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“Vietnam”
The Wargames That Prophesized America’s Defeat in Vietnam
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Jacob Ganz
Vietnam’s Expansion in the South China Sea
Erin O'Brien
The U.S.-Vietnamese Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Erin O'Brien
Vietnam, North Korea, Politics, and Covid-19: The Numbers Tell a Story
Khang X. Vu
How to Read Vietnam’s Latest Defense White Paper: A Message to Great Powers
Derek Grossman
and
Christopher Sharman
Revisiting the Vietnam War at Home — And What It Means for Today
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Nation-Building in a Time of War: Revisiting Vietnam
Martin Clemis
What We Owe the Vietnam Veterans Who Stayed
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
How Close Did the United States Actually Get to Using Nuclear Weapons in Vietnam in 1968?
Theo Milonopoulos
Vietnam’s Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed National Security Policymaking
William Inboden
,
Celeste Ward Gventer
,
Mark Atwood Lawrence
,
Aaron O'Connell
, and
Usha Sahay
John McCain in 1974, Back in Vietnam
Arnold R. Isaacs
Revisiting Revisionism: Vietnam, Counterinsurgency, and the Lessons of Edward Lansdale
Mark Atwood Lawrence
The Importance of the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive
Gregory Daddis
A Vicious Entanglement, Part IV: If Only the North Vietnamese Had Read Galula
Jon Askonas
A Vicious Entanglement, Part III: The Asymmetries of Vietnam
Jon Askonas
The Class of 1967 Comes to Terms With the Vietnam War
John Isaacs
A Vicious Entanglement, Part II: Idealism Chastened in Vietnam
Jon Askonas
A Vicious Entanglement, Part I: Elusive Responsibility for the Vietnam War
Jon Askonas
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part V: Bad Strategy, Bad Leadership Doomed South Vietnam as Much as the Curtailing of U.S. Aid
Arnold R. Isaacs
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part IV: U.S. Journalists Didn’t Lose the War, Celebrate the Enemy, or Vilify American Soldiers
Arnold R. Isaacs
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part III: Peace Marchers Didn’t Turn U.S. Policy Around
Arnold R. Isaacs
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part II: The Draft Was a Moral Disgrace
Arnold R. Isaacs
Facts About the Vietnam War, Part I: They Didn’t Fight with One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs
Arnold R. Isaacs
Remembering Those Who Fell in Vietnam: A Rancorous Birth of a Place of Healing
Arnold R. Isaacs
The Heroic Leader and the Better War from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Jon Askonas
A Vietnam War Reading List, Brought to You by the War Hall
WOTR Staff
The Wages of War without Strategy, Part I: Clausewitz, Vietnam, and the Roots of Strategic Confusion
Robert Cassidy
and
Jacqueline Tame
Vietnam, Two Brave Men, and the Paths They Took
Arnold R. Isaacs
Long Tan: The Battle Haunting Australia-Vietnam Ties 50 Years After It Ended
Helen Clark
A Cartoonist’s View of the Vietnam War
Thom Rooke
Flat Tops: Canned Beer and Vietnam
Paul Lewandowski
Vietnam Teaches Us that Iraq Needs More than U.S. Combat Advisers
David Johnson
(W)Archives: Vietnam and the Meaning of Defeat
Mark Stout
Chaos and Tragedy in a “Post-War” Zone: Last Days in Vietnam
David Mattingly
Iraq and Longing for Vietnam
Gregory Daddis
Failure to Learn: Reflections on a Career in the Post-Vietnam Army
David Johnson
They & There: A Vet of Vietnam, Grenada, & the Middle East on “Over There”
Keith Nightingale
The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
Richard Fontaine
Why Russia’s Export Failures Matter For India
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Benjamin Tkach
The Chinese Yoke: Russia’s Return to Vassalship
Matthew Zalewski
The Costs of Collective Suspicion: Afghans in America in the Aftermath of a Killing
Omid Kamal
Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
Sameer Lalwani
,
Shailender Arya
, and
David Brostoff
Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore
Trent Hone
A New Way of Warfare Requires More Than New Tech
Gen (ret.) Nick Carter
The Burn and the Choke: Why Semiconductor Controls Will Outlast China’s Rare Earth Weapon
Alvin Camba
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
The Case for Caution: Why the U.S. Military Shouldn’t Organize Around AI… Yet
Morgan Plummer
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
Carrie Lee
The Importance of the Battle of the Sambre
Antonio Salinas
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Peter Mitchell
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Muhanad Seloom
Realignments, Restrictions, and Risks
WOTR Staff
Blinding First, Striking Fast: Why the Marine Corps Needs Information Groups
Benjamin Jensen
and
Ian Fletcher
Can Lutnick’s Chip-for-Chip Idea Work?
Matt Brazil
Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific
Gregory H. Winger
,
Miguel Alberto Gomez
, and
Lauren Sukin
Guns, Oil, and Dependence: Can the Russo-Indian Partnership Be Torpedoed?
Vasabjit Banerjee
and
Tina Dolbaia
Fort Drum Shows How States Can Push Back on China’s Maritime Aggression
Ron J. Lienhardt
The Limits of Rapprochement Between India and China
Chiara Boldrini
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
Zenel Garcia
and
Alexandra Meise
Key Outcomes from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit
Rorry Daniels
,
Joseph Webster
,
Michael Kugelman
, and
Catherine Putz
Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
Adam Zarazinski
and
Bruno Faviero
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
A Tricky Balancing Act for Southeast Asia
Huong Le Thu
,
Jessica C. Liao
, and
Gregory Poling
The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
Vu Lam
Beijing’s South China Sea Campaign of Intimidation Has Run Aground
Gregory Poling
Beijing’s Push for a Sino-Centric Asia is Cracking Southeast Asia’s Hedging Game
Jessica C. Liao
and
Lucas Myers
Eye of the Storm? Revisiting IUU Fishing on the Global Stage
Aaron Delano-Johnson
and
Chris Bernotavicius
The Meaning of Drone-Enabled Infantry Striking Beyond Line of Sight
Antonio Salinas
,
Mark Askew
, and
Jason P. LeVay
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Israeli-Iranian War
Joshua Rovner
We Need a Marine Corps, Part I: A Corps in Crisis
Ben Connable
Russian and Ukrainian Advantages in Drone Warfare
Dominika Kunertova
,
Stacie Pettyjohn
,
Erik Lin-Greenberg
, and
Caitlin Lee
The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Scott Cooper
Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
Emelia Probasco
and
Minji Jang
Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties
Daniel Markey
and
David Brostoff
The Adversarial: Talks and Tariffs
WOTR Staff
Thinking Through Deception on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Michael Posey
and
David Zesinger
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
Below-the-Threshold Deterrence, Philippine Style
Kurtis H. Simpson
,
Raphael Racicot
, and
Jacob Benjamin
Rough Seas Ahead: Steering the Military Profession
Dave Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Trump Administration vs the ‘Axis of Upheaval’?
Luis Simón
Start Making Sense: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration
Joshua Rovner
The United States Can’t Afford to Not Harden its Air Bases
Thomas Shugart
and
Timothy Walton
The Missing Middle: Emphasizing Operational Expertise in the U.S. Air Force
Erik Schuh
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
Alliance Networking in Europe and the Indo-Pacific
Lotje Boswinkel
,
Luis Simón
,
Alexander Lanoszka
, and
Hugo Meijer
Merry Christmas from the Johnsons
Zachary Griffiths
Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead
Haroro J. Ingram
62 Years After the ’62 War, Where Do China and India Go From Here?
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
This is Not the Status Quo You’re Looking For
Lauren Dickey
and
Matthew Kent
I Blame the Navy’s Strategic Woes on the Chiefs of Naval Operations
Bruce Stubbs
The Voyage of the Meishan and Xiushan: China’s Template for a Blue-Water Coast Guard
Ryan Martinson
Do We Need a Hero? Building Heritage and Culture in the U.S. Space Force
Nicholas Mahanic
U.S. Troop Withdrawals from Europe Won’t Benefit Its Rivals
Moritz S. Graefrath
When it Comes to Weaponry, Lethality Is Not Enough
Susan LeVine
How to Boil a Frog: The Dangers of Downsizing in the U.S. Military
Ryan Pallas
South Korea’s Growing Role as a Major Arms Exporter: Future Prospects in Latin America
Hoshik Nam
and
Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?
Daniela Richterova
China’s Global Public Opinion War with the United States and the West
Heidi Holz
Without Talent Agility, America May Lose
Jim Perkins
and
Mike McGinley
Rewind and Reconnoiter: What the History of Modern Conquest Tells Us About China and India’s Border Crisis with Dan Altman
Dan Altman
Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic
Taren Sylvester
and
Katherine Kuzminski
The Puzzle of Chinese Escalation vs Restraint in the South China Sea
Andrew Taffer
Countering Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea
Simon Weiss
and
Michael Beckley
Quality Has a Quality All Its Own: The Virtual Attrition Value of Superior-Performance Weapons
Evan Montgomery
,
Travis Sharp
, and
Tyler Hacker
The South China Sea Dog that Hasn’t Barked … Yet
Zack Cooper
and
Gregory Poling
Denial Is the Worst Except for All the Others: Getting the U.S. Theory of Victory Right for a War with China
Jacob Heim
,
Zachary Burdette
, and
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
The 80th Anniversary of D-Day: An Opportunity to Seize
Sam Edwards
A Conversation with Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall
Frank Kendall
and
Ryan Evans
What Exactly Are We Doing?
Francis J. Gavin
The East and South China Seas: One Sea, Near Seas, Whose Seas?
April A. Herlevi
and
Brian Waidelich
Mid-Afternoon Map: The Tragedy of Tragedy, A Tragedy in Two Books
Nick Danforth
A Prussian Strategy for Wars of Attrition
Adam L. Storring
Longstreet and How Much Work Remains to Be Done
Kori Schake
Great Power Competition Will Drive Irregular Conflicts
Jacob Shapiro
and
Liam Collins
Revisiting the Tanker War
Stephen Phillips
Professionalism is the Foundation of the Army and We Will Strengthen It
Gen. Gary Brito
How to Respond to China’s Global Security Initiative
John S. Van Oudenaren
Special Operations Force Structure: Strategic Calculus or Organizational Power?
Cole Livieratos
and
Ken Gleiman
History Has No Lessons for You: A Warning for Policymakers
Joseph Stieb
Empty Promises? A Year Inside the World of Multi-Domain Operations
Davis Ellison
and
Tim Sweijs
Foreign Policy in the Johnson Years
Marc Selverstone
,
Francis J. Gavin
,
Sheyda Jahanbani
, and
Fredrik Logevall
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
From Boycotts to Selfies: Asia’s Myriad Perceptions of Japan
Ryan Ashley
Large-Scale Combat Operations Will Bring New Medical Ethics Challenges
Michael Wissemann
The 2023 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The True Military Assistance Tradeoff Is Between Israel and Taiwan
Jennifer Kavanagh
and
Jordan Cohen
U.S. Special Operations and the Shadowy Promise of Irregular Campaigns
Brian Petit
One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy
Jonathan Caverley
,
Ethan Kapstein
, and
Jennifer Kavanagh
Citizen Sailors: The Missing Link in Maritime Force Structure
Joshua P. Taylor
and
Scott Humphrey
Waugh We Fight
Zachary Griffiths
America’s Failing Iran Nuclear Policy: Time for a Course Adjustment
Michael Eisenstadt
Where the Wargames Weren’t: Assessing 10 Years of U.S.-Chinese Military Assessments
Matthew Tetreau
Scaling the Future: How Replicator Aims to Fast-Track U.S. Defense Capabilities
Lauren Kahn
Two Cheers for the Cold War Liberals
Joseph Stieb
Biden’s Asia Diplomacy Is Still Incomplete
Zack Cooper
Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns
Jacob Maywald
,
Benjamin Hazen
,
Edward Salo
, and
Michael Hugos
You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want
John Barrett
The Allure of Conscription
Ryan Pallas
Why Ukrainian Soldiers Have to Learn to Fight on YouTube and How to Change That
Paul Schneider
Mid-Afternoon Map: Oppenheimer Map Scandal Exposed
Nick Danforth
Strategic Outpost Goes to the Movies
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Test and Train to the Threat, or Die
Matthew J. Bradley
and
Daniel J. Lehoski
It’s Time to Revise Guidance On Political Activities For Members of the U.S. Military
John Childress
,
Dave Richardson
, and
Heidi Urben
Michael Quinlan Was Right: The Enduring Relevance of Nuclear Deterrence
Gregory Giles
Six Lessons from Ukraine for Japanese Defense Planners
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Moral Injury, Afghanistan, and the Path Toward Recovery
Katherine Selber
and
Will Selber
Making the U.S.-Philippine Alliance Count
Susannah Patton
The Dead Cannot Go Home: Memory Diplomacy and the American Battle Monuments Commission at 100
Sam Edwards
A Sanctuary No Longer? Examining the Defense Department’s Prioritization of the Homeland
Brennan Deveraux
Full-Spectrum Integrated Lethality? On the Promise and Peril of Buzzwords
Elena Wicker
Unspoken Assumptions
Francis J. Gavin
Disappearing Act: Integrated Training with Air and Ground Forces
Andrew Tenbusch
and
Trevor Phillips-Levine
The Nuclear Club
Jonathan Hunt
Mid-Afternoon Map: Where Did the Cold War Go?
Nick Danforth
Are We Asking Too Much of Cyber?
Erica Lonergan
and
Michael Poznansky
Xi Jinping’s Worst Nightmare: A Potemkin People’s Liberation Army
Andrew Scobell
More than a Hobby: Informal Security Assistance to Ukraine
Jahara Matisek
,
William Reno
, and
Sam Rosenberg
Iraq: Twenty Years on, Two Narratives Emerge
Gregory A. Daddis
How the Anti-Woke Campaign Against the U.S. Military Damages National Security
Risa Brooks
Mind the Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
and
Michael J. Mazarr
Using 1202 Authorities to Counter China’s Maritime Militia
Steve Sacks
For the Sake of Ceremony: Should the U.S. Navy Continue its Airborne Forward Air Controller Program?
Trevor Phillips-Levine
and
Andrew Tenbusch
Army at 250: Beyond a Slogan, the Army Needs a New Narrative Strategy
Dan Vallone
U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine is Going to Get Complicated
Max Bergmann
No Time to Hide: The Future of Irish Defense and Security
Patrick Bury
and
David Murphy
Managing Risk for Special Operations Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations
Tim Ball
Amateur Hour Part III: It’s Still Not About the Airplane
Mike Pietrucha
The Somme in the Sky: Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian Air War
Michael Stefanovic
,
Robert “Chuck” Norris
,
Christophe Piubeni
, and
Dave Blair
Confronting the Iraq War: Melvyn Leffler, George Bush and the Problem of Trusting Your Sources
Joseph Stieb
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
Partnership, Not Threats: How to Deepen U.S.-Indian Naval Cooperation
Karambir Singh
and
Blake Herzinger
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
The 2022 War On The Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Fighting and Winning in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
John Christianson
A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices
Aaron Delano-Johnson
and
Chris Bernotavicius
Invisible Blockades and Strategic Coercion
Scott Savitz
and
Scott C. Truver
The Case for Getting Rid of the National Security Strategy
Justin Logan
and
Benjamin H. Friedman
Preventing Wars is as Important as Winning Them: Lessons From Past Naval Strategies
BJ Armstrong
Train Like You Fight: Updating America’s Adversary Fleet
Ryan Fishel
Will Putin’s War in Ukraine Continue Without Him?
Shawn Cochran
Airpower and Interdiction: Overcoming Defender Advantages
John D. Maurer
Call the Maritime Cavalry: Marine Corps Modernization and the Stand-In Force
Adam Yang
Funding the Indo-Pacific Pivot
Rep. Rob Wittman
Pushing Back Against China’s New Normal in the Taiwan Strait
Bonny Lin
and
Joel Wuthnow
Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I
David Johnson
A K-Arsenal of Democracy? South Korea and U.S. Allied Defense Procurement
Peter K. Lee
and
Tom Corben
Amateur Hour Part II: Failing the Air Campaign
Mike Pietrucha
Breadbasket Diplomacy: Preserving Wheat as a Tool of American Statecraft
Rosella Cappella Zielinski
and
Justin Gilpin
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part II
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part I
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
Aim Higher: The U.S.-Philippine Alliance Can Do More
Gregory H. Winger
and
Julio S. Amador III
You Go to War with the Watercraft You Have
Chris Bernotavicius
,
Michelle Macander
,
Danielle Ngo
, and
John Schaus
Whose Version of the War on Terror Won?
Joseph Stieb
A Modern-Day Frederick the Great? The End of Short, Sharp Wars
David Johnson
Helping the Leadership Lead
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
and
Joseph Mellone
The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn from Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Strange Debacle: Misadventures in Assessing Russian Military Power
Christopher Dougherty
The 2022 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Can Russia Rebuild Its Tech Sector with China’s Help?
Maria Shagina
and
Emily Kilcrease
Would We Do Better? Hubris and Validation in Ukraine
David Johnson
Intelligence and War: Does Secrecy Still Matter?
Joshua Rovner
Amateur Hour Part I: The Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Mike Pietrucha
Don’t Call It a Gray Zone: China’s Use-of-Force Spectrum
Roderick Lee
and
Shanshan Mei
Beijing’s Ukrainian Battle Lab
David Finkelstein
War and Adjustment: Military Campaigns and National Strategy
Andrew Ehrhardt
Sweeter Carrots and Harder Sticks: Rethinking U.S. Security Assistance
Jeremy Gwinn
Second Thoughts About the Third World
Mark Lawrence
The Lessons of Reagan’s Pipeline Crisis for Competing with China
Nicholas Romanow
and
William Inboden
From Bombs to Bits: Air-to-Ground Operations as a Model for the Tactical Information Environment
Terry Traylor
and
David Nass
Duty Bound to Disaster: Beware the Imperative in Foreign Policymaking
Michael J. Mazarr
Ukraine’s Lessons for Taiwan
Jeffrey W. Hornung
China’s Strategic Assessment of Russia: More Complicated Than You Think
Yun Sun
The War We Dread
Justin Lynch
and
Emma Morrison
‘A well-regulated Militia’: The Laws that Can Counter Domestic Terrorism
Barbara McQuade
The Light Fighter Is the Air Force’s Manned-Unmanned Team Solution
Alex Biegalski
Reestablish the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group-Taiwan
Jake Yeager
and
William Gerichten
South Korea’s Taiwan Conundrum
Sungmin Cho
Is Team Biden Winning?
Francis J. Gavin
Doing Less to Do Better: Why the Military Can’t Solve Its Overwork Problem
J. Alexander Thew
How to Dissent Without Losing Your Career, or Your Republic
Michelle Macander
We’re Not in Kissinger’s Middle East Anymore
Abe Silberstein
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
The 2021 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Could China’s Massive Public Debt Torpedo the Global Economy?
Antonio Graceffo
The Uncomfortable Reality of the U.S. Army’s Role in a War Over Taiwan
Jacquelyn Schneider
Think Tanks and American Interventionism
Chad Levinson
More Deferential but Also More Political: How Americans’ Views of the Military Have Changed Over 20 Years
Ronald R. Krebs
and
Robert Ralston
Grenada, the Evacuation of Afghanistan, and the Future of War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
When the War Ended, My Life as a Veteran Began
Brian Mongeau
U.S. Policy Toward Myanmar’s Military Junta
Zachary Abuza
Extending that ‘Loving Feeling’ to Undersea Warfare
Frank Hoffman
The Once and Future Defeat in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin
The United States Left Afghanistan to Prepare for a War It Will Probably Never Fight
Jacob Ware
Global Violence on an Intimate Scale: The Work of ‘Missionaries’
Katherine Voyles
Wanna Fight? Pushing Partners Aside in Afghanistan
Kyle Atwell
and
Paul Bailey
Refuge and Reconciliation
Amanda Demmer
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Securing an Orderly Departure for Afghan Refugees
Susan Sutton
Al-Shabaab and Chinese Trade Practices in Mozambique
Henry Tugendhat
and
Sérgio Chichava
Accounting for the Costs of Military Personnel
Seamus Daniels
When America’s All-Volunteer Force Loses a War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Losing Looks Like: Afghanistan’s ‘Hardest Place’
Gil Barndollar
The Subprime Strategy Crisis: Failed Strategic Assessment in Afghanistan
Cole Livieratos
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
9/11 in Islamabad: The First 72 Hours
David O. Smith
Confronting Chaos: A New Concept for Information Advantage
Chris Dougherty
There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think
William Hitchcock
and
Meghan Herwig
Did Anyone Win the ‘Global War on Terror’?
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Frank Hoffman
and
Andrew Orner
Ten Things the United States Should Do to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel
Michael Shurkin
and
Aneliese Bernard
Driving a Wedge Between China and Russia Won’t Work
Sergey Radchenko
Afghanistan Debacle
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Don’t Fail America’s Allies: The Plight of Afghans Left Behind
France Hoang
Getting Outside Information Past Big Brother in North Korea
Jonathan Corrado
and
Rachel Minyoung Lee
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Francis J. Gavin
Time for a New Approach to Defense Strategy
Michael J. Mazarr
Strategic Outpost’s Sixth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Peacetime Army Goes to War
Aaron Edwards
National Security Is Stronger When Congress Is Involved. Here’s How We Get Back to the Table.
Sen. Chris Murphy
Sailors, Sailors Everywhere and not a Berth to Sleep: The Illusion of Forward Posture in the Western Pacific
Graham Jenkins
Another “Crisis” in Civil-Military Relations?
Andrew Radin
and
Thomas Szayna
Freedom of Navigation Operations: A Mission for Unmanned Systems
Trevor Prouty
War Is on the Rocks
John Mueller
Interpreters on the Run: Baghdad Underground Railroad
Tammy S. Schultz
and
Noah Ramsey
Europe Eyes the Indo-Pacific, But Now It’s Time to Act
Veerle Nouwens
and
Garima Mohan
Fixing Oversight of Special Operations Forces
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
‘Bombing to Win’ at 25
Heather Venable
and
Sebastian Lukasik
Sing, Missile Muse, of Gods and Heroes: America’s Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names
Tom Karako
The Origin of COVID-19 and Preventing the Next Pandemic
Amanda Moodie
and
Nicholas Evans
Losing Itself in a Role: A Half-Century of British Foreign Policy
Oliver Yule-Smith
The Risks of Memorial Day Not Being Personal
Scott Cooper
Remembering What I’ve Never Known
Doyle Hodges
More Than a Buzzword: Diversity Can Help Defeat Disinformation
Maggie Smith
Military Sexual Assault Is a Moral Injury
Jessica Wolfendale
Ending the Endless Wars: A Strategy for Selective Disengagement
Monica Duffy Toft
Open Letter in Support of Free Inquiry and Discussion
WOTR Staff
Seeking Serenity: A New American Influence Strategy for Southeast Asia and Beyond
Austin S. Matthews
and
Collin Meisel
Strategic Predictability: Landpower in the Indo-Pacific
Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn
and
Lt. Gen. Laura Potter
Back to the Future: Getting Special Forces Ready for Great-Power Competition
Barnett S. Koven
and
Chris Mason
Metus Hostilis: Sallust, American Grand Strategy, and the Disciplining Effects of Peer Competition with China
Iskander Rehman
Rethinking the Past
Francis J. Gavin
Xi Likes Big Boats (Coming Soon to a Reef Near You)
Ryan D. Martinson
Cyber Security Begins Abroad
Natalie Thompson
,
Zoe Peach-Riley
, and
Laura Bate
We’ve Been Here Before: Learning From the Military’s History with White Nationalism
Simone Askew
,
Jack Lowe
,
Nette Monaus
, and
Kirsten L. Cooper
Into Thin Air: Aviation Security Force Assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Tobias Switzer
No Legal Objection, Per Se
E.M. Liddick
New Normal in Sino-Indian Ties
Chietigj Bajpaee
What Napoleon Can Teach Us About the South China Sea
Matthew Flynn
The United States Considers Reinforcing Its ‘Pacific Sanctuary’
Wallace C. Gregson, Jr.
and
Jeffrey W. Hornung
China’s Shifting Attitude on the Indo-Pacific Quad
Joel Wuthnow
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
Storm Clouds Ahead: Musings About the 2022 Defense Budget
Robert Work
Rescuing the Rescuers: A Guide to Revitalizing an Air Force Community
Christian Braunlich
Enforcing Sanctions on North Korea Is an Opportunity for Cooperation at Sea
Artem Sherbinin
The Marine Corps Under the Nuclear Shadow: A Great-Power Problem
Nathan Fleischaker
and
Shawna Sinnott
Abandon Old Assumptions About Defense Spending
Robert Levinson
How to Asymmetrically Out-Compete Xi Jinping’s One Belt One Road Initiative
Patrick Cronin
Desert Storm at 30: Aerospace Power and the U.S. Military
David Deptula
Chemical Weapons and the Hierarchy of Victims
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Mark Stout
Iraq’s Real Weapons of Mass Destruction Were ‘Political Operations’
Samuel Helfont
A White Hull Approach to Taming the Dragon: Using the Coast Guard to Counter China
Shawn Lansing
To Help NATO Allies Get Off Russian Equipment, the United States Should Revive Defense Lending
Max Bergmann
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Future of the Indo-Pacific Military Balance
Eric Sayers
Geostrategic Nuclear Exports: The Competition for Influence in Saudi Arabia
Nicholas L. Miller
and
Tristan A. Volpe
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part II: From 9/11 to Great Power Competition
David Johnson
Mapping Ideology in the Age of Trump
Paul Miller
An Army Trying to Shake Itself from Intellectual Slumber, Part I: Learning from the 1970s
David Johnson
Defending the Mekong Delta: Tet and the Legacy of the Brown-Water Navy
John Sherwood
The 2018 State of the Digital Union: The Seven Deadly Sins of Cyber Security We Must Face
Peter W. Singer
Has a Trumpian Grand Strategy Finally Stepped into the Light?
Simon Reich
and
Peter Dombrowski
Australia is Not on the Fence Between America and China
Arzan Tarapore
Fuzzy Thinking about Drones
Jon Askonas
and
Colby Howard
When Dauntless Isn’t Enough: The Moral and Strategic Imperative to Fix America’s Close Combat Units
Robert H. Scales
,
Scott Cuomo
, and
Jeff Cummings
In Search of Accountability at Sea: The Precedents for the Navy’s Case Against Benson and Sanchez
Michael Junge
Blue-Haired Soldiers? Just Say No
Mark Cancian
From the Battle of Britain to Waze: Envisioning an Advanced Battle Management System
Nicholas Sigler
Why Americans Aren’t Really Worried About War With North Korea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Stripping the Altars of Long-Term Defense Planning
Thomas-Durell Young
Ghosts of Statesmen Past
Iskander Rehman
A Familiar Struggle: Connecting Rural Afghans with Their Government
Will Selber
In Defense of Nothing
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Andrew Miller
Quad 2.0’s Challenges for India: A Delicate Balancing Act
Prateek Joshi
Thucydides and the Long War Problem
Joshua Rovner
Alexander Haig, the Problem of Character, and the Danger of History by Analogy
Todd Greentree
OA-X Strikes Back: Eight Myths on Light Attack
Mike Pietrucha
Enough with Political Endorsements from Retired Military Officers
ML Cavanaugh
The 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Buggy Whips and Segways: Historical Misinnovation in National Security and Intelligence Technology
Joseph Caddell
and
Robert Stiegel
Balancing China: How the United States and Its Partners Can Check Chinese Naval Expansion
Michael Beckley
Trump’s ‘Indo-Pacific Dream’ Stumbles – But China Alone Won’t Fill the Void
Rush Doshi
The Courage to End Generational Wars
Gregory Daddis
Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Are Worth a New Look
John R. Harvey
The Next Military-Industrial Complex, Part I: Riding Venture Capital’s Coattails
Philip D. O’Neill, Jr.
Something’s Wrong in the Surface Fleet and We Aren’t Talking About It
Michael Junge
Trump in Tokyo: U.S.-Japan Security Ties Confront Tough Challenges
Greg Earl
Westphalia to Communicate: Sovereignty, Confusion, and the International Order
Nick Danforth
Military Power Cannot Close the Defense Strategy Gap
Michael J. Mazarr
The Korean War and the Phoenix of Flight Leadership: The Fighter Pilot, Part II
Mike Benitez
A Vicious Entanglement, Part V: The Body Count Myth
Jon Askonas
The Rorschach Test of New Nuclear Powers: Analogies for North Korean Command and Control
Austin Long
It’s Time for Special Operations to Dump ‘Unconventional Warfare’
Doug Livermore
The Missing Middle: Defense Financing for Middle-Income Democracies
Max Bergmann
and
Vikram J. Singh
Bombshell: We Got This, Rexy
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Rules for Getting Defense Strategy Right
Thomas Spoehr
Donald Trump vs. the NFL and the World
Christopher Preble
“India Is Our Brother, China Is Our Friend”: Navigating Great Power Rivalry in Southern Asia
Rohan Mukherjee
and
Darren Lim
The 350-Ship Fantasy: It’s Time for the Navy to Think Radically About a Smaller Fleet
Steven Stashwick
Self-Defense and Strategic Direction in the Skies Over Syria
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
The Wisdom of Limited Power: How to Fix the “Impossible Presidency”
Jeremi Suri
Countering Chinese Coercion: The Case of Doklam
Oriana Skylar Mastro
and
Arzan Tarapore
Taking Airpower for Granted: A Smart Bomb Story
Mike Benitez
China’s Global Charm Offensive
Andrea Little Limbago
Re-Remembering Dunkirk: Art, Commemoration, and Memory
Anthony King
Mission Command and Multi-Domain Battle Don’t Mix
Conrad Crane
A History of Vexation: Trump’s Bashing of NATO is Nothing New
Michael Creswell
and
Victor Gavin
Back to Basics: The Light Attack Experiment Begins
Mike Pietrucha
Hope and Hype: Advising Foreign Forces in the Middle of a Counterinsurgency Campaign
Will Selber
Five Facts About a Controversial Nuclear Weapon
Will Saetren
Long Wars and Industrial Mobilization: It Won’t Be World War II Again
Mark Cancian
Five Lessons from Israel’s Wars in Gaza
Raphael S. Cohen
How to Diminish a Superpower: Trump’s Foreign Policy After Six Months
Hal Brands
Trump and Covert Operations in Syria: A Not-So-Artful Deal?
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
The National Security Act Turns 70
William Inboden
Strategic Outpost’s Second Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Scientist-Warrior Geeks: Turning Knowledge Into Power
Lukasz Kamienski
When Can a Soldier Disobey an Order?
John Ford
The Unvarnished Tyrant: American Soldiers and the Final Months of Saddam
David Eisler
High Noon in the Himalayas: Behind the China-India Standoff at Doka La
Jeff M. Smith
National Security, Texas-Style: War on the Rocks Teams Up with the University of Texas
Ryan Evans
Wonder and Worry in an Age of Distraction: Notes on American Exceptionalism for My Young Friends
Francis J. Gavin
Attack! The Renaissance of the Air Force Tribe
Mike Benitez
The Theory and Reality of the Battle
Michael V. Samarov
Don’t Count on Germany to Save the West
Stanley R. Sloan
Clearing the Air on Transatlantic Burden-Sharing, Part 1: What’s Going On Here?
Jordan Becker
Cuba: From Threat to Partner?
William Rosenau
and
Ralph Espach
Is American Internationalism Dead? Reading the National Mood in the Age of Trump
Hal Brands
No Retreat: The American Legacy in Afghanistan Does Not Have to Be Defeat
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Congress Needs to Stand Up and Reclaim its Authorities on Making War
Rep. Warren Davidson
Reclaiming the Air Attack Mission: A Radical Return to a Proven Success
Mike Pietrucha
Signaling Ignorance: What the Pentagon Gets Wrong about Coercion
Van Jackson
Slaughter at Chemin Des Dames: Adaptation and Its Limits in 1917
Mark Cancian
Whispers from the Past: Political Figures Caught Up in NSA Intercepts
Mark Stout
Rock and Roll and American Power
Sean Kay
Once More Over There: European Security at the End of American Century
Jeffrey Mankoff
The Very British Affair of Marine A
Anthony King
Maladjusted, Part III: Not Your Father’s Skyraider
Mike Pietrucha
Dereliction of Duty Reconsidered: The Book that Made the National Security Advisor
Kori Schake
Debating the Nuclear Legacy of India and One of Its Great Cold War Strategists
Yogesh Joshi
Science Fiction No Longer: Enhancing Military Readiness through Synthetic Training
Jennifer McArdle
and
Lt. Gen (Ret.) Yvan Blondin
The Rebalance is Dead! Long Live the Rebalance!
Hannah Suh
,
Harry Krejsa
, and
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Were We Watching the Same Presidency? Obama Was Not A Restrainer
Trevor Thrall
and
John Glaser
Scholarly Double Standards and the American Presidency
Stephen F. Knott
Trumpeting the Alliance: How Much Will the United States and Japan Lean on Each Other?
Michael Auslin
Maladjusted, Part II: How the U.S. Air Force Went from Eagle to Chicken
Mike Pietrucha
Reassessing Obama’s Legacy of Restraint
Paul Miller
A Green Beret’s Ode to Big Army’s New Security Force Assistance Brigades
James E. Hayes III
21st-Century Forward Air Control: The Roots to Rebuild
Mike Benitez
What’s in a Body Count? A Deafening Silence
Jaron Wharton
An Active-Duty National Security Advisor: Myths and Concerns
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Replaced? Security Force Assistance Brigades vs. Special Forces
Tim Ball
Maladjusted, Part I: 21st-Century Attack
Mike Pietrucha
Blackmail Under a Nuclear Umbrella
Paul Bracken
Emergence: The Changing Character of Competition and Conflict
Benjamin Jensen
The Future of Asian (In)Stability: In Search of the Right Questions
Peter Mattis
The Secret War That Transformed the CIA
Arnold R. Isaacs
Political Airpower, Part III: Boots Off the Ground
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Light Attack: Removing the Veil on OA-X
Mike Pietrucha
The Intel Importance of Being Pence: The Vice President’s National Security Role
David Priess
A Missing Shade of Gray: Political Will and Waging Something Short of War
Phillip Lohaus
Clash of Clans: The Air Force Can Never Deliver Enough Close Air Support for the Army
Mike Pietrucha
Cyber Beyond Third Offset: A Call for Warfighter-Led Innovation
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Nina Kollars
Trump’s International System: A Speculative Interpretation
Justin Vaisse
Thomas C. Schelling: A Reminiscence
Robert Jervis
Five Giant Leaps for Robotkind: Expanding the Possible in Autonomous Weapons
Andrew Hill
and
Gregg Thompson
High Times with Narcotic Nazi Warfare
Lukasz Kamienski
Everything You Think You Know About Limited War is Wrong
Donald Stoker
The War on the Rocks 2016 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Australia and President Trump: Four Risks and Twelve Opportunities
Richard Fontaine
Stress-Testing the Foundations of American Grand Strategy
Hal Brands
and
Peter Feaver
No End in Sight to the Army’s Dependence on Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
A Memo to the Next President on Winning in Afghanistan
Joseph Collins
Political Airpower, Part II: The Seductive Allure of Precision Weapons
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Music in War: From Rebellion to Patriotism
Pikria Saliashvili
On Campaign Plan Phasing: Six-Phase or Unconstrained?
David Maxwell
Offsetting Air Superiority with Air Force Special Operations
Mike Benitez
and
Peter Garretson
The Case for the Militarization of Foreign Aid
Mark Moyar
Warning Orders: Strategic Reasons for Publicizing Military Offensives
Carrie Lee
The U.S.-Philippine Alliance is Stronger than You Think
Gregory Poling
Political Airpower, Part I: Say No to the No-Fly Zone
Mike Benitez
and
Mike Pietrucha
Losing the Peace is Still Losing
Paul Scharre
Andrew Jackson’s Marco Polo
James Lockhart
The World the Combatant Command was Designed for is Gone
Kelly McCoy
What American Credibility Myth? How and Why Reputation Matters
Alex Weisiger
and
Keren Yarhi-Milo
What Coup-Proofing Will Do to Turkey’s Military: Lessons From Five Countries
Danny Orbach
The Phantom Menace: When Threat Capabilities Are Made Up
Mike Pietrucha
China’s Artificial Islands Are Bigger (And a Bigger Deal) Than You Think
Thomas Shugart
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
How Does Jihadism End? Choosing Between Forever War and Nation Building
Paul Miller
New Multilateralism for Maritime Southeast Asia: More Value per CARAT
John F. Bradford
,
Greg R. Adams
, and
Sean P. Quirk
There It Is: A True War Story
Peter Munson
Bringing an End to the Forever War
Gene Healy
American Power in the Rearview Mirror and on the Road Ahead
Bruce Jentleson
OA-X: More Than Just Light Attack
Mike Benitez
Can Obama Play the Trump Card with Allies?
Brian Blankenship
Who’s Responsible for the Navy’s Carrier Shortage?
Mark Cancian
Asia’s Looming Subsurface Challenge
John Schaus
,
Lauren Dickey
, and
Andrew Metrick
East Asia and a Strategy of Restraint
Ted Galen Carpenter
and
Eric Gomez
Lessons on History and Statecraft from a Rocky Mountain Seminar
Justin Key Canfil
,
Lauren Dickey
,
A. Bradley Potter
, and
Laura Weis
After Brexit, a Bold Britain: A Game Plan for Remaking British Power
James Rogers
and
Philip Shetler-Jones
Rationalizing McNamara’s Legacy
Matthew Fay
Generals and Political Interventions in American History
James Joyner
A Guide to Catching Up on China’s Politics and Military
Peter Mattis
The Doctrine of Military Change: How the US Army Evolves
Luke O’Brien
The Logic for (Shoddy) U.S. Covert Action in Syria
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
Lessons from the Winter War: Frozen Grit and Finland’s Fabian Defense
Iskander Rehman
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Next President’s Voyage in the South China Sea
Mira Rapp-Hooper
and
Patrick Cronin
Slaughter on the Somme: The Limits of Foresight on the Road to the Great War
Mark Cancian
Man, the Corporation, and War
Brian Collins
How Will China React to the Gavel Coming Down in the South China Sea?
Patrick Cronin
and
Harry Krejsa
Can the U.S. Coast Guard Take on the South China Sea?
Aaron Picozzi
and
Lincoln Davidson
Avoiding the Charge of the Light Brigade Against China
Mike Pietrucha
A Guide to Stepping it Up in the South China Sea
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What China’s Big Nation Complex Means for the Future of Asia
Shannon Hayden
Weekend Happy Hour, Ep. 4
Alex Hecht
Veterans and the Alienated Society
Kori Schake
The Other Legacy of Robert McNamara
Abhijnan Rej
The Need for SEAD Part II: The Evolving Threat
Mike Pietrucha
The Choice for Asia in the 21st Century
Sen. John McCain
What Next for the Army? In Defense of Proponency by Componency
Michael N. Clancy
and
Zac Delwiche
The Big Breach: Donald Trump and the Return of Ideological Espionage
Mark Stout
In Search of the Xi Doctrine
Michael Auslin
Do Not Give Up on Stealth Technology
Robert Spalding
and
Adam Lowther
The Killing of Mullah Mansour: Major Milestone or Fart in the Wind?
Ioannis Koskinas
It’s Not About the Airplane: Envisioning the A-X2
Mike Pietrucha
Not Just War: How Hiroshima Became a War Crime
Jonathan Hunt
History Isn’t a Playbook: Misguided Analogies and Great Power Competition
Ali Wyne
The Price of Perpetual War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Levantine Labyrinth: Preparing for Subterranean Warfare in Iraq and Syria
Walter Haydock
Stealth is King, the World is Flat
Mike Benitez
The Need for SEAD Part I: The Nature of SEAD
Mike Pietrucha
Exceptionalism or Expansionism? The American Dream Abroad
Sean Kay
Drones and the Future of Aerial Combined Arms
Jules Hurst
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Territorial Defense and the Twilight of Postmodern Europe
Iskander Rehman
Clausewitz and the Crackhouse
Paul Kan
Out of Time: Do Not Revive the F-22
Mike Benitez
The Catastrophic Success of the U.S. Air Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Low-Altitude Penetration and Electronic Warfare: Stuck on Denial, Part III
Mike Pietrucha
Never Say Never: China’s Rise is About the Art of the Possible
Dean Cheng
A Netflix Assessment of China’s Rise and America’s Advantage
ML Cavanaugh
It’s Time to Start Talking About American Exceptionalism Again
Richard Fontaine
A Visit to the Frontlines of the Battle Against ISIL
Mark Cancian
and
Matthew Cancian
Shrinking the Tactical Civilian–Military Divide
Kenny Sholes
The End of the American Empire
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
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
Don’t Let the Tyranny of Jointness Rule the Indo-Pacific
Steven Wills
A Proud Day for Parliament: The Wisdom of Not Bombing Assad
Patrick Porter
Reframing the Third Offset as a 21st-Century Model for Deterrence
Andy Massie
The U.S. Air Force and Stealth: Stuck on Denial Part I
Mike Pietrucha
Increase, Don’t Decrease, Marine Lethality
Bing West
and
Owen West
China to Indonesia: Thanks For All the Fish
Natalie Sambhi
Competitive Mobilization: How Would We Fare Against China?
Robert Haddick
West Point and American Exceptionalism
David McCormick
The Promise and Peril of Changing U.S. Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
Asia’s Mediterranean: Strategy, Geopolitics, and Risk in the Seas of the Indo-Pacific
Michael Auslin
The Zombie Myths of Conscription
Phillip Carter
The Long Shadow of the Gulf War
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
Why We Still Need the Draft
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
JFK, McNamara, and Bloody Mary
Paul Lewandowski
Just Following Orders: Leadership Lessons from Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Jared Wilhelm
Surprisingly Sound Answers on the Future of the Army
Robert H. Scales
America and China: It’s Complicated
Dean Cheng
Carnage and Connectivity: How Our Pursuit of Fun Wars Brought the Wars Home
David Betz
We Still Don’t Know if Foreign Policy Matters in the Presidential Election
John Amble
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
The CIA’s Constant Battle Between Secrecy and Effectiveness
Mark Stout
Regimes and Revolt: Authoritarian Ways of Counterinsurgency
David H. Ucko
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
Sectarianism and Saudi Arabia’s Half-Baked Counter-Terrorism Alliance
Emma Ashford
The Kissinger Effect on Realpolitik
John Bew
China’s Bomber Flight into the Central Pacific: Wake-Up Call for the United States
Dean Cheng
War on the Rocks 2015 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Moscow’s Clients from Kabul to Damascus: Strength and Strategy in International Politics
Ryan Evans
Understanding the Abrams Doctrine: Myth versus Reality
Conrad Crane
and
Gian Gentile
Looking for a Few Good Partners in Asia to Shore Up the International Order
Timothy R. Heath
National Security Takes Center Stage on the Campaign Trail
John Amble
Weekend Reading: November 21 – 22 Edition
WOTR Staff
The Mysterious Blunderings of the CIA
James Lockhart
With China, the Crisis Off-Ramp Will Be Closed
Robert Haddick
No, We Do Not Need to Revive the U.S. Information Agency
Matthew Armstrong
Can Kennan Shake Us Out of Our Strategic Groundhog Day?
Kevin McCarty
What Texas Hold ‘em Can Teach us about Geopolitics
Jonathan Altman
Remote Control Statecraft: The Limits of Offshore Balancing
Iskander Rehman
The Next Task Force Smith: The Danger of Arbitrary Headquarters Reductions
Conrad Crane
and
John Bonin
Weekend Reading: October 24–25 Edition
WOTR Staff
Will America Make the Same Mistakes as China?
Ali Wyne
A Toast to Little Willie
Robert Tomes
I Loved Being a Soldier
Gen. Charles Jacoby
The Moral Hazard of Proxy Warfare
Adam Elkus
Great Power Rivalry: Anti-Access and the Threat to the Liberal Order
Iskander Rehman
Nobody Expects the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
CSI: Pentagon — Who Killed American Strategy?
Adam Elkus
A Soldier Can Never Die in Vain
ML Cavanaugh
Jack Galvin: Cold War General and 21st Century Role Model
Joseph Collins
How the U.S. Army Remains the Master of Landpower
Paul Norwood
and
Benjamin Jensen
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
Keep the Middle East at Arm’s Length with Airpower
Mike Pietrucha
We Need What Women Bring to the Fight
Kyleanne Hunter
The Airpower Partisans Get it Wrong Again
Kyle Staron
What Should We Do If the Bomber Can’t Get Through?
E. John Teichert
Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woe: When the United States Goes Weak, Russia Strikes
Ralph Peters
How to Lose a Civil War: Lessons for Afghanistan and Syria
James T. Quinlivan
In Defense of Crazy Talk: Why Bradford’s West Point Article is Worth Talking About
James Joyner
(W)Archives: Cooking the Books on the Islamic State and the Viet Cong
Mark Stout
Another Chance to Watch Star Wars with Sam: Marines in Ramadi
Vince Perritano
Is America an Empire?
Tyrone Groh
and
James Lockhart
The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball
James Joyner
The Search for the Technological Silver Bullet To Win Wars
Mike Pietrucha
Putin’s Plan to Deter Hawks in Washington
Michael Kofman
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
The Long Shadow of WWII Over Maritime Asia
Mira Rapp-Hooper
China’s A2/AD is a Far Cry from the Maginot Line
James Holmes
Ukraine and the Art of Exhaustion
Lawrence Freedman
Can History Save the World?
Nick Danforth
(W)Archives: Urban Warfare, Back in the Day
Alec Wahlman
Six Summertime Steps in the South China Sea
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Mike Pietrucha
8 Big Ideas to Turbo-Charge the U.S.–Australian Alliance
Ross Babbage
Twilight Struggle: The Cold War was Not Stable or Simple
Patrick Porter
History’s Real Lessons on the Iran Deal
Charles Stevenson
F-35: Highway to the Danger Zone
Thomas Donnelly
Weekend Reading: July 10-12 Edition
Pavan Rajgopal
Yes, Germany is Free Riding on American Security
Dustin Dehez
Trade Policy Can Change the Balance of Power in the Asia-pacific More than You Imagine
Andy Polk
(W)Archives: The U.S. Army Unit that was Nominated for an Oscar
Mark Stout
How Pakistan Beguiles the Americans: A Guide for Foreign Officials
C. Christine Fair
Why the Islamic State Is Weathering the Air Campaign
Peter Mansoor
Fortifying the Great Wall of Sand
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Getting Airpower Right: In Defense of the Long Range Strike Bomber
Robert Spalding
and
Adam Lowther
Why National Reputation Matters
Peter Mansoor
The U.S.-South Korean Combined Infantry Division Shows the Alliance is Closer than Ever
David Maxwell
The Myth of Entangling Alliances
Michael Beckley
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
(W)Archives: Occupation and the “Black Shame” on the Rhine
Mark Stout
Pushing Back Against China’s Strategy: Ten Steps for the United States
Patrick Cronin
Trading Space and Time in the Cold War Offset Strategy
Robert Tomes
In Search of a Southeast Asian Response to China’s Bid for Dominance
Patrick Cronin
How China’s Land Reclamation Fits in its Regional Strategy for Dominance
Patrick Cronin
Chinese Regional Hegemony in Slow Motion
Patrick Cronin
Googling Iran: The Sources of Mistrust
Richard Klass
Weekend Reading: May 8-10 Edition
WOTR Staff
Summer Reading List: 10 Books You Overlooked in Your Quest to Predict the Next Great War
Robbie Gramer
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
In Search of Post-9/11 Veterans’ Missing Perspectives
Corri Zoli
,
Rosy Maury
, and
Danny Fay
The Naval Historian and His Library: An Interview with John Hattendorf
Christopher Nelson
Preparing for Warfare’s Subterranean Future
Benjamin Runkle
Why do the Chinese Hack? Fear
Enrique Oti
Why An “Economic” Approach to Foreign Policy Fails
Adam Elkus
How U.S. Navy Intel Sees China’s Maritime Forces
Andrew Erickson
Tats and Techies: Building the Next U.S. Military
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
America Did Hybrid Warfare Too
Todd Greentree
Blowback as National Policy
David Wise
Weekend Reading List: April 3-5 Edition
Lauren Katzenberg
China’s Middle East Choice
Jeffrey Payne
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
What Obama Gets Right and Wrong on Grand Strategy
Ionut Popescu
Concrete Steps for the U.S. in the South China Sea
John Schaus
Lying to Ourselves: The Demise of Military Integrity
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Military Superiority in an Interconnected World
Bob Butler
and
Jim Gosler
A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
Patrick Cronin
and
Audrey Kurth Cronin
China’s Menacing Sandcastles in the South China Sea
Andrew Erickson
,
Austin Strange
,
Dean Cheng
,
Ely Ratner
,
Shawn Brimley
,
Robert Haddick
,
Mira Rapp-Hooper
, and
Zack Cooper
Sailing with Dragons: The Case for Increased Cooperation with the PLA(N)
Robert Hein
Ten Reasons Why China Will Have Trouble Fighting a Modern War
Dennis J. Blasko
Dr. Dave’s Hypothetical Institute for the Advanced Study of Stupid Shit
David Betz
Is Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability for the United States?
Richard Klass
Why the Cold War Offset Strategy was all about Deterrence and Stealth
Robert Tomes
Why The Draft is a Forlorn Hope
T.S. Allen
Not So Chickenhawk: Pushing Back Against Fallows
Michael Cohen
What Critics of the Navy’s Strategy Get Wrong
Robert C. Rubel
Needed Now: A Realistic Strategy Force Structure for the 21st Century
Harlan Ullman
The Unknowns in the Invisible War
David Mattingly
Weekend Reading: December 26-28
John Waters
Reappraising the West’s Approach Toward Russia
John R. Deni
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Afghanistan: Coming to the Bad End of the Good War
Jack Fairweather
Ten Rules for Building Militias in an Era of Terrorism and Persistent Conflict
Patricio Asfura-Heim
Service in a Time of Perpetual Conflict
David Mattingly
The British War Movie America Needs
T.S. Allen
Here’s Why Women in Combat Will Work
Anthony King
The Still Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense
Charles Stevenson
The South China Sea: Navigating the Most Dangerous Place in the World
Michael McDevitt
Achieving Strategic Excellence in Army University
Robert H. Scales
Weekend Reading: November 21-23
John Waters
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
America’s Overlooked Strategic Asset: Artists
August Cole
Weekend Reading: November 14-16
John Waters
America Needs Economic Statecraft in Asia
Patrick Cronin
It’s More Than One Day A Year
David Mattingly
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in America’s “Me” Decade
William Rosenau
The Cold War Offset Strategy: Origins and Relevance
Robert Tomes
What Black Ops 2 Gets Right About America’s Dirty Little Wars
Adam Elkus
Against a Tech-Centric Offset
Jon Czarnecki
An Act of War? The Law of Naval Mining
Scott Truver
The Master Strategist is Still a Myth
Lawrence Freedman
Weekend Reading: October 10-12
Kendrick Kuo
The Hong Kong Countdown
Dean Cheng
Iraq, Syria, and the Islamic State: A Matter of Control
Adam Elkus
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Nick Prime
The Modi Visit and U.S.-India Defense Cooperation
Joshua White
The Heroic Difficulty: Matching Power and Purpose
Frank Hoffman
The Anti-ISIL strategy: Let’s whack another mole and hope it’s the last
Robert Egnell
Don’t Forget Asia: Walking and Chewing Gum in Foreign Policy
Joshua Walker
Weekend Reading: September 19-21
John Waters
Observations on the Long War
Conrad Crane
Obama Shouldn’t Lose His Cool Over the Islamic State
Craig Whiteside
World War II Remembered through the Movies
David Luhrssen
Bringing it all back home: The roots of militarized policing
William Rosenau
Eyeless in Gaza — Are we blind to an enduring reality of war?
Michael Vlahos
General and Flag Officers Killed in War
Robert S. Rush
Best Warrior Memoirs
WOTR Staff
A Bold Maritime Strategy for Taiwan
Patrick Cronin
Climbing the Cellar Stairs or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Status Quo
Peter Munson
You Can’t Stop Shrapnel with Canvas
Michael M. McCloud
Infographic: Four Decades of Terrorist Tactics Around the World
Michael Jensen
A New Nixon Doctrine: Strategy for a Polycentric World
Mark Safranski
(W)Archives: The Pentagon Papers and Premature Publication
Mark Stout
China: Leap-Frogging U.S. Deterrence in the Pacific
Matthew Hipple
From Magdeburg to Mosul: Iraq, Syria, and the 30 Years War
Marc Tyrrell
No Strategic Success without 21st Century Seapower: Forward Partnering
Frank Hoffman
Iraq and the City of Man
Peter Munson
China’s Problem With Rules: Managing A Reluctant Stakeholder
Patrick Cronin
The War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
Usha Sahay
China Undeterred and Unapologetic
Ely Ratner
Iraq and the Fall of Saigon
Robert Killebrew
The Best of Frenemies: The Dual Strands of U.S.-China Relations
David Chmiel
The Secretary’s Playbook on Sergeant Bowe Berghdahl
Butch Bracknell
Can China Win the Contest of the Century?
Robert Haddick
Xi’s Unlikely Alliance
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Friends Forever? The U.S. and the Future of Japanese Military Power
Stephen Rodriguez
Photographs of the Dead in War
Marc Tyrrell
China, Russia, and the Outlook for the Liberal International System
Ali Wyne
Obama’s Speech and Fretting Allies
Lawrence Freedman
The Ill-fated Mission of the USS Pueblo
Christopher Lee
WEEKEND READING: MEMORIAL DAY EDITION
Lauren Katzenberg
Ukraine Needs Nonviolent Resistance to Beat Russia
Maciej Bartkowski
The Future of American Power: The Great Pull-Back?
Michael Noonan
Taking China’s Carrier Operations Seriously
Dean Cheng
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