Duty” May Not Help Us Predict Future Wars
Adam Elkus
War Is A Video Game, And We’re Losing
Adam Elkus
Five Questions with Steven Metz on U.S. Landpower
John Amble
