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Are We Entering a New Era of Far-Right Terrorism?
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
When Does Terrorism Have a Strategic Effect?
Daniel Byman
An “Insider” Memoir That Tells What the Author Learned, Not How Right She Was
Arnold R. Isaacs
Disgraceful Pardons: Dishonoring Our Honorable
Bradley J. Strawser
and
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
Caliph Abu Unknown: Succession and Legitimacy in the Islamic State
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
The Long Shadow of the Gulf War
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
War Powers Oversight, Not Reform
Matthew C. Waxman
Refugees at Risk: Managing the European Union’s Declining Power in Turkey
Christina Bache
Mobile Nuclear Power Will Enable a Logistics Revolution for the Army
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Christman
Revisiting the Vietnam War at Home — And What It Means for Today
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
It’s (Barely) Daylight in America
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Reorienting the Coast Guard: A Case for Patrol Forces Indo-Pacific
Blake Herzinger
Improve F/A-18 Super Hornet Training and Readiness with More Missiles and Fewer Missions
Graham Scarbro
With AI, We’ll See Faster Fights, but Longer Wars
Margarita Konaev
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
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
Will Displaced Syrians Ever Return? History Says No.
Kara Ross Camarena
and
Nils Hägerdal
When Are Exit Strategies Viable?
David Kampf
A Better Idea Can Win the Next Big War for the Ground Services
Robert Scales
Don’t Believe Your Eyes (or Ears): The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deepfakes
Joe Littell
The Breakaways: A Retrospective on the Baltic Road to NATO
Andris Banka
A Striking New Vision for the Marines, and a Wakeup Call for the Other Services
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Iceberg Dead Ahead! Deconstructing the Pentagon’s Arctic Strategies
Lindsay Rodman
Under the Radar, Iran’s Cruise Missile Capabilities Advance
Shahryar Pasandideh
Terrorist Groups, Artificial Intelligence, and Killer Drones
Jacob Ware
The Devil You Know: Trust in Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Charles Clark
and
Connor S. McLemore
Will Artificial Intelligence Imperil Nuclear Deterrence?
Rafael Loss
and
Joseph Johnson
Compete with Iran Without Trying to Destroy it
Aaron Stein
Cyber War as an Intelligence Contest
Joshua Rovner
How Marine Security Cooperation Can Translate into Sea Control
Brian Kerg
,
Anthony King
, and
Michael Murray
How to Fix a Broken Special Operations Culture
Andrew Milburn
Erdogan Doesn’t Want Nukes, He Wants to Blow Up the System
Aaron Stein
In Search of a 21st-Century Joint Warfighting Concept
Tom Greenwood
and
Pat Savage
The Ghosts of Past Wars Live on in a Critical Archive
Bruce P. Montgomery
and
Michael P. Brill
Marine Cyber Auxiliaries Aren’t Marines, and Cyber “Warriors” Aren’t Warriors
Mark Cancian
The Great Duality and the Future of the Army: Does Technology Favor the Offensive or Defensive?
Robert Scales
Experimentation Can Help Build Better Security Partners
Thomas-Durell Young
Don’t Sign a Death Warrant for Afghan Democracy
Ioannis Koskinas
Airpower Orphans, Part II: Whatever Happened to Liaison Aircraft?
Mike Pietrucha
Does Trump’s Trade War Spell the End of the Global Order?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
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
Maximum Pressure Is Failing: Fact-Checking Pompeo on Iran
Nicholas Miller
Thank You for Your Lip Service? Social Pressure to Support the Troops
Jim Golby
and
Peter Feaver
An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
Robert Jervis
and
Francis J. Gavin
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
What Discord Follows: The Divisive Debate over Military Disobedience
Lindsay Cohn
,
Max Margulies
, and
Michael A. Robinson
Whether it Likes It or Not, Europe is Being Pushed and Pulled into America’s Iran Policy
Michael Stephens
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
Confusion Bleeds from an Already Wounded U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Nick Danforth
Strategic Outpost’s Fourth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The 2019 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Confronting Jihadist Factions in Nigeria: An Antidote to Defeatism
Jacob Zenn
Knuckling Down Under Maximum Pressure: Iran’s Basij in Transition
Saeid Golkar
When Not to Obey Orders
Andrew Milburn
Shapes, Part I: The Shape of Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
Are U.S. Diplomats Ready for War?
Caleb D. Becker
Information at the Water’s Edge: Amphibious Command and Control from Aspiration to Reality
Nick Brunetti-Lihach
A Global War on Terror Memorial Is Unnecessary
Chris Yeazel
Net Assessment: Deciphering the Trump Administration’s Iran Policy
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Do Generals Matter?
Cathal J. Nolan
Featherweight Airlift: For Want of a Nail
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Increasingly Dangerous Politicization of the U.S. Military
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Explaining the Poverty of Germany’s Strategic Debate
Walter Haynes
On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
The United States Needs an Information Warfare Command: A Historical Examination
Conrad Crane
Jaw-Jaw: A Look at the PLA’s History of Planning for War with Taylor Fravel
M. Taylor Fravel
and
Brad Carson
Finding the Way (Again): Building the Air Force’s New Century Series
Mike Pietrucha
WOTR Podcast: How is the Air Force Adapting to Great Power Competition?
Gen. David L. Goldfein
,
Stephen Bressett
,
Lynn Haack
, and
Ryan Evans
What do U.S.-Iranian Tensions Mean for Israel?
Amos Yadlin
and
Ari Heistein
The Terrible Case for Staying in Syria
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Justin Logan
A Glimpse into the Islamic State’s External Operations, Post-Caliphate
Sam Heller
Exporting the Gulf Crisis
Elizabeth Dickinson
After Moral Injury: Backing Through a Side Door into Consciousness
Bill R. Edmonds
How We Mark Memorial Day: A Reflection
John Amble
The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse
Aaron Stein
Unwarranted: Reconsidering the Air Force Warrant Officer
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Other Stolen Valor: Unrecognized Heroism in Our Recent Wars
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Sailor’s Take on Multi-Domain Operations
Will Spears
Military Pressure and Body Counts in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
The Case for a Narrower View of ‘Empire’ in the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations
Joseph Stieb
‘Hard Choices’ and Strategic Insolvency: Where the National Defense Strategy Falls Short
Rick Berger
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Targeting the Islamic State, Or Why the Military Should Invest in Artificial Intelligence
Hans Vreeland
Oil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Anand Toprani
Is the Space Force Viable? Personnel Problems on the Final Frontier
Mark Cancian
How to End the Civil War in Somalia: Negotiate with al-Shabaab
Jason Hartwig
Marine Corps Identity from the Historical Perspective
Mark Folse
Surveying the Responsibility of Command
Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen III
Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
David Johnson
The Problems of a Militarized Foreign Policy for America’s Premier Intelligence Agency
David Oakley
Uplifted: The Case for Small Tactical Airlift
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Suez Crisis and the Fog of Diplomacy
Jordan Chandler Hirsch
Migration and Terrorism: The United States Can Learn from Europe’s Mistakes
Sam Mullins
Waivers for Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Iran are a No-Brainer
Jarrett Blanc
The Syrians Don’t and Won’t Toe the Iranian Line: Explaining a Most Curious Alliance
Kamal Alam
Bringing the Air Division Back to the Future
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Blurring the Lines Part III: Airpower Applications in the Gray Zone
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Hidden Costs of Strategy by Special Operations
Walter Haynes
Air Force Manned Reconnaissance at a Crossroads
Robert S. Hopkins, III
Nation-Building in a Time of War: Revisiting Vietnam
Martin Clemis
The Emergence of Progressive Foreign Policy
Ganesh Sitaraman
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy is a Mess
Aaron Stein
Russell’s Century-Old Plea for the Marine Corps, Updated for 2019
Brian Kerg
Net Assessment: The Pentagon Can Count Ships (But Not Much Else)
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Making Security Assistance Work: Rethinking U.S. Efforts to Boost Partner Militaries
Jason Fritz
Back to the Future: The Return of Violent Far-Right Terrorism in the Age of Lone Wolves
Bruce Hoffman
Trump Cancels Drone Strike Civilian Casualty Report: Does It Matter?
Nicholas Grossman
Sir, Who Am I? An Open Letter to the Incoming Commandant of the Marine Corps
Leo Spaeder
The Developing Fight for Tactical Air Control
Jules Hurst
Training Law Enforcement in Fragile States: The Case for a New U.S. Approach
Tommy Ross
and
Philip McDaniel
The Kosovo War in Retrospect
James Goldgeier
and
Gorana Grgić
Can the Children of the ISIS Caliphate Ever Come Home?
Jennifer Percival
and
Rodger Shanahan
Net Assessment: Masterpiece Theater
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
The Myth of the Export Fighter
Mike Pietrucha
All Sane Men Believe in Reserves
Claude Berube
Why Not a Space Force? Cautions of Organizational Re-Design
Kevin L. Parker
Counter-Terrorism and Humanitarian Action: The Perils of Zero Tolerance
Joel R. Charny
How We Do Strategy as Performance up at Newport
Jim Cook
Trump’s National Emergency Declaration: A Worrisome Precedent for U.S. Foreign Policy
Andrew Stravers
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
It Is Long Past Time to Stop Expanding NATO
Matthew Cancian
and
Mark Cancian
War on a Thumb Drive: How SigAct Data Could Transform Care for Veterans
Chris Aragao
Red Sky in Morning: Naval Combat at the Dawn of Hypersonics
Ryan Hilger
Australia Learns the Risks of Contracting With Private Security Companies
Sarah Percy
A Life Well Lived: The Warlord’s Legacy
John Nagl
Do Great Nations Fight Endless Wars? Against the Islamic State, They Might
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
Net Assessment: Can Conservatism Save the Liberal Order? And What Are We Conserving?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Blurring the Lines Part II: A Pilot by Any Other Name
Mike Pietrucha
In Defense of Best Practices
Michael Lortz
Bombshell: Shove It All Into OCO
Paula Garcia Tufro
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Debunking the Myths of the War in Afghanistan
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Confusion in the Pivot: The Muddled Shift from Peripheral War to Great Power Competition
Benjamin Denison
WOTR Podcast: Mayhem and Misadventures in the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
,
Elizabeth Saunders
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Nick Danforth
Coming to Terms with America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
Jason Dempsey
A Sovereign Democracy and a Dud Partner: Explaining the Slide in U.S.-Turkey Relations
Nadir Firat
Trump, Kim, and the Three P’s of Summit Diplomacy
Bruce Jentleson
Blurring the Lines, Part I: A Promising New Trainer Aircraft and Its Combat Variants
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
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 Should the West Play a Weak Hand in Syria Reconstruction?
Alexander Decina
Is There a New Foreign Policy Consensus Forming?
James Goldgeier
Getting Ahead of the Implications of a U.S.-Taliban Deal in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
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
Balanced Airpower, Not Bombers: How the Air Force Found Its Way
Heather Venable
Rebuilding the Forge: Reshaping How the Air Force Trains Fighter Aviators
Gen. Mike Holmes
China’s Foreign Fighters Problem
Mathieu Duchâtel
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
Sealift is America’s Achilles Heel in the Age of Great Power Competition
Elee Wakim
Bombshell: Makes We Wonder Why I Even Bring the Thunder
Dana Stroul
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
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
Bombshell: Live at the National WWI Museum!
John Ismay
,
Steve Leonard
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
For Landpower, Picking the Right Battles is More and More Essential
Conrad Crane
Mission Unaccomplished: The Tweet that Upended Trump’s Counterterrorism and Iran Policies
Matthew Levitt
and
Aaron Y. Zelin
So the President Wants Out of Afghanistan: What Happens Next?
Jonathan Schroden
The Will to Fight and the Fate of Nations
Ben Connable
and
Michael McNerney
How Special Ops Can Step It Up
Jonathan Schroden
An Army Caught in the Middle Between Luddites, Luminaries, and the Occasional Looney
David Johnson
Five Years Ago, We Assessed the War in Afghanistan for Congress: How Did We Do?
Jonathan Schroden
How the Army Made Lager America’s Beer
Miranda Summers Lowe
Ahmad Chalabi and the Great Man Theory of History
Richard Hanania
The New U.S. Strategy to Tackle WMD Terrorism is New Wine in Old Wineskins
Al Mauroni
The U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Renaissance: It’s More Than Ships and Aircraft
George Galdorisi
and
Scott C. Truver
The Battle Inside the Political Parties for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Emma Ashford
and
Trevor Thrall
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
Between Populism and Internationalism: Conservative Foreign Policy After Trump
Colin Dueck
The 2018 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Death of Precision in Warfare?
Paul Barnes
and
Alexandra Stickings
Stretched Thin: When Fragile States Face Climate Hazards
Ashley Moran
,
Joshua Busby
, and
Clionadh Raleigh
The Fisher Model in the 21st Century
Sidharth Kaushal
Rethinking Enlisted Education: Expanding the Professional Military Education Debate
Matthew Reed
Heed the Grail Knight: Can the Air Force Choose Wisely?
Mike Benitez
Net Assessment: Does the Pentagon Deserve Our Trust?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
A Determined Man: World War I, Hitler, and the Unlikely March to World War II
John Mueller
Ignorance and Professional Military Education: The Case for Operational Engagement
Thang Tran
,
Michael Oliveira
,
Josh Sider
, and
Leo Blanken
Why Did the Jihadi Cold War in Yemen End?
Tore Refslund Hamming
Under the Missile’s Shadow: What Does the Passing of the INF Treaty Mean?
Michael Kofman
The Ticking Nuclear Budget Time Bomb
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Kingston Reif
Shifting Fires: Optimizing Special Operations for Today and Tomorrow’s Fight
Chad Pillai
Inside Britain’s Reaper Force: Human Stories and Ethical Dilemmas
Joe Chapa
What Has Become Clear to You? Reflections on Assessing the National Defense Strategy
Mara Karlin
and
Christopher Skaluba
Permanently Stationing U.S. Forces in Poland is a Bad Idea, But One Worth Debating
Michael Kofman
Trump and the End of Smugness
Devin Stewart
Just Let Them Compete: Raising the Next Generation of Wargamers
Sebastian J. Bae
How Long Can the U.S. Military’s Golden Hour Last?
Tanisha M. Fazal
,
Todd Rasmussen
,
Paul Nelson
, and
P.K. Carlton
Marine Warbot Companies are a Right of Boom Solution for a Left of Boom World
Ewen Levick
Return to Gettysburg: The Fifth Epochal Shift in the Course of War
Robert H. Scales
Tequila and U.S.-Mexican Security Relations
Michael L. Burgoyne
and
Raúl Benítez Manaut
How to Configure the Space Force? A Question For All the Services
Harvey Sapolsky
Trump Continues His Two-Front War on Iran With Planned U.N. Address
Barbara Slavin
Are You Enough? Our Speech to the PME Class of 2019
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
You Can’t Go Home Again: Foreign Policy Edition
Emma Ashford
Escalation Dominance in America’s Oldest New Nuclear Strategy
Aaron Miles
The Python Problem: Reflections on the War on Terror, 17 Years Later
David A. Brown
,
Timothy Hoyt
, and
Craig Whiteside
Deadly Cooperation: The Shifting Ties Between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
Tricia Bacon
How to Think Like an Officer: A Prospectus
Reed Bonadonna
The Coming Swarm Might Be Dead on Arrival
Shmuel Shmuel
Alter Egos: Misconceptions About Religiously Radicalized Women
Chelsea Daymon
Will America Lose Seoul? Redefining a Critical Alliance
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
A Horrifying and Believable Path to Nuclear War with North Korea
Robert Jervis
Remembering John McCain’s First Overseas Trip with Hillary Clinton
Andrew J. Shapiro
How Much is Enough? Matching Ends with Means at the Pentagon
Frank Hoffman
and
Molly Dinneen
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
If You Want More Defense Innovation, Spend Less on Legacy Platforms
Peter Levine
McRaven’s Rousing Protest: Are Civil-Military and Democratic Norms in Tension?
Kori Schake
The August War, Ten Years On: A Retrospective on the Russo-Georgian War
Michael Kofman
Negotiations with the Taliban Won’t Give Afghanistan What it Needs
Ioannis Koskinas
Remembrance of War as Warning
Christopher Preble
The Good Idea Fairy Knocks: Seven Things to Understand Before Opining About Professional Military Education
Richard Andres
Why We Get It Wrong: Reflections on Predicting the Future of War
Kori Schake
Save the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute: An Open Letter
WOTR Staff
Crisis and Conviction: U.S. Grand Strategy in Trump’s Second Term
Patrick Porter
How America’s Myopic Focus on Iran Hinders Its Russia Policy
Aaron Stein
Shocking Wildfires Into Submission: A Proposal
Mike Benitez
The Road Less Traveled: Both Sides Are Right About Professional Military Education
Tammy S. Schultz
BOMBSHELL: And Now For Something Quite Special
Alina Polyakova
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Erin Simpson
, and
Radha Iyengar
Iran’s Summer of Discontent: A Warning for Washington
Michael P. Dempsey
Strategic Outpost’s Third Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Denmark in NATO: Paying for Protection, Bleeding for Prestige
Gary Schaub, Jr.
and
André Ken Jakobsson
The Year of the Gray Wolf: The Rise of Turkey’s New Ultranationalism
Burak Kadercan
Five Years In: The 25 Most Read War on the Rocks Articles
WOTR Staff
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
What Does Assad’s Southwestern Offensive Mean for the Future of Syria?
Michael P. Dempsey
Colombia’s Problematic Peace Accord: Time to Swallow Some Frogs
Colette Rausch
and
Thomas Stevenson
Marine Warbot Companies: Where Naval Warfare, the U.S. National Defense Strategy, and Close Combat Lethality Task Force Intersect
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
, and
Noah Spataro
Military Superiority: More Than Meets the Eye
Mara Karlin
Who Lost Russia, Again?
Michael Fitzsimmons
Three Tours, One Unsolvable Riddle: An Airman’s Reflections on Securing the Peace in Afghanistan
Will Selber
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Scenarios to Expect From Turkey’s Upcoming Elections
Burak Kadercan
Technological Prowess, Lethality, and the Civil-Military Divide
Torey McMurdo
and
Christopher Hocking
Can We Talk? The Obligation of Military Service
Charles Dunlap
What’s So Disordered About Your World Order?
Nick Danforth
The Military Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
Luke O’Brien
and
Aaron Stein
Where Did the U.S. Go Wrong in the Philippines? A Hard Look at a ‘Success’ Story
Zachary Abuza
Russian Elegies: Candide Goes to Moscow
Michael Kimmage
A New Framework for Assessing the Risks from U.S. Arms Sales
Trevor Thrall
and
Caroline Dorminey
The 2018 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Compounding Violent Extremism? When Efforts to Prevent Violence Backfire
Jessica Trisko Darden
Wargaming with Athena: How to Make Militaries Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient with Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Chris Whyte
The Greatest Sacrifice: Why Military Service Should Not Be an Obligation of Citizenship
Max Margulies
Just Put it On Our Tab: War Financing and the Decline of Democracy
Sarah E. Kreps
What ‘Generation Kill’ Tells a French Soldier About U.S. Military Culture
Jean Michelin
Doing More With Less: How To Optimize U.S. Counterterrorism
Stephen Tankel
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
At a Crossroads, Part II: No More Shadows: The Future of Intelligence Oversight in Congress
Tommy Ross
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
Air Superiority Under 2000 Feet: Lessons from Waging Drone Warfare Against ISIL
Pablo Chovil
Trump’s Dumb Decision to Withdraw from the Deal Gave Iran the Advantage
Aaron Stein
Cluster Munitions and Rearming for Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Why Did This Band of Brothers Turn to Murder?
Aaron Edwards
Just Say No? Military Dissent From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the Trump Era
Rosa Brooks
Warfare as Violent Politics: An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Armed Threats
David H. Ucko
and
Thomas A. Marks
Virtuous Leadership and Restoring the American Dream
David McCormick
With Islamic State in Decline, What’s Al-Qaeda’s Next Move?
Tore Refslund Hamming
An Inflection Point for Scientific and Technical Intelligence
Brian Holmes
and
Max Greenlee
Yes, It Is a New Cold War. What Is To Be Done?
Raymond Smith
Why Washington’s New Drone Export Policy Is Good For National Security
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Searching for Scythians on the New Silk Road: Robert Kaplan’s Modern-Day Realism
Nick Danforth
Defense Spending Gets a Reprieve from Austerity Politics…For Now
Matt Vallone
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
Did you miss…
Ryan Evans
Forecasting the Future of Warfare
Robert H. Scales
Questions of Power: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on Sanctions and Coercion
Omar S. Bashir
America’s Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home
Jonathan Caverley
Between a Rock and Dynamite: American Options in the Face of the Turkish-YPG Crisis
Burak Kadercan
Trust, Troops, and Reapers: Getting ‘Drone’ Research Right
Cory T. Anderson
,
Dave Blair
,
Mike Byrnes
,
Joe Chapa
,
Amanda Collazzo
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Olivia Garard
,
Ariel M. Schuetz
, and
Scott VanOort
The Emigrant Sisters Return: The Growing Role of the Islamic State’s Women
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
,
Vivian Hagerty
, and
Logan Macnair
Looking Beyond the Generals in the Room: The Real Cause of America’s Civil-Military Malaise
Raphael S. Cohen
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
The Psychology of Perceiving Uncertainty
Brad DeWees
Death of a General: What Shaban Nasiri Reveals About Iran’s Secretive Qods Force
Amir Toumaj
From Al-Qaeda to ISIL: Continuity and Change in the Jihadist Movement
Stephen Tankel
Jim Mattis Fires a Clear Warning Shot
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How the Network Generation Is Changing the Millennial Military
KC Reid
Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario: Building Coalitions Left of Boom
Mike Nelson
10 Takeaways From the Fight Against the Islamic State
Michael P. Dempsey
The Sunset of the Predator: Reflections on the End of an Era
Joe Chapa
What to Expect When You’re Expecting the PLA: A Guide to Meeting With the Chinese Army
Eric Chan
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Kai Thaxton
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Scott Cuomo
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Why Americans Aren’t Really Worried About War With North Korea
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Crisis in Foggy Bottom: What Rex Tillerson Can Really Learn From Alexander Haig
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Evan McCormick
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Shota Gvineria
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Ambition Meets Reality for Global Britain
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Transparency About the Costs of War Won’t Change Americans’ Minds
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Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Linda Robinson
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Long Ignored: The Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons Against Insurgents
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A Deadly Delusion: Were Syria’s Rebels Ever Going to Defeat the Jihadists?
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Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection Between U.S. Training and Military Coups
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Jonathan Caverley
Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won’t Be World War II Again
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Southern Asia’s Escalating Strategic Competition
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Travis Wheeler
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Brad Carson
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Un-Discipline Yourself: Reflections on Ideas for a Disordered World
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Home and Forward Commands Should Replace the Geographic Combatant Commands
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Josh Nunn
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Pete Marks
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Richard Robinson
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Lady Gaga’s Air Force and the Grunt-Angel for Marines: An Infantry Officer’s Unlikely Exploration
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and
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and
Nora Bensahel
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and
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and
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Aaron Mannes
Warning Orders: Strategic Reasons for Publicizing Military Offensives
Carrie Lee
The U.S.-Philippine Alliance is Stronger than You Think
Gregory Poling
What a Real Review of U.S. Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia Would Say
Richard Sokolsky
and
Jeremy Shapiro
Politics, Population, and Hydrocarbons: Preparing for Mosul’s Aftermath
H. Akın Ünver
The Navy Littorally Has a Drone Problem
Richard Kuzma
No Excuse: Stop Shaking Down Veterans
Mark Jacobson
Political Airpower, Part I: Say No to the No-Fly Zone
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
After the Battle for Mosul, Get Ready for the Islamic State to Go Underground
Patrick Ryan
and
Patrick B. Johnston
The Democratization of Airpower: The Insurgent and the Drone
T.X. Hammes
Losing the Peace is Still Losing
Paul Scharre
Are We All Interventionists Now?
Thanassis Cambanis
Flying IEDs: The Next Big Threat?
Ulrike Franke
Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up with Strategy
Walter Haynes
Doubling Down on Reputation: Defining State Resolve and Why it Matters
Dianne Pfundstein Chamberlain
If Duterte Kicks Out U.S. Special Operators, a Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Ryan Rockwell
What’s Really At Stake in the Syria Debate
Marc Lynch
U.S. Naval Forces Before and Beyond Battle
Janine Davidson
The World the Combatant Command was Designed for is Gone
Kelly McCoy
American Strategy and the Six Phases of Grief
Paul Scharre
What American Credibility Myth? How and Why Reputation Matters
Alex Weisiger
and
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Note to Futurists: The Maximum Effective Range of a Prediction is 20 Years
Conrad Crane
The Political Battles in Baghdad after the Battle for Mosul
Renad Mansour
A Plan for Winding Down the Syrian Civil War: Surge, Freeze, and Enforce
Charles Lister
Unconventional Warfare is Not the Answer to Your Problem
Andrea Filozof
Targeted Killing: Thinking Through the Logic
Rachel Tecott
It is Time to Drive a Stake into the Heart of the American Credibility Myth
Dianne Pfundstein Chamberlain
What Coup-Proofing Will Do to Turkey’s Military: Lessons From Five Countries
Danny Orbach
The Pentagon’s Fig Tree: Reforming The Military Health System
Brad Carson
and
Morgan Plummer
First Things First: Rethinking the Defense Costs of Debt-Free College
Tyler Jost
The Coming of the Russian Jihad: Part I
Leon Aron
Charting Boko Haram’s Rapid Decline
Nathaniel Allen
The Phantom Menace: When Threat Capabilities Are Made Up
Mike Pietrucha
New Rules for U.S. Military Intervention
Christopher Preble
It is Time to Shine a Light on the Islamic State’s Hidden Executions
Patrick Burke
The Post-Coup Purge of Turkey’s Air Force
Mike Benitez
and
Aaron Stein
Germany Embraces Realpolitik Once More
John R. Deni
The CIA and a Turkish Coup
Egemen Bezci
and
Nicholas Borroz
Primed Against Primacy: The Restraint Constituency and U.S. Foreign Policy
Trevor Thrall
The Jihadist Entrepreneur: What the Anjem Choudary Case Can Teach Us
Assaf Moghadam
Turkey’s Kurdish Red Line in Syria and the Fight Against ISIL
Denise Natali
Glory in the Guts
Greg Mercer
I Saw the Future of Defense in California, And It’s Coming to a University Near You
Ryan Evans
Transnational “Volunteers”: America’s Anti-ISIL Fighters
Jason Fritz
and
Joseph Young
Defense Reform in the Next Administration
Brad Carson
and
Morgan Plummer
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
Paul Miller
Does Free College Threaten Our All-Volunteer Military?
Benjamin Luxenberg
This is How Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Could Get Bogged Down
Aaron Stein
Pathos, Where Art Thou? Intelligence Analysis and Ethical Persuasion
Brian Holmes
Six Ways to Fix the Army’s Culture
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Capturing Flying Insects: A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting
Charlie Lewis
Can Militarization Be a Good Thing for America’s Police?
Jason Fritz
Waze for War: How the Army Can Integrate Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ryan Kendall
Myth-Making and Sectarian Secularists in the Middle East
Amil Khan
No More of the Same: The Problem with Primacy
Christopher Preble
and
William Ruger
The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
Tobias Schneider
When Intervention Works: The Instructive Case of Sierra Leone
David H. Ucko
There It Is: A True War Story
Peter Munson
Bringing an End to the Forever War
Gene Healy
Happy Anniversary, Kazakhstan: 25 Years of Reducing WMD Threats
Andy Weber
and
Christine Parthemore
An Apology to the Real Cyrus Mahboubian
Ryan Evans
Top Cover for American Troops in Syria: A De Facto No-Fly Zone?
Ralph S. Clem
Intervention and the Looming Choices of Autonomous Warfighting
Jules Hurst
“Assad or We Burn the Country”: Misreading Sectarianism and the Regime in Syria
Emile Hokayem
Repairing the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
How Foreign Affairs Wrecked the British Labour Party
Geraint Hughes
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Middle East Undone
Cyrus Malik
Getting Real on the Terrorism Threat to the United States
John Mueller
Computing the Value of Stealth: It’s Not That Simple
Mike Benitez
and
Dave Deptula
The Crimean Crisis and Russia’s Military Posture in the Black Sea
Michael Kofman
The Moral Hazard of Inaction in War
Charles Dunlap
Turkey and the PKK After the Failed Coup
Nick Danforth
and
Dylan Runde
Dynasty or Collapse? Erdogan’s Choice and What Comes Next For Turkey
Burak Kadercan
Want to Build a Better Proxy in Syria? Lessons from Tibet
Steve Ferenzi
Britain is Committed to Defeating ISIL and Staying Robust on Defense
Deputy Ambassador Patrick Davies
The Meaning of Turkey’s Five Million Strong Nationalist Moment
Selim Koru
Who’s Responsible for the Navy’s Carrier Shortage?
Mark Cancian
Bridging America’s Foreign Policy Elite-Main Street Divide
Sean Kay
and
Patrick Cronin
Averting the Coming Republican Foreign Policy Brain Drain
Russell Wald
When the Islamic State is Gone, What Comes Next?
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
Lessons on History and Statecraft from a Rocky Mountain Seminar
Justin Key Canfil
,
Lauren Dickey
,
A. Bradley Potter
, and
Laura Weis
Brinksmanship Renewed: The Current Phase of U.S.-Pakistani Relations
Ijaz Khan
Introducing “Course Correction” at War on the Rocks
WOTR Staff
How Congress and the Pentagon Joined Forces to Worsen the Navy’s Carrier Gap
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Rick Berger
Generals and Political Interventions in American History
James Joyner
The Scourge of Extremism: Move Beyond the Symptoms and Treat the Disease
Michael Morell
,
Sandy Winnefeld
, and
Samantha Vinograd
Dark Days: Trump, Christianity, and a Low Dishonest Decade
William Inboden
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Al-Qaeda Lost Jabhat al-Nusra. Now What?
Clint Watts
The Threat is Here, It’s Just Distributed Unevenly: A2/AD and the Aircraft Carrier
Steve Blank
To Study Modern War, There Is No Substitute for Going
ML Cavanaugh
Strategic Outpost’s First Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Germany Takes a Steely Look at the World
Sebastian Bruns
The Battle of Fromelles and How We Remember War
Joan Beaumont
Has the Islamic State Abandoned Its Provincial Model in the Philippines?
Charlie Winter
The Causes of the Coup Attempt in Turkey: A History of the Usual Suspects
Dov Friedman
The Logic for (Shoddy) U.S. Covert Action in Syria
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
Inside a Failed Coup and Turkey’s Fragmented Military
Aaron Stein
Bloody Ramadan: How the Islamic State Coordinated a Global Terrorist Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
If I Were President…
Tim Kane
Five Reasons Why Cooperating with Moscow on Syria is a Bad Idea
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
and
Lorianne Woodrow Moss
The Soldier’s Question: Why Go Over There?
ML Cavanaugh
Can Saudi Arabia Cook a Homemade Defense Industry? Not with Oil in the Recipe
Elai Rettig
For the U.S. Army, It’s Not About the Story
Nadia Schadlow
This is Not the Killer Robot You’re Looking For: Dallas Police Used a Precision-Guided Munition to Kill the Shooter
Mike Pietrucha
Chilcot and Opening Old Wounds on WMD Intel
Al Mauroni
Chilcot and a Very British History of Dubious Military Decisions
Huw J. Davies
The U.S. Military’s Protection Deficit Disorder
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Pakistani Militants and the State: Friends, Foes, and Frenemies
Stephen Tankel
An Unholy Attack In A Holy Time: Turkey Suffers, the World Mourns
Joshua Walker
and
Selma Bardakci
Slaughter on the Somme: The Limits of Foresight on the Road to the Great War
Mark Cancian
Taking the Off-Ramp: A Path to Preventing Terrorism
Eric Rosand
The Myth of High-Threat Close Air Support
Mike Pietrucha
Brexit’s Roots in the Middle East
Jon Alterman
How Afghanistan Distorted Close Air Support and Why it Matters
Mike Benitez
Russia is in Charge in Syria: How Moscow Took Control of the Battlefield and Negotiating Table
Sam Heller
Speaking Nonsense to Power: Misadventures in Dissent Over Syria
Jeremy Shapiro
In Search of Seamless Interoperability in Korea: The First Year of the R.O.K-U.S. Combined Division
ML Cavanaugh
The Expensive Pretzel Logic of Deterring Russia by Denial
Michael Kofman
We Already Have an Arsenal Plane: It’s Called the B-52
T.J. May
and
Mike Pietrucha
A Military Guide to Accessing Research on Fragile States
Jacob N. Shapiro
and
Caitlin Tulloch
The Wars After the War for Sinjar: How Washington Can Avert a New Civil War
Christine McCaffray van den Toorn
Why Tradecraft Will Not Save Intelligence Analysis
Peter Mattis
Civilian Lives and the Fate of Campaigns
Christopher Kolenda
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
When The Caliphate Crumbles: The Future of the Islamic State’s Affiliates
Clint Watts
Veterans and the Alienated Society
Kori Schake
Who Killed the Arab Spring?
Counselor Derek Chollet
The Mediterranean Microcosm
Kevin Duffy
The Need for SEAD Part II: The Evolving Threat
Mike Pietrucha
How Ahrar al-Sham Has Come to Define the Kaleidoscope of the Syrian Civil War
Sam Heller
What Next for the Army? In Defense of Proponency by Componency
Michael N. Clancy
and
Zac Delwiche
Don’t Kill the Caliph! The Islamic State and the Pitfalls of Leadership Decapitation
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
The Big Breach: Donald Trump and the Return of Ideological Espionage
Mark Stout
An Infantry Squad for the 21st Century
Jules Hurst
Revisiting Train-and-Equip in Syria to Clear the Manbij Pocket
Andrea Taylor
and
Aaron Stein
Do Not Give Up on Stealth Technology
Robert Spalding
and
Adam Lowther
It’s Not About the Airplane: Envisioning the A-X2
Mike Pietrucha
Signs of a Nascent Islamic State Province in the Philippines
Charlie Winter
Grading Defense Reform
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Shawn Brimley
Immigrants and American Exceptionalism
Ionut Popescu
The Price of Perpetual War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Realism Restrained: The Washington Playbook Strikes Back
Emma Ashford
The U.A.E. Approach to Counterinsurgency in Yemen
Michael Knights
A Pendulum Swing on Foreign Policy? Not So Fast
Célia Belin
Go Big or Go Home: Applying the Full Force of the U.S. National Security Apparatus
Matthew Wein
Stealth is King, the World is Flat
Mike Benitez
Never Alone: Let’s Retire the Word “Isolationism”
Patrick Porter
Why Unloading Wide Area Security Operations on the Reserve Component Will Not Work
James King
The Need for SEAD Part I: The Nature of SEAD
Mike Pietrucha
Donald Trump Will Not Save Realism from Itself
Alexander Kirss
Is the Islamic State Trying to Draw Turkey into Syria?
S.G. Grimaldi
and
Selim Koru
Exceptionalism or Expansionism? The American Dream Abroad
Sean Kay
Reviving the Anglo-Franco-American Tripartite in the Middle East
Simond de Galbert
Overstated Differences: Obama and Clinton Steering the Ship of State
Counselor Derek Chollet
How Al Qaeda is Winning in Syria
Yasir Abbas
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Territorial Defense and the Twilight of Postmodern Europe
Iskander Rehman
The West in Crisis: The Demise of Europe or Transatlantic Renewal?
Jeffrey Gedmin
Clausewitz and the Crackhouse
Paul Kan
Keeping up with China’s Evolving Military Strategy
Joe McReynolds
and
Peter Wood
The Theological Battle Between ISIL and the Turkish State
Hilmi Demir
and
Selim Koru
Out of Time: Do Not Revive the F-22
Mike Benitez
Islands in the Foreign Fighter Stream: Trinidad’s Extremism Problem
Jason Fritz
The Catastrophic Success of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Talking to the Islamic State: Co-opting Jihadists into a Political Process
Ben Jonsson
and
Andrew Hill
Before We Head to Libya Again: Learning the Wrong Lessons From a Failed Intervention
Sumantra Maitra
On the Eternal Importance of Demographics and Allies
ML Cavanaugh
How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds into its Global Expansion Efforts
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
,
Nathaniel Barr
, and
Bridget Moreng
Power, Islam, and Pragmatism in Turkish Strategy
Richard Outzen
The Tangled Web of the Syrian Jihad
Sam Heller
Give the Empire Its Due: Can the Fate of the Death Star Tell Us Anything About Aircraft Carriers?
Noah Kanter
Syria’s Toxic War: Chemical Weapons Are Undermining Deterrence and Nonproliferation
Rebecca Hersman
Low-Altitude Penetration and Electronic Warfare: Stuck on Denial, Part III
Mike Pietrucha
Saudi Arabia is a Good Ally? Get Real
Emma Ashford
Can Turkey and the United States Come Together on Drones?
Aaron Stein
Game of Drones: Reviewing “Eye in the Sky”
M.L.R. Smith
Outnumbered, Outranged, and Outgunned: How Russia Defeats NATO
David A. Shlapak
and
Michael W. Johnson
Well-Behaved Defense Contractors Seldom Make History
Whitney Grespin
Reimagining and Modernizing U.S. Airborne Forces for the 21st Century
David Johnson
and
John Gordon IV
A Netflix Assessment of China’s Rise and America’s Advantage
ML Cavanaugh
A New Generation of Unrestricted Warfare
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Material Support: An Indispensable Counterterrorism Tool Turns 20
Jeff Breinholt
Counterterrorism or Repression? China Takes on Uighur Militants
Lauren Dickey
Under my Umbrella: The No-Fly Zone Fallacy
Lionel Beehner
Play On: Supporting Decision-Makers by Sustaining Wargaming
Joshua Jones
It’s Time to Start Talking About American Exceptionalism Again
Richard Fontaine
#BringBackOurGirls? Two Years After the Chibok Girls Were Taken, What Do We Know?
Elizabeth Pearson
and
Jacob Zenn
The Democratization of Science Ushers in a New World Order
Christopher Zember
A Visit to the Frontlines of the Battle Against ISIL
Mark Cancian
and
Matthew Cancian
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Is a National Security Threat
Radha Iyengar
Warring Tribes Studying War and Peace
Joshua Rovner
More Art than Science: Intelligence and Technical Topics
Brian Holmes
and
Max Greenlee
Shrinking the Tactical Civilian–Military Divide
Kenny Sholes
The End of the American Empire
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
Forsaking the Moral High Ground: Why Presidential Candidates Err in Supporting Waterboarding and Other Forms of Torture
Peter Mansoor
Rediscovering Low Altitude: Getting Past the Air Force’s Overcommitment to Stealth
Mike Pietrucha
Weathering the Storm: Civil-Military Tension During Presidential Transitions
Kathleen Hicks
What Obama and Trump Share That Divides Them From Their Parties on Foreign Policy
Michael Singh
Don’t Let the Tyranny of Jointness Rule the Indo-Pacific
Steven Wills
Congress Should Use the NDAA to Begin Rebuilding the Military
Justin T. Johnson
The Islamic State in Turkey: A Deep Dive into a Dark Place
Aaron Stein
The Deceptively Romantic Historical Musings of the Russian Foreign Minister
Sumantra Maitra
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and the Once-Again Forgotten War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Syrian Civil War and the End of Turkey’s Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
What’s New about Trump’s Finger on the Nuclear Button?
Paul Avey
Beyond Brussels: Turning the Tide against ISIL in Europe
Frank J. Cilluffo
and
Sharon L. Cardash
Read My Mind: Why It’s Hard to See Things from the Enemy’s Point of View
Adam Elkus
A Proud Day for Parliament: The Wisdom of Not Bombing Assad
Patrick Porter
Apple, the FBI, Extremists and Strategic Soft Targeting
William Braniff
How Ankara’s Policy Choices Enabled its Terrorism Problem
Dov Friedman
A More Granular Look at Death by Drone
Melissa S. Hersh
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Islamic State in Europe: Terrorists Without Borders, Counterterrorists With All Borders
Clint Watts
Turkish Foreign Policy is Waking Up from the Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Soju Soldiers: KATUSAs, GIs, and the Search for the Bottom of the Bottle
ML Cavanaugh
Are CIA-backed Syrian Rebels Really Fighting Pentagon-backed Syrian Rebels?
Sam Heller
A Tale of Two Terrorist Attacks in Brussels and Ankara
Joshua Walker
Radically Rethinking NATO and the Future of European Security
Job C. Henning
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
The U.S. Air Force and Stealth: Stuck on Denial Part I
Mike Pietrucha
Getting the Law Right on Carpet Bombing and Civilian Casualties
Charles Dunlap
Increase, Don’t Decrease, Marine Lethality
Bing West
and
Owen West
Kurdish Militants and Turkey’s New Urban Insurgency
Aaron Stein
What our Readers are Drinking: the Highlander
Frank Dennis
The Three Faces of Russian Spetsnaz in Syria
Mark Galeotti
There is No Russian Withdrawal from Syria
Dmitry Gorenburg
and
Michael Kofman
Dispelling Myths About Special Operations Forces
Craig Michel
We Need a Map for Goldwater-Nichols Reform So We Don’t Get Lost
Mark Cancian
Time to Stop Maximizing the Chances of Failure in Afghanistan
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Views from the Ground on the A-10 Debate
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
Strategies to Counter Terrorist Narratives are More Confused than Ever
Christina Nemr
Russian Hybrid Warfare and Other Dark Arts
Michael Kofman
If Reconciliation Fails in Afghanistan, What’s Plan B?
Michael Kugelman
The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
Tracking Refugees With Biometrics: More Questions than Answers
Sarah Soliman
The Weight of the Punch: British Ambition and Power
Patrick Porter
Manning the Frontier: Allies and the Unraveling of the World Order
Frank Hoffman
This is your Jihad on Drugs
Paul Kan
An Index of Newly Declassified Bin Laden Documents
Sumaya Almajdoub
and
William McCants
Treating the Islamic State as a State
Mike Pietrucha
Open Letter on Donald Trump from GOP National Security Leaders
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The Promise and Peril of Changing U.S. Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
Rethinking the Apocalypse: Time for Bold Thinking About the Second Nuclear Age
Andrew Krepinevich
and
Jacob Cohn
Asia’s Mediterranean: Strategy, Geopolitics, and Risk in the Seas of the Indo-Pacific
Michael Auslin
7 Issues the Future of the Army Commission Should Have Spent More Time On
Conrad Crane
The Zombie Myths of Conscription
Phillip Carter
The Long Shadow of the Gulf War
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Will Pakistan Draw Closer to Saudi Arabia to balance Iran?
Sameer Lalwani
Why We Still Need the Draft
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
A Bleak Future for Army Aviation?
Crispin Burke
It’s Time to Improve Military Health Care
Justin T. Johnson
Doom and Gloom: Five Key Takeaways from the Munich Security Conference
Richard Fontaine
The Russian Quagmire in Syria and Other Washington Fairy Tales
Michael Kofman
The NCFA and the Apache Helicopter Olive Branch
Phil Ryan
Combing Through an Invaluable Resource on the People’s Liberation Army
Peter Mattis
After the Geneva Talks: Re-Setting U.S. Strategy for Western Syria
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
The Hard Questions About the Selective Service Have Nothing to Do With Women in Combat
Katherine Kidder
Just Following Orders: Leadership Lessons from Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Jared Wilhelm
The Way Home from ‘A War’
ML Cavanaugh
Three Tips for Regionally Aligned Soldiers
Crispin Burke
Whither the New World Order?
Ali Wyne
Demands on the Marine Corps are Slowly Breaking Marine Aviation
Jesse Sloman
In Libya, No Unity without Security
Alice Hunt Friend
and
Anthony Bell
Beyond the Army Commission: Unifying the Army’s Components
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Prospects for a Turkish Incursion into Syria
Can Kasapoglu
No Replacement for Military Engagement and Forward Presence
John R. Deni
Squeezing Water from a Stone: Five Missed Opportunities in Planning the Future of the U.S. Army
Nadia Schadlow
Spinning Meaningless Piles of Knots into a Riveting Plot: A War Novel That is so Much More
Matthew J. Hefti
Donald Trump, Realism, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jeremy Shapiro
The Long Road to Mosul
Denise Natali
Surprisingly Sound Answers on the Future of the Army
Robert H. Scales
Preventing a Middle Eastern Gordian Knot
Jim Jeffrey
and
Soner Cagaptay
Carnage and Connectivity: How Our Pursuit of Fun Wars Brought the Wars Home
David Betz
Ignoring the Army’s Recent Past Will Not Help it Win Future Wars
Andrew Hill
On Goldwater-Nichols and the Centrality of Military Advice
Shawn Brimley
and
Loren DeJonge Schulman
Iran, Terrorism, and Nonproliferation After the Nuclear Deal
Radha Iyengar
and
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Preparing for the Next Big War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
From the First Gulf War to Islamic State: How America Was Seduced by the “Easy War”
Sebastian J. Bae
Navigating the Post-Iran Deal Waters in the Gulf
Melissa Dalton
A Cause For All Turks: Turkey and Syria’s Turkmen Rebels
Sam Heller
and
S.G. Grimaldi
Regimes and Revolt: Authoritarian Ways of Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
10,000 Won’t Do It: The Mathematics of an American Deployment to Fight ISIL
Kevin Benson
The Islamic State’s Plans for Turkey
Hilmi Demir
and
Selim Koru
The Gulf War’s Anniversary: Reflections on 25 Years of U.S. Military Involvement in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. McCausland
Nuclear Cruise Missile Opponents are Pushing a Dangerous Line
Bruce M. Sugden
Killing Anwar: Targeting Jihadi Propagandists is Only Part of the Solution
Scott Englund
The Islamic State vs. al-Qaeda: The War within the Jihadist Movement
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
,
Nathaniel Barr
, and
Bridget Moreng
“John Wayne only exists in Hollywood”:
Narcos
and Foreign Internal Defense
Michael Noonan
The Obama Administration and the Middle East: An Insider’s View
Undersecretary Colin Kahl
and
Ryan Evans
Artillery Returns to the Battlefield in the War against ISIL
James T. Quinlivan
Southern France’s Bloody Past: Six Lessons from a Forgotten Crusade
Iskander Rehman
Living With Fog and Friction: The Fallacy of Information Superiority
Mike Pietrucha
The Uneasy Relationship Between Policy and History
James Graham Wilson
Wars of Ideas: From the Taliban to the Islamic State
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson
A Stubborn Optimist’s 2016 Forecast of World Affairs
Joshua Walker
Sectarianism and Saudi Arabia’s Half-Baked Counter-Terrorism Alliance
Emma Ashford
Clausewitz Would Not Like America’s Islamic State Strategy
James Holmes
Fixing How We Fight the Islamic State’s Narrative
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
Ankara’s Hidden Hand: Turkish Covert Ops Then and Now
Egemen Bezci
Making Sense of the Islamic State: Four Frameworks
Burak Kadercan
What Twitter Really Means for Islamic State Supporters
Amarnath Amarasingam
Don’t Leave Jointness to the Services: Preserving Joint Officer Development amid Goldwater-Nichols Reform
Ryan Shaw
and
Miriam Krieger
Mosul: Turkey’s Fulda Gap
H. Akın Ünver
A Visit from St. Nicholas in Bagdad
Mike Pietrucha
China’s Bomber Flight into the Central Pacific: Wake-Up Call for the United States
Dean Cheng
Rhetoric and Counterterrorism: What Drives the Jihadists
Brian Fishman
A Strategic Framework for the Fight Against ISIL
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
Time to Focus on the Wars Within the War Against the Islamic State
Michael Knights
Of Mulled Wine, Mince Pies, and Strategic Studies
Michael Clauser
Make No Mistake: The FBI and Army Retaliated Against a Hero
Rep. Duncan Hunter
Peering into the Past and Future of Urban Warfare in Israel
David Betz
A Muslim Foreign Legion to Destroy ISIL?
Erik Carlson
Countering Violent Extremism Means Countering Gender Inequality
Julia Santucci
The Gang Challenge in El Salvador: Worse than You Thought
R. Evan Ellis
Ash Carter’s 2015 Letter to Santa
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
50 Shades of Gray: Why the Gray Wars Concept Lacks Strategic Sense
Adam Elkus
Femme Fatale: The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers
Kathleen Turner
How to Demonize Army Leaders
Tim Mathews
As We Were Marching through Georgia
Mark Stout
Moscow’s Clients from Kabul to Damascus: Strength and Strategy in International Politics
Ryan Evans
The Forgotten Threat: North Korea as America’s Most Durable, Dangerous, and Diverse Enemy
ML Cavanaugh
Does the Islamic State Want an Apocalyptic Showdown? Not So Fast
William McCants
Curbing the Enthusiasm: Why De-radicalization Programs Get Fanaticism Wrong
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
A Smith’s-Eye View from Korea on Army Headquarters Reduction
ML Cavanaugh
Refugees and the Islamic State’s Colonization Strategy
Jeffrey Bristol
The Decline and Fall of British Sea Power May Not Be Over
John T. Kuehn
Investing in the Next Generation of National Security Leaders
Scott Cheney-Peters
and
Joshua Marcuse
Deja Vu? Debating a U.S. Intervention in Syria in 1919
Michael S. Neiberg
Myth-Busting French Counterinsurgency
Terrence Peterson
This is How Europe Needs to Stand up to Terrorism
Martin Michelot
and
Benjamin Haddad
Will Putin Strike Back at Turkey from the Shadows?
Mark Galeotti
Let’s Talk About Terrorism and Migration
Ryan Greer
Why We Must Train Our Forces for Fog and Friction
Mike Pietrucha
Radioactive in Riga: The Latvian Nuclear Standoff of 2018, Part III
Iskander Rehman
Looking for a Few Good Partners in Asia to Shore Up the International Order
Timothy R. Heath
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
Lessons from the Liberation of Sinjar
Denise Natali
This Thanksgiving, Start a Debate About Refugees
Loren DeJonge Schulman
Did Anonymous Just Save The World From ISIL?
Clint Watts
Britain Released a New Strategy Document: What Does it Say?
Patrick Bury
Watts in FA: ISIS and al Qaeda Race to the Bottom
Clint Watts
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Japan’s Quiet Confidence in America’s Next President
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Ash Carter: The Interview
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Ryan Evans
NATO and the Paris Attacks: Why There Will Not Be an Article V Response
Stanley R. Sloan
America’s Victory Disease Has Left it Dangerously Deluded
Mike Pietrucha
NATO’s Two-front War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Paris Taught Us About the Islamic State
Clint Watts
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John Amble
Precision-Guided Weapons Come to the Infantry
Paul Scharre
Six Rules for Wargaming: The Lessons of Millennium Challenge ‘02
Gary Anderson
and
Dave Dilegge
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U.S. and Russian Airpower in the Desert
Angelo M. Codevilla
Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy
Micah Zenko
Post-Election Turkey and the U.S. Plan to Take Raqqa
Aaron Stein
Armstrong, Iyengar, and Schadlow Join the WOTR Editorial Family
Ryan Evans
The Economics of War with China: This Will Hurt You More than It Hurts Me
Mike Pietrucha
Friendly Fire: The Risks and Rewards of Red Teaming
Frank Hoffman
What Texas Hold ‘em Can Teach us about Geopolitics
Jonathan Altman
Campaign Acceleration: How to Build on Progress and Avoid Stalemate Against ISIL
Michael Knights
With or Without You: Germany and NATO
Ulrich Kühn
Technology and War: The Revolution that Never Arrived
Williamson Murray
Obama’s Failure to Demilitarize U.S. Foreign Policy
John R. Deni
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Katherine Graef
Life and Death in a Minefield with Kilo Two Bravo
ML Cavanaugh
The Next Task Force Smith: The Danger of Arbitrary Headquarters Reductions
Conrad Crane
and
John Bonin
Let the Russians Bleed in Syria While We Focus on Containing Jihadists
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Stripes to Stars: Enlisted Airmen Deserve to Become Officers Before They Become Pilots
Dave Blair
Why We Still Need a Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missile
Mel Deaile
and
Al Mauroni
Is U.S. Intelligence Analysis as Good as It Gets?
Mark Lowenthal
and
Ronald Marks
History as Farce: From Napoleon to Maliki
Williamson Murray
American Leadership Against ISIL Starts in Congress
Brian Fishman
Can Obama Take Advice? Reflections on the Middle East and American Strategy
Timothy Hoyt
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Policy Options and Exit Strategies
Michael Kofman
5 Things Americans Need to Know About the New Canadian Prime Minister’s Foreign Policy
Stephen Saideman
Putin Takes Center Stage in the Middle East
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?
Gregory Daddis
A New Plan for the United States in Syria
Ben Jonsson
This is Why Civilianizing Military Justice Can Work
James W. Weirick
and
James Joyner
Don’t Fear the Dirty Bomb
Al Mauroni
A Toast to Little Willie
Robert Tomes
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
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