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“Navy”
The Reality of Being a Navy Test Pilot
Joseph Wehmeyer
Leading and Succeeding in the U.S. Navy Reserve
Abigail Taylor
Women, Peace, and Security and the U.S. Navy
Abigail Taylor
A Navy Career in Anti-Submarine Warfare
Madeline Field
Enlisted to Officer Career Paths in the U.S. Navy
Joseph Wehmeyer
Cybersecurity and the U.S. Navy
Abigail Taylor
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Navy Should Develop Narco-Submarines
Collin Fox
,
Walker D. Mills
, and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Software-Defined Warships: The Navy’s Digital Future of Necessity
Artem Sherbinin
and
Austin Gray
Navigating Your Navy Life: The Power of Mentorship
Joseph Wehmeyer
Navy Think Tanks: Delivering Strategic, Operational, Tactical, and Administrative Value
Joseph Wehmeyer
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
Bruce Stubbs
Navy Professional Education
Madeline Field
Navy Energetics
Abigail Taylor
The Evolution of China’s Navy
Xiaobing Li
A Very Nerdy Podcast Episode about the Navy
Russell Rumbaugh
and
Ryan Evans
Embracing Automation for Navy Pilot Training
Aaron Stein
A Divorce Between the Navy and Cyber Command Would Be Dangerous
Chris C. Demchak
,
Michael Poznansky
, and
Sam Tangredi
Lessons Learned or Lessons Observed: The U.S. Navy’s Relationship with Mine Warfare
Tom Wester
and
Joe Mancini
Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Aaron Stein
For the Sake of Ceremony: Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Defeat China’s Navy, Defeat China’s War Plan
Robert Haddick
Priors and Prejudice: Planning the U.S. Navy’s Future
Emma Salisbury
The U.S. Navy’s Plans for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Leave Too Much Unexplained
Gregory V. Cox
More Than Just a Fire: The Bonnie Dick Reveals a Navy in Shambles
Seth Cropsey
and
Harry Halem
The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Don’t Use a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
René Balletta
Solving the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Melanie Marlowe
,
Christopher Preble
, and
Christopher Dougherty
Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Christopher Dougherty
Iranian Navy Ship Catches Fire, Sinks in Gulf of Oman
Tre Hester
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
Abhijit Singh
India Protests U.S. Navy Freedom of Navigation Operation
Tre Hester
Navigating the Shoals of Renewed American Naval Power: Imperatives for the Next Secretary of the Navy
Bryan Durkee
and
Chris Bassler
Convoy Escort: The Navy’s Forgotten (Purpose) Mission
David Alman
Hitting a Bullet with a Bullet: MDA and Navy Shoot Down ICBM in Test
Tre Hester
Lessons from the Roosevelt: A Call for Improving the U. S. Navy’s Preparedness for Biological Threats
Brian L. Pike
and
Gregory D. Koblentz
Is Esper’s New Plan for the Navy Enough for the Indo-Pacific?
Mark Montgomery
Bringing Congress to the (Wargaming) Table for a Bigger and Better Navy
Rep. Mike Gallagher
Lessons for the Navy’s New Frigate From the Littoral Combat Ship
Thibaut Delloue
Rethinking the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Fleet
Angus Ross
The 100-Ship Navy
Jonathan Panter
,
Anand Jantzen
, and
Johnathan Falcone
The Navy’s Crisis of Special Trust and Confidence
Doyle Hodges
Fixing the Navy’s Software
Sean Lavelle
China’s Ban on U.S. Navy Port Visits to Hong Kong Doesn’t Actually Matter
Blake Herzinger
Spencer Out as Navy Secretary
Tre Hester
Charting the Future of Education for the Navy-Marine Corps Team
John Kroger
A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy
Dmitry Gorenburg
and
Kasey Stricklin
Charting a New Course for the Navy-Marine Corps-Coast Guard Team
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Kathleen R. Dagher
,
Austin Duncan
,
Gordon Emmanuel
,
James George
,
Benjamin Jensen
,
Shawn Lansing
,
Torey McMurdo
,
Ryan Pallas
, and
Noah Spataro
The Turkish Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Ryan Gingeras
Why the U.S. Navy Canceled its Anti-Torpedo Defense System
Bobby Valentine
Iran Deploys Navy to Western Atlantic: Part II
Bobby Valentine
Iran Deploys Navy to Western Atlantic: Part I
Bobby Valentine
The U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Renaissance: It’s More Than Ships and Aircraft
George Galdorisi
and
Scott C. Truver
Persistent Eye in the Sky: How Commercial Satellites Can Help the Navy Achieve Superior Maritime Awareness
Richard Kuzma
and
Tom Wester
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
Bombshell: Live at the Army Navy Club!
Valerie Insinna
,
Lara Seligman
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
, and
Radha Iyengar
The Navy and Marine Corps Need to Prepare for the Swarm of the Future
David Pinion
Notes of Caution on the Navy’s Forthcoming Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
Righting the Listing Ship of Navy Readiness — Without Sinking the Pentagon
Mackenzie Eaglen
Defending the Mekong Delta: Tet and the Legacy of the Brown-Water Navy
John Sherwood
Preble’s Flag: An Emerging Navy Fights Chinese Pirates
Claude Berube
In Search of Accountability at Sea: The Precedents for the Navy’s Case Against Benson and Sanchez
Michael Junge
The Intellectuals Behind the First U.S. Navy Doctrine: A Centennial Reflection
Ryan Peeks
and
Frank Blazich
Why the Navy Needs a Fighting Connector: Distributed Maritime Operations and the Modern Littoral Environment
Douglas King
and
Brett Friedman
Bryan McGrath on the U.S. Navy’s Collision Inquiries
Jason Fritz
What We Learned from the Navy’s Collision Inquiries
Bryan McGrath
The Royal Navy Has a Problem
James Goldrick
The 350-Ship Fantasy: It’s Time for the Navy to Think Radically About a Smaller Fleet
Steven Stashwick
The Trump Administration Has a Model in Andrew Jackson’s Navy
Claude Berube
Course Correction: The Navy Needs to Invest in People, Not Just Platforms
Daniel Straub
and
Patrick Cronin
How Could This Happen? The Fitzgerald, the U.S. Navy, and Collisions at Sea
Bryan McGrath
Is Trump’s 350-Ship Navy on the Rocks? The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Shipbuilding
Bryan McGrath
What Freedom of Navigation is the U.S. Navy Exercising?
Sam Bateman
We Need a Two-Ocean Secretary of the Navy
Paul Giarra
Congress and the Navy: Forty Years of Dysfunction
Bryan McGrath
A Quick Review of the Navy’s New Force Structure Assessment
Bryan McGrath
The Navy Littorally Has a Drone Problem
Richard Kuzma
Who’s Responsible for the Navy’s Carrier Shortage?
Mark Cancian
How Congress and the Pentagon Joined Forces to Worsen the Navy’s Carrier Gap
Mackenzie Eaglen
and
Rick Berger
“You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”: Principles for Getting the U.S Navy Right
Bryan McGrath
The U.S. Navy’s Big New Missile Mod: What Friends and Foes Should Know
James Holmes
The U.S. Navy’s Surface Force Just Got a Lot Deadlier
Bryan McGrath
The U.S. Navy’s Secret, 11-Page Plan to Conquer Canada
Scott Mobley
The U.S. Navy’s Hamlet Problem
Michael Junge
The U.S. Navy’s Self-Imposed Blockade
Noel Williams
The Pro-Carrier Argument the Navy Cannot Make
Bryan McGrath
A Bigger Navy and the Spirit of 2007
Bryan McGrath
Practicing Innovation in the U.S. Navy
Ciro Lopez
The Great National Destiny: Lessons from Andrew Jackson’s Navy
Claude Berube
How did the Navy’s Greats become Great? The Power of Career Intermissions
B.J. Armstrong
The Navy’s New Museum Drone and Strategic Malpractice
Robert Martinage
and
Shawn Brimley
How U.S. Navy Intel Sees China’s Maritime Forces
Andrew Erickson
No, the Navy Isn’t Big Enough
Bryan McGrath
No, the Russian Navy Isn’t Going to Collapse
Dmitry Gorenburg
When the U.S. Navy Enters the next Super Bowl, Will It Play like the Denver Broncos?
Phillip Pournelle
Distributed Lethality: The Navy’s Fix for Anti-Access?
James Holmes
What Critics of the Navy’s Strategy Get Wrong
Robert C. Rubel
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Navy
Scott Cheney-Peters
Crowdsourcing Navy Policy: The Flawed Navy Retention “Study”
Ryan Santicola
RCD: CNO’s Losing Battle to Avoid a Hollow Navy
Bryan McGrath
Rule Britannia: The Royal Navy and Modern Drinking Culture
Alex Hecht
Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation Warfare
Samuel Brannen
and
Michael Horowitz
Is the Navy Writing Strategy?
B.J. Armstrong
Navy and Marine Power from the Sea: The Nation’s “Perfect Blend”
Robert Holzer
The U.S. Navy: 5 Questions to Ponder
Bryan McGrath
McGrath: What kind of Navy should we have?
Ryan Evans
The Importance of the Battle of the Yalu
Tommy Jamison
Examining House-Senate Differences in FY2026 Defense Appropriations
Madeline Field
Think Medium: The Case for “Minilateralism” to Boost Naval Shipbuilding
Nicolas Jouan
The Future of Criminal Drone Use in Latin America
Henry Ziemer
Data Centers on the 21st Century Battlefield
Alex Rough
The Sad and Sorry Tale of Cyber Command’s Seven-Year Failure
Aden Magee
The Pentagon’s Software Revolution and Its Testing Dilemma
Douglas C. Schmidt
and
Nickolas H. Guertin
Roosevelt’s 1941 Labor Day Radio Address
WOTR Staff
Unintended Recipients: The Dangers of Loose Weapons
Kerry Chávez
and
Ori Swed
Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland
Michael Poznansky
and
Erik Sand
A Skeptic’s View of the Hype Machine and Business Model of Neo-Defense Tech
Jonathan Panter
How Reservists Can Jumpstart Military Software Development
Will McGee
,
Collin Chew
, and
Drew Hutcheon
Why Russian-Indian Relations Have Been Steady in the Storm
Dmitry Gorenburg
,
Julian G. Waller
,
Jeffrey Edmonds
, and
Jeff Kucik
British Grand Strategy Without America
Emma Salisbury
From BUD/S to the Boardroom: The Fight to Revolutionize Munitions Factories
Ryan Evans
and
Joe Musselman
Gutting U.S. Government Humanitarianism Makes the Defense Department’s Job Harder
Michael C. Loftus
Deadlines and Deadlock
WOTR Staff
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
Jordan Spector
Bridging the Ambiguity-Explicitness Gap in the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
Do Young Lee
and
Ian Bowers
Beijing’s South China Sea Campaign of Intimidation Has Run Aground
Gregory Poling
It’s Time to Think About (and Fear) Drones and Psychological Operations
J.D. Maddox
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Shape Key Defense Priorities
Heather Williams
,
Katherine Kuzminski
,
Shaan Shaikh
,
Steven Wills
, and
Sam Wilson
Titans, Trailblazers, and Translators: Forging a Unified Defense Industrial Paradigm
Austin Gray
and
Stephen Rodriguez
Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You
Jonathan Corrado
,
Chelsie Alexandre
, and
Anton Ponomarenko
Factories First: Winning the Drone War Before It Starts
Martin C. Feldmann
and
Gene Keselman
South Korea’s New Naval Base Throws a Jab, But Should Train for a Haymaker
Joshua NamTae Park
Choking on Export Controls?
Emily Kilcrease
Unmanned & Unfinanceable? The Problems with Scaling America’s Autonomous Fleet
Mark L. Wooters
Small State, Big Stakes: The Maldives and Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
Andrea Malji
AUKUS Aftershocks: France’s Enduring Indo-Pacific Interests
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
South Korea’s New Government and Defense Policy Is Taking Shape
Jenny Town
,
S. Paul Choi
,
Jung Jae Kwon
, and
Jaehan Park
A Workforce Strategy for America’s Shipbuilding Future
Katherine Kuzminski
and
Laura Schmiegel
Marine Force Design Is Four Decades in the Making
Ryan Pallas
A Strait Comparison: Lessons from the Dardanelles for a Strait of Hormuz Closure
Jonathan Schroden
Eye of the Storm? Revisiting IUU Fishing on the Global Stage
Aaron Delano-Johnson
and
Chris Bernotavicius
We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
Ben Connable
How the Arsenal of Democracy Can Get Back on its Feet with Some Help from the Past
Tyler Hacker
Three Alternative Approaches to Deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Luis Simón
We Need a Marine Corps, Part II: A Corps Confounded
Ben Connable
America’s Middle East Trap is China’s Strategic Windfall
Adham Sahloul
Flying, But Not Fused: Closing the Drone Gap in the Marine Corps
Lorenz Vargas
Steps Toward Golden Dome
Kari A. Bingen
,
Stephanie Stapleton
,
Michael O’Hanlon
, and
Shaan Shaikh
Steel and Silicon: Shipbuilding’s Defense Tech Moment
Austin Gray
Too Much Tech Can Ruin Wargames
Jonathan Compton
,
Joseph Mroszczyk
, and
Matthew Tattar
We Need a Marine Corps, Part I: A Corps in Crisis
Ben Connable
Coding Defense Solutions on the Fly with AI
Sean Lavelle
Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific
James Kraska
and
Gavin Logan
A Guide to Refactoring the Defense-Industrial Base
Shands Pickett
and
Zach Beecher
Australian-Indian Naval Cooperation in the Indian Ocean
Darshana M. Baruah
Moving Fast and Breaking the Status Quo
Ryan Evans
and
Justin Fanelli
Women in the Ranks, but Not in the Clear
M. Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni
Autonomous Weapon Systems: No Human-in-the-Loop Required, and Other Myths Dispelled
Michael C. Horowitz
The Value of an Asian Tinder Box
Julian Spencer-Churchill
Why the Nuclear Gravity Bomb Has Gotten a Reboot
David A. Hoagland
The Montreux Paradox: How a Ukraine Ceasefire Could Set the Stage for Escalation in the Black Sea
Aron Lund
A Taipei Airlift: Lessons from Berlin
Reid Yankowski
and
Robert Wes
The Importance of The Battle of Lake Champlain
Christopher T. Costello
Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
Emelia Probasco
and
Minji Jang
Whale Charts of the World
Nick Danforth
Combatant Commands as Customers?
Justin Johnson
Reviving the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry
Martin Bollinger
,
William Henagan
,
Steven Wills
, and
Emma Salisbury
Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants
Nicholas Hooper
Deals, Schemes, and Plots
WOTR Staff
An Insider’s Guide to Cyber Readiness
John Cobb
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Bay of Bengal as a Test Case for a Multi-Polar World
Anu Anwar
Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
Keenan Chirhart
and
Scott Humr
Realizing America’s Drone Revolution
Nathan Ecelbarger
Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties
Daniel Markey
and
David Brostoff
Modernizing Military Decision-Making: Transforming European Command
Bryan Quinn
,
Bobby Sickler
, and
David Wiltse
Spectrum Supremacy: Reclaiming America’s Edge in a Contested Domain
Roslyn Layton
The Department of Defense’s Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
Will Rogers
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
Rewind and Reconnoiter: An Unsustainable Peace in Yemen
Thomas Juneau
A Federal Critical Mineral Processing Initiative: Securing U.S. Mineral Independence from China
Alvin Camba
Not the Last Net Assessment
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Ryan Evans
Beyond Strategy: Executing Economic Security Policy
Chris Díaz
and
Aroop Mukharji
Erdoğan’s Last Great Gamble
Ryan Gingeras
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Post-Brexit British Power on the Global Stage
James Rogers
and
Philip Shetler-Jones
Beyond Comparisons: India’s Strategic Reckoning amid China’s Military Modernization
Hely Desai
In Brief: Will the European Union’s New Loan Instrument Be Effective in Boosting Defense Capabilities?
Anna Dowd
,
Otto Svendsen
,
Gesine Weber
, and
Emma Salisbury
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Aaron Brady
How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
Joshua Tallis
Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
Choong-Koo Lee
Taiwan’s Biggest Limitation in Defense Isn’t Spending, It’s Late Deliveries from U.S. Defense Companies
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun
and
Howard Shen
The South Pacific Is the New Frontline in the Rivalry with China
Christopher K. Colley
DOGE’s Real Challenge in the Pentagon Isn’t Slashing the Workforce, It’s Boosting Productivity
Erik Schuh
The Adversarial: Intensifying Risks
WOTR Staff
Europe, Deterrence, and Long-Range Strike
Lotje Boswinkel
No Time to Spare: Irish Defense and Security in 2025
Patrick Bury
and
David Murphy
Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Léonie Allard
Finding Adversaries Hiding in the Defense Department’s Supply Chains
Christine Michienzi
When It Comes to Submarines, Australia Is Going to Be Left High and Dry
Peter Briggs
Exposing China’s Legal Preparations for a Taiwan Invasion
Cheng Deng Feng
and
Tim Boyle
It’s Time to Build the Digital Century Series
Ben McNally
What We Mean When We Call Something an Intelligence Failure
Gary Gomez
Rewind and Reconnoiter: India Still Holds Opportunity for Washington
Sameer Lalwani
South Korea Should Lean into Nuclear-Powered Submarines
Jihoon Yu
The 51st State That Never Was: Why the United States Didn’t Annex Canada
Richard Maass
Mid-Afternoon Map: The Continental Divide
Nick Danforth
Transforming NATO for the Future Fight
Adm. Pierre Vandier
and
Ryan Evans
New Blood: Putin is Setting Up Russian Veterans to Take Center Stage in Moscow
Harry Francisco Stevens
and
Thomas Lattanzio
In Brief: How the Trump Administration Can Address Military Recruitment Challenges
Katherine Kuzminski
,
Ryan Haberman
, and
Brian McAllister Linn
How to Get the Most Out of the U.S.-Indian Defense Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Vikram J. Singh
Rolling Back Naval Forward Presence Will Strengthen American Deterrence
Jonathan Panter
The Coming Wave of Wartime Drone Expertise
Walker D. Mills
,
Andrew Tenbusch
, and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
An Early, Easy, and Essential Win for Trump on Defense Acquisitions Is Within Reach
Ryan Evans
Don’t Protect the U.S. Merchant Marine — Promote It
Emma Salisbury
The Adversarial: Deepening Connections
WOTR Staff
Will Trump Focus on the Western Hemisphere?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Start Making Sense: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration
Joshua Rovner
Other Outlets For Your Writing
WOTR Staff
Why Britain Should Scupper the Chagos Islands Deal
Marcus Solarz Hendriks
Understanding Cyber Effects in Modern Warfare
Jason Healey
The United States Can’t Afford to Not Harden its Air Bases
Thomas Shugart
and
Timothy Walton
The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
Arzan Tarapore
The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI
Iskander Rehman
The Adversarial: A World in Transition
WOTR Staff
Mending Fences: Strengthening Homeland Defense through Integrated Civil-Military Air Surveillance
Thane C. Clare
Rewind and Reconnoiter: When Will Guam Become a Priority?
Mark Montgomery
Can Europe Fight for Taiwan?
Luis Simón
and
Toshi Yoshihara
The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet
Nurlan Aliyev
The Cost of Sovereignty? The Future of Britain’s Defense Industrial Base
William Reynolds
Most Read War on the Rocks Articles of 2024
WOTR Staff
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
In Brief: The Economic and Security Complexities of the U.S.-Australia Relationship
Peter Briggs
,
Courtney Stewart
,
Sam Roggeveen
, and
Lavina Lee
What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
Andrew Erickson
Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
Michael Horowitz
and
Joshua Schwartz
Merry Christmas from the Johnsons
Zachary Griffiths
The 2024 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead
Haroro J. Ingram
Empowering the Combatant Commands Is Critical for the Future Fight
Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak
and
Bryan Quinn
62 Years After the ’62 War, Where Do China and India Go From Here?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
The War of Words Between FDR and Charles Lindbergh
Paul M. Sparrow
and
Marshall Kosloff
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Moving Toward Defense as a Service
Jake Chapman
Hunting for Submarines in the Warming Ocean
Mauro Gilli
and
Rick Landgraf
This is Not the Status Quo You’re Looking For
Lauren Dickey
and
Matthew Kent
How to Stop the United States and China from Sliding into War
Michael D. Swaine
More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China
Ryan R. Duffy
,
Jahara Matisek
,
Jeremy M. McKenzie
, and
Chad Pillai
Turkey, Greece, and Trump
Ryan Gingeras
American Defense Planning in the Shadow of Protracted War
Evan Montgomery
and
Julian Ouellet
Behind Iran’s Surging Military Budget
Clément Therme
In Brief: North Korea’s Critical Allies
Jenny Town
,
Thomas Shugart
, and
Maria Snegovaya
How to Talk to a Veteran
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Ukraine, Europe, and the Art of the Deal
Luis Simón
and
Lotje Boswinkel
Mastering Human-Machine Warfighting Teams
James Ryseff
Next-Generation Decoys for the Marine Corps
Jorge Rivero
The Voyage of the Meishan and Xiushan: China’s Template for a Blue-Water Coast Guard
Ryan Martinson
Conventional Arms Control and Ending the Russo-Ukrainian War
William Lippert
Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare
Iskander Rehman
Russian Roulette on the Red Sea
Ari Heistein
and
Daniel Rakov
In Brief: How Will U.S. Support for Israel Impact Readiness?
Carlton Haelig
,
Kimberly Jackson
, and
Michael Linick
How Australia and South Korea Are Recrafting Their Relationship and Fortifying the Indo-Pacific
Arius M. Derr
and
Hannah Cho
Russian Pacific Fleet Redux: Japan’s North as a New Center of Gravity
Yu Koizumi
The Adversarial
WOTR Staff
In Brief: The Rise of “Non-Traditional” Defense Companies
Jacqueline Tame
,
Shyam Sankar
,
Justin Johnson
,
Doug Berenson
,
Stephen Rodriguez
, and
Matt Byington
What Is the U.S. Military Doing in Europe?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Overcoming Goliath: How the Defense Establishment Can Maximize Allied Innovation
Nick Iorio
and
Scott DeWitt
What Would Be Japan’s Role in a New Korean War?
Ju Hyung Kim
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Ordinary and Unique in Russia’s Electoral Information Warfare Game with Michael Poznansky
Michael Poznansky
Placing Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait in the Context of the End of the Cold War
Daniel Chardell
and
Kerry Anderson
Paint the B-52s Brightly: Reducing Confusion Between Conventional and Nuclear Weapons Is Essential
Christine Parthemore
and
Catherine Dill
A New Nuclear Age?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
The War on Terror Was Not a Morality Tale
Joseph Stieb
In Brief: The Real Impact of Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea
Allison Minor
,
Thomas Juneau
,
Steven Simon
, and
Kevin McCranie
U.S. Maritime Policy Needs an Overhaul
Colin Grabow
When it Comes to Weaponry, Lethality Is Not Enough
Susan LeVine
Is Everything a Matter of National Security?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
Alessio Patalano
Keeping Canada Relevant Through Specialization
Richard Shimooka
Don’t Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
How to Boil a Frog: The Dangers of Downsizing in the U.S. Military
Ryan Pallas
There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist
Thomas Shugart
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations with Jeff M. Smith
Jeff M. Smith
Strengthening the United Nations Command in Korea to Counter Authoritarian Collusion
Chan Mo Ku
and
Joo Young Kim
South Korea’s Growing Role as a Major Arms Exporter: Future Prospects in Latin America
Hoshik Nam
and
Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
Without Talent Agility, America May Lose
Jim Perkins
and
Mike McGinley
The Smartest Conversation on Cyber in the Defense Department You’ve Heard in a Long Time
Alexis Bonnell
,
Melissa K. Griffith
,
Anne Marie Schumann
,
Tyler Sweatt
, and
Ryan Evans
What Body Composition Policies Show — and Hide — About Obesity in the Military
Courtney Manning
The Calm Before the Swarm: Drone Warfare at Sea in the Age of the Missile
Joshua Tallis
NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility
Benjamin Jensen
The Puzzle of Chinese Escalation vs Restraint in the South China Sea
Andrew Taffer
Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Future of Tactical Airlift is Here and it is Vertical with Walker D. Mills and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
Walker Mills
and
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
When Nothing Seems to Work: Houthi Edition
Steven Simon
A Cyber Force Is Not the Only Solution
Zachary Szewczyk
Countering Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea
Simon Weiss
and
Michael Beckley
The U.S. Department of Deterrence
Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
Strategic Outpost’s 2024 Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Integrating Maritime Statecraft and Strategy
BJ Armstrong
Sustainable Sustainment: Supplying War in the Age of Strategic Competition
Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson
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Travis Sharp
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Schuyler Moore
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The Case for a Prospective U.S. Cyber Force
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Todd Arnold
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By, With, and Through at the Second Thomas Shoal
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Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?
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Nina Kollars
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Crowning Achievement? Kaan and the Turkish Defense Industry
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A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy
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Rewind and Reconnoiter: Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas with Claude Berube
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The East and South China Seas: One Sea, Near Seas, Whose Seas?
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Small Ocean, Big Hype: Arctic Myths and Realities
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Why Increasing the Value of Defense Primes Is Good for the Country
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Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
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Haiti: A Best-Case Scenario
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John Chin
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Tyler Ashner
The Forgotten Part of the Contest: Army Logistics in the Pacific
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Peter Singer
Forging the Force: A Joint Task Force in the Indo-Pacific
Zach Ota
Crossing the Threshold
Eric Brewer
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Gavin Clough
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Dana Stroul
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A More Comprehensive Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices
Michael E. Clark
Solving the Houthi Threat to Freedom of Navigation
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Anti-Piracy Lessons from the Seychelles
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Ryan Adeline
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Brendon J. Cannon
Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents
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Longstreet and How Much Work Remains to Be Done
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China Is Battening Down for the Gathering Storm over Taiwan
Mike Studeman
Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea: A New Twist on the Jeune École?
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Call in the Coast Guard: How Maritime Law Enforcement Can Combat China’s Gray-Zone Aggression
Eric Cooper
Operationalizing a Doctrine for U.S. Economic Statecraft
Alex Zerden
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Leland Smith
America’s Report Card in Southeast Asia
Christopher Preble
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Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Don’t Count on Us: Canada’s Military Unreadiness
Philippe Lagassé
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Justin Massie
Leadership, Culture, and the Military Cyber Workforce
Nicholas Romanow
Two-Theater Tragedy: A Reluctant Europe Cannot Easily Escape a Sino-American War Over Taiwan
Tim Sweijs
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Paul van Hooft
Great Power Competition Will Drive Irregular Conflicts
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Liam Collins
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea with Daniel Fiott
Daniel Fiott
The Submarine Workforce Crisis: Admitting Realities and Restructuring Long-Term Strategy
Alexander Grey
Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling Across the Department of Defense
Robert Work
,
Michael Brown
, and
Ellen Lord
Mine the Gap: How Washington and Canberra Can Improve Their Asymmetric Capabilities
Eric Lies
Aim High? Fixing the Air Force Commander Selection Process
Maria Patterson
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Bradley Podliska
It’s Time for a Comprehensive National Maritime Strategy
Mark Kennedy
and
Jeff Kucik
Organizing to Deter or Prevail in Space Warfare
Marc Berkowitz
The Icarus Trap: Arrogance, Misperception, and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Joseph Stieb
Delay, Disrupt, Degrade: Mine Warfare in Taiwan’s Porcupine Defense
Jonathan Dorsey
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Kelly A. Grieco
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Jennifer Kavanagh
Revisiting the Tanker War
Stephen Phillips
Strategic Myopia: The Proposed First Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Defend Taiwan
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Admiral Raoul Castex: The Naval Strategist for Non-Hegemons
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Win-Wind: How a Bipartisan SHIPS Act Could Meet China and Climate Challenges
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Send in the A-Team: A Graduated Response for Ukraine
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Minna Ålander
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Gen. Michael Claesson
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Nicholas Lokker
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Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun
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Rewind and Reconnoiter: Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market
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and
Benjamin Tkach
Taiwan’s Theory of the Fight
Tommy Jamison
How Many Sentinel Missiles Does the United States Need?
Al Mauroni
Is Italy Needed in the Indo-Pacific?
Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
Mid-Afternoon Map: Schlitz Goes to War
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Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Beating the Ossification Trap: Why Reform, Not Spending, Will Salvage American Power
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Security in the Indo-Pacific with Assistant Secretary of Defense Ely Ratner
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Bringing the Swarm to Life: Roles, Missions, and Campaigns for the Replicator Initiative
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The Adversarial: February 8
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Europe’s Marines in the Future European Littoral Operating Environment
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The Tip of the American Spear? How the United Kingdom Could Pursue Military Specialization
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Zack Cooper
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Ian Brown
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Zach Ota
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Travis Hord
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Leo Spaeder
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Brian Strom
How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
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A Port Deal Puts the Horn of Africa on the Brink
Caleb Weiss
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James Barnett
Empty Promises? A Year Inside the World of Multi-Domain Operations
Davis Ellison
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Tim Sweijs
Military-technological cooperation across the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Daniel Fiott
Global Disorder and Houthi Strikes
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
Getting “Left-of-Launch” in the Counter-Drone Fight
Paul Lushenko
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Caitlin Lee
Readiness Redefined, But Not Measured
Matthew Ross
Networking to Win: Mission Prioritization for Wartime Command and Control
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Why U.S. Naval Power Needs Asian Allies
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Peter K. Lee
Cutting Army Special Operations Will Erode the Military’s Ability to Influence the Modern Battlefield
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A Better Cyber Service
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Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels
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Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater Nor the Wagner Group
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The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement
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The Future of Algorithmic Warfare Part IV: Promise Fulfilled
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,
Benjamin Jensen
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Air Samurai: Is Naval Aviation Overtraining Pilots in the Age of Automation?
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and
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Outsourcing Surveillance: A Cost-Effective Strategy to Maintain Maritime Supremacy
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U.S. Special Operations and the Shadowy Promise of Irregular Campaigns
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A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race”
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Robert Peters
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Kyle Balzer
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
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Citizen Sailors: The Missing Link in Maritime Force Structure
Joshua P. Taylor
and
Scott Humphrey
Information Resilience: Countering Disinformation and Its Threat to the U.S. Alliance System
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And You Are? How to Recognize and Remedy Unrecognized Frictions
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The Adversarial: November 9
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The Challenge of Tripolar Arms Competition: Lessons from the Washington Treaty
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Taiwan’s Most Pressing Challenge Is Strangulation, Not Invasion
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China’s Gray-Zone Tactics Show the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Is Working
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Reigniting the Veteran Marketing Machine: To Solve the Recruiting Crisis, Think Generationally
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Getting Serious About Enhancing U.S. Defense Partnerships
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The Adversarial: October 27
WOTR Staff
The Sinking Submarine Industrial Base
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Operational Art for the Replicator Initiative: Confessions of a Swarming Addict
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Don’t Rely on U.S. Law to Prevent Escalation in the Middle East
Brian Finucane
and
Michael Wahid Hanna
Getting Sporty in Russia’s Arctic
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Mid-Afternoon Map: Bivalve Bandits – Oyster War on the Rocks
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America’s Failing Iran Nuclear Policy: Time for a Course Adjustment
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Alliance Assignments: Defense Priorities for Key NATO States
Stephen Flanagan
and
Anna M. Dowd
China’s Law of the Sea
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Testing the Trajectory of Turkish Militarism
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Christopher Whyte
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Nick Danforth
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Benjamin Hazen
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Edward Salo
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Michael Hugos
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Thomas Shugart
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Timothy Heath
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Dennis J. Blasko
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Christopher Whyte
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Christopher Whyte
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Kimberly Jackson
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Aaron Stein
It’s Not the Plane, It’s the Pilot
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John Childress
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Dave Richardson
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Heidi Urben
Abraham Lincoln on Independence and the Civil War
WOTR Staff
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Christopher B. Johnstone
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It’s Time to Bring Back Conventional Deterrence Patrols
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Elizabeth Wishnick
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Paul Schwartz
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Anup Phayal
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Aaron Gold
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Curie Maharani
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Deng Palomares
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Daniel Pauly
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Sayed Fauzan Riyadi
Six Lessons from Ukraine for Japanese Defense Planners
Jeffrey W. Hornung
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In the Dark: How the Pentagon’s Limited Supplier Visibility Risks U.S. National Security
Nicholas Jordan
and
Jennifer Mapp
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Gen. David H. Berger
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Benjamin Van Horrick
Prove It Before You Use It: Nuclear Retaliation Under Uncertainty
Johnathan Falcone
,
Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu
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Michael Kneeshaw
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Maarten Bos
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Full-Spectrum Integrated Lethality? On the Promise and Peril of Buzzwords
Elena Wicker
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How to Avoid a Bad Take on a Hard Target: Analyzing North Korea the Right Way
Markus Garlauskas
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Rachel Minyoung Lee
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Jonathan Corrado
Disappearing Act: Integrated Training with Air and Ground Forces
Andrew Tenbusch
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Trevor Phillips-Levine
Preparing Canada for a New Generation of Security Challenges
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Russia’s Gains in the Great Arctic Race
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The Need to Invest in Long-Range Fires
Josh Portzer
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Jonathan Gosselin
Xi Jinping’s Worst Nightmare: A Potemkin People’s Liberation Army
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Onur İşçi
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Samuel J. Hirst
Why the French Army Will Continue to Prioritize Quality Over Mass
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Money Isn’t Enough: Getting Serious About Precision Munitions
Tyler Hacker
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John Sattely
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Jesse Johnson
Bind Ukraine Closer to American Military Learning
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and
Mark Montgomery
Prime Time for Software: Reimagining the Future of Defense Acquisition
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How Large-Language Models Can Revolutionize Military Planning
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Why The Marines Matter
Joslyn Fleming
,
Katherine Guthrie
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Colin Smith
In Defense of Denial: Why Deterring China Requires New Airpower Thinking
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
Using 1202 Authorities to Counter China’s Maritime Militia
Steve Sacks
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The Sinking Ship of Theseus: Adapting the U.S. Military to the Modern Family
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How the Ukraine War Accelerates the Defense Strategy
Jim Mitre
Addressing the U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis
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and
David Barno
Miscalibration of Trust in Human Machine Teaming
John Christianson
,
Di Cooke
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Courtney Stiles Herdt
No Time to Hide: The Future of Irish Defense and Security
Patrick Bury
and
David Murphy
Breaking the Cycle of Incremental Acquisition Reform
Eric Chase
Winning the Air Battle for Taiwan: Lessons from Ukraine’s Drone Operations
Caitlin Lee
The Case for Japanese Land Power in the First Island Chain
Yusuke Kawachi
The Enduring Russian Impediment to U.S.-Indian Relations
Erin Mello
The Promise and Pitfalls of Underwater Domain Awareness
Abhijit Singh
Back From the Future: Stop Saying the Military Has an Innovation Problem
Erik Johnson
Seoul’s Nuclear Temptations and the U.S.-South Korean Alliance
Ankit Panda
Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
Spencer Reed
Japan’s Strategic Shift Is Significant, but Implementation Hurdles Await
Jeffrey W. Hornung
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Christopher B. Johnstone
Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Andrew Tenbusch
,
Walker D. Mills
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
, and
Collin Fox
Deterrence Through Doctrine: The Case for a Joint Counter-Landing Doctrine
Dylan Buck
and
Zach Ota
Japan’s Shift to War Footing
Zack Cooper
and
Eric Sayers
Partnership, Not Threats: How to Deepen U.S.-Indian Naval Cooperation
Karambir Singh
and
Blake Herzinger
Leveraging U.S. Capital Markets to Support the Future Industrial Network
Joseph L. Votel
,
Francis A. Finelli
, and
Samuel Cole
How to Win Friends and Choke China’s Chip Supply
Emily Kilcrease
Ukraine and the New Two War Construct
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,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
An Honest Broker No Longer: The United States Between Turkey and Greece
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Toward a More Dynamic Italian Military
Federico Borsari
Psychological Capabilities for Resilience
Shannon Houck
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
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Dauntless Courage at Midway
Steven McGregor
Deterrence and Commitment Across the Taiwan Strait: Lessons from Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
William W. Newmann
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Joshua Tallis
Is China Planning to Attack Taiwan? A Careful Consideration of Available Evidence Says No
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A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices
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,
Andrew Metrick
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Becca Wasser
Turkey’s Future Drone Carriers
Olli Pekka Suorsa
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Brendon J. Cannon
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Invisible Blockades and Strategic Coercion
Scott Savitz
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Scott C. Truver
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,
Zack Cooper
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Melanie Marlowe
Relative Dominance: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea
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Andrea H. Cameron
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Sharon E. Burke
The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy
Justin Logan
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Benjamin H. Friedman
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BJ Armstrong
Train Like You Fight: Updating America’s Adversary Fleet
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They Make You Take an Oath to the Constitution: They Don’t Make You Read It
James Joyner
and
Butch Bracknell
See Power? Seapower!
Kevin McCranie
Assessing the National Security Strategy
Christopher Preble
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Melanie Marlowe
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Zack Cooper
Ukraine’s Dream Could Be Taiwan’s Nightmare
Michael Spirtas
Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing in the Future
David Alman
The Next Mediterranean Front Line
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Mind the Gap, Part 2: The Cross-Strait Potential of China’s Civilian Shipping Has Grown
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Why Erdogan Might Choose War with Greece
Ryan Gingeras
Violence Committed Abroad in Our Name
Dewaine Farria
Permanent Rupture: The European-Russian Energy Relationship Has Ended with Nord Stream
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Guarding the Pacific: How Washington can Counter China in the Solomons and Beyond
Alexander B. Gray
Call the Maritime Cavalry: Marine Corps Modernization and the Stand-In Force
Adam Yang
Sustainment of the Stand-In Force
John Sattely
and
Jason A. Paredes
How Much Multipolarity Does a Strongman Need?: Why Erdogan Has Benefited From Russia’s Failure in Ukraine
Nick Danforth
Not So Fast: Insights from a 1944 War Plan Help Explain Why Invading Taiwan Is a Costly Gamble
Benjamin Jensen
Beating the Authoritarian Legacy: Upgrading Conscription in Greece and Taiwan
Antonis Kamaras
To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations
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Compassion, Control, and Complications: 19th-Century British Anti-Slavery Efforts
Maeve Ryan
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William Inboden
Funding the Indo-Pacific Pivot
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Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Kyle Cregge
, and
Collin Fox
The Grand Race for Techno-Security Leadership
Tai Ming Cheung
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Thomas G. Mahnken
Cooperation Can Make the NATO Lake a Reality
Michael Jonsson
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Robin Häggblom
France, Egypt, and India Can Help to Spread Security from Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific
Mohammed Soliman
,
Pierre Morcos
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C. Raja Mohan
The Accelerating Threat of the Political Assassination
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis Is Just Starting
Christopher P. Twomey
Strengthening the Black Sea Grain Agreement Short of War
Michael Petersen
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James G. Foggo III
An Alliance Division of Labor in East Asia
Takuya Matsuda
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Jaehan Park
Troubled Waters Around Taiwan
Zack Cooper
,
Jessica Drun
,
Peter Mattis
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and
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Steven Goldstein
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and
Collin Meisel
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Nora Bensahel
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Chris Mason
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Matthew Flynn
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Jeffrey W. Hornung
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Ryan Baker
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Jonathan Schroden
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What to Expect When You Don’t Want Your Adversaries to Know What to Expect
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and
Bradley Bowman
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James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
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Philip Zelikow
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Erik Gartzke
and
Jon Lindsay
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David Deptula
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Jonathan Caverley
and
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
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and
Walker D. Mills
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Sam J. Tangredi
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and
Brian Blankenship
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Eric Wesley
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Robert Simpson
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Something Old, Something New
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Romulo G. Dimayuga II
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Mrinal Menon
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,
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Putting Combatant Commanders on a Demand Signal Diet
Mackenzie Eaglen
How Fast Is Fast Enough? A Role for Supersonic Munitions in Standoff Strike
David N. Zikusoka
Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations
Jeff M. Smith
Why the Arctic is Not the ‘Next’ South China Sea
Elizabeth Buchanan
and
Bec Strating
Getting the Fait Accompli Problem Right in U.S. Strategy
Michael Kofman
Missionaries From a Strange Land: Veterans and the Society That Sends Them
Áine Josephine Tyrrell
and
Kori Schake
Moving Beyond Total Force: Building a True Strategic Reserve
Jacquelyn Schneider
What the Abraham Accords Reveal About the United Arab Emirates
Elham Fakhro
To Infinity and Beyond: Battle Force 2045
Bryan McGrath
,
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Preserve America’s Strategic Autonomy in the Taiwan Strait
Walter Lohman
and
Frank Jannuzi
Retooling U.S. Security Sector Assistance
Stephen Tankel
and
Tommy Ross
You Can’t Escape Your Past … Even in Space: What Space Force Can Learn From the Air Corps Tactical School
Heather Venable
Will America Help Britain Build a New Nuclear Warhead?
Matthew Harries
What Can a Retired Sailor Teach Us About Turkey?
Ryan Gingeras
Is Change Coming? Smartly Reshaping and Strengthening America’s Nuclear Deterrent
Christine Parthemore
and
Andy Weber
As Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates Normalize Ties, China Looks on Warily
Michael Singh
NATO in the Arctic: Keep Its Role Limited, For Now
David Auerswald
The United States Can Only Achieve AI Dominance with Its Allies
James Ryseff
The Secret to the Northern Mozambique Insurgency’s Success
Emilia Columbo
Why the Pentagon Should Focus on Taiwan
Elbridge Colby
and
Jim Mitre
It’s Time for the Pentagon to Take Data Principles More Seriously
Robert Work
and
Tara Murphy Dougherty
Arming Without Aiming? Challenges for Japan’s Amphibious Capability
Benjamin Schreer
A Solarium for Presidential Transition Teams
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
Thinking Strategically About Sino-American Crisis Management Mechanisms
Jacob Stokes
and
Zack Cooper
‘Blue Homeland’ and the Irredentist Future of Turkish Foreign Policy
Aykan Erdemir
and
Philip Kowalski
Making the U.S. Military’s Counter-Terrorism Mission Sustainable
Stephen Tankel
Lawyers Trying Lawyers: How the Doolittle Raids Shaped Military Commissions
Michel Paradis
and
Aaron O'Connell
The Abiding Relevance of ‘Heart of Darkness’ for Those Who Wage War
William Bray
Defense Innovation Is Falling Short
Christopher Zember
and
Peter Khooshabeh
The Painful, but Necessary, Next Steps in the U.S.-Taiwanese Relationship
Michael A. Hunzeker
and
Dennis L. Weng
Space Force Creation Warrants Revisiting Defense Unification
James W. E. Smith
Offensive Strike in Asia: A New Era?
David Santoro
and
Brad Glosserman
High Speed, Low-Yield: A U.S. Dual-Use Hypersonic Weapon
Alan Cummings
Bending the Principle of Mass: Why That Approach No Longer Works for Airpower
David Alman
and
Heather Venable
Japanese Nuclear Policy After Hiroshima, After Abe, and After Nov. 3
Masakatsu Ota
When Americans Marched to Mexico City
Mitchell G. Klingenberg
Making a U.S. Digital Service Academy Work
Harrison Schramm
and
Todd Lyons
What Is China’s Strategy in the Senkaku Islands?
Alessio Patalano
Agility Boom: Fueling Innovation and the Air Force’s Blunt Layer
Mike Benitez
We Are Already Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons from the Secretive Online Fight Against the Islamic State
Len “Loni” Anderson
,
Nathan Fleischaker
, and
Brian Russell
Terror and Technology From Dynamite to Drones
T. X. Hammes
Wargaming Cyber Security
Benjamin Schechter
COVID-19 and Economic Competition with China and Russia
Howard J. Shatz
Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America
David Pion-Berlin
and
Andrew Ivey
Soldier-Scholar (Pick One): Anti-Intellectualism in the American Military
James Joyner
How America’s Experience with Pakistan Can Help it Deal with Turkey
Aaron Stein
and
Robert Hamilton
Airmen, Sailors, and the Schoolhouse
Mark Conversino
,
Joan Johnson-Freese
, and
Ryan Evans
Don’t Just Copy and Paste: A Better Model For Managing Military Technologists
Richard Kuzma
,
James Long
, and
Jim Perkins
The Battle for Mon Cala: Getting the Military to Deliver Its Own Tech Solutions
Maj. Gen. Matthew G. Glavy
and
Brett Goldstein
Ending United States Military Operations in Somalia
Paul D. Williams
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde
Lessons on Aging Gracefully
Josh Portzer
,
Arturo Trejo
, and
Tommy Shannon
Humanitarian Intervention or Humanitarian Imperialism? America and the Armenian Genocide
Charlie Laderman
Democracy’s Squad: India’s Change of Heart and the Future of the Quad
Jeff M. Smith
Smoke on the Water: The Global Challenge of Shipyard Fires
Matt Phillips
Brunei’s Two-Step Approach to the South China Sea
Joshua Espeña
and
Anne Uy
The Army Grapples with Modernization and COVID-19: A Conversation with Jim McPherson
Under Secretary of the Army James E. McPherson
and
Ryan Evans
How Can We Know if Professional Military Education Works?
Megan J. Hennessey
People Win Wars: The PLA Enlisted Force, and Other Related Matters
Marcus Clay
and
Dennis J. Blasko
U.S. Defense Spending During and After the Pandemic
Matt Vallone
America Can Protect Its Satellites Without Kinetic Space Weapons
Aaron Bateman
Strategic Outpost’s Fifth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Commanders Need to Know Innovative Acquisition
Garrett J. Custons
The U.S. Military Won’t Return to Business as Usual After the Pandemic
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
What Options are On the Table in the South China Sea?
Zack Cooper
and
Bonnie S. Glaser
“Cocaine Logistics” for the Marine Corps
Walker D. Mills
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
, and
Collin Fox
Adapting the Image and Culture of Special Operations Forces
Emma Moore
and
Stewart Parker
“For Our Enemies, We Have Shotguns”: Explaining China’s New Assertiveness
Andrew Small
and
Dhruva Jaishankar
Is Japan’s Interest in Strike Capabilities a Good Idea?
Jeffrey W. Hornung
How Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Gambit Could Imperil the Strait of Hormuz
Elisa Catalano Ewers
and
Ariane Tabatabai
More Than Just a Fire: The Implications of the Bonhomme Richard Catastrophe
Bryan McGrath
Wrestling with Fog: On the Elusiveness of Liberal Order
Patrick Porter
COVID-19 and U.S. Global Leadership
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The 2020 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
India’s Pangong Pickle: New Delhi’s Options After Its Clash with China
Christopher Clary
and
Vipin Narang
Bring Back the Seaplane
David Alman
Reflections on the Curse of Racism in the U.S. Military
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Who Guards the ‘Maritime Silk Road’?
Veerle Nouwens
Whose Deaths Deserve to be Honored?
James Joyner
and
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
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
NATO Needs a Coherent Approach to Defending its Eastern Flank
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ben Hodges
,
Janusz Bugajski
,
Ray Wojcik
, and
Carsten Schmiedl
For a Grander Army of the Republic: Better Names for Bases
Will Quinn
and
Jason Fritz
Washington Needs a Bold Rethink of Its China Strategy
Nathan Packard
and
Benjamin Jensen
Chinese Debates on the Military Utility of Artificial Intelligence
Michael Dahm
Crisis Response When the Status Quo Is a Crisis
Tellis Bethel
and
Ian Ralby
America’s Interest in Diego Garcia
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Michael McDevitt
On Military Innovation, the More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same
Paul R. Ignatius
Blue Homeland: The Heated Politics Behind Turkey’s New Maritime Strategy
Ryan Gingeras
May Madness: Competitive Wargaming in a Pandemic
Thomas J. Gordon IV
,
James Joyner
, and
Jorge Benitez
Ships! Ships! All We Need is Ships!
Jeff W. Benson
and
Mark A. McDonnell
From Captain Queeg to Winston Churchill: Lessons in Leading Up
Andrew Milburn
Professional Military Education Needs More Creativity, Not More History
Adam Lowther
and
Brooke Mitchell
The Texas National Security Review Is Hiring a Temp Editor
WOTR Staff
Militarizing Global Health Isn’t the Right Answer
Al Mauroni
Australia-India Naval Cooperation and the Islands of the Indo-Pacific
Darshana M. Baruah
How Plummeting Fuel Prices and Reduced Operations Could Free Up Billions of Defense Dollars
Michael Baskin
and
Konrad Gessler
A Cautionary Tale on Ambitious Feats of AI: The Strategic Computing Program
Emma Salisbury
Storm Surges and Crime Waves: Law Enforcement During Natural Disasters
Tellis Bethel
and
Ian Ralby
Learning in the South China Sea: The U.S. Response to the West Capella Standoff
Blake Herzinger
Finally Getting Serious About Professional Military Education
James Lacey
A Healthy Dose of Realism: Stopping COVID-19 Doesn’t Start with the WHO
Frank L. Smith III
No Sure Victory: The Marines New Force Design Plan and the Politics of Implementation
Matthew Fay
and
Michael A. Hunzeker
The Future of Warfare Will Continue to Be Human
Peter L. Hickman
The Pentagon Should Train for — and Not Just Talk About — Great-Power Competition
Tom Greenwood
and
Owen Daniels
Discontinued: America’s Continuous Bomber Presence
Peter Layton
Of Course the U.S. Military Has A White Supremacy Problem. It’s Baked In.
Mike Pietrucha
Weapons, Viruses, and the New Defense Reality in Southeast Asia
Zachary Abuza
The Challenge of Boko Haram Defectors in Chad
Bulama Bukarti
AI & Military Procurement: What Computers Still Can’t Do
Maaike Verbruggen
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