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What Would Russia’s Break With the West Mean for Nuclear Arms Control?
Hanna Notte
and
Sarah Bidgood
Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy
Morgan L. Kaplan
It’s Time to Double Down on Diplomacy in Yemen
Daniel Kurtzer
and
Merlin Boone
Keeping Pace in the Gray Zone: Three Recommendations for the U.S. Intelligence Community
Jake Harrington
and
Riley McCabe
Eliminating Sanctions On the Taliban Won’t Solve Afghanistan’s Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
Keith Preble
and
Bryan Early
How to Protect Europe From Risky Foreign Direct Investment
Francesca Ghiretti
Turn On the Light, Extinguish the Fire: Israel’s New Way of War
Eran Ortal
Preparing for Inevitable Cyber Surprise
Jason Healey
Log4J Cyber Threat Requires New Approach to Design Flaws
Jeremy Bash
and
Michael Steed
Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation
Noah Spataro
,
Trevor Phillips-Levine
, and
Andrew Tenbusch
The Problems of Politics and Posture Are Baked into the System
Bryan McGrath
Gen. David H. Berger on the Marine Corps of the Future
Gen. David H. Berger
and
Ryan Evans
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2021
WOTR Staff
The Unmet Promise of the Global Posture Review
Becca Wasser
Is Team Biden Winning?
Francis J. Gavin
Strategic Ambiguity and the Risk of War with Russia over Ukraine
Ralph Clem
and
Ray Finch
Accidents and Escalation in a Cyber Age
Andrew A. Szarejko
and
John Arquilla
We’re Not in Kissinger’s Middle East Anymore
Abe Silberstein
Mobile Nuclear Power Reactors Won’t Solve the Army’s Energy Problems
Jake Hecla
AUKUS: A Cautionary Tale for French-American Relations
Célia Belin
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
The U.S. Navy’s Plans for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Leave Too Much Unexplained
Gregory V. Cox
Why Restraint in the Real World Encourages Digital Espionage
Joshua Rovner
What Would a Post-Erdoğan Turkish Foreign Policy Look Like?
M. Hasim Tekines
Toward a Trans-Atlantic Strategy on Russia Sanctions
Maria Shagina
The 2021 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Facing Up to Foreign Influence: How Outsiders Helped Create Lebanon’s Current Crisis
Nicholas Noe
Europe’s Energy Security Problem Leaves it in the Cold
Emily Holland
Why Cyber War Is Subversive, and How that Limits its Strategic Value
Lennart Maschmeyer
Lessons from the Littoral Combat Ship
Emma Salisbury
The Haqqani Network: The New Kingmakers in Kabul
Jeff M. Smith
Lights On in Lebanon: Limiting the Fallout from U.S. Sanctions on Syria
Sam Heller
The Ambivalent Supplier: U.S. Arms Transfer Policy Under Biden
Shimon Arad
Sanctions Reform Should Start with the Treasury Office Enforcing Them
Keith Preble
Biological Weapons in the ‘Shadow War’
Glenn Cross
How to Avoid Nuclear War
Michael Krepon
Prospects for Sino-Russian Coordination in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Wishnick
Unleashing the U.S. Military’s Thinking about Cyber Power
M.A. Thomas
The Once and Future Defeat in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin
China’s Hypersonic Weapons Tests Don’t Have to Be a Sputnik Moment
Sanne Verschuren
The United States Left Afghanistan to Prepare for a War It Will Probably Never Fight
Jacob Ware
Ending America’s Diplomacy-Last Syria Policy
Adham Sahloul
India Is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence
Tanvi Madan
China Flaunts Its Offensive Cyber Power
J.D. Work
Can’t Sail Away from Cyber Attacks: ‘Sea-Hacking’ from Land
Chris C. Demchak
and
Michael L. Thomas
The Taliban Can’t Take on the Islamic State Alone
Amira Jadoon
and
Andrew Mines
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: Getting Force Design Right in the Next National Defense Strategy
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
and
Becca Wasser
Making Sense of SADAT, Turkey’s Private Military Company
Matt Powers
A Minor Chance for a Majority Government: Iraq’s Electoral Outlook
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Sorry State of Czech-Russian Relations
Ondrej Ditrych
Trust is at the Heart of Australia’s Influence
Malcolm Turnbull
Adapting Intelligence to the New Afghanistan
Thomas Spahr
Authoritarianism and Nationalizing Natural Resources
Alexander “Xander” Slaski
Don’t Count Your Submarines Before They’re Built
Erik Sand
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Iraqi the Vote: Can Elections Bring Reform in Baghdad?
Yasir Kuoti
Could Multinational Peacekeepers Prevent Worst-Case Outcomes in Afghanistan?
Ryan C. Van Wie
Forward to the Past? Weigh Covert Options in Afghanistan Carefully
Thomas Waldman
and
Rory Cormac
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
Reflections on 9/11 Twenty Years After
Philip Zelikow
9/11 in Islamabad: The First 72 Hours
David O. Smith
A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
Al Mauroni
,
Zachary Kallenborn
,
Seth Carus
, and
Ron Fizer
Red Sea Drones: How to Counter Houthi Maritime Tactics
Håvard Haugstvedt
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Frank Hoffman
and
Andrew Orner
After Withdrawal: How China, Turkey, and Russia Will Respond to the Taliban
Michael Kofman
,
Aaron Stein
, and
Yun Sun
Ten Things the United States Should Do to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel
Michael Shurkin
and
Aneliese Bernard
A Better Approach to Organizing Combatant Commands
Margaux Hoar
,
Jeremy Sepinsky
, and
Peter M. Swartz
Soldiers of Fortune: Why U.S. Mercenaries Should Not Be Legal
Will Mackie
Terrorism in South Asia After the Fall of Afghanistan
Kabir Taneja
and
Mohammed Sinan Siyech
From Forever Wars to Great-Power Wars: Lessons Learned From Operation Inherent Resolve
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
and
Becca Wasser
From Desert Storm to Inherent Resolve: The Evolution of Airpower
Becca Wasser
and
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
A Thorough Explanation of China’s Long-Term Strategy
Peter Mattis
Mind the Gap: How China’s Civilian Shipping Could Enable a Taiwan Invasion
Thomas Shugart
Syria, Airpower, and the Future of Great-Power War
Aaron Stein
and
Ryan Fishel
The Militant Drone Playbook
Austin C. Doctor
and
James Igoe Walsh
Warning Signs: Qassem Musleh and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces
Nancy Ezzeddine
and
Erwin van Veen
The American Revolution, Naval Power, and the 21st Century
BJ Armstrong
The Problem with Biden’s Democracy Agenda
Robert Manning
and
Mathew Burrows
Updating Space Doctrine: How to Avoid World War III
Rep. Jim Cooper
Ambiguity Is a Fact, Not a Policy
Joshua Rovner
National Security Is Stronger When Congress Is Involved. Here’s How We Get Back to the Table.
Sen. Chris Murphy
The Information Technology Counter-Revolution: Cheap, Disposable, and Decentralized
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
How Biden Can Help Yemen
Gerald Feierstein
and
Fatima Abo Alasrar
The 2021 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Freedom of Navigation Operations: A Mission for Unmanned Systems
Trevor Prouty
War Is on the Rocks
John Mueller
Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft
Joe Ritter
Look to the 1980s to Inform the Fleet of Today
Rep. Elaine Luria
Building Maritime Security Coalitions — Lessons Learned from the Strait of Hormuz
Edgar Tam
and
Pierre Morcos
Say Hello to Turkey’s Little Friend: How Drones Help Level the Playing Field
Aaron Stein
Taiwan: Middle Path or Muddled Strategy?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The Biden-Putin Summit: Nothing to Reset but Expectations
Matthew Rojansky
Sing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America’s Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names
Tom Karako
The State Stays Dark: Mafia Politics Return to Turkey
Ryan Gingeras
The Political Economy of Ransomware
Jenny Jun
Pacific Germany
Dominik Wullers
Missile Defense Is Not a Substitute for Arms Control
John Tierney
and
Samuel M. Hickey
A Starcruiser for Space Force: Thinking Through the Imminent Transformation of Spacepower
Jeff Becker
Managed Risks, Managed Expectations: How Far Will Targeted Killing Get the United States in Afghanistan?
Bryce Loidolt
Panic at the Pump and the Real Threat to Energy Security
Gregory Brew
Bring Back the Air Force Battle Lab
Mike Benitez
Expanding the Scope for Statecraft in U.S. Russia Policy
Samuel Charap
How China Views the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Yun Sun
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
Abhijit Singh
Conflicts in Wargames: Leveraging Disagreements to Build Value
Thomas Nagle
Leaving Afghanistan Will Make America Less Safe
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
Back to the Future: Getting Special Forces Ready for Great-Power Competition
Barnett S. Koven
and
Chris Mason
Rethinking the Past
Francis J. Gavin
Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Missile Defense Is Compatible with Arms Control
Robert Soofer
Remove a Sanctions Cloud from U.S.-Indian Relations
Kenneth I. Juster
Into Thin Air: Aviation Security Force Assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Tobias Switzer
Propaganda at a Capitol Checkpoint: A Faked Antisemitic Text Resurfaces
Emily Blout
New Normal in Sino-Indian Ties
Chietigj Bajpaee
U.S. Defense Strategy After the Pandemic
Frank Hoffman
China Does Not Have to Be America’s Enemy in the Middle East
Ashley Rhoades
and
Dalia Dassa Kaye
Restoring Nuclear Bipartisanship: Force Modernization and Arms Control
John D. Maurer
What to Expect When You Don’t Want Your Adversaries to Know What to Expect
Jerry Meyerle
and
Amelia MacSleyne
China’s Shifting Attitude on the Indo-Pacific Quad
Joel Wuthnow
Getting the Defense Department Off the Hamster Wheel: Reducing Operating Costs to Invest in the Future of the Force
Doug Berenson
Strategizing to Exit Afghanistan: From Risk Avoidance to Risk Management
Sameer Lalwani
What to Expect When You’re Expecting NATO in Iraq
Paolo Napolitano
Reconsidering Arms Control Orthodoxy
Naomi Egel
and
Jane Vaynman
Covert Action, Espionage, and the Intelligence Contest in Cyberspace
Michael Poznansky
The State of (Deterrence by) Denial
Elbridge Colby
and
Walter Slocombe
An Irregular Upgrade to Operational Design
Brian Petit
,
Steve Ferenzi
, and
Kevin Bilms
Warfighting in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
Humility in American Grand Strategy
Mathew Burrows
and
Robert Manning
The Mythical War Scare of 1983
Simon Miles
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
Contending With McMaster
Emma Ashford
Whispers from Wargames About the Gray Zone
Robert C. Rubel
The Last Shah
Ray Takeyh
Chemical Weapons and the Hierarchy of Victims
Doreen Horschig
and
Güneş Murat Tezcür
A Liberal Case for Seapower?
Jonathan Caverley
and
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
Al-Qaeda Is Being Hollowed to Its Core
Barak Mendelsohn
and
Colin Clarke
The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Sanctions Enforcement
Bryan Early
and
Keith Preble
The Burning City Upon a Hill
Hilde Eliassen Restad
How to Bargain with the Taliban
Barnett Rubin
Defense Strategy and the Empire State of Mind: How Preparing for the Best Can Leave Washington Vulnerable to the Rest
Evan Braden Montgomery
Risky Encounters with Russia: Time to Talk About Real Deconfliction
Ralph Clem
There and Back Again: The Fall and Rise of Britain’s ‘East of Suez’ Basing Strategy
William James
Bureaucratizing to Fight Extremism in the Military
Doyle Hodges
Getting to Ethical Readiness
John Huntsman
Aiming Big by Thinking Small: A New U.S. Policy for Iraq
Raad Alkadiri
and
Christine McCaffray van den Toorn
Access Denied? The Future of U.S. Basing in a Contested World
Renanah M. Joyce
and
Brian Blankenship
Hybrid Security Governance and the Search for the State in the Middle East
Ariel I. Ahram
Practical Challenges and Hybrid Hypocrisy: Legal and Policy Dilemmas with the Hybrid Moniker
Erica Gaston
Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law
Deborah Pearlstein
The ‘Hybrid Armed Actors’ Paradox: A Necessary Compromise?
Renad Mansour
The Islamic State Stopped Talking About China
Elliot Stewart
Confidence and Catastrophe: Armenia and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Michael A. Reynolds
The Pendulum: How Russia Sways Its Way to More Influence in Libya
Jalel Harchaoui
Toward a More Nuanced View of Airpower and Operation Desert Storm
Matt Dietz
Redefining Victory in America’s War Against the Islamic State in Syria
Sam Heller
A Grand Strategy Based on Resilience
Erica Borghard
Biden Inherits a Challenging Civil-Military Legacy
Jim Golby
and
Peter Feaver
Team Biden, Pay Attention to the European Dust-Up Over NATO
Jedidiah Royal
The Modern Shetland Bus: The Lure of Covert Maritime Vessels for Great-Power Competition
Christopher D. Booth
Thinking in (Napoleonic) Times: Historical Warnings for an Era of Great-Power Competition
Alexandra Evans
In Syria, Put Humanitarian Aid Ahead of a Political Solution
Daphne McCurdy
and
Charles Thépaut
Small, Distributed, and Secure: A New Basing Architecture for the Middle East
Becca Wasser
and
Aaron Stein
Biden and Europe’s Dilemmas
Luis Simón
Obama’s Non-Nuclear Memoir
George Perkovich
A Bold Peace Offensive to Engage North Korea
Frank Aum
and
George A. Lopez
Competition for the Generations: A Father and Daughter Reflect on U.S. Fights from Beirut to Baghdad
Jim Breckenridge
and
Katie Breckenridge Crombe
Compartmentalizing the American Alliance with Israel from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Abe Silberstein
and
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Next National Defense Strategy
Benjamin Jensen
and
Nathan Packard
Biden Is Kim’s to Lose
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Intelligence in the Biden Administration
Joshua Rovner
Winning the AI Revolution for American Diplomacy
Ryan Dukeman
Righting the Course for America’s Special Operators
Mark E. Mitchell
and
Doug Livermore
President Biden: Think Bigger and Broader with Berlin
Stephen F. Szabo
and
Jason Bruder
The Paradox of Precision: Nonstate Actors and Precision-Guided Weapons
Itamar Lifshitz
and
Ayal Meents
Putting Out to Sea: What the History of Lebanese-Israeli Negotiations Can Tell Us About Current Negotiations Over a Maritime Boundary
James R. Stocker
Israeli National Intelligence Culture and the Response to COVID-19
Itai Shapira
Make Good Choices! National Security Transitions and the Policy and Process Decisions
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Alex Tippett
Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations
Jeff M. Smith
What the Abraham Accords Reveal About the United Arab Emirates
Elham Fakhro
Make Russia Sanctions Effective Again
Edward Fishman
‘Maximum Pressure Brought Down the Soviet Union’ and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Philip H. Gordon
What Can a Retired Sailor Teach Us About Turkey?
Ryan Gingeras
How Russia Views Afghanistan Today
Nurlan Aliyev
Washington Should Push for a Stronger E.U. Foreign Policy
Max Bergmann
and
Erik Brattberg
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Two Weeks In
Michael Kofman
and
Leonid Nersisyan
As Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates Normalize Ties, China Looks on Warily
Michael Singh
Defund CENTCOM
Justin Logan
Grand Strategy Is Total: French Gen. André Beaufre on War in the Nuclear Age
Michael Shurkin
A Solarium for Presidential Transition Teams
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
‘Blue Homeland’ and the Irredentist Future of Turkish Foreign Policy
Aykan Erdemir
and
Philip Kowalski
Falling into the Adaptation Gap
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Are America’s Sanctions on Syria Good For?
Sam Heller
Making the U.S. Military’s Counter-Terrorism Mission Sustainable
Stephen Tankel
How Curbing Reliance on Fossil Fuels Will Change the World
Philip H. Gordon
When There are Nine
Mira Rapp-Hooper
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
The F-35 Triangle: America, Israel, the United Arab Emirates
Barbara A. Leaf
and
Dana Stroul
More Aggressive and Less Ambitious: Cyber Command’s Evolving Approach
Joshua Rovner
‘Negative Peace’? China’s Approach to the Middle East
Guy Burton
The Gulf War 30 Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Blind Spots
Richard A. Lacquement, Jr.
We Are Already Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons from the Secretive Online Fight Against the Islamic State
Len “Loni” Anderson
,
Nathan Fleischaker
, and
Brian Russell
NATO’s Never-Ending Struggle for Relevance
James Goldgeier
and
Garret Martin
Opening Up New Avenues to Understanding the Path to War in Iraq
Joseph Stieb
Tensions at the U.N. Security Council
Richard Gowan
The United Arab Emirates and Israel Just Came Clean on Their Extra-Marital Affair
Gilead Sher
and
Yoel Guzansky
Pulling Back the Curtain on Turkey’s Natural Gas Strategy
John V. Bowlus
It’s Fun to Stay in the JCPOA
Nina Jancowicz
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Brent Scowcroft and American Military Intervention
Philip Zelikow
Blame It on the Blob? How to Evaluate American Grand Strategy
Francis J. Gavin
Lessons on Aging Gracefully
Josh Portzer
,
Arturo Trejo
, and
Tommy Shannon
Strategic Suspense: British Foreign and Defense Policy at a Crossroads
Alice Pannier
Hack-and-Leak Operations and U.S. Cyber Policy
James Shires
Smoke on the Water: The Global Challenge of Shipyard Fires
Matt Phillips
Making Sense of the Nonproliferation-Disarmament Divide
Adam Scheinman
Navigating Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
,
David Shullman
, and
Dan McCormick
NATO’s Return to Space
Benjamin Silverstein
U.S. Defense Spending During and After the Pandemic
Matt Vallone
America Can Protect Its Satellites Without Kinetic Space Weapons
Aaron Bateman
Sacrifice and Security: A Pandemic’s Lessons on Building ‘Consent’ as an Element of Strategy
Gregory A. Daddis
and
Paul L. Miles
Simple Joys of Maidenhood
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Give Instability a Chance?
Joshua Rovner
Adapting the Image and Culture of Special Operations Forces
Emma Moore
and
Stewart Parker
Setting the Records Straight in Iraq
Michael P. Brill
Wrestling with Fog: On the Elusiveness of Liberal Order
Patrick Porter
Saving Space from ‘Star Wars’-Style Misperceptions
Charles Powell
Trump’s Nuclear Test Would Risk Everything to Gain Nothing
Justin Key Canfil
The Room Where Not Much Happened
Robert Jervis
What Should Come After Trump’s Failed China Policy?
Philip H. Gordon
When it Comes to Missiles, Don’t Copy Russia and China — Leapfrog Them
Jeff Becker
New Sanctions on Assad Aim to Prevent Atrocities
David Adesnik
The 100-Ship Navy
Jonathan Panter
,
Anand Jantzen
, and
Johnathan Falcone
China’s Palace Diplomacy in Africa
Joshua Meservey
Stay Out of the Regime Change Business
Benjamin Denison
COVID-19 Put the Eastern Mediterranean’s Hydrocarbon Dreams on Hold
Gabriel Mitchell
America Shouldn’t Restart Production of Weapons-Grade Uranium
Alan J. Kuperman
Divided We Fall: The United States Needs International Partners Now More Than Ever
Rep. Don Bacon
Will More Syria Sanctions Hurt the Very Civilians They Aim to Protect?
Basma Alloush
and
Alex Simon
Washington Needs a Bold Rethink of Its China Strategy
Nathan Packard
and
Benjamin Jensen
China, All the Way to New York
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Has the United States Abandoned Arms Control?
Joshua Rovner
The Nonsense of “Neo-Ottomanism”
Nick Danforth
How Plummeting Fuel Prices and Reduced Operations Could Free Up Billions of Defense Dollars
Michael Baskin
and
Konrad Gessler
The United States, the 1967 Lines, and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Galen Jackson
I’m On A Boat
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Pandemic Propaganda and the Global Democracy Crisis
Haroro J. Ingram
Keep Expectations Modest for Iraq’s New Government
Douglas A. Ollivant
America’s Destabilizing Involvement in Serbia-Kosovo Talks
Gorana Grgić
Trump Should Not Fall for Erdogan’s S-400 Gambit
Aykan Erdemir
and
Luc Sasseville
Preparing for War in the Fog of Peace: The Transatlantic Case
Jordan Becker
and
Robert Bell
America Needs a Coalition to Win a Space War
Aaron Bateman
America’s Afghan Mission Has Been Overtaken by Pandemic
Martin Skold
The Rest of the Story: Evaluating the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030
Benjamin Jensen
From Non-Interference to Wolf Warrior: Chinese Foreign Internal Defense
Jimmy Zhang
China and COVID-19 in Saudi Media
Andrew Leber
I Do My Hair Toss, Check My Emails
Nora Bensahel
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
The Answer is to Empower, not Attack, the World Health Organization
Sen. Chris Murphy
Affordable, Abundant, and Autonomous: The Future of Ground Warfare
Liam Collins
and
Harrison “Brandon” Morgan
Deterrence, Norms, and the Uncomfortable Realities of a New Nuclear Age
Gerald C. Brown
Stop Declaring War on a Virus
Mark Hannah
Is the Infantry Brigade Combat Team Becoming Obsolete?
Daniel Vazquez
Toward a New Theory of Power Projection
Michael J. Mazarr
Building a Marine Corps for Every Contingency, Clime, and Place
T. X. Hammes
The Atlantic Alliance Had Preexisting Conditions. The Pandemic Will Worsen Them
Philip H. Gordon
and
Jeremy Shapiro
Aftershocks: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the New World Disorder
Undersecretary Colin Kahl
and
Ariana Berengaut
Leak Reveals Jihadists’ Weakening Grip in Syria’s Idlib
Sam Heller
China’s Strategic Assessment of Afghanistan
Yun Sun
The Virus of Disinformation: Echoes of Past Bioweapons Accusations in Today’s COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Sarah Jacobs Gamberini
and
Amanda Moodie
In Iraq, Restraint Is America’s Best Option
Maria Fantappie
and
Sam Heller
Paging a Joint Task Force: Cyber Defense of Pandemic Medical Infrastructure
J.D. Work
Germany, Wilsonianism, and the Return of Realpolitik
Dominik Wullers
What Syria Ought to Teach America About Competition with Russia
Aaron Stein
Al-Qaeda: Threat or Anachronism?
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
Public Opinion Is a Key to America’s Global AI Leadership
Merrill Wasser
The Army Should Rid Itself of Symbols of Treason
Mike Pietrucha
Drones, Deniability, and Disinformation: Warfare in Libya and the New International Disorder
Wolfram Lacher
Strategy as Appetite Suppressant
Frank Hoffman
How Can Negotiations Bring Wars to an End?
Patrick S. Roberts
and
Ariel I. Ahram
Learning from the Banality and Aftermath of Bolivia’s Coup
Drew Holland Kinney
Cleaning up Turkey’s Mess in Idlib and Ending the War
Aaron Stein
Has Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Opened the Door for an Islamic State Comeback?
Dareen Khalifa
and
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Leaving Afghanistan: Pulling Out without Pulling the Rug Out
Joe Felter
America’s Special Operators Will Be Adrift Without Better Civilian Oversight
Mark E. Mitchell
,
Zachary Griffiths
, and
Cole Livieratos
Power and Pretzels in Munich, 2020
Richard Fontaine
The Blessings of Secrecy
Joshua Rovner
Digital Authoritarianism: Finding Our Way Out of the Darkness
Naazneen Barma
,
Brent Durbin
, and
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Washington’s F-35 Embargo Against Turkey — Success or Failure?
Ray Rounds
To Deter China, the Naval Services Must Integrate
Rep. Mike Gallagher
What America Can Learn From its Mistakes in Syria
Daphne McCurdy
If Denuclearization is a Fantasy, What Can North Korean Negotiations Achieve?
Ariel (Eli) Levite
and
Toby Dalton
AI, Cyberspace, and Nuclear Weapons
James Johnson
and
Eleanor Krabill
Hydrocarbon Diplomacy: Turkey’s Gambit Might Yet Pay a Peace Dividend
Burcu Ozcelik
Iraq Still Might Force the United States Out
Sajad Jiyad
Two Small-Unit Leaders Respond to the Marine Commandant’s Note
James Camp
and
David Laszcz
On Fragile Footing in Yemen after the Soleimani Strike
Alexandra Stark
Time to Revive Joint Concept Development and Experimentation
Robert G. Angevine
The Politics of Man-Hunting and the Illusion of Victory
Raphael S. Cohen
Lebanon: Turning Protests into Power
Osama Gharizi
The Drone Beats of War: The U.S. Vulnerability to Targeted Killings
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The United States Shouldn’t Sell the F-35 to Saudi Arabia
Shimon Arad
The Pitfalls and Possibilities of the Measurement Revolution for National Security
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
,
Liam Collins
,
Kristen G. DeCaires
, and
Jacob N. Shapiro
Defense Strategy for a Post-Trump World
Van Jackson
Tigers on a Gold Leash
Suzanne Maloney
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Guardians or Guardrails? The Role and Rule of Law in the Military
Doyle Hodges
Is America’s China Strategy Working?
Patrick Cronin
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Battle of the Bastions
James Lacey
Don’t Go Too Crazy, Marine Corps
Mark Cancian
A New “Good Fence?”: Turkey Should Learn from Israel’s Experience in Lebanon
Dylan Maguire
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
Expeditionary Advanced Maritime Operations: How the Marine Corps Can Avoid Becoming a Second Land Army in the Pacific
Jake Yeager
Insurgency, not War, Is China’s Most Likely Course of Action
John Vrolyk
Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Shaping a Hybrid Regional Order
Céline Pajon
The Vatican’s Nuclear Diplomacy from the Cold War to the Present
Aaron Bateman
Thank You Mr. Narwhal
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
European Security in Crisis: What to Expect if the United States Withdraws from NATO
Liana Fix
and
Bastian Giegerich
Caliph Abu Unknown: Succession and Legitimacy in the Islamic State
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil
Kori Schake
Decoupling is Back in Asia: A 1960s Playbook Won’t Solve These Problems
Mira Rapp-Hooper
War Powers Oversight, Not Reform
Matthew C. Waxman
Thinking Historically: A Guide for Strategy and Statecraft
Francis J. Gavin
On the Syria Debate, Reductio ad Trumpium Gets us Nowhere
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Aaron Stein
In Need of Direction: The Case for Moving Supply Chains Out of China
Derek Scissors
Hypersonic Weapons: Tactical Uses and Strategic Goals
Alan Cummings
Why the Government Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
Steve Blank
A State with Four Armies: How to Deal with the Case of Iraq
Sardar Aziz
and
Erwin van Veen
Reorienting the Coast Guard: A Case for Patrol Forces Indo-Pacific
Blake Herzinger
The Forgotten Rocketeers: German Scientists in the Soviet Union, 1945–1959
Lance Kokonos
and
Ian Johnson
Just Say No: The Pentagon Needs to Drop the Distractions and Move Great Power Competition Beyond Lip Service
Mackenzie Eaglen
Turkey and Russia: A Remarkable Rapprochement
Michael A. Reynolds
Lost in the Furor Over Syria: Alliances are a Means, not an End
Doug Bandow
and
Christopher Preble
U.S. Officials Ignored Trump on Syria and We Are All Paying the Price
Aaron Stein
The Lost Art of Exiting a War
Adam Wunische
The Case for a Three-Tanker Air Force
Stewart Welch
and
David LeRoy
Revisiting Iraq in the Shadow of Syria
Joshua Rovner
Don’t Believe Your Eyes (or Ears): The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deepfakes
Joe Littell
Syria: A Sad Tale
Tom Karako
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Because We Can Can Can
Tamara Cofman Wittes
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Terrorist Groups, Artificial Intelligence, and Killer Drones
Jacob Ware
The Strategic Implications of Israel’s Turn to the Sea
Ehud Eiran
and
Aviad Rubin
Cyber War as an Intelligence Contest
Joshua Rovner
The Ghosts of Past Wars Live on in a Critical Archive
Bruce P. Montgomery
and
Michael P. Brill
Out of Order
Rebecca Zimmerman
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Who’s Afraid of Iraq’s Hashd?
Nancy Ezzeddine
and
Erwin van Veen
It’s Time to Talk About A2/AD: Rethinking the Russian Military Challenge
Michael Kofman
What if the U.S. Military Neglects AI? AI Futures and U.S. Incapacity
Zachary Kallenborn
Coercive Disclosure: Israel’s Weaponization of Intelligence
Ofek Riemer
and
Daniel Sobelman
Second Thoughts
Tori Whiting
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Airpower Orphans, Part II: Whatever Happened to Liaison Aircraft?
Mike Pietrucha
Airpower Orphans, Part I: Putting the “Operational Support” Back in Operational Support Airlift
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Myth of American Military Dominance
Justin Lynch
The Bluest Eye
Meg Guliford
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Intermediate-Range Missiles Are the Wrong Weapon for Today’s Security Challenges
Tom Countryman
and
Kingston Reif
An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
Robert Jervis
and
Francis J. Gavin
Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Christopher Dougherty
Shapes, Part II: The Shape of Strategy
Mike Pietrucha
Covert Wars, To What End?
Christopher Preble
The Crisis is Coming: Syria and the End of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
When Is More Actually Less? Situational Awareness and Nuclear Risks
Rebecca Hersman
and
Bernadette Stadler
Unleashing the Power of Space: The Case for a Separate U.S. Space Force
Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan
Stop Bombing Dirt: Resolving a Decade of Failed Aerial ISR Management
F. Jon Nesselhuf
It’s Time to Crowd-Source Questions About Civil-Military Relationships
Dan Maurer
No, President George W. Bush Did Not Undermine American Power and International Order
Peter Feaver
and
William Inboden
Janne Nolan: Nuclear Pragmatist
Brian Radzinsky
Bold Strokes from the Commandant of the Marine Corps
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Giving Saudi Arabia Guided Munitions Tech Could Have Huge Consequences
Nolan Fahrenkopf
The Tale of Turkey and the Patriots
Jim Townsend
and
Rachel Ellehuus
The Guy Behind the Guy: Samuel Nelson Drew and Peace-Building in the Balkans
John Gans
Stranger Than Fiction
Nada Bakos
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Mauritius Scores a Pyrrhic Victory in the Indian Ocean
Robert Thorpe
Shapes, Part I: The Shape of Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
Bombshell: The Apprentice
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
A Global War on Terror Memorial Is Unnecessary
Chris Yeazel
The Elephant in the Room: Auditing the Past and Future of the U.S.-India Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Heather Byrne
Featherweight Airlift: For Want of a Nail
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
What a U.S. Operation in Russia Shows About the Limits of Coercion in Cyber Space
Benjamin Jensen
On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
Net Assessment: Is Realism Realistic?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
A ‘Responsibility to Prepare’: A Strategy for Presidential Leadership on the Security Risks of Climate Change
Caitlin Werrell
,
Francesco Femia
, and
John Conger
Populism, the European Elections, and the Future of E.U. Foreign Policy
Maya Kandel
and
Caroline Gondaud
Espionage and the Catholic Church from the Cold War to the Present
Aaron Bateman
Talking to the Taliban With the Wrong Assumptions: The Conundrum of Afghan Peace
Moh. Sayed Madadi
The Problem with the Narrative of ‘Proxy War’ in Iraq
Douglas A. Ollivant
and
Erica Gaston
Net Assessment: Hypersonic Weapons – Gimmick or Game Changer?
Melanie Marlowe
and
Bryan McGrath
The Terrible Case for Staying in Syria
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Justin Logan
Battleground or Bridge-Builder? Iraq and the New Regional Order in the Middle East
Ramon Blecua
Exporting the Gulf Crisis
Elizabeth Dickinson
The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse
Aaron Stein
Hope as a Method: Maxwell Taylor and America’s Cold War
Gregory Daddis
and
Jesse A. Faugstad
Bombshell: A Song of Slights and Ire
Ariane Tabatabai
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
‘Hard Choices’ and Strategic Insolvency: Where the National Defense Strategy Falls Short
Rick Berger
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Oil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Anand Toprani
Bombshell: This is the Song That Never Ends
Radha Iyengar
and
Erin Simpson
Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
David Johnson
The Gentleman from Nebraska Misfires on America’s Foreign Policy Debate
Emma Ashford
Trump Unsigns the Arms Trade Treaty: How Did We Get Here?
Rachel Stohl
The Suez Crisis and the Fog of Diplomacy
Jordan Chandler Hirsch
The Turkish Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Ryan Gingeras
South Africa at the Polls: A Rising Power Cools Down
Michal Onderco
One Year On, Should India Rethink Its Reset with China?
Atman Trivedi
Jaw-Jaw: Melanie Hart on Finding Common Ground, While Competing with China
Melanie Hart
and
Brad Carson
Reassuring Allies and Strengthening Strategic Stability: An Approach to Nuclear Modernization for Democrats
Frank A. Rose
and
Benjamin Bahney
Squaring the Triangle: Why Turkey and the EastMed Project Need Each Other
Tim Robinson
and
Geordie Jeakins
The Dual-Track Approach: A Long-Term Strategy for a Post-INF Treaty World
John D. Maurer
Making Security Assistance Work: Rethinking U.S. Efforts to Boost Partner Militaries
Jason Fritz
The Great Game Moves to Sea: Tripolar Competition in the Indian Ocean Region
Harry I. Hannah
Libya’s Looming Contest for the Central Bank
Jalel Harchaoui
Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
The Myth of the Export Fighter
Mike Pietrucha
The Transatlantic Tussle — A Historical Case Study on How to Handle NATO
David I. Goldman
“Recalculating Route”: A Realistic Risk Assessment for GPS
Brandon Davenport
and
Rich Ganske
What’s in a Name? North Korea and the Contested Politics of ‘Nuclear Weapons States’
Sidra Hamidi
Why Did It All Go So Wrong? An Arab Veteran of the Anti-Soviet Jihad Speaks
Myra MacDonald
It Is Long Past Time to Stop Expanding NATO
Matthew Cancian
and
Mark Cancian
Red Sky in Morning: Naval Combat at the Dawn of Hypersonics
Ryan Hilger
‘No Concessions’? A Closer Look at U.S. Hostage Recovery Policy
Danielle Gilbert
Russia’s Soft Strategy to Hostile Measures in Europe
Andrew Radin
and
Raphael S. Cohen
The Warlord on Careers in National Security: Seven Forks in the Road
John Collins
A Modest Proposal for Improving Assessment in Professional Military Education
Celestino Perez, Jr.
Net Assessment: Can Conservatism Save the Liberal Order? And What Are We Conserving?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Drivers, Decisions, Dilemmas: Understanding the Kashmir Crisis and its Implications
Sameer Lalwani
and
Emily Tallo
Funding Defense: A Strategic Problem
Michael Donley
Bombshell: Shove It All Into OCO
Paula Garcia Tufro
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
WOTR Podcast: Mayhem and Misadventures in the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
,
Elizabeth Saunders
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Nick Danforth
Trump, Kim, and the Three P’s of Summit Diplomacy
Bruce Jentleson
Competition with China and the Future of the Asian International Order
David M. Edelstein
Jaw-Jaw: How Chinese Sharp Power Takes Aim at American Democracy
Larry Diamond
and
Brad Carson
Afghanistan: Remembering the Long, Long War We Would Rather Forget
Todd Greentree
In the Wake of CHAOS: Civil-Military Relations Under Secretary Jim Mattis
Jim Golby
How the Deep State Came to America: A History
Ryan Gingeras
How Should the West Play a Weak Hand in Syria Reconstruction?
Alexander Decina
Self-Deception and the ‘Conspiracy of Optimism’
Charles Vandepeer
In Venezuela, an Isolated Maduro Searches for Allies Across the Globe
Imdat Oner
and
Lana Shehadeh
America’s Almost Withdrawal from Syria
Aaron Stein
China’s Foreign Fighters Problem
Mathieu Duchâtel
U.S.-India Relations: The Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy Bright Spot
Richard Fontaine
Can This New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament Work?
Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Kissinger’s Prophecy Fulfilled in Syria
Kamal Alam
Jaw-Jaw: How America Got China Wrong
Brad Carson
and
Ely Ratner
What Will be the Fate of Trump’s Afghan Campaign?
Aaron O'Connell
A Primer on the Geopolitics of Oil
Anand Toprani
In the Era of Electronic Warfare, Bring Back Pigeons
Frank Blazich
Summer is Coming: The Crucible for the New Iraqi Government
Douglas A. Ollivant
Bombshell: Makes We Wonder Why I Even Bring the Thunder
Dana Stroul
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Explaining the DIA’s Critical Role in National Security
Derek Grossman
It’s Time for a Serious Saudi-Houthi Back Channel
Barbara A. Leaf
and
Elana DeLozier
Lessons From the Long War: The Role of Information in Counter-Insurgency
Zachary Griffiths
Humanitarian Assistance Has a Terrorism Problem. Can It Be Resolved?
Jessica Trisko Darden
A Most Nuclear Year: What Did We Learn About Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Arms Control in 2018?
Usha Sahay
The Will to Fight and the Fate of Nations
Ben Connable
and
Michael McNerney
Strategic Outpost Exclusive: Santa’s 2018 NatSec Gift List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How the Army Made Lager America’s Beer
Miranda Summers Lowe
Ahmad Chalabi and the Great Man Theory of History
Richard Hanania
Net Assessment: Smoking Bonesaw
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Paramilitary Activity: The Unintended Consequences of America’s Undeclared War Against Assad
Aaron Stein
George H.W. Bush: American Radical
Joshua Shifrinson
The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East in the Post-Khashoggi Era
Michael Singh
The Road to Damascus: The Arabs March Back to Befriend Assad
Kamal Alam
and
David Lesch
Change the Subject: U.S.-China Relations After Buenos Aires
Job C. Henning
Securing America’s Connected Infrastructure Can’t Wait
Justin Sherman
and
Deb Crawford
Beyond the Radar Archipelago: A New Roadmap for Missile Defense Sensors
Thomas Karako
The Fisher Model in the 21st Century
Sidharth Kaushal
Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure
Andrew Grotto
A Tangled Web: Organized Crime and Oligarchy in Putin’s Russia
Louise Shelley
Jaw-Jaw: China is a Funny Sort of Revisionist Power — A Conversation with Dean Cheng
Dean Cheng
and
Brad Carson
Is China Ahead of America in Next-Generation Unmanned Aircraft?
Andrea Gilli
and
Mauro Gilli
The Jamal Khashoggi I Knew
Barnett Rubin
A Small State’s Special Operators, Up Close
Tone Danielsen
The U.S.-Saudi Alliance Was in Trouble Long Before Jamal Khashoggi’s Death
Emma Ashford
Shifting Fires: Optimizing Special Operations for Today and Tomorrow’s Fight
Chad Pillai
How to Defend Against Foreign Influence Campaigns: Lessons From Counter-Terrorism
Kara Frederick
Between a Cold War Ally and an Indo-Pacific Partner: India’s U.S.-Russia Balancing Act
Tanvi Madan
Between Multistakeholderism and Sovereignty: Cyber Norms in Egypt and the Gulf States
James Shires
The Two Faces of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Gregory D. Johnsen
BOMBSHELL: Every Rosé has a Thorn
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Reports of the Death of Arms Control Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Alexandra Bell
and
Andrew Futter
Geopolitical Gerrymandering and the Importance of Key Maritime Terrain
Olivia Garard
How the Marines will Help the U.S. Navy and America’s Allies Win the Great Indo-Pacific War of 2025
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Jeff Cummings
An Open Letter to Iraq’s Next Prime Minister, Whoever He Might Be
Douglas A. Ollivant
A Europeanized NATO? The Alliance Contemplates the Trump Era and Beyond
Sten Rynning
Defending Forward: The 2018 Cyber Strategy Is Here
Nina Kollars
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
How to Configure the Space Force? A Question For All the Services
Harvey Sapolsky
How British Artists Helped Conquer India
Christian Philipp Ruhl
The Sixth Service: What the Reorganization of Special Operations Forces Can Teach Us About Space Force
Alice Hunt Friend
and
Kaitlyn Johnson
You Can’t Go Home Again: Foreign Policy Edition
Emma Ashford
Books as Contraband: The Strange Case of ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’
Jeff Breinholt
Washington and New Delhi Seek to Deepen Ties, But Spoilers Loom
Stuti Bhatnagar
Escalation Dominance in America’s Oldest New Nuclear Strategy
Aaron Miles
Deadly Cooperation: The Shifting Ties Between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
Tricia Bacon
Remembering the French War in Afghanistan
Olivier Schmitt
What Military Education Forgets: Strategy is Performance
Celestino Perez, Jr.
Cyber Civil-Military Relations: Balancing Interests on the Digital Frontier
Benjamin Jensen
and
J.D. Work
For Saudi Arabia, an Electric Opportunity in Iraq
Evan Langenhahn
The Clash of Generations and American Foreign Policy
William Ruger
,
Erik Goepner
, and
Trevor Thrall
Bound to Fail: Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem
Barak Mendelsohn
Prisoners of Idlib: Turkey, Russia, America and the Fate of Syria’s Last Opposition Stronghold
Aaron Stein
China Rises, America Falters, and Geoeconomics Rears Its Head
Mark Beeson
The Perils of the Court Historian
John Bew
The Blame Game: Building Justice for Chemical Weapons Use
Rebecca Hersman
and
Sarah Minot
Takeaways from Venezuela’s Long Descent
Michael P. Dempsey
U.S. Intelligence Should Embrace Sasse’s Cyber Solarium Commission
Steve Slick
Dealing with the Russian Lake Next Door: Romania and Black Sea Security
Iulia-Sabina Joja
Turkey is Gassing Up. What Does This Mean for the Regions It Straddles?
Anna Mikulska
and
Marcin Sienkiewicz
BOMBSHELL: It’s Aghast
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Crisis and Conviction: U.S. Grand Strategy in Trump’s Second Term
Patrick Porter
The Urgency of Idlib: The Impending Regime Offensive and the Delicate Balance in Syria’s Northwest
Charles Lister
Russia’s Strategy in the Black Sea Basin
Nikolas Gvosdev
Is a New Russian Black Sea Fleet Coming? Or Is It Here?
Dmitry Gorenburg
Make New Friends, But Keep the Old? Turkey’s Precarious Balancing Act
Nick Danforth
What Will North Korea Negotiations Mean for the U.S.-China Balance of Power?
Ferial Ara Saeed
Authoritarian Nostalgia Among Iraqi Youth: Roots and Repercussions
Marsin Alshamary
Stranger Things in Helsinki
Michael Kofman
Strategic Outpost’s Third Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Year of the Gray Wolf: The Rise of Turkey’s New Ultranationalism
Burak Kadercan
As Assad Closes In, a Birthplace of Syria’s Uprising Gains New Importance
Rodger Shanahan
Redefining NATO Security Investment: Moving Beyond 2 Percent
Seamus Daniels
and
Kathleen Hicks
Playing with Fire in Helsinki: How Trump’s Summit with Putin Could Split the Transatlantic Alliance
Edward Fishman
and
Mark Simakovsky
What Does Assad’s Southwestern Offensive Mean for the Future of Syria?
Michael P. Dempsey
Unpacking Overmatch: Three Crucial Questions About U.S. Military Superiority
Evan Braden Montgomery
RIMPAC 2018 Kicks Off, Laden With Geopolitical Symbolism
Peter Layton
The Roadmap to Nowhere: Manbij, Turkey, and America’s Dilemma in Syria
Aaron Stein
Military Superiority: More Than Meets the Eye
Mara Karlin
The Forgotten Side of Arms Control: Enhancing U.S. Competitive Advantage, Offsetting Enemy Strengths
John D. Maurer
Who Lost Russia, Again?
Michael Fitzsimmons
As Assad Turns to Syria’s Southwest, Washington Faces a Choice
Sam Heller
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Scenarios to Expect From Turkey’s Upcoming Elections
Burak Kadercan
What’s So Disordered About Your World Order?
Nick Danforth
Germany Opens Its Eyes to a New Transatlantic Reality
Marcus Colla
At a Crossroads, Part III: Reasserting Congress’ Oversight Role in Foreign Policy
Tommy Ross
Confrontation at the OPCW: How Will the International Community Handle Syria and Skripal?
John Hart
The Military Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
Luke O’Brien
and
Aaron Stein
A New Framework for Assessing the Risks from U.S. Arms Sales
Trevor Thrall
and
Caroline Dorminey
Trump’s Trade Deficit Obsession Hurts National Security
Derek Scissors
The 2018 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Hiding and Biding No Longer: How China Could Emerge the Big Winner of Korean Peninsula Diplomacy
Mason Richey
A Little-Noticed Player Goes Big in the Indo-Pacific
David Brewster
Bombshell: The Hangover
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Emma Ashford
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
WOTR PODCAST: American Exceptionalism, Transatlantic Ties, and European Autonomy in the Age of Trump
Usha Sahay
,
Maya Kandel
,
Maud Quessard
, and
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil
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
If the Transatlantic Relationship Sneezes, Will NATO Catch a Cold?
Azita Raji
What’s the Matter in Manbij? How an Obscure Syrian Town Could Determine the Future of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance and What to Do About It
Aaron Stein
Playing the Long Game in Iraq
Perry Cammack
and
Daniel Benaim
The Crown Prince of Riyadh vs. the Crown Prince of Jihad: Al-Qaeda Responds to Mohammed Bin Salman’s Reforms
Jesse Morton
and
Amarnath Amarasingam
Bombshell: The Only Way Out Is through
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
The Deepest Obligation of Citizenship: Looking Beyond the Warrior Caste
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy
Monica Duffy Toft
Iraqis Head to the Polls, Frustrated with Corruption and Ethno-Sectarian Appeals
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
and
Christopher K. Lamont
Sectarianism and the Iraqi Election: Two Potential Scenarios
Harith Hasan Al-Qarawee
Cluster Munitions and Rearming for Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Bombshell: All He Had to Do Was Turn Left
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Syria Strikes: The Politics of Legality and Legitimacy
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil
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
The More Things Change: Explaining Continuity in Defense Strategy
Raphael S. Cohen
Turkey’s Snap Elections: Erdogan’s Improvised Gambit
Aykan Erdemir
Horns of a Dilemma: Staying Ahead of the Curve in the Intelligence World
Michele L. Malvesti
,
John McLaughlin
,
Nicholas Rasmussen
, and
Norman Roule
Denuclearization Again? Lessons from Ukraine’s Decision to Disarm
Mariana Budjeryn
and
Polina Sinovets
The Korean Summit That Really Matters
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Does the West Have a Vision for the Western Balkans?
Michael Carpenter
and
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
The ‘Adults in the Room’ Need to Take Trump Seriously on Syria
Aaron Stein
Promise vs. Experience: How to Fix the ‘Free & Open Indo-Pacific’
Lindsey Ford
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Ryan Evans
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
Questions of Power: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on Sanctions and Coercion
Omar S. Bashir
Between a Rock and Dynamite: American Options in the Face of the Turkish-YPG Crisis
Burak Kadercan
More Than Militias: Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Are Here to Stay
Renad Mansour
War Planning Must Include Domestic Plans, Too
J. Michael Barrett
The French Way of War (on the Rocks)
Usha Sahay
With Its New ‘White Book,’ France Looks to Become a World-Class Player in Cyber Space
Boris Toucas
The Navy and Marine Corps Need to Prepare for the Swarm of the Future
David Pinion
Living in Trump’s World: The Global Reaction to ‘America First’
Hal Brands
and
Peter Feaver
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
Entry 72: A Scary Development
Van Jackson
The Psychology of Perceiving Uncertainty
Brad DeWees
Notes of Caution on the Navy’s Forthcoming Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Bombshell: Not Bringing Rexy Back
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Lindsey Ford
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Jim Mattis Fires a Clear Warning Shot
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Crucial First Step for Negotiating With North Korea
Jon Wolfsthal
Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario: Building Coalitions Left of Boom
Mike Nelson
The Trump-Kim Summit and North Korean Denuclearization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ankit Panda
and
Vipin Narang
Iraq Hurtles Toward Another Election: What You Need to Know
Douglas A. Ollivant
10 Takeaways From the Fight Against the Islamic State
Michael P. Dempsey
The Long Road Back for Iraq’s Minorities
Elie Abouaoun
The Sunset of the Predator: Reflections on the End of an Era
Joe Chapa
How Australia Can Foster a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’
David Brewster
#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
Iraq’s Real Weapons of Mass Destruction Were ‘Political Operations’
Samuel Helfont
Theses on Peacemaking in Afghanistan: A Manifesto
Barnett Rubin
Lessons Learned from the Air War Against the Islamic State
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
Bombshell: No Joy in Munchen
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Lauren Fish
Through Quiet Dealmaking, New Delhi Extends Its Influence in the Indian Ocean
David Brewster
Israel’s Deepening Involvement with Syria’s Rebels
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Instead of Turning East, Turkey is Going It Alone
Nick Danforth
Less Whole, Less Free, Less at Peace: Whither America’s Strategy for a Post-Cold War Europe?
James Goldgeier
Geostrategic Nuclear Exports: The Competition for Influence in Saudi Arabia
Nicholas L. Miller
and
Tristan A. Volpe
With Eyes on the Indian Ocean, New Players Rush into the Horn of Africa
David Brewster
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Mapping Ideology in the Age of Trump
Paul Miller
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part I: Learning from the 1970s
David Johnson
A New Era Beckons for Iraqi-Saudi Relations
Mehiyar Kathem
Entry 35: The News Cycle Churns
Van Jackson
How Shawn Brimley Did It
Richard Fontaine
Searching for Strategy in Washington’s Competition with Russia
Michael Kofman
Has a Trumpian Grand Strategy Finally Stepped into the Light?
Simon Reich
and
Peter Dombrowski
The U.S. National Defense Strategy Shows Australia Can’t Have It Both Ways
Greg Colton
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Scott Cuomo
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Adam Segal
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Radha Iyengar
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Loren DeJonge Schulman
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In Defense of Nothing
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and
Andrew Miller
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Terrorism at Home and Unlawful Enemy Combatants
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Kendall Bianchi
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Strategic Outpost’s 2017 Holiday Shopping List
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and
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and
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Do Trees Fall in Cyberspace?
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Why the Army Needs a Futures Command
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and
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Bridge to Fiasco: How Language Imprisons American Strategy
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The 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
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Buggy Whips and Segways: Historical Misinnovation in National Security and Intelligence Technology
Joseph Caddell
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Robert Stiegel
The Futures Problem: Why Big Organizations Have Problems Making Long-Term Forecasts and What to Do About It
Benjamin Jensen
and
Neil Hollenbeck
Crisis in Foggy Bottom: What Rex Tillerson Can Really Learn From Alexander Haig
Alexandra Evans
and
Evan McCormick
What an Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster in a U.S.-Protected Enclave Tells Us About American Strategy in Syria
Sam Heller
The Leap into Quantum Technology: A Primer for National Security Professionals
Michael J. Biercuk
and
Richard Fontaine
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Blaise Misztal
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Syria Is Sliding Towards Partition
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The Center Cannot Hold: Continuity and Change in Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy
James Benkowski
and
A. Bradley Potter
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Military Power Cannot Close the Defense Strategy Gap
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Guillaume Lasconjarias
and
Florent de Saint-Victor
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Erica Gaston
and
Andras Derzsi-Horvath
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A New Strategy for Deterrence and Rollback with North Korea
Michael J. Green
and
Matthew Kroenig
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Bombshell: Me Too and the Gimme Gimmes
Radha Iyengar
,
Elizabeth Rosenberg
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Erin Simpson
America’s Opportunity in Iraq is Ready to Be Seized
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Trump’s Threat to Nuclear Order
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and
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It’s Time for Special Operations to Dump ‘Unconventional Warfare’
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Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Donald Trump vs. the NFL and the World
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Not-So-Soft Power: Russia’s Military Police in Syria
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and
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Radha Iyengar
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Self-Defense and Strategic Direction in the Skies Over Syria
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Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition
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Linda Robinson
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and
John K. Warden
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Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won’t Be World War II Again
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,
Hal Brands
,
Peter Feaver
,
William Inboden
,
Undersecretary Colin Kahl
,
Kori Schake
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Trump and Covert Operations in Syria: A Not-So-Artful Deal?
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,
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and
Alex Mello
Cyber-Attacks: Who’s Keeping Score?
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Home and Forward Commands Should Replace the Geographic Combatant Commands
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Abbottabad Revisited
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and
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Radha Iyengar
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and
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America First? Not So Fast! What We’ve Learned from 100 Days of Trump Foreign Policy
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and
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Yemen: The Graveyard of U.S. Policy Myths
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The Real Factions of Trumpland and U.S. Foreign Policy
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Red, Red Lines
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,
Radha Iyengar
, and
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It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Finding Leverage in Syria
Aaron Stein
Rock and Roll and American Power
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Mirages of War: Six Illusions From our Recent Conflicts
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and
Nora Bensahel
No Plan? No Strategy? No Problem! Syria and Why Trump’s Russia Policy Is Off to a Rough Start
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Syria: A Journey into the Unknown
Michael Hanna
and
Sam Heller
Doubling Down on America’s Misadventure in Yemen
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and
Richard Sokolsky
Forget the Subs: What Taipei Can Learn from Tehran About Asymmetric Defense
Colin Carroll
and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Navigating Great Power Rivalry in the 21st Century
Michael Mazarr
and
Hal Brands
Trump’s Middle East Policies are Boorish and Belligerent, But Surprisingly Normal
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Self-Help for the Grieving Foreign Policy Practitioner
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From Green to Purple: Can the Chinese Military Become More Joint?
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and
Phillip C. Saunders
Bombshell: There Xi Goes
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,
Radha Iyengar
,
Kelly Magsamen
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
, and
Mara Karlin
Preventing a Credibility Crisis in America’s Most Important Alliance
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My Love Letter to the Deep State
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and
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and
Nora Bensahel
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Make Turkish-American Relations Great Again: Advice for the Trump Administration
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The Role of the Pentagon in the Trump Administration
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and
Nora Bensahel
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
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The Future of Air Superiority, Part III: Defeating A2/AD
Brig. Gen. Alex Grynkewich
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The Future of Air Superiority Part II: The 2030 Problem
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Spy vs. Spy: The Bay of Pigs and the Battle for the Soul of the CIA
James Lockhart
Everything You Think You Know About Limited War is Wrong
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The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Coming of the Russian Jihad, Part II
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An Eye for an Eye: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
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Michael Poznansky
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Sali Mahdy
The Return of Hard Power
John Hillen
Will Team Trump Politicize Intelligence?
Joshua Rovner
This Won’t Look Like Winning: A Sensible Path for Trump’s Syria Policy
Sam Heller
Stress-Testing the Foundations of American Grand Strategy
Hal Brands
and
Peter Feaver
The Business of Ideas is in Trouble: Re-Injecting Facts into a Post-Truth World
Tom Hashemi
The Islamic State and Israel’s Arab Citizens
Elisabeth Marteu
Getting South Asia on Track: Ideas for the Next President
C. Christine Fair
Ankara’s Turkmen House of Cards
Aykan Erdemir
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Merve Tahiroglu
The Stage is Set for an Escalation: The Meaning of Syria’s Attack on Turkish Forces
Can Kasapoglu
I Love Mattis, But I Don’t Love Him as SecDef
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The Trump Administration Will be Hawkish
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Why Saddam and Gaddafi Failed to get the Bomb
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
The Danger of Inadvertent War in the Next Four Years
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Stabilizing Iraq With and Without the Islamic State
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13 Questions on the Age of Trump
Ryan Evans
The World Reacts to President-Elect Trump (Live Updated)
Colin Steele
The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be a Cyber-Strategy
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Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy
Andrew Weisburd
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Clint Watts
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JM Berger
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The Bigger Issues at Play: Mosul and the Future of Northern Iraq
Douglas A. Ollivant
Clinton-Cartwright Comparisons Don’t Hold Up
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and
Butch Bracknell
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Richard Sokolsky
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Jeremy Shapiro
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Joshua Meservey
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Kelsey Lilley
Politics, Population, and Hydrocarbons: Preparing for Mosul’s Aftermath
H. Akın Ünver
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Mike Pietrucha
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The Democratization of Airpower: The Insurgent and the Drone
T.X. Hammes
The Perplexing Problems of Solving Syria
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Walter Haynes
The Misadventures of Russia and the United States in Syria: Complete Strategy Implosion Edition
Michael Kofman
What’s Really At Stake in the Syria Debate
Marc Lynch
The World the Combatant Command was Designed for is Gone
Kelly McCoy
American Strategy and the Six Phases of Grief
Paul Scharre
Reflections on Long-Range Strike 15 Years after American’s Attack on Afghanistan
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and
Keren Yarhi-Milo
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Michael David
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Brian Holmes
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Renad Mansour
A Plan for Winding Down the Syrian Civil War: Surge, Freeze, and Enforce
Charles Lister
Targeted Killing: Thinking Through the Logic
Rachel Tecott
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Danny Orbach
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Ryan W. French
and
Peter Dombrowski
A Flawed Focus on American Leadership
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Trevor Thrall
Turkey’s Kurdish Red Line in Syria and the Fight Against ISIL
Denise Natali
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Joel Hillison
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
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Restrained Strategy, Lower Military Budgets
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West of Suez for the United Arab Emirates
Alex Mello
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Michael Knights
Myth-Making and Sectarian Secularists in the Middle East
Amil Khan
The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
Tobias Schneider
The Looming Air Superiority Train Wreck
Peter Layton
Contesting Facts on the Ground in Iraq
Michael Knights
Top Cover for American Troops in Syria: A De Facto No-Fly Zone?
Ralph S. Clem
“Assad or We Burn the Country”: Misreading Sectarianism and the Regime in Syria
Emile Hokayem
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Geraint Hughes
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Middle East Undone
Cyrus Malik
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Michael Kofman
American Power in the Rearview Mirror and on the Road Ahead
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Steve Ferenzi
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
Cyrus Malik
Britain is Committed to Defeating ISIL and Staying Robust on Defense
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Selim Koru
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Patrick Cronin
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Russell Wald
My Droneski Just Ate Your Ethics
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Heath Niemi
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Andrew Hill
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Justin Key Canfil
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Lauren Dickey
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A. Bradley Potter
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Laura Weis
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Andrew Shearer
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Rick Berger
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James Joyner
The Scourge of Extremism: Move Beyond the Symptoms and Treat the Disease
Michael Morell
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Sandy Winnefeld
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Samantha Vinograd
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Daniel G. Hummel
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Mark Galeotti
The Threat is Here, It’s Just Distributed Unevenly: A2/AD and the Aircraft Carrier
Steve Blank
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Nora Bensahel
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Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
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and
Lorianne Woodrow Moss
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Elai Rettig
For the U.S. Army, It’s Not About the Story
Nadia Schadlow
Chilcot and a Very British History of Dubious Military Decisions
Huw J. Davies
The Myth of High-Threat Close Air Support
Mike Pietrucha
Brexit’s Roots in the Middle East
Jon Alterman
Rediscovering Diplomacy: An Agenda for Decreasing Tensions between Russia and the West
Ulrich Kühn
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Sam Heller
Russia’s “China Dreams” are Less of a Fantasy Than You Think
Alexander Gabuev
Swaggering in Cyberspace: Busting the Conventional Wisdom on Cyber Coercion
Craig Neuman
and
Michael Poznansky
Speaking Nonsense to Power: Misadventures in Dissent Over Syria
Jeremy Shapiro
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WOTR Staff
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Christine McCaffray van den Toorn
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Aaron Stein
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Mike Pietrucha
A Fresh Take on American Relations with India and China
Andrew Small
Who Killed the Arab Spring?
Counselor Derek Chollet
The Mediterranean Microcosm
Kevin Duffy
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
A Century After the Castles of Steel: Lessons from the Battle of Jutland
Seth Cropsey
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Steven Wills
Not Just War: How Hiroshima Became a War Crime
Jonathan Hunt
History Isn’t a Playbook: Misguided Analogies and Great Power Competition
Ali Wyne
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Sameer Lalwani
Realism Restrained: The Washington Playbook Strikes Back
Emma Ashford
Levantine Labyrinth: Preparing for Subterranean Warfare in Iraq and Syria
Walter Haydock
Militarizing Musk
Jeffrey Becker
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Ben Connable
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Simond de Galbert
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Counselor Derek Chollet
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Michael Singh
The West in Crisis: The Demise of Europe or Transatlantic Renewal?
Jeffrey Gedmin
Out of Time: Do Not Revive the F-22
Mike Benitez
The Catastrophic Success of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How to De-Polarize and De-Personalize the U.S.-Turkish Relationship
Joshua Walker
and
Selma Bardakci
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Luis Simón
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Renad Mansour
and
Michael David Clark
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