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“Iraq”
More than Just Beheadings: How the Islamic State Sells Itself
Charlie Winter
The United States Needs to Double Down on Turkey Post-Ankara Bombing
Joshua Walker
Frogs of War: Explaining the New French Military Interventionism
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
and
Olivier Schmitt
The Moral Hazard of Proxy Warfare
Adam Elkus
Yes, Sometimes There Are Military Solutions to Political Problems
Brendan Gallagher
Macbeth as a PTSD Victim
Anthony King
Nobody Expects the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
CSI: Pentagon — Who Killed American Strategy?
Adam Elkus
A Soldier Can Never Die in Vain
ML Cavanaugh
Six Seductive Stories That Undercut the Army
Nadia Schadlow
Civilianizing Military Justice? Sorry, It Can’t — and Shouldn’t — Work
Charles Dunlap
The Fall of Kunduz and What it Means for the Future of Afghanistan
Jason Campbell
Sexual Assault in the Military and the Unlawful Command Influence Catch-22
James Joyner
and
James W. Weirick
Got Landpower?
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Corbyn’s Strategic Ignorance Would Make Him a Dangerous Prime Minister
Mark Stout
How Not to Fight the Islamic State
Burak Kadercan
Sinking a Wrong Idea, Again
ML Cavanaugh
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Self-Delusions of American Naval Power
Robert C. Rubel
How the U.S. Army Remains the Master of Landpower
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
Substance over Sound Bite: Better Veterans Policy in the NDAA
David Goldich
Ahrar al-Sham’s Revisionist Jihadism
Sam Heller
Why is America Tactically Terrific but Strategically Slipshod?
Keith Nightingale
The Five-Ring Circus: How Airpower Enthusiasts Forgot About Interdiction
Mike Pietrucha
On the Politicization of Intelligence
Robert Tomes
Veteran Suicide: Winning the Other Half of the War
Vince Perritano
Jihad in the Workplace: Looking Back on the Fort Hood Shooting
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Patching the Pentagon’s Procurement Problem
Jonathan Wong
History Restarted: The Return of the Machiavellian Moment
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
On America’s Way of Battle
Antulio J. Echevarria
Keep the Middle East at Arm’s Length with Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
Fighting Joe Dunford’s World
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How Russia’s Gambit in Syria Changes the Game
Michael Kofman
We Need What Women Bring to the Fight
Kyleanne Hunter
The Airpower Partisans Get it Wrong Again
Kyle Staron
Four of the Biggest Challenges Facing the Next President
Ali Wyne
Searching for Strategy in Putin’s Russia
Joshua Rovner
The Case for a “Raqqa First” Strategy Against the Islamic State
Dan Trombly
and
Yasir Abbas
Is the Islamic State a Cyber Threat?
Benjamin Runkle
Putin’s Strategy is Far Better than You Think
Michael Kofman
A Discussion with Ben Anderson of VICE about the War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Schroeder
36 Things to Remember When You’re Leaving the Army
Patrick McKinney
Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
U.S.–Iranian Relations after the Nuclear Deal: From Détente to Rapprochement?
Farzan Sabet
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Patrick Porter
Don’t Bother Working Through Baghdad
Alexander Velez-Green
Another Chance to Watch Star Wars with Sam: Marines in Ramadi
Vince Perritano
Is the Islamic State Winning or Losing?
John Ford
A Relentless Conversation About JSOC
Ryan Evans
and
Sean Naylor
How the Iran Deal Could Complicate U.S. Efforts to Prevent a Nuclear Breakout
Michael Eisenstadt
General, Tear Down that Wall: Gender and the Infantry
John Spencer
Is America an Empire?
Tyrone Groh
and
James Lockhart
Scholars Help Policymakers Know Their Tools
Dan Reiter
Turkey’s Syria Strategy: All About Domestic Politics?
Mustafa Gurbuz
In Praise of Difficult Allies
Kori Schake
The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball
James Joyner
The Search for the Technological Silver Bullet To Win Wars
Mike Pietrucha
The Military’s Purpose is Not to Kill People and Break Things
ML Cavanaugh
Is Turkey’s War on Terror a Consequence of the Iran Deal?
Joshua Walker
and
Gabriel Mitchell
Man or Woman, Rangers Just Want the Best in their Formations
Ligeia Zeruto
To Stem the Tide: Nuclear History, American Interests, and the Iran Deal
Francis J. Gavin
Getting Police Militarization Under Control
Jason Fritz
Airpower May Not Win Wars, But it Sure Doesn’t Lose Them
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
Frank Hoffman
Does the Legality of Nuclear War Matter?
Butch Bracknell
The Trouble with Turkey’s Favorite Syrian Islamists
Sam Heller
and
Aaron Stein
Why the New Syrian Army Failed: Washington and Unconventional Warfare
David Maxwell
The VA and What Veterans Owe Each Other
David Goldich
ISIL’s Most Important Anniversary is Coming Up and It’s Not What You Think
Brian Fishman
Falling Short of the Kennedy Mystique
James Goldgeier
How Turkey’s entry into the anti-ISIL campaign might save the Islamic State
James Schmitt
Yes, Unmanned Combat Aircraft are the Future
Paul Scharre
Can History Save the World?
Nick Danforth
Political Scientists and the Military
Paula Thornhill
and
Rachel Whitlark
Security Assistance: More Isn’t Always Better
Dafna H. Rand
and
Stephen Tankel
Five Lessons on War From My Desert Shield/Storm
James Holmes
Denmark: Defense Woes in the Little U.S. Ally That Could
Gary Schaub, Jr.
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Mike Pietrucha
Presidents Obama and Wilson Play the Politics of Fear
Kori Schake
The Real Problem with Strikes on Mainland China
John Speed Meyers
Twilight Struggle: The Cold War was Not Stable or Simple
Patrick Porter
(W)Archives: When “Safe Zones” Fail
Mark Stout
What’s Eating Turkey? Ankara and the Islamic State
Burak Kadercan
The Painful Privilege: Why Deployed Soldiers Feel Like “The Walking Dead”
ML Cavanaugh
Making Defense Reform Sane Again: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution
Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
North Korea Is Not Iran
Christopher Lee
Fax Machine Radicalization: A Menace
Seamus Hughes
On Iran, Listen to the Rolling Stones
Kingston Reif
On Iran, Listen to the Rolling Stones
Kingston Reif
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
The Legacy of Srebrenica, America’s Generals, and Multilateral Humanitarian Intervention
Stefano Recchia
Fax Machine Radicalization
Seamus Hughes
Like It or Not, a Solution in Syria Is the Only Way to Defeat ISIL
Omar Al-Nidawi
and
Adam Tiffen
Three Big Ideas on the Future of British Defense
Patrick Bury
The Islamic State Comes to Russia?
Elena Pokalova
(W)Archives: That Time Britain and France Almost Bombed the Soviet Union
Patrick Osborn
Put the Marines Back in Submarines
David C. Fuquea
F-35: Highway to the Danger Zone
Thomas Donnelly
The Case for Dumping the Iran Deal
Thomas C. Moore
Training Foreign Military Forces: Quality vs Quantity
Rebecca Zimmerman
Down and Dirty on the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Aaron Stein
When the Yellow Ribbons Fade: Reconnecting Our Soldiers and Citizens
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Countering Islamic State Recruitment: You’re Doing It Totally Wrong
Christina Nemr
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective
Ryan Evans
General Dunford is Right about Russia, but not because of their Nukes
John R. Deni
The Tunisia Attack and Cameron’s Phony War Against the Islamic State
Anthony King
Should the United States Buy the Long Range Strike Bomber? Yes
Andrew Hunter
Chicken Little or Attacking Terrorist Strategy? Why the U.S. Issues Warnings about Attacks
David Maxwell
Policy Relevant Scholarship: What’s Chutzpah Got to Do with It?
Amanda J. Rothschild
Celebrating American Independence Abroad: Adventures in Iran, Poland, and Israel
Michael J. Metrinko
Organizational Friction and the Team of Teams Approach in Afghanistan
Todd Greentree
(W)Archives: The U.S. Army Unit that was Nominated for an Oscar
Mark Stout
When Policies Collide: Security, Democracy and Re-Arming Egypt
Jeff Goodson
The New Chiefs in Town
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Counterterrorism, Backdoors, and the Risk of “Going Dark”
Walter Haydock
On Deployment: Love and Duty in Modern War
ML Cavanaugh
How Pakistan Beguiles the Americans: A Guide for Foreign Officials
C. Christine Fair
The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs — 70 Years On
Peter Mansoor
Bad Guys Know What Works: Asymmetric Warfare and the Third Offset
Benjamin Locks
PKKistan: Brought to you by American Close Air Support
Aaron Stein
The Real Fog of Cyberwar: Operational Cyber Planning
Brandon Valeriano
Why the Islamic State Is Weathering the Air Campaign
Peter Mansoor
Getting Airpower Right: In Defense of the Long Range Strike Bomber
Robert Spalding
and
Adam Lowther
The War Against ISIL: In Search of a Viable Strategy
Michael Eisenstadt
Is Stan McChrystal Right About Adapting to Win?
Kori Schake
Why National Reputation Matters
Peter Mansoor
The U.S.-South Korean Combined Infantry Division Shows the Alliance is Closer than Ever
David Maxwell
Anthrax Scare: Remain Calm! All is Well!
Al Mauroni
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
The Patriot Act and the History of American Code Breaking
Peter Mansoor
Wrong for 20 Years: Rand Paul’s Break with Republican Foreign Policy
Landon Shroder
Military-wise, There Is No Europe
Jyri Raitasalo
The Role of the U.S. Army in Asia
Thomas Bickford
and
Albert Willner
(W)Archives: Occupation and the “Black Shame” on the Rhine
Mark Stout
Close Air Support in 2030: Moving Beyond the A-10/F-35 Debate
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
The A-10, the F-35, and the Future of Close Air Support
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Trading Space and Time in the Cold War Offset Strategy
Robert Tomes
How We Commemorate Memorial Day
John Amble
Terrorists Are Just Like Us: The Bin Laden Docs and the Future of al Qaeda
Brian Fishman
(W)Archives: Fighting the Information War in Sweden
Mark Stout
Confessions of a Jihadi Nerd: A Guide to Reading the New Bin Laden Documents
Clint Watts
Fighting and Winning in the “Gray Zone”
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Elton “Ibrahim” Simpson’s Path to Jihad in Garland, Texas
Amarnath Amarasingam
Beyond Offset: Paul Scharre on Technical Landscape
Paul Scharre
How to Take Over a Small Country in 10 Easy Steps
Sean McFate
An Epic Congressional Failure on Defense
Dakota L. Wood
The GCC Summit Snub That Wasn’t
Michael Stephens
Kill Ibrahim? The Pros and Cons of Targeting ISIL’s Leadership
Benjamin Runkle
Civilian Casualties, Drones, Airstrikes and the Perils of Policy
Charles Dunlap
Googling Iran: The Sources of Mistrust
Richard Klass
Rethinking Section 660: Democracy, Police, and U.S. Foreign Assistance
Jason Fritz
Summer Reading List: 10 Books You Overlooked in Your Quest to Predict the Next Great War
Robbie Gramer
American Declinism Debated
Frank Hoffman
(W)Archives: Vietnam and the Meaning of Defeat
Mark Stout
Parsimonious Albion: Is the UK Going Wobbly?
Frank Hoffman
What’s Past is Prologue: A Story of U.S. Army Lineage, from 1915 to 2015
John Amble
ISIL’s Small Ball Warfare: An Effective Way to Get Back into a Ballgame.
Craig Whiteside
How the Military Can Keep its Edge: Don’t Offset — Hedge
Ben FitzGerald
and
Scott Cheney-Peters
The Method behind the Islamic State’s Madness
Burak Kadercan
What AQAP’s Operations Reveal about Its Strategy in Yemen
Aaron Y. Zelin
and
Patrick Hoover
Hybrid Warfare: Where’s the Beef?
Jyri Raitasalo
Why Integrate Women into Ground Combat Units?
Anna Simons
Fixes for Risk Assessment in Defense
Michael J. Mazarr
Female Rangers Will Lead The Way, Sooner or Later
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
(W)Archives: Aerial Bombardment and Hitting the Broad Side of a Barn
Mark Stout
Preparing for Warfare’s Subterranean Future
Benjamin Runkle
Fight Boko Haram by Aiding Cameroon
Alexander Powell
Rethinking Risk in Defense
Michael J. Mazarr
Remaining Hurdles to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Ilan Goldenberg
The Iranian Nuclear Program and its Bureaucrat-in-Chief
Aaron Stein
Tats and Techies: Building the Next U.S. Military
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Blowback as National Policy
David Wise
Through a Broken Window Darkly: A False Vision of Foreign Policy
Peter Munson
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Intel, Governance, and Ethics in Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
The Truth about the Death of Bin Laden and the Rise of ISIS
William McCants
Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms
Paul Scharre
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
China’s Middle East Choice
Jeffrey Payne
A Better Afghan Strategy: Lose the Timeline
Jason Campbell
Jihadists as the Great Coalition Builders
Mark Stout
Commanding the Swarm
Paul Scharre
The Bush Wars: Ellis on America Fighting in the Philippines
Brett Friedman
Not Crossing a Red Line: Chlorine Barrel Bombs In Context
Al Mauroni
Resetting U.S.-Afghan Relations
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
(W)Archives: A Penny for Your Doctrine
Nick Danforth
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
Why Cults Work: The Power Games of the Islamic State and the Lord’s Resistance Army
Eleanor Beevor
Mosul: A Bridge Too Far?
Craig Whiteside
Just How Dangerous Is It Really?
Frank Hoffman
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is the Hotel Tango Distillery?
Alex Hecht
There Are No Tea Leaves to Read About the “Mosul Plan”
Mark Safranski
An American in Her Majesty’s Ministry of Defence
Scott Smitson
The Human Element in Robotic Warfare
Paul Scharre
Arming Ukraine: Insights from the Spanish Civil War
Alex Ward
Lying to Ourselves: The Demise of Military Integrity
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
From “Freedom-Fighters” to the Islamic State: The Mutation of Jihad
Myra MacDonald
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
The National Security Marketplace Must Become Stronger
Chris Taylor
The Seductiveness of Special Ops?
Michael Noonan
The Question of Theodicy and Jihad
Ziya Meral
Robots at War and the Quality of Quantity
Paul Scharre
Why the New Bomber is a Good Investment
Robert Haddick
ISIL’s International Expansion: What Does Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis’s Oath of Allegiance Mean?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Women in Combat Arms: Just Good Business
Katey van Dam
Reading Galula in Afghanistan
John Ford
The Strategy of Savagery: Explaining the Islamic State
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
U.S. Land Forces must Deter and Defend Abroad
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Running (the World) in Circles
Frank Hoffman
Between a Roomba and a Terminator: What is Autonomy?
Paul Scharre
(W)Archives: Is the Past Prologue for the Islamic State?
Kevin Woods
and
Jessica Huckabey
How the Islamic State Makes Sure You Pay Attention to It
Charlie Winter
Stamping out Violent Extremism: What can the U.S. Government Do?
Vera Zakem
Not the Map You’re Looking For: Nations and Borders Are Always Messy
Nick Danforth
Is Obama Real(ist) Confused?
James Joyner
Addressing Tomorrow’s Challenges with Yesterday’s Budget
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Imperative of Defense Reform: Serious Challenges for a Serious SecDef
John G. McGinn
,
Stephen Rodriguez
, and
Peter Lichtenbaum
How Many Fighters Does the Islamic State Really Have?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Resetting the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Michael Eisenstadt
A New Beginning for the United States in Central America?
R. Evan Ellis
Why American Sniper isn’t a Great War Film
Anthony King
Rethinking Deep Strike in the 21st Century
T.X. Hammes
A Battlefield No Less Bleak
Steven McGregor
Video: The Third U.S. Offset Strategy and its Implications for Partners and Allies
Robert Work
What to Look For in the DoD Budget
Paul Scharre
Advice for France in its “War on Terror”
Thomas Lynch
,
Cindy Storer
,
Mark Stout
,
Stephen Tankel
, and
Clint Watts
The Irrelevance of Traditional Warfare?
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Washington’s New Realism? Parsing the State of the Union
Sean Kay
Wrong Assumptions: Integration, Responsibility, and Counterterrorism in France
Lorenzo Vidino
Military Command in the 21st Century Through the Eyes of Two Generals
Anthony King
Rhetoric and Reality in the State of the Union Address
Elbridge Colby
The State of the Union: The President Struck the Right Tone
Shawn Brimley
Full Text: State of the Union Address
Barack Obama
A Cold War Legacy: The Decline of Stealth
Andrew Metrick
Besting Boko Haram
Alice Hunt Friend
Don’t Believe the Defense Acquisition Reform Hype
Alex Ward
Jihadis Are Not Only Attacking the Media; They Are Using It
Brian Fishman
Why the Cold War Offset Strategy was all about Deterrence and Stealth
Robert Tomes
Inspired, Networked & Directed – The Muddled Jihad of ISIS & al Qaeda post Hebdo
Clint Watts
Translation of Paris Terrorist Video Claiming He Acted on Behalf of Islamic State
WOTR Staff
Paris Terrorist Claims He Acted on Behalf of the Islamic State in Video
WOTR Staff
Counterbureacracy and Lawfare: The Question of Torture in the War on Terror
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Naval Leadership in the Age of Superdeployments
Jimmy Drennan
Not So Chickenhawk: Pushing Back Against Fallows
Michael Cohen
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross in The Atlantic: The Islamic State’s Stalled Momentum
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
What Critics of the Navy’s Strategy Get Wrong
Robert C. Rubel
Brothers Forever at Rest in Arlington’s Section 60
David Mattingly
Ash Carter and the Rolling Stones Rule of Leadership
Joshua Jones
Aspiring Yodas: Apply to Fill Andy Marshall’s Shoes on USAJOBS
Ryan Evans
WOTR’s Top 25 Articles of 2014
WOTR Staff
America’s Strategic Position at the Dawn of 2015
Ali Wyne
Needed Now: A Realistic Strategy Force Structure for the 21st Century
Harlan Ullman
The Unknowns in the Invisible War
David Mattingly
Can Political Struggle against ISIL Succeed where Violence Cannot?
Maciej Bartkowski
Catch and Release in the Land of Two Rivers
Craig Whiteside
Torture in a Savage War of Peace: Revisiting the Battle of Algiers
Alistair Horne
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Afghanistan: Coming to the Bad End of the Good War
Jack Fairweather
The Origins of Turkey’s Buffer Zone in Syria
Aaron Stein
Ten Rules for Building Militias in an Era of Terrorism and Persistent Conflict
Patricio Asfura-Heim
India’s Deepening Communal Cleavages
Michael Kugelman
Service in a Time of Perpetual Conflict
David Mattingly
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: A Troika of Realists
Behnam Ben Taleblu
(W)Archives: World War I and the “Lesser Included Threat”
Mark Stout
Sen. Corker: Monday Morning Quarterbacking Syria
Timothy Hoyt
The British War Movie America Needs
T.S. Allen
From Dotcom to Dotmil: A Matter of Hearts and Minds
Adam Elkus
“Supporting the Troops” in Germany and the United States
Chris Dehn
Here’s Why Women in Combat Will Work
Anthony King
Don’t Exclude Women from Combat Units Because of Cohesion
Robert Egnell
“Boots On Our Ground, Please!”: The Army in the Pacific
Dan.Karbler
The Still Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense
Charles Stevenson
The Islamic State’s Stalled Offensive in Anbar Province
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
(W)Archives: CIA and the “Arab Mind”
Dina Rezk
The Counterinsurgency Paradigm Shift
Justin Lynch
The Cold War Offset Strategy: Assault Breaker and the Beginning of the RSTA Revolution
Robert Tomes
Special Warfare: The Missing Middle in U.S. Coercive Options
Dan Madden
,
Dick Hoffmann
,
Michael W. Johnson
,
Fred T. Krawchuk
,
John E. Peters
,
Linda Robinson
, and
Abby Doll
Here’s Why Women in Combat Units is a Bad Idea
Anna Simons
Too Important to Fail? Jihad and Tunisia’s Experiment with Democracy
Amanda Claypool
Joining and Betraying Al-Qaeda: A How-To Guide
Ioannis Mantzikos
Offset 3.0, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Commercial Technology
Adam Jay Harrison
The Gray Line: The Very Model of a Postmodern Military
Jason Fritz
The Rise of the Feral Adversary
Alon Paz
Best Job I’ve Ever Had
Jason Fritz
Why I Was Conflicted on Veterans Day
Skylar Gerrond
Wisdom in Doctrine? Success, the Role of Force, and the Unknowable
Joshua Jones
It’s More Than One Day A Year
David Mattingly
American Power and the Culmination of Unconventional Warfare
Steve Thomas
War, Interrupted, Part II: From Prisoners to Rulers
Craig Whiteside
The Cold War Offset Strategy: Origins and Relevance
Robert Tomes
Defeating Putin’s Strategy of Ambiguity
Douglas Mastriano
5 Questions with David Danelo on his New Book, The Return: A Field Manual for Life After Combat
WOTR Staff
Mountains, Mines and Memories: The Idea of Kurdistan
Ty Mayfield
Sorrow, Memory, and the End of the Helmand Campaign
Ryan Evans
Was David Drugeon a French Intelligence Agent?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Power of the Story: Vladimir Putin and the Rise of the Russian Federation
Derek O'Malley
Back to the future in Turkish politics?
Kristin Fabbe
and
Joshua Walker
Against a Tech-Centric Offset
Jon Czarnecki
Strategic Overstretch and the Jihadist Generation Gap
Mark Stout
Innovation Warfare: Technology Domain Awareness and America’s Military Edge
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Christopher Zember
, and
Jawad Rachami
Could the United States Ever Release Aafia Siddiqui?
Michael Kugelman
What Does the Recent Spate of Lone Wolf Terrorist Attacks Mean?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
A Note From an Intelligence Insider: Speaking Truth to Power
Timothy D. Kilbourn
To Save Money, Go Unmanned
Paul Scharre
and
Daniel Burg
An Act of War? The Law of Naval Mining
Scott Truver
Technology strategy then and now – the Long Range Research and Development Planning Program
Ben FitzGerald
Land of the Free Because of the Brave
David Mattingly
How About Some Unconventional Warfare? Thoughts On Countering ISIL
Clint Watts
Destroy ISIL’s Heavy Weapons and Vehicles: Level the Playing Field
David A. Shlapak
and
David Frelinger
The Perils of Limiting Our Wars
Kori Schake
Offset Strategies & Warfighting Regimes
Shawn Brimley
The Fight Goes on in Anbar: ISIL vs the World
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Jordan: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Amanda Claypool
The fall of Kobane: The impact on Turkey, Kurds and the United States
Chase Winter
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Navy
Scott Cheney-Peters
The Islamic State’s Anbar Offensive and Abu Umar al-Shishani
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Great Revamp: 11 Trends Shaping Future Conflict
Frank Hoffman
and
Pat Garrett
15,000-plus for Fighting: The Return of the Foreign Fighters
Michael Noonan
Ukraine and the Art of Limited War
Lawrence Freedman
Jihad on our doorstep
Shiraz Maher
Do Drones Have a Future?
Paul Scharre
Finding Strategic Man
Daniel Steed
The Tomb that Could Drag Turkey into the Syrian Civil War
Chase Winter
Pissing Off the Islamic State: What’s in a name?
WOTR Staff
Helping Humanity and Advancing American Interests
Taylor Teaford
What Truman’s Israel Policy Can Teach Obama about ISIL
James Fromson
We Don’t Need and Won’t Find Moderates to Defeat ISIL
Jonathan Lord
Political Science and Policy: It Ain’t Just Academic
Paul Avey
Maritime Mercenaries or Innovative Defense? Private Security & the Evolving Piracy Threat
John-Clark Levin
Judging Modi: The Historical Context
C. Christine Fair
No, containing ISIL is not “good enough”
Brad Taylor
Training the Syrian Opposition: So, What’s The Plan?
Melissa Dalton
Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!
Benjamin Runkle
War Powers and the ISIL Threat
John Ford
The Anti-ISIL strategy: Let’s whack another mole and hope it’s the last
Robert Egnell
Obama: “This is not America’s fight alone”
WOTR Staff
Why Britain Needs a British Identity
James Sheehan
Evans at AJAM: Turkey’s ISIL crisis is worse than you think
Ryan Evans
Don’t Forget Asia: Walking and Chewing Gum in Foreign Policy
Joshua Walker
ISIL Is Contained And That Should Be Good Enough
Christopher Bolan
The UK’s Counter-Radicalization Strategy Just Failed; What Now?
James Brandon
ISIL: Does the US understand the kind of war it is fighting?
Jonathan Lord
Between Counterinsurgency and Genocide
Richard Outzen
The Islamic State’s Vulnerability
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The “No Boots on the Ground” Mantra is Strategic Foolishness
Richard L. Russell
The Hornet’s Nest: Our Longest War and the Americans who Fought It
David Mattingly
Say “Benghazi” Again, I Dare You
Ryan Evans
Don’t Focus on Civilian Casualties
Robert Goldich
The Davutoglu I Know
Joshua Walker
To Defeat ISIS, Keep it Simple
J. Michael Barrett
Why You Need to Check Out the Invictus Games
John Amble
A Quick Take on the President’s Speech: The Good and Not-So-Good
Bryan McGrath
Assessing the Terrorist Threat 13 Years after 9/11: Old Guard Al Qaeda, Team ISIS & the Upstarts
Clint Watts
Carry On Empathizing: The ISIS Crisis and Western Political Thought
David Martin Jones
and
M.L.R. Smith
Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric PowerPoint?
Adam Elkus
Warfare in the Early Caliphate: Revisiting A.I. Akram’s “The Sword of Allah”
Dhruva Jaishankar
Observations on the Long War
Conrad Crane
A Successful NATO Summit? Proof Will Be in the Pudding
Stanley R. Sloan
Are there parallels between 1914 and the Ukrainian Crisis?
Daniel Grandet
Lessons Learned: Intel Constraints and Israel’s Gaza Incursion
Andrew Marvin
Sunni Autonomy to Defeat the Islamic State
Jill Carroll
From Estonia Without Love for the Islamic State
Michael Noonan
Kerry’s New Anti-Islamic State Coaltion: “No boots on the ground”
WOTR Staff
Bad as Baghdadi? Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Man
Michael Kugelman
Towards a Gaza Cease-Fire: Talking and Shooting in Cairo
Michael Baskin
Obama Shouldn’t Lose His Cool Over the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
Crescent Over The Thames
Jonathan Bronitsky
Why Cluster Munitions Must Be Replaced
Michael Jacobson
World War II Remembered through the Movies
David Luhrssen
The NDP Review is Worse than You Thought
Christopher Bolan
Stopping a New Class of Militants
Jack Miller
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Literary Window into Russia’s Chechnya Wars
Kori Schake
New Memoir Captures What Soldiers Never Say
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