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Ending the Ideology of the Offense, Part I
David Johnson
People Win Wars: A 2022 Reality Check on PLA Enlisted Force and Related Matters
Shanshan Mei
,
Dennis J. Blasko
, and
Roderick Lee
Send NATO Troops to Help Stabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leon Hartwell
,
Hikmet Karčić
, and
Josephine Mintel
Necro-Aeronautics: Raising Undead Aircraft for War
Zachary Kallenborn
Doctrine for Diplomacy: To Remain Relevant, the U.S. State Department Needs a New Statecraft
Dan Spokojny
Prescribing a New Paradigm for Cyber Competition
George Perkovich
Moving On After AUKUS: Working with France in the Indo-Pacific
Gesine Weber
and
Edgar Tam
An Alternative History of AirLand Battle, Part I
David Johnson
and
Zach Alessi-Friedlander
New Winners, New Losers: Toward a New Energy Security
Morgan Bazilian
and
Cullen Hendrix
“Win the War Before the War?”: A French Perspective on Cognitive Warfare
David Pappalardo
Dereliction of Duty: The Abandonment of the Defense Sector in Colombia and How to Fix It
Alfonso Camacho-Martinez
AI, Autonomy, and the Risk of Nuclear War
James Johnson
Kessel Run Shows How to Bridge the Gap Between Development and Operations
Brian Beachkofski
and
Dan Patt
South Korea Needs a Wake-Up Call On Its Reservist Crisis
Brendan Balestrieri
and
Won-geun Koo
The Future of China’s Cognitive Warfare: Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Koichiro Takagi
Assess Russia’s Cyber Performance Without Repeating Its Past Mistakes
Gavin Wilde
Colombia’s New President and the Challenges to the Bilateral Relationship
Andrew Ivey
Sabotage and War in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
Iran’s Increasingly Decentralized Axis of Resistance
Nancy Ezzeddine
and
Hamidreza Azizi
Seeing, Knowing, and Deciding: The Technological Command Dream That Never Dies?
Ian Reynolds
On-the-Ground Truth and Force Design 2030 Reconciliation: A Way Forward
Scott Cuomo
Weak States and Loose Arms: Lessons and Warnings, from Afghanistan to Ukraine
Kerry Chávez
and
Ori Swed
Preserve This Early-Stage Bet That Benefits National Security
Kevin Landtroop
Meeting the Goal: Three Recommendations for Air Force Recruiting
Kelly McElveny
Weak Human, Strong Force: Applying Advanced Chess to Military AI
Trevor Phillips-Levine
,
Michael Kanaan
,
Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine
,
Walker D. Mills
, and
Noah Spataro
Don’t Delay Getting Serious About Cislunar Security
Jessy Kate Schingler
,
Victoria Samson
, and
Nivedita Raju
Driving the Dark Road to the Future: A Guide to Revitalizing Defense Planning and Strategic Analysis
Benjamin Jensen
and
Michael Rountree
Helping the Leadership Lead
Ben Buchheim-Jurisson
and
Joseph Mellone
To Robot or Not to Robot? Past Analysis of Russian Military Robotics and Today’s War in Ukraine
Samuel Bendett
Show Me the Money: Boost the Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Dustin Walker
Don’t Let Russia Dominate the Strategic Concept
Jordan Becker
,
Douglas Lute
, and
Simon Smith
The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn from Ukraine
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Confidence-Building Defense for NATO
Lukas Mengelkamp
,
Alexander Graef
, and
Ulrich Kühn
What’s Wrong with Wanting a “Human in the Loop”?
Jovana Davidovic
Double Asymmetry: The Inevitability of an Arms Race on the Korean Peninsula
Lami Kim
Getting Drones Ready for Conventional War
Joe Ritter
Let the Commandant Lead the Marine Corps
Nicholas Hanson
The Bay of Bengal Could Be the Key to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Anu Anwar
Strange Debacle: Misadventures in Assessing Russian Military Power
Christopher Dougherty
In Denial About Denial: Why Ukraine’s Air Success Should Worry the West
Maximilian K. Bremer
and
Kelly A. Grieco
America Ignores Africa at Its Own Peril
Joe Bruhl
The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine
David Johnson
Sanctions and Satellites: The Space Industry After the Russo-Ukrainian War
Jeremy Grunert
The 2022 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Building a Regional, Right of Boom Cyber Defense Network
Graham Kennis
and
Lauren Zabierek
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens
Can Russia Rebuild Its Tech Sector with China’s Help?
Maria Shagina
and
Emily Kilcrease
Protecting American Investments in AI
Brian Drake
Would We Do Better? Hubris and Validation in Ukraine
David Johnson
A Reflection on How We Mark Memorial Day
John Amble
Recovering a Balance-of-Power Principle for the 21st Century
Andrew Ehrhardt
The Future of Western-Russian Civil-Space Cooperation
Jeremy Grunert
The Dubious Prospects for Cargo-Delivery Drones in Ukraine
Mark Jacobsen
Who Is to Blame for the Collapse of Afghanistan’s Security Forces?
Jonathan Schroden
The Changing Character of Combined Arms
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Strohmeyer
How Strong Is al-Qaeda? A Debate
Daniel Byman
and
Asfandyar Mir
Digital Transformation Is a Cultural Problem, Not a Technological One
Brandon Leshchinskiy
and
Andrew Bowne
From Iraq to Ukraine: A New Perspective on the Russian-Western Confrontation
Samuel Helfont
Building a Cyber Force Is Even Harder Than You Thought
Max Smeets
Too Fragile to Fight: Could the U.S. Military Withstand a War of Attrition?
Conrad Crane
A View From the Trenches on the Debate Wracking the Marine Corps
Stephen W. LaRose
The Psychology of Stickiness: What America Can Learn From Its Annexation of the Philippines in 1898
Aroop Mukharji
Dependency Issues: Solving the World’s Open-Source Software Security Problem
John Speed Meyers
,
Zack Newman
,
Tom Pike
, and
Jacqueline Kazil
How AI Would — and Wouldn’t — Factor Into a U.S.-Chinese War
Alex Stephenson
and
Ryan Fedasiuk
Beijing’s Ukrainian Battle Lab
David Finkelstein
Can the Riyadh Reshuffle Bring Peace to Yemen?
Alexandra Stark
Start with the Political: Explaining Russia’s Bungled Invasion of Ukraine
Jeffrey Edmonds
The Russo-Ukrainian War at Sea: Retrospect and Prospect
BJ Armstrong
The Tank Is Dead: Long Live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the … ?
David Johnson
What Artillery and Air Defense Does Ukraine Need Now?
Michael Jacobson
As Silicon Valley Tries to Enlist, the Pentagon Strangles Innovation
Steve Blank
New Tech, New Concepts: China’s Plans for AI and Cognitive Warfare
Koichiro Takagi
Supporting Ukraine for the Long War
Jack Watling
Of Roadside Bombs and Drones: Putin’s Looming Insurgency Problem
Scott Sweetow
Saving Central Asia from Putin’s Embrace
Gregory Gleason
Ukraine Shows Why Taiwan Needs More Air Defense
Harry Halem
and
Eyck Freymann
Reboot the Defense Innovation Ecosystem
Shands Pickett
A Mixed Bag: Putin’s Ukraine War and the Fight Against Europe’s Authoritarians
Mason Richey
Revisiting the Greek War of Independence While Ukraine Fights for Its Own
Marc Edward Hoffman
Leaderless, Cut Off, and Alone: The Risks to Taiwan in the Wake of Ukraine
Evan Braden Montgomery
and
Toshi Yoshihara
The Lessons of Reagan’s Pipeline Crisis for Competing with China
Nicholas Romanow
and
William Inboden
Keeping the Right Secrets Secret
Zack Cooper
,
Christopher Preble
, and
Emily Harding
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
Noel Williams
Is Russia’s Invasion a Case of Coercive Diplomacy Gone Wrong?
James Siebens
Oft Forgotten But Critical Elements of Ukrainian Resistance
Walter Haynes
China’s Plan for Digital Dominance
David Dorman
Will Russia Create New “People’s Republics” in Ukraine?
Andrew Lohsen
From Bombs to Bits: Air-to-Ground Operations as a Model for the Tactical Information Environment
Terry Traylor
and
David Nass
The Hard Power of Security Cooperation
E. John Teichert
Lessons from the First Time Russia Accused the United States of Biowarfare
Conrad Crane
The U.S. Military’s Force-Management Tug-of-War
Caitlin Lee
How Japan Can Help Save Taiwan: Securing the First Island Chain
Nozomu Yoshitomi
Understanding Putin’s Nuclear Decision-Making
Kristin Ven Bruusgaard
Gray Zone, Twilight Zone, or Danger Zone? Russian Cyber and Information Operations in Ukraine
Christopher Krebs
and
Robert Chesney
How Are Putin’s Far-Right Fans in the West Reacting to His War?
Stephanie Foggett
,
Mollie Saltskog
, and
Colin Clarke
Ukraine’s Lessons for Taiwan
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Putin’s Folly: A Case Study of an Inept Strategist
Joshua Rovner
Why Russian Cyber Dogs Have Mostly Failed to Bark
Jelena Vićić
and
Rupal N. Mehta
Preventing Cyber Escalation in Ukraine and After
Jason Healey
Waking a Sleeping Giant: What’s Next for German Security Policy?
Sophia Besch
and
Sarah Brockmeier
Known Knowns and Known Unknowns in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
William Inboden
,
Robert Chesney
,
Jeremi Suri
,
Sheena Greitens
,
Stephen Slick
,
Alexandra Sukalo
, and
Zoltán Fehér
The Dangerous Allure of the No-Fly Zone
Mike Pietrucha
and
Mike Benitez
China’s Strategic Assessment of Russia: More Complicated Than You Think
Yun Sun
From Waterloo to Pearl Harbor: How We Understand National Security Events
Joseph Caddell
Putin Loses No Matter How This Plays Out, But We Might Too
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
The War We Dread
Justin Lynch
and
Emma Morrison
‘A well-regulated Militia’: The Laws that Can Counter Domestic Terrorism
Barbara McQuade
Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Ryan Evans
Great-Power Competition Comes for Latin America
Adam Isacson
Moscow Musings on Brinksmanship from Stalin to Putin
Sergey Radchenko
Why France Failed in Mali
Nathaniel Powell
The Deadly Business of Dissent in Russia
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory?
Brian Petit
The Full Potential of a Military Metaverse
Jennifer McArdle
and
Caitlin Dohrman
Passports as Pretext: How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Could Start
Fabian Burkhardt
Renew Space Dialogue with China
Craig Kafura
For Humanity’s Sake, Keep Red Crosses on Medevac Helicopters
Robert Callahan
The Light Fighter Is the Air Force’s Manned-Unmanned Team Solution
Alex Biegalski
There Is No Cyber ‘Shock and Awe’: Plausible Threats in the Ukrainian Conflict
Lennart Maschmeyer
and
Nadiya Kostyuk
The Pentagon Is in Desperate Need of an Intervention From the Top
Dustin Walker
How Long Can Biden Muddle Through on China?
Joshua Rovner
Eliminating Sanctions On the Taliban Won’t Solve Afghanistan’s Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
Keith Preble
and
Bryan Early
Revisiting the Beginning of Boko Haram
Bulama Bukarti
How to Support a Globally Connected Counter-Disinformation Network
Kevin Sheives
Turn On the Light, Extinguish the Fire: Israel’s New Way of War
Eran Ortal
To Support Democracy in Myanmar, Engage with Ethnic Armed Organizations
Kaitlyn Robinson
New Missiles, New Risks: The Escalatory Implications of Iran’s Precision-Strike Weapons
Jim Lamson
Robert Jervis: A Remembrance
Rose McDermott
Preparing for Inevitable Cyber Surprise
Jason Healey
Spiking the Problem: Developing a Resilient Posture in the Indo-Pacific with Passive Defenses
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Winged Luddites: Aviators Are the Biggest Threat to Carrier Aviation
Noah Spataro
,
Trevor Phillips-Levine
, and
Andrew Tenbusch
What Is Russia’s Logic for the Current Crisis?
Maxim A. Suchkov
Reestablish the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group-Taiwan
Jake Yeager
and
William Gerichten
The Problems of Politics and Posture Are Baked into the System
Bryan McGrath
Taiwan and Six Potential New Year’s Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Jeffrey W. Hornung
France’s Shifting Relations with China
Pierre Morcos
Startups and the Defense Department’s Compliance Labyrinth
Daniel K. Lim
Is Team Biden Winning?
Francis J. Gavin
Are New and Emerging Technologies Game-Changers for Smaller Powers?
Gen. Michael Claesson
and
Zebulon Carlander
Strategic Ambiguity and the Risk of War with Russia over Ukraine
Ralph Clem
and
Ray Finch
The Empire of the Anti-Imperialist: Dealing with Nicaragua’s Ortega
Tiziano Breda
and
Ivan Briscoe
The Berlin Crisis, Ukraine, and the 5 Percent Problem
Sergey Radchenko
Accidents and Escalation in a Cyber Age
Andrew A. Szarejko
and
John Arquilla
The Changing Face of Russian Counter-Irregular Warfare
Benjamin Arbitter
and
Kurt Carlson
The Air Force Isn’t Doing Information Technology Right
Don Lewis
Cyber Challenges for the New National Defense Strategy
Erica Lonergan
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
More than Math: Toward a Better Strategy for Advanced Analytics
James “Mike” Blue
,
Anthony Smith
, and
Colleen McCue
Embrace the Arms Race in Asia
Julian Spencer-Churchill
The U.S. Navy’s Plans for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Leave Too Much Unexplained
Gregory V. Cox
Left of Beep: The United States Needs an Algorithmic Warfare Group
August Cole
Why Restraint in the Real World Encourages Digital Espionage
Joshua Rovner
What Would a Post-Erdoğan Turkish Foreign Policy Look Like?
M. Hasim Tekines
‘Never Thought They Could Pull Off Such an Attack’: Prejudice and Pearl Harbor
Caesar Nafrada
and
Joseph Caddell
Is America Still Born to Rule the Seas?
Claude Berube
The Counter-Intuitive Sensibility of Taiwan’s New Defense Strategy
Raymond Kuo
The 2021 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Getting to ‘No’ With Iran
Eric Brewer
and
Henry Rome
Facing Up to Foreign Influence: How Outsiders Helped Create Lebanon’s Current Crisis
Nicholas Noe
Brutally Ineffective: How the Taliban Are Failing in Their New Role as Counter-Insurgents
Colin Clarke
and
Jonathan Schroden
Think Tanks and American Interventionism
Chad Levinson
Japan’s Revolution on Taiwan Affairs
Ryan Ashley
Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics and the Fait Accompli
Alex Vershinin
War by Timeframe: Responding to China’s Pacing Challenge
Michael Horowitz
Why Cyber War Is Subversive, and How that Limits its Strategic Value
Lennart Maschmeyer
Grenada, the Evacuation of Afghanistan, and the Future of War
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria’s Worsening Bandit Crisis
James Barnett
and
Murtala Rufai
Lessons from the Littoral Combat Ship
Emma Salisbury
To Tackle Instability and Conflict, It’s Time to Elevate Hunger as a National Security Priority
Kelly McFarland
and
Alistair Somerville
How Technology Changes Arms Control
Jane Vaynman
and
Doyle Hodges
The Haqqani Network: The New Kingmakers in Kabul
Jeff M. Smith
Mexican Cartels Are Embracing Aerial Drones and They’re Spreading
Robert J. Bunker
and
John P. Sullivan
Biological Weapons in the ‘Shadow War’
Glenn Cross
Prospects for Sino-Russian Coordination in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Wishnick
U.S. Policy Toward Myanmar’s Military Junta
Zachary Abuza
Unleashing the U.S. Military’s Thinking about Cyber Power
M.A. Thomas
Turning Ghosts into Humans: Surveillance as an Instrument of Social Engineering in Xinjiang
Michael Clarke
The Once and Future Defeat in Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin
‘Lightning Carriers’ Could Be Lightweights in an Asian War
Olli Pekka Suorsa
and
John F. Bradford
China’s Hypersonic Weapons Tests Don’t Have to Be a Sputnik Moment
Sanne Verschuren
The United States Left Afghanistan to Prepare for a War It Will Probably Never Fight
Jacob Ware
Ending America’s Diplomacy-Last Syria Policy
Adham Sahloul
India Is Not Sitting on the Geopolitical Fence
Tanvi Madan
Reconsidering U.S. Decision-Making Within NATO After the Fall of Kabul
Andrew Radin
China Flaunts Its Offensive Cyber Power
J.D. Work
How Innovation Dies: The Case of RATE
Jeff Schneider
Can’t Sail Away from Cyber Attacks: ‘Sea-Hacking’ from Land
Chris C. Demchak
and
Michael L. Thomas
The Taliban Can’t Take on the Islamic State Alone
Amira Jadoon
and
Andrew Mines
Schrodinger’s Military? Challenges for China’s Military Modernization Ambitions
Ben Noon
and
Chris Bassler
Killing Terrorist Leaders Is No Silver Bullet
Colin Clarke
The Scylla and Charybdis of Duty Discharge: Military Dilemma with Undemocratic Leaders
Manaswini Ramkumar
Wanna Fight? Pushing Partners Aside in Afghanistan
Kyle Atwell
and
Paul Bailey
Making Sense of SADAT, Turkey’s Private Military Company
Matt Powers
Japan’s Authorities in a Taiwan Contingency: Providing Needed Clarity
Mirna Galic
The American Deconfliction Disadvantage: Ankara’s Drone Campaign in Syria and Iraq
Aaron Stein
The Sorry State of Czech-Russian Relations
Ondrej Ditrych
Trust is at the Heart of Australia’s Influence
Malcolm Turnbull
The Bahamas: A Close but Unfamiliar U.S. Partner
John Mohr
The U.S.-Australian Alliance Needs a Strategy to Deter China’s Gray-Zone Coercion
Ashley Townshend
,
Thomas Lonergan
, and
Toby Warden
Don’t Count Your Submarines Before They’re Built
Erik Sand
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Defense Strategy
Thomas Spoehr
,
Bradley Bowman
,
Bryan Clark
, and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Senate Commission to Fix Defense Budgeting Is Right on the Mark
John Whitley
and
Gregory Pejic
A Deterrence by Denial Strategy for Addressing Biological Weapons
Christine Parthemore
and
Andy Weber
The Biden Administration Needs to Act Fast to Reset Relations with France
Max Bergmann
What Losing Looks Like: Afghanistan’s ‘Hardest Place’
Gil Barndollar
Defending Democracy – Inside the Senate Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
Emily Harding
Could Multinational Peacekeepers Prevent Worst-Case Outcomes in Afghanistan?
Ryan C. Van Wie
Working with the Devil? The Potential for U.S.-Taliban Cooperation Against the Islamic State in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
and
Alexander Powell
Misaligned in Mesopotamia: Conflicting Ambitions in NATO Mission Iraq
Peter Dahl Thruelsen
A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-in and South Korea’s Military Buildup
Lami Kim
Forward to the Past? Weigh Covert Options in Afghanistan Carefully
Thomas Waldman
and
Rory Cormac
Avoiding a Collision Course With India
Sameer Lalwani
and
Tyler Sagerstrom
9/11 in Islamabad: The First 72 Hours
David O. Smith
Japan’s Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Jeffrey W. Hornung
and
Scott W. Harold
Zapad-2021: What to Expect From Russia’s Strategic Military Exercise
Michael Kofman
A Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategy for the 21st Century
Al Mauroni
,
Zachary Kallenborn
,
Seth Carus
, and
Ron Fizer
There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think
William Hitchcock
and
Meghan Herwig
Red Sea Drones: How to Counter Houthi Maritime Tactics
Håvard Haugstvedt
How the Taliban Exploited Afghanistan’s Human Geography
Alec Worsnop
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Frank Hoffman
and
Andrew Orner
The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Doug Berenson
Ten Things the United States Should Do to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel
Michael Shurkin
and
Aneliese Bernard
Iran’s Bet on Autonomous Weapons
Evan Omeed Lisman
China Takes on Its Tech Leaders
Fergus Ryan
Soldiers of Fortune: Why U.S. Mercenaries Should Not Be Legal
Will Mackie
The Right Way to Structure Cyber Diplomacy
Natalie Thompson
and
Laura Bate
Terrorism in South Asia After the Fall of Afghanistan
Kabir Taneja
and
Mohammed Sinan Siyech
From Forever Wars to Great-Power Wars: Lessons Learned From Operation Inherent Resolve
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
and
Becca Wasser
Authoritarianism and Resistance in Myanmar
Zachary Abuza
Build a More Effective Cyber Force, Not More Bureaucracy
Jason Blessing
Crowded Skies and Turbulent Seas: Assessing the Full Scope of NATO-Russian Military Incidents
Ralph Clem
and
Ray Finch
From Desert Storm to Inherent Resolve: The Evolution of Airpower
Becca Wasser
and
Stacie L. Pettyjohn
A Thorough Explanation of China’s Long-Term Strategy
Peter Mattis
Mind the Gap: How China’s Civilian Shipping Could Enable a Taiwan Invasion
Thomas Shugart
Syria, Airpower, and the Future of Great-Power War
Aaron Stein
and
Ryan Fishel
The Militant Drone Playbook
Austin C. Doctor
and
James Igoe Walsh
It’s Time for the Army to Embrace Telework
Matt Fitzgerald
and
Jay Long
Conventional-Nuclear Integration: Avoiding Misconceptions and Mistakes
Gregory Giles
‘Bin Ladin Determined To Strike’
WOTR Staff
Cheese Bells and Foreign Fighting
Thomas Hegghammer
Warning Signs: Qassem Musleh and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces
Nancy Ezzeddine
and
Erwin van Veen
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Francis J. Gavin
Twitter Will Not Steward the Profession
Theo Lipsky
The American Revolution, Naval Power, and the 21st Century
BJ Armstrong
The Problem with Biden’s Democracy Agenda
Robert Manning
and
Mathew Burrows
Foreign Policy Should Be Evidence-Based
Dan Spokojny
and
Thomas Scherer
Ambiguity Is a Fact, Not a Policy
Joshua Rovner
July 22: A Pivotal Day in Terrorism History
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
A Peacetime Army Goes to War
Aaron Edwards
The Information Technology Counter-Revolution: Cheap, Disposable, and Decentralized
Jacquelyn Schneider
and
Julia Macdonald
America’s Strategy in Oceania: Time for a Better Approach
Jennifer D.P. Moroney
and
Alan Tidwell
Education Against Extremism: Suggestions for a Smarter Stand-Down
Carrie Lee
and
Celestino Perez, Jr.
Did Sino-American Relations Have to Deteriorate? A Better Way of Doing Counterfactual Thought Experiments
J. Peter Scoblic
,
Christopher Karvetski
, and
Philip E. Tetlock
Secrets Alone Won’t Save Us: Providing ‘Decision Advantage’ on Climate Security
Erin Sikorsky
Sailors, Sailors Everywhere and not a Berth to Sleep: The Illusion of Forward Posture in the Western Pacific
Graham Jenkins
Overcoming the Diego Garcia Stalemate
Chirayu Thakkar
An Urgent NATO Priority: Preparing to Protect Civilians
Victoria Holt
and
Marla Keenan
The 2021 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Another “Crisis” in Civil-Military Relations?
Andrew Radin
and
Thomas Szayna
Orphans at the Ready: Toward the Unification of Joint Enablers
Sean Jenkins
,
John Michael
, and
M.C. Farrington
New Tools to Create Time and Information: “Building the Bike While We Ride It”
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck
Warbots: Tactically Brilliant, Strategically Naive
Emma Salisbury
Freedom of Navigation Operations: A Mission for Unmanned Systems
Trevor Prouty
To Build Joint Command and Control, First Break Joint Command and Control
Leland Cowie
,
Todd Graff
,
Craig Cude
, and
Brad DeWees
Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Christopher Dougherty
As Allies Design Fighter Aircraft, the United States Faces a Decision
Brian Burton
Interpreters on the Run: Baghdad Underground Railroad
Tammy S. Schultz
and
Noah Ramsey
Hellfires Wanted: It’s Time to Start Tasking Armed Drones as Combat Aircraft
Joe Ritter
Europe Eyes the Indo-Pacific, But Now It’s Time to Act
Veerle Nouwens
and
Garima Mohan
Don’t Base U.S. Forces in Central Asia
Cyrus Newlin
and
Jeffrey Mankoff
Assessing the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism
Colin Clarke
and
Mollie Saltskog
The “Peaceful Use” of Outer Space?
Jeremy Grunert
A State Department for the Digital Age
Ferial Ara Saeed
Defeat Is Possible
Edward Geist
Look to the 1980s to Inform the Fleet of Today
Rep. Elaine Luria
Say Hello to Turkey’s Little Friend: How Drones Help Level the Playing Field
Aaron Stein
The Biden-Putin Summit: Nothing to Reset but Expectations
Matthew Rojansky
NATO Should Finally Take its Values Seriously
Rachel Ellehuus
and
Pierre Morcos
The Origin of COVID-19 and Preventing the Next Pandemic
Amanda Moodie
and
Nicholas Evans
A French Opinion on the Ethics of Autonomous Weapons
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
The Political Economy of Ransomware
Jenny Jun
AI and Synthetic Biology Are Critical to Future U.S. Competitiveness
Robert Work
A U.S. Security Strategy for the Arctic
David Auerswald
What Will Britain’s New Cyber Force Actually Do?
Joe Devanny
and
Tim Stevens
More Than a Buzzword: Diversity Can Help Defeat Disinformation
Maggie Smith
Missile Defense Is Not a Substitute for Arms Control
John Tierney
and
Samuel M. Hickey
Managed Risks, Managed Expectations: How Far Will Targeted Killing Get the United States in Afghanistan?
Bryce Loidolt
Cyber Security as Counter-Terrorism: Seeking a Better Debate
Simon Handler
,
Emma Schroeder
, and
Trey Herr
Expanding the Scope for Statecraft in U.S. Russia Policy
Samuel Charap
When the Chips Are Down: Policy Priorities for Sustaining U.S. Semiconductor Leadership
Jeffrey D. Bean
and
Stephen Ezell
How China Views the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Yun Sun
Ending the Endless Wars: A Strategy for Selective Disengagement
Monica Duffy Toft
Oh My, AI
Eric Schmidt
,
Robert Work
, and
Ryan Evans
Open Letter in Support of Free Inquiry and Discussion
WOTR Staff
Trading One Dependency for Another
Nadia Schadlow
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
Abhijit Singh
Conflicts in Wargames: Leveraging Disagreements to Build Value
Thomas Nagle
The Department of Defense’s Looming AI Winter
Marc Losito
and
John Anderson
Jordan: Still Stable, but Less So
Joshua Krasna
Strategic Predictability: Landpower in the Indo-Pacific
Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn
and
Lt. Gen. Laura Potter
The Eagle and the Dragon in Africa: Comparing Data on Chinese and American Influence
George Ward
,
Eric Kiss
, and
Pat Savage
Leaving Afghanistan Will Make America Less Safe
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
Why the United States Needs an Independent Cyber Force
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Back to the Future: Getting Special Forces Ready for Great-Power Competition
Barnett S. Koven
and
Chris Mason
The United Kingdom’s New Vision of Cyber Power
Danny Steed
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
Remove a Sanctions Cloud from U.S.-Indian Relations
Kenneth I. Juster
Biden and the Western Balkans
Vuk Vuksanovic
The Sino-American Race for Technology Leadership
Ferial Ara Saeed
Into Thin Air: Aviation Security Force Assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Tobias Switzer
To Survive, Deceive: Decoys in Land Warfare
Rémy Hémez
Propaganda at a Capitol Checkpoint: A Faked Antisemitic Text Resurfaces
Emily Blout
New Normal in Sino-Indian Ties
Chietigj Bajpaee
Great Power Cyber Party
Dmitri Alperovitch
,
Erica Borghard
,
Jason Healey
, and
Ryan Evans
Britain’s New Strategic Outlook: The View from Washington
Ryan Evans
Digital Identity Is a National Security Issue
Patrick Hearn
Restoring Nuclear Bipartisanship: Force Modernization and Arms Control
John D. Maurer
Strategy in the Artificial Age: Observations From Teaching an AI to Write a U.S. National Security Strategy
Elena Wicker
Foreign Fighters and the Trajectory of Violence in Northern Mozambique
Emilia Columbo
and
Austin C. Doctor
Turkey’s Talk Show Nationalists
Ryan Gingeras
China’s Shifting Attitude on the Indo-Pacific Quad
Joel Wuthnow
U.K. Nuclear Weapons: Beyond the Numbers
Heather Williams
Mutual Suspicion, Mutual Threats: Getting Japan and South Korea to Work Together
Andrew Park
and
Elliot Silverberg
How Franco-Australian Cooperation Can Help Stabilize the Indo-Pacific
Pierre Morcos
A Future Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet?
Christopher K. Colley
Somalia’s Electoral Crisis in Extremis
Peter Kirechu
The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint for the Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need
C. Lee Shea
National Security Needs Both Futurists and Traditionalists
Zachary Kallenborn
Getting the Defense Department Off the Hamster Wheel: Reducing Operating Costs to Invest in the Future of the Force
Doug Berenson
Listen to America’s Top Commander in the Indo-Pacific and Fund the Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Mark Montgomery
and
Bradley Bowman
Counter-Terrorism Hangover or Legal Obligation? The Requirement to Protect Civilians in War
Sahr Muhammedally
Strategizing to Exit Afghanistan: From Risk Avoidance to Risk Management
Sameer Lalwani
What to Expect When You’re Expecting NATO in Iraq
Paolo Napolitano
Reconsidering Arms Control Orthodoxy
Naomi Egel
and
Jane Vaynman
How the Defense Department Can Move from Abstraction to Action on Climate Change
Samuel Brannen
,
Sarah Ladislaw
, and
Lachlan Carey
All About EVE: What Virtual Forever Wars Can Teach Us About the Future of Combat
Thomas Shugart
When It Comes to Strategy, People Are Everything
Morgan Plummer
Steering in the Right Direction in the Military-Technical Revolution
Robert Work
,
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
, and
Stephanie O’Sullivan
Beyond Colossus or Collapse: Five Myths Driving American Debates about China
Evan S. Medeiros
and
Jude Blanchette
Showing Up is Half the Battle: U.S. Maritime Forces in the Indian Ocean
Darshana M. Baruah
Simulating War: Three Enduring Lessons from the Louisiana Maneuvers
Jennifer McArdle
Warfighting in Cyberspace
Joshua Rovner
Humility in American Grand Strategy
Mathew Burrows
and
Robert Manning
The Mythical War Scare of 1983
Simon Miles
Enforcing Sanctions on North Korea Is an Opportunity for Cooperation at Sea
Artem Sherbinin
Helping Humans and Computers Fight Together: Military Lessons from Civilian AI
Marianne Bellotti
A Blueprint for the Department of Defense’s Strategic Assessment of Climate Change
Kate Guy
and
Erin Sikorsky
The Marine Corps Under the Nuclear Shadow: A Great-Power Problem
Nathan Fleischaker
and
Shawna Sinnott
On the Digital Brink
Chris Lynch
and
Oliver Lewis
Predictable Unpredictability? U.S. Arctic Strategy and Ways of Doing Business in the Region
Katarzyna Zysk
Conspiracy Stand Down: How Extremist Theories Like QAnon Threaten the Military and What to Do About It
Christina Bembenek
Three’s Company? Prioritizing Trilateral Deterrence Against North Korea
Shane Smith
and
Brad Glosserman
The United States and Japan Still Benefit From Complementary Maritime Capabilities
Jim Hartman
Whispers from Wargames About the Gray Zone
Robert C. Rubel
Advantage At Sea Requires Rethinking Influence
Erika De La Parra Gehlen
and
Frank L. Smith III
Five Reasons Not to Split Cyber Command from the NSA Any Time Soon – If Ever
Chris C. Demchak
ARIA to Progress? The British Advanced Research and Invention Agency Should Learn More from Defense
Emma Salisbury
Restraint, Not Superiority, in Space
Aaron Bateman
Economics, National Security, and the Competition with China
George Magnus
Trust and Tech: AI Education in The Military
Joe Chapa
Can the United States Prevent a War over Taiwan?
Robert D. Blackwill
and
Philip Zelikow
Navigating the Shoals of Renewed American Naval Power: Imperatives for the Next Secretary of the Navy
Bryan Durkee
and
Chris Bassler
America Can’t Ignore the Next Indo-Pakistani Crisis
Sameer Lalwani
Chemical Weapons and the Hierarchy of Victims
Doreen Horschig
and
Güneş Murat Tezcür
The Mysterious Origins of the Secretary of Defense ‘Exclusion’ Clause: Truman, Hoffman, and the Chowder Marines
Paula Thornhill
Al-Qaeda Is Being Hollowed to Its Core
Barak Mendelsohn
and
Colin Clarke
The Burning City Upon a Hill
Hilde Eliassen Restad
Sole Purpose Is Not No First Use: Nuclear Weapons and Declaratory Policy
Ankit Panda
and
Vipin Narang
Risky Encounters with Russia: Time to Talk About Real Deconfliction
Ralph Clem
Unfurl the Banner! Privateers and Commerce Raiding of China’s Merchant Fleet in Developing Markets
Christopher D. Booth
and
Walker D. Mills
Is the Department of Defense Making Enough Progress in Wargaming?
Yuna Huh Wong
and
Garrett Heath
Reconsidering al-Qaeda-Iranian Cooperation
Bryce Loidolt
Setting a Course Away from the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Garrett Hinck
and
Pranay Vaddi
The Failure of Jihadi Conflict Resolution
Tore Hamming
South Korea, Conventional Capabilities, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
Ian Bowers
and
Henrik Hiim
Between Seoul and Sole Purpose: How the Biden Administration Could Assure South Korea and Adapt Nuclear Posture
Toby Dalton
Thoughts on the Unfolding U.S.-Chinese Competition: Washington’s Policy Towards Beijing Enters Its Next Phase
Eric Sayers
A Better Bureaucracy Can Close the Gap Between Defense and Commercial Technology
Joe Felter
,
Raj Shah
, and
Steve Blank
The United States and Japan Should Prepare for War with China
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Primacy Anxiety
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Kill the Homothetic Army: Gen. Guy Hubin’s Vision of the Future Battlefield
Michael Shurkin
The Cyber Maritime Environment: A Shared Critical Infrastructure and Trump’s Maritime Cyber Security Plan
Nina Kollars
,
Sam J. Tangredi
, and
Chris C. Demchak
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter: Wargaming the Role of Law in War
Thomas J. Gordon IV
,
Adam Oler
,
Laurie Blank
, and
Jill Goldenziel
After Cienfuegos, Criminal Cross-Border Collaboration Continues; Governmental Collaboration Suffers
Cecilia Farfán-Méndez
The Arctic Threat That Must Not be Named
Sharon E. Burke
A World Divided: The Conflict with Chinese Techno-Nationalism Isn’t Coming – It’s Already Here
James Mulvenon
Selective Disclosure: How to Inject Strategy into U.S. Capability Development
Thomas G. Mahnken
A Lower Bar for the Cyber Czar
Joshua Rovner
Practical Challenges and Hybrid Hypocrisy: Legal and Policy Dilemmas with the Hybrid Moniker
Erica Gaston
To Rule the Invisible Battlefield: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Chinese Military Power
Shanshan Mei
The Lessons of the Past Point to Rejoining the Iran Deal
Nicholas L. Miller
The Faultline Between Futurists and Traditionalists in National Security
John Speed Meyers
and
David Jackson
What’s in a Name? Reimagining Irregular Warfare Activities for Competition
Kevin Bilms
The Post-Conflict Colombian Military Looks for a Development Role
Andrew Ivey
The U.S. Defense Industry in a New Era
Doug Berenson
,
Chris Higgins
, and
Jim Tinsley
Making Friends in Maker-Spaces: From Grassroots Innovation to Great-Power Competition
Leo Blanken
,
Romulo G. Dimayuga II
, and
Kristen Tsolis
Profiteers, Vultures, and the Defeat of the U.N. Embargo on Libya
Peter Kirechu
Guantánamo’s Unhappy Birthday
Benjamin R. Farley
Confidence and Catastrophe: Armenia and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Michael A. Reynolds
Machine Learning and Life-and-Death Decisions on the Battlefield
Brad DeWees
,
Chris Umphres
, and
Maddy Tung
The Regime: How Arms Control Treaties Keep Us Safe
Amb. (ret.) Bonnie Jenkins
,
Marigny Kirschke-Schwartz
, and
James Paul Pope
The Pendulum: How Russia Sways Its Way to More Influence in Libya
Jalel Harchaoui
A Cyber Opportunity: Priorities for the First National Cyber Director
Mark Montgomery
and
Robert Morgus
A Grand Strategy Based on Resilience
Erica Borghard
The Nashville Bombing and Threats to Critical Infrastructure: We Saw This Coming
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Convoy Escort: The Navy’s Forgotten (Purpose) Mission
David Alman
The Modern Shetland Bus: The Lure of Covert Maritime Vessels for Great-Power Competition
Christopher D. Booth
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
Bringing the Army to Innovation
Jeff Decker
and
Mrinal Menon
Brahmaputra: A Conflict-Prone River Takes a Step Backwards
Joel Wuthnow
,
Satu Limaye
, and
Nilanthi Samaranayake
How to Deal With the Nuclear Skeletons in Iran’s Closet
Eric Brewer
How the Army Out-Innovated the Islamic State’s Drones
Kyle Brown
,
Jonathan Askonas
, and
T.S. Allen
Thinking in (Napoleonic) Times: Historical Warnings for an Era of Great-Power Competition
Alexandra Evans
A Bargain Worth Making? Bukele and the Gangs of El Salvador
Ivan Briscoe
and
Tiziano Breda
The President’s Science Advisor Should Be a Full Member of the National Security Council and Its Principals Committee
Christopher Chyba
and
Ethan Magistro
Crypto-Controls: Harnessing Cryptocurrency to Strengthen Sanctions
Adam Myers
,
William Szymanski
,
Daniel Jackson
,
Ellen Wynkoop
,
Pete Heine
,
Tyler Hoffman
, and
Bri Mostoller
The New Great Game at Sea
Geoffrey F. Gresh
Instructors Wanted, Apply Within: Why the Air Force Is Failing to Change Its Culture and What to Do About It
Bradley Podliska
and
Donnie Hodges
Myths or Moving Targets? Continuity and Change in China’s Nuclear Forces
Austin Long
The Next SIMNET? Unlocking the Future of Military Readiness Through Synthetic Environments
Jennifer McArdle
and
Caitlin Dohrman
Competition for the Generations: A Father and Daughter Reflect on U.S. Fights from Beirut to Baghdad
Jim Breckenridge
and
Katie Breckenridge Crombe
Compartmentalizing the American Alliance with Israel from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Abe Silberstein
and
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
Paralysis in Peer Conflict? The Material Versus the Mental in 100 Years of Military Thinking
Heather Venable
2020 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The Next National Defense Strategy
Benjamin Jensen
and
Nathan Packard
Biden Is Kim’s to Lose
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Winning the AI Revolution for American Diplomacy
Ryan Dukeman
Balancing China at the United Nations
Henrik B. L. Larsen
History Shows U.S. Nuclear Restraint Is a One-Way Street
Michaela Dodge
More Space Wargames, Please
Shane Bilsborough
The Paradox of Precision: Nonstate Actors and Precision-Guided Weapons
Itamar Lifshitz
and
Ayal Meents
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
Make Good Choices! National Security Transitions and the Policy and Process Decisions
Loren DeJonge Schulman
and
Alex Tippett
Arms Control and Great-Power Politics
Timothy Crawford
and
Khang X. Vu
Moving Beyond Total Force: Building a True Strategic Reserve
Jacquelyn Schneider
The Last Jihadi Superstar
Thomas Hegghammer
What the Abraham Accords Reveal About the United Arab Emirates
Elham Fakhro
Executive Airlift’s Contributions to National Security
Mike Knapp
Retooling U.S. Security Sector Assistance
Stephen Tankel
and
Tommy Ross
Should the Military Protect the Election?
Joshua Rovner
Make Russia Sanctions Effective Again
Edward Fishman
Climate Change as an Unconventional Security Risk
Cullen Hendrix
Teaching the Japanese American Internment at West Point
Stephanie Hinnershitz
Intervention: Exploring Cyber Conflict and Competition
Robert Chesney
and
Max Smeets
How Russia Views Afghanistan Today
Nurlan Aliyev
Weaponized Tweets: AI Could Help Defend Against Adversary Attacks in Social Media
Shelley Cazares
,
Jenny Holzer
, and
Emily Parrish
For Baltic Defense, Forget the ‘Forest Brothers’
Kevin Blachford
and
Ronald Ti
China’s Economic Statecraft in Europe During the Pandemic
John R. Deni
and
Jake Shatzer
How to Manage the Threat of Foreign Election Interference
Dov H. Levin
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
Trust Algorithms? The Army Doesn’t Even Trust Its Own AI Developers
Jim Perkins
It’s Time for the Pentagon to Take Data Principles More Seriously
Robert Work
and
Tara Murphy Dougherty
Inside Job: The Challenge of Foreign Online Influence in U.S. Elections
Timothy Frye
The Still-Growing Threat of Iran’s Chosen Proxy in Iraq
Hamdi Malik
A Solarium for Presidential Transition Teams
Benjamin Jensen
and
Mark Montgomery
Falling into the Adaptation Gap
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Making the U.S. Military’s Counter-Terrorism Mission Sustainable
Stephen Tankel
How Curbing Reliance on Fossil Fuels Will Change the World
Philip H. Gordon
It Will Take More Than a Biden Victory to Solve NATO’s Strategic Malaise
Sara Bjerg Moller
The Abiding Relevance of ‘Heart of Darkness’ for Those Who Wage War
William Bray
Defense Innovation Is Falling Short
Christopher Zember
and
Peter Khooshabeh
Space Force Creation Warrants Revisiting Defense Unification
James W. E. Smith
A Chance for Peace? The Impact of the Juba Peace Deal on Sudan’s Fragile Transition
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin
Cyber Competition and Nonstate Actors in a Data-Rich World
Nina Kollars
The Dangerous Myths About China’s Nuclear Weapons
David Logan
A New Look at Iran’s Complicated Relationship with the Taliban
Barnett Rubin
The F-35 Triangle: America, Israel, the United Arab Emirates
Barbara A. Leaf
and
Dana Stroul
Bending the Principle of Mass: Why That Approach No Longer Works for Airpower
David Alman
and
Heather Venable
More Aggressive and Less Ambitious: Cyber Command’s Evolving Approach
Joshua Rovner
Many Black World War II Veterans Were Denied Their GI Bill Benefits. Time to Fix That.
Robert Levinson
‘Negative Peace’? China’s Approach to the Middle East
Guy Burton
When Americans Marched to Mexico City
Mitchell G. Klingenberg
Making a U.S. Digital Service Academy Work
Harrison Schramm
and
Todd Lyons
The Gulf War 30 Years Later: Successes, Failures, and Blind Spots
Richard A. Lacquement, Jr.
Agility Boom: Fueling Innovation and the Air Force’s Blunt Layer
Mike Benitez
Beyond the North Warning System
Andrea Charron
The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
NATO’s Never-Ending Struggle for Relevance
James Goldgeier
and
Garret Martin
Yet Another Article about Information Technology and the Character of War
Justin Lynch
There’s No Containment Strategy for Climate Change
Sharon E. Burke
Opening Up New Avenues to Understanding the Path to War in Iraq
Joseph Stieb
Capturing Flags and Recruiting Future Cyber Soldiers
Samuel Crislip
The United Arab Emirates and Israel Just Came Clean on Their Extra-Marital Affair
Gilead Sher
and
Yoel Guzansky
Belgrade’s New Game: Scapegoating Russia and Courting Europe
Vuk Vuksanovic
Subtweets Are Partisan Too: Why Retired Generals Can’t Avoid the Parties
Luke J. Schumacher
Civil-Military Lessons from Latin America
David Pion-Berlin
and
Andrew Ivey
Pulling Back the Curtain on Turkey’s Natural Gas Strategy
John V. Bowlus
Spying on the Nazi and Soviet Bombs
Timothy McDonnell
It’s Fun to Stay in the JCPOA
Nina Jancowicz
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
How America’s Experience with Pakistan Can Help it Deal with Turkey
Aaron Stein
and
Robert Hamilton
Brent Scowcroft and American Military Intervention
Philip Zelikow
Don’t Just Copy and Paste: A Better Model For Managing Military Technologists
Richard Kuzma
,
James Long
, and
Jim Perkins
Blame It on the Blob? How to Evaluate American Grand Strategy
Francis J. Gavin
The Measure of a Country: America’s Wonkiest Competition with China
William Morrissey
and
John Givens
When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare
Christopher D. Booth
The Battle for Mon Cala: Getting the Military to Deliver Its Own Tech Solutions
Maj. Gen. Matthew G. Glavy
and
Brett Goldstein
Beyond TikTok: Preparing for Future Digital Threats
Kara Frederick
,
Chris Estep
, and
Megan Lamberth
The Looming Influx of Foreign Fighters in Sub-Saharan Africa
Austin C. Doctor
The Great Fishing Competition
Lisa McKinnon Munde
Strategic Suspense: British Foreign and Defense Policy at a Crossroads
Alice Pannier
Russia and China Playing Musical Chairs in Zero Gravity
Jeffrey Edmonds
Hack-and-Leak Operations and U.S. Cyber Policy
James Shires
Democracy’s Squad: India’s Change of Heart and the Future of the Quad
Jeff M. Smith
The Resilience of Sino-Russian High-Tech Cooperation
Samuel Bendett
and
Elsa Kania
A New Strategic Song? ANZUS, the 2020 Australian Defence Update, and Redefining Self-Reliance
Peter J. Dean
Managing the Sino-American Dispute Over Missile Defense
Tong Zhao
Peering into the Future of Sino-Russian Cyber Security Cooperation
Adam Segal
The Prospects of a China-Iran Axis
Amos Yadlin
and
Ari Heistein
The Emperors League: Understanding Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation
Michael Kofman
Navigating Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
,
David Shullman
, and
Dan McCormick
Distilling the Essence of Strategy
Frank Hoffman
How Can We Know if Professional Military Education Works?
Megan J. Hennessey
A British Advanced Research Projects Agency?
Emma Salisbury
People Win Wars: The PLA Enlisted Force, and Other Related Matters
Shanshan Mei
and
Dennis J. Blasko
America Can Protect Its Satellites Without Kinetic Space Weapons
Aaron Bateman
Ten Suggestions for a ‘Russia Strategy’ for the United Kingdom
Mark Galeotti
Contending with Turkey’s Islamic State Returnees
Berkay Mandıracı
and
Nigar Göksel
Generals Shouldn’t be Welcome at These Parties: Stopping Retired Flag Officer Endorsements
Heidi Urben
Commanders Need to Know Innovative Acquisition
Garrett J. Custons
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
Stamps and Spies: The CIA’s Involvement in Postage Design
Matin Modarressi
Has Trump Driven China and Iran Together?
Philip H. Gordon
Rethinking the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Fleet
Angus Ross
“For Our Enemies, We Have Shotguns”: Explaining China’s New Assertiveness
Andrew Small
and
Dhruva Jaishankar
The Risks of Australia’s Solo Deterrence Wager
Van Jackson
Setting the Records Straight in Iraq
Michael P. Brill
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
Saving Space from ‘Star Wars’-Style Misperceptions
Charles Powell
Indonesia’s Stake in Australia’s New Strategic Update
Greta Nabbs-Keller
Read Before Pontificating on Quantum Technology
Michael J. Biercuk
Why NATO Should Adopt a Tactical Readiness Initiative
Josh Campbell
Revelations and Opportunities: What the United States Can Learn from the Sino-Indian Crisis
Sameer Lalwani
The European Union’s Shot at Redemption in the Balkans
Austin Doehler
COVID-19 and U.S. Global Leadership
Zack Cooper
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
Trump’s Nuclear Test Would Risk Everything to Gain Nothing
Justin Key Canfil
Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish: The Iranian Coup of 1953
Gregory Brew
The Room Where Not Much Happened
Robert Jervis
What Should Come After Trump’s Failed China Policy?
Philip H. Gordon
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
Why You Can’t Call in an Air Strike with an iPhone
Jonathan Wong
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism
Iskander Rehman
The Humble Task of Implementation is the Key to AI Dominance
Matthew Cook
New Sanctions on Assad Aim to Prevent Atrocities
David Adesnik
The 100-Ship Navy
Jonathan Panter
,
Anand Jantzen
, and
Johnathan Falcone
Never Truly Forgotten: The Lethal Legacy of the Korean War
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
American Success Abroad is Anchored to Problem-Solving at Home
Abraham Denmark
and
Matthew Rojansky
Is the United States Losing the African Space Race?
Judd Devermont
and
Temidayo Oniosun
Corona and Bioterrorism: How Serious Is the Threat?
Marc-Michael Blum
and
Peter Neumann
Revelations about Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Policy
Cynthia Roberts
Annexing the West Bank Would Compromise Israel’s Security and Core Values
Tami Yakira
and
Gilead Sher
Is Veterans’ Preference Bad for the National Security Workforce?
Frances Tilney Burke
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
Stay Out of the Regime Change Business
Benjamin Denison
The Bothersome Problem of China in the Anglo-American Alliance
Oliver Yule-Smith
NATO Needs a Coherent Approach to Defending its Eastern Flank
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ben Hodges
,
Janusz Bugajski
,
Ray Wojcik
, and
Carsten Schmiedl
The Chip Wars of the 21st Century
Steve Blank
Washington Needs a Bold Rethink of Its China Strategy
Nathan Packard
and
Benjamin Jensen
You Can Teach a Marine Deterrence: Understanding Coercion Requires Changing PME
Benjamin Jensen
and
Matthew Van Echo
On the Path to Intellectual Overmatch
Adam Oler
China, All the Way to New York
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Has the United States Abandoned Arms Control?
Joshua Rovner
May Madness: Competitive Wargaming in a Pandemic
Thomas J. Gordon IV
,
James Joyner
, and
Jorge Benitez
It’s Time for the Defense Production Act’s Digital Transformation
Jay Long
Militarizing Global Health Isn’t the Right Answer
Al Mauroni
Australia-India Naval Cooperation and the Islands of the Indo-Pacific
Darshana M. Baruah
Reflections on Reading Great Books with Colonels
Jacqueline E. Whitt
Expertise, Ideas, and Making Foreign Policy
Francis J. Gavin
A Cautionary Tale on Ambitious Feats of AI: The Strategic Computing Program
Emma Salisbury
Cyber Reserves Are Not a Silver Bullet
Jamie Collier
Bowling Alone with Robots
Kori Schake
The U.S. Military Should Turn to Remote-Enabled Advising
Gordon Richmond
China’s Pandemic-Fueled Standoff with Australia
Ashley Townshend
Grand Strategy Is No Silver Bullet, But It Is Indispensable
Andrew Ehrhardt
and
Maeve Ryan
Pandemic Propaganda and the Global Democracy Crisis
Haroro J. Ingram
Tunisia’s Military and the Economic Fallout of COVID-19
Frederic Wehrey
Keep Expectations Modest for Iraq’s New Government
Douglas A. Ollivant
The Future of Warfare Will Continue to Be Human
Peter L. Hickman
America’s Destabilizing Involvement in Serbia-Kosovo Talks
Gorana Grgić
Disarming Disinformation
Jessica Brandt
,
Camille Francois
, and
Doyle Hodges
AI & Military Procurement: What Computers Still Can’t Do
Maaike Verbruggen
How is the Russian Military Responding to COVID-19?
Mathieu Boulegue
Strategic Fail: Partnering with Turkey to Counter Iran Would Misread the Region
Blaise Misztal
Getting the Context of Marine Corps Reform Right
Jeff Cummings
,
Scott Cuomo
,
Noah Spataro
, and
Olivia Garard
The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons
Andrea Howard
America Needs a Coalition to Win a Space War
Aaron Bateman
America’s Afghan Mission Has Been Overtaken by Pandemic
Martin Skold
The Rest of the Story: Evaluating the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030
Benjamin Jensen
From Non-Interference to Wolf Warrior: Chinese Foreign Internal Defense
Jimmy Zhang
To Prepare for a Crisis, Read Fiction
Richard Fontaine
China and COVID-19 in Saudi Media
Andrew Leber
An Attack on Inspector General Signals Something Much Bigger
Joshua Rovner
Stop Declaring War on a Virus
Mark Hannah
Is the Infantry Brigade Combat Team Becoming Obsolete?
Daniel Vazquez
Toward a New Theory of Power Projection
Michael J. Mazarr
Building a Marine Corps for Every Contingency, Clime, and Place
T. X. Hammes
The Defense Production Act and the Failure to Prepare for Catastrophic Incidents
Jared Brown
Technology-Enabled Mission Command
B. A. Friedman
and
Olivia Garard
Clarifying Command: Keeping Up with the (John Paul) Joneses
B. A. Friedman
and
Olivia Garard
The Virus of Disinformation: Echoes of Past Bioweapons Accusations in Today’s COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Sarah Jacobs Gamberini
and
Amanda Moodie
Does America Need an Africa Strategy?
Sam Wilkins
How Advanced Military Medical Technology Could Help in the Fight Against COVID-19
Rebecca Lee
and
Jeremy Pamplin
In Iraq, Restraint Is America’s Best Option
Maria Fantappie
and
Sam Heller
Pandemics and the Future of Military Training
Jennifer McArdle
,
Thomas Kehr
, and
Gene Colabatistto
China’s Strategic Assessment of India
Yun Sun
Paging a Joint Task Force: Cyber Defense of Pandemic Medical Infrastructure
J.D. Work
Put Your Money Where Your Strategy Is: Using Machine Learning to Analyze the Pentagon Budget
Chad Peltier
Did the Cyberspace Solarium Commission Live Up to its Name?
Joshua Rovner
How the Endless War Came Home
Ashley Deeks
A Defense Management Reform Agenda for the Next Administration
Peter Levine
Beyond “Conventional Wisdom”: Evaluating the PLA’s South China Sea Bases in Operational Context
J. Michael Dahm
Supporting Joint Warfighting with Mission-Level Simulations
Robert Richbourg
,
June Rodriguez
,
David M. Gohlich
, and
James N. Bexfield
Al-Qaeda: Threat or Anachronism?
Bruce Hoffman
and
Jacob Ware
How Russia Helped the United States Fight Huawei in Central and Eastern Europe
Andreea Brinza
Fog, Friction, and Thinking Machines
Zach Hughes
The Case for a Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Eric Sayers
and
Randall G. Schriver
Synchronizing Change and Air Force Culture: Modernization and the Dirty Secret of Aircrew Shortages
Mike Byrnes
Creating a Curious, Ethical, and Diverse AI Workforce
Carol Smith
Public Opinion Is a Key to America’s Global AI Leadership
Merrill Wasser
The Army Should Rid Itself of Symbols of Treason
Mike Pietrucha
Strategy as Appetite Suppressant
Frank Hoffman
How Can Negotiations Bring Wars to an End?
Patrick S. Roberts
and
Ariel I. Ahram
Captain Professor Sir: Some Lessons from Michael Howard
Beatrice Heuser
Fixing the Navy’s Software
Sean Lavelle
A Tale of Two Skepticisms: Fighting and Talking with the Taliban During the Obama Years
Barnett Rubin
Special Operations as an Innovation Laboratory
Leo Blanken
,
Philip Swintek
, and
Justin Davis
The U.S. Military’s Investment Ecosystem is Missing in Action
Stephen Rodriguez
Mexican Drug Cartels Are Violent — But They’re Not Terrorists
Scott Englund
Has Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Opened the Door for an Islamic State Comeback?
Dareen Khalifa
and
Elizabeth Tsurkov
How to Train Your AI Soldier Robots (and the Humans Who Command Them)
Thomas Hamilton
In Search of Answers: U.S. Military Investigations and Civilian Harm
Dan Mahanty
The Great Online Convergence: Digital Authoritarianism Comes to Democracies
Seva Gunitsky
The Case for a Unified Future Warfare Command
Safi Bahcall
America’s Special Operators Will Be Adrift Without Better Civilian Oversight
Mark E. Mitchell
,
Zachary Griffiths
, and
Cole Livieratos
From Deception to Attrition: AI and the Changing Face of Warfare
Dumitru Minzarari
Fulbright Redux? The Key to Ending Washington’s Stubborn Addiction to the War in Afghanistan
Christopher Preble
and
Lauren Sander
Power and Pretzels in Munich, 2020
Richard Fontaine
Understanding and Rolling Back Digital Authoritarianism
Jessica Chen Weiss
Germany’s 5G Debate Ought Not Be a Referendum on Donald Trump
Julianne Smith
The Army Needs Full-Stack Data Scientists and Analytics Translators
Erich Feige
The Input-Output Problem: Managing the Military’s Big Data in the Age of AI
David Zelaya
and
Nicholas Keeley
When it Comes to Digital Authoritarianism, China is a Challenge — But Not the Only Challenge
Steven Feldstein
Kicking off a New Approach to Cyber Ethics at the Department of Defense
Stuart Caudill
The Blessings of Secrecy
Joshua Rovner
Digital Authoritarianism: Finding Our Way Out of the Darkness
Naazneen Barma
,
Brent Durbin
, and
Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Make Data Science Accessible for the Pentagon
Eric Loeb
and
Steven E. Moore
Washington’s F-35 Embargo Against Turkey — Success or Failure?
Ray Rounds
Can Warfighters Remain the Masters of AI?
Harrison Schramm
and
Jeff Kline
How to (Actually) Recruit Talent for the AI Challenge
James Ryseff
To Deter China, the Naval Services Must Integrate
Rep. Mike Gallagher
If the Shoe Fits: Designating Foreign White Supremacy Extremist Groups
Amy Collins
AI, Cyberspace, and Nuclear Weapons
James Johnson
and
Eleanor Krabill
59 Percent Likely Hostile
Daniel Eichler
and
Ronald Thompson
Two Small-Unit Leaders Respond to the Marine Commandant’s Note
James Camp
and
David Laszcz
Day Zero Ethics for Military AI
Owen Daniels
and
Brian Williams
The Politics of Man-Hunting and the Illusion of Victory
Raphael S. Cohen
Lebanon: Turning Protests into Power
Osama Gharizi
The Drone Beats of War: The U.S. Vulnerability to Targeted Killings
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Russia as a Hurricane, China as Climate Change: Different Ways of Information Warfare
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
and
Paul Charon
A Roadmap for Better Choices from Security Partners
Tommy Ross
and
Melissa Dalton
The United States Shouldn’t Sell the F-35 to Saudi Arabia
Shimon Arad
The Pitfalls and Possibilities of the Measurement Revolution for National Security
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
,
Liam Collins
,
Kristen G. DeCaires
, and
Jacob N. Shapiro
The AI Literacy Gap Hobbling American Officialdom
Michael Horowitz
and
Lauren Kahn
Fear Not Technological Disengagement and Competition with China
Jack Bianchi
The Conventional Wisdom on China’s Island Bases Is Dangerously Wrong
Gregory Poling
On the Current Confrontation with Iran
Robert Jervis
Wargaming Lessons from Exercise Sea Dragon
Von Lambert
and
Tyler Quinn
What Chess Can Teach Us About the Future of AI and War
Andrew Lohn
America Should Be Realistic About its Alliance with Thailand
Zachary Abuza
How to Read Vietnam’s Latest Defense White Paper: A Message to Great Powers
Derek Grossman
and
Christopher Sharman
Expeditionary Advanced Maritime Operations: How the Marine Corps Can Avoid Becoming a Second Land Army in the Pacific
Jake Yeager
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Message of the Christmas Truce of 1914 to the Modern Profession of Arms
Joseph D. Eanett
Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful
Benjamin Jensen
and
John Paschkewitz
Insurgency, not War, Is China’s Most Likely Course of Action
John Vrolyk
The Army’s New Approach to People
Maj. Gen. J.P. McGee
and
Ryan Evans
There Was No “Secret War on the Truth” in Afghanistan
Jonathan Schroden
Why Russian Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Commonly Understood (As Is China’s)
Michael Kofman
and
Richard Connolly
AI for Peace
Patrick S. Roberts
The Looming End of Pax Americana?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
AI Safety: Charting out the High Road
Larry Lewis
China’s Ban on U.S. Navy Port Visits to Hong Kong Doesn’t Actually Matter
Blake Herzinger
The Vatican’s Nuclear Diplomacy from the Cold War to the Present
Aaron Bateman
The Future of War Technology Whispers to Us From the Past, and We Must Listen Better
Alexander Kott
2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
Symbol or Substance? Modi’s Decision to Appoint a Chief of Defense Staff
Anit Mukherjee
The Spy Who Hacked Me
Calder Walton
“Take to the Streets”: Turkey’s Failed Coup, One Year Later
Aaron Stein
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
An Honorable Man at the Heart of Civil-Military Turmoil
Kori Schake
Decoupling is Back in Asia: A 1960s Playbook Won’t Solve These Problems
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Benghazi: Questions Unasked and Opportunities Missed
Radha Iyengar
War Powers Oversight, Not Reform
Matthew C. Waxman
Refugees at Risk: Managing the European Union’s Declining Power in Turkey
Christina Bache
Can Bryan Pass the Turing Test?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
An American Resolution on Armenian Genocide Wrangles with History
Edward J. Erickson
Revisiting the Vietnam War at Home — And What It Means for Today
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Hypersonic Weapons: Tactical Uses and Strategic Goals
Alan Cummings
The Four Letters: A Leadership Parable
Jason Lamb
Why the Government Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
Steve Blank
Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet and Russian Political Warfare in the West
Kiril Avramov
,
William Inboden
,
Paul Pope
, and
Calder Walton
Can the United States Deter Election Meddling?
Joshua Rovner
Geopolitics Redux: Explaining the Japan-Korea Dispute and Its Implications for Great Power Competition
Takuya Matsuda
and
Jaehan Park
Reorienting the Coast Guard: A Case for Patrol Forces Indo-Pacific
Blake Herzinger
First, Manage Security Threats to Machine Learning
Rand Waltzman
and
Thomas Szayna
Afghanistan on the Edge? Elections, Elites, and Ethnic Tensions
Andrew Watkins
AI and Irregular Warfare: An Evolution, Not a Revolution
Daniel Egel
,
Eric Robinson
,
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Charles T. Cleveland
, and
Christopher (CJ) Oates
Are We Making Cyber Ransoms Worse?
William G. Rich
Make China Great Again: Xi’s Truly Grand Strategy
Andrew Erickson
With AI, We’ll See Faster Fights, but Longer Wars
Margarita Konaev
Just Say No: The Pentagon Needs to Drop the Distractions and Move Great Power Competition Beyond Lip Service
Mackenzie Eaglen
Can New U.S. Missiles in Asia Deter China and Increase Security on the Korean Peninsula?
Joshua Nezam
The Kill Chain in Space: Developing a Warfighting Mindset
Raj Agrawal
and
Christopher Fernengel
Turkey and Russia: A Remarkable Rapprochement
Michael A. Reynolds
Military Deception: AI’s Killer App?
Edward Geist
and
Marjory Blumenthal
U.S. Officials Ignored Trump on Syria and We Are All Paying the Price
Aaron Stein
Our Future Lies in Making AI Robust and Verifiable
Danielle C. Tarraf
See You in a Month: AI’s Long Data Tail
Michael Stumborg
In the Opening Days of War, Let the Army Lead on Targeting
Michael Jacobson
Embrace Open-Source Military Research to Win the AI Competition
Jasmin Léveillé
A Better Idea Can Win the Next Big War for the Ground Services
Robert Scales
An Unseen but Outsized Influence: A History of the National Security Council with John Gans
John Gans
,
William Inboden
,
Aaron O'Connell
, and
Steve Slick
AI Risks to Nuclear Deterrence Are Real
Zachary Kallenborn
Can Pakistan Mediate Between Iran and the United States?
Adam Weinstein
Six Competing Visions for a Space Force
Russell Rumbaugh
A Conversation on Middle East Security with Gen. Amos Yadlin
Gen. Amos Yadlin
and
Steve Slick
The Big and Urgent Task of Revitalizing Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
Adam Lowther
Checking Iranian Power in Iraq
Omar Al-Nidawi
Measuring War: Cognitive Effects in the Age of AI
Brad DeWees
Can Macron’s European Intervention Initiative Make the Europeans Battle-Ready?
Olivier-Rémy Bel
Climbing the Escalation Ladder: India and the Balakot Crisis
Rohan Mukherjee
From Our Foxhole: Empowering Tactical Leaders to Achieve Strategic AI Goals
James Long
A Striking New Vision for the Marines, and a Wakeup Call for the Other Services
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
A Wildly Irresponsible Cover-Blowing Article on a Whistleblower, Brought to You by the New York Times
Aki Peritz
National Security Whistleblower Reform is a Sticky Wicket
Michael Joseph
,
Michael Poznansky
, and
William Spaniel
Under the Radar, Iran’s Cruise Missile Capabilities Advance
Shahryar Pasandideh
The Complicated Truth of Countering Disinformation
Christina Nemr
and
Will Gangware
The President’s Own as a Model for the Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary
Patrick Cirenza
How Marine Security Cooperation Can Translate into Sea Control
Brian Kerg
,
Anthony King
, and
Michael Murray
How to Fix a Broken Special Operations Culture
Andrew Milburn
Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11
John Brennan
,
Admiral William H. McRaven
,
Farah Pandith
,
Paul Pope
, and
Nicholas Rasmussen
In Search of a 21st-Century Joint Warfighting Concept
Tom Greenwood
and
Pat Savage
Whither Skynet? An American “Dead Hand” Should Remain a Dead Issue
Luke O’Brien
The Ghosts of Past Wars Live on in a Critical Archive
Bruce P. Montgomery
and
Michael P. Brill
Anticipating a New Russian Military Doctrine in 2020: What it Might Contain and Why it Matters
Dara Massicot
A Historic National Vision for Spacepower
Peter Garretson
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden: Lessons from an Obscure Cold War Flashpoint in Africa
Sam Wilkins
Doors of Perception
Thomas Brady
and
Jim Perkins
It’s Time to Talk About A2/AD: Rethinking the Russian Military Challenge
Michael Kofman
The Great Duality and the Future of the Army: Does Technology Favor the Offensive or Defensive?
Robert Scales
What if the U.S. Military Neglects AI? AI Futures and U.S. Incapacity
Zachary Kallenborn
AI Will Change War, But Not in the Way You Think
Jonathan Clifford
Love, Carl
Hal Wilson
Let’s (Not) Make a Deal: Geopolitics and Greenland
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
Export Controls in the Age of AI
Jade Leung
,
Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
, and
Allan Dafoe
Second Thoughts
Tori Whiting
,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Don’t Sign a Death Warrant for Afghan Democracy
Ioannis Koskinas
The Fight in the Right: It is Time to Tackle White Supremacist Terrorism Globally
Robert Levinson
Every Marine a Blue-Haired Quasi-Rifleperson?
Nina Kollars
and
Emma Moore
Airpower Orphans, Part I: Putting the “Operational Support” Back in Operational Support Airlift
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Real Stakes in the New Space Race
Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast
America Needs a “Dead Hand”
Adam Lowther
and
Curtis McGiffin
The Bluest Eye
Meg Guliford
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Intermediate-Range Missiles Are the Wrong Weapon for Today’s Security Challenges
Tom Countryman
and
Kingston Reif
How Does the Kremlin Kick When It’s Down?
Polina Beliakova
An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
Robert Jervis
and
Francis J. Gavin
Roll for Initiative: NATO’s Navies Need a Wargaming Series
Jared Samuelson
Steady as She Goes: China’s New Defense White Paper
Dennis J. Blasko
Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Christopher Dougherty
Explaining Mission Creep in Afghanistan
Rick Berger
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Ship Visit: Sea Shepherd Shows the Future of Fisheries Protection
Claude Berube
The Coming Automation of Propaganda
Frank Adkins
and
Shawn Hibbard
When Is More Actually Less? Situational Awareness and Nuclear Risks
Rebecca Hersman
and
Bernadette Stadler
Unleashing the Power of Space: The Case for a Separate U.S. Space Force
Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan
Russian AI-Enabled Combat: Coming to a City Near You?
Margarita Konaev
and
Samuel Bendett
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections Has Been Here for Years
Evan Wilson
Stop Bombing Dirt: Resolving a Decade of Failed Aerial ISR Management
F. Jon Nesselhuf
It’s Time to Crowd-Source Questions About Civil-Military Relationships
Dan Maurer
No, President George W. Bush Did Not Undermine American Power and International Order
Peter Feaver
and
William Inboden
The Insurgent Counter-Insurgent: The French Army’s Hero and Some Truths About Modern Warfare
Michael Shurkin
Giving Saudi Arabia Guided Munitions Tech Could Have Huge Consequences
Nolan Fahrenkopf
Strategic Outpost’s Fourth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
America Can’t Beat Beijing’s Tech Theft with Racial Profiling
Peter Mattis
and
Matt Schrader
How Does Syngman Rhee’s Friendship with America Still Matter Today?
Rob York
The Guy Behind the Guy: Samuel Nelson Drew and Peace-Building in the Balkans
John Gans
The 2019 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
WOTR Staff
Countering Missiles with Missiles: U.S. Military Posture After the INF Treaty
Thomas G. Mahnken
Can South Korea and America Find a Common Position on China?
Richard Fontaine
,
Kristine Lee
, and
Hannah Suh
The Pitfalls of Writing About Revolutionary Defense Technology
Laura Schousboe
Mauritius Scores a Pyrrhic Victory in the Indian Ocean
Robert Thorpe
Libya’s Civil War: Navigating its Dangerous New Phase
Anas El Gomati
A New Idea for Fighting Chinese Theft of American Defense Technology
Kevin Carroll
Forgetting Allies: Writing the British Out of the History of the Iraq War
Lawrence Freedman
Donald Trump and Presidential Nuclear Launch Authority: The More Things Change…
Brendan Rittenhouse Green
Space Force is More Important than Space Command
Brian Weeden
Information at the Water’s Edge: Amphibious Command and Control from Aspiration to Reality
Nick Brunetti-Lihach
Empowering Girls in National Security
Lauren Bean Buitta
The Elephant in the Room: Auditing the Past and Future of the U.S.-India Partnership
Sameer Lalwani
and
Heather Byrne
Can Sudan’s Military Be Convinced to Support Democracy?
Nathaniel Allen
and
Sharan Grewal
What a U.S. Operation in Russia Shows About the Limits of Coercion in Cyber Space
Benjamin Jensen
On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
A ‘Responsibility to Prepare’: A Strategy for Presidential Leadership on the Security Risks of Climate Change
Caitlin Werrell
,
Francesco Femia
, and
John Conger
The United States Needs an Information Warfare Command: A Historical Examination
Conrad Crane
Mexico Under López Obrador: Six Years of Solitude, or Flexing Its Muscle at Sea?
Richard Miles
U.S.-China Trade Impasse: For Washington, Now is Not the Time to Blink
Tuan Pham
Espionage and the Catholic Church from the Cold War to the Present
Aaron Bateman
The Reaganesque Approach to Iran? Embrace the Moderates
Marik von Rennenkampff
What do U.S.-Iranian Tensions Mean for Israel?
Amos Yadlin
and
Ari Heistein
The Perfect Storm Confronting Xi Jinping
Dean Cheng
Have Strategists Drunk the “AI Race” Kool-Aid?
Zac Rogers
The Problem with the Narrative of ‘Proxy War’ in Iraq
Douglas A. Ollivant
and
Erica Gaston
Net Assessment: Hypersonic Weapons – Gimmick or Game Changer?
Melanie Marlowe
and
Bryan McGrath
F-15EX and F-35A: The Future of American Air Superiority
Brad Orgeron
Jaw-Jaw: Peter Mattis on the Intentions of the Chinese Communist Party
Peter Mattis
and
Brad Carson
Muting the Hype over Hypersonics: The Offense-Defense Balance in Historical Perspective
Heather Venable
and
Clarence Abercrombie
After Moral Injury: Backing Through a Side Door into Consciousness
Bill R. Edmonds
How We Mark Memorial Day: A Reflection
John Amble
China’s Multifaceted Arctic Strategy
David Auerswald
The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse
Aaron Stein
Unwarranted: Reconsidering the Air Force Warrant Officer
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
A Sailor’s Take on Multi-Domain Operations
Will Spears
Is the Space Force Viable? Personnel Problems on the Final Frontier
Mark Cancian
The Case for Suspending American Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
Jennifer Spindel
Countering WMD in the Digital Age: Breaking Down Bureaucratic Silos in a Brave New World
Natasha E. Bajema
Scaling the Levels of War: The Strategic Major and the Future of Multi-Domain Operations
Heather Venable
and
Jared R. Donnelly
The Case for Arms Embargoes Against Uncooperative Partners
Andrew Miller
and
Seth Binder
Hiding in Plain Sight: Chinese Expansion in Southeast Asia
Charles Edel
Horns of a Dilemma: A Little-Known CIA Operation in Poland
Seth Jones
and
Paul Pope
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 Role of the Personnel System in the Air Force Leadership and Retention Crisis
Adam Chitwood
Signaling, Victory, and Strategy in France’s Military Cyber Doctrine
Stéphane Taillat
Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
David Johnson
Problematic Thinking on China from the State Department’s Head of Policy Planning
Abraham Denmark
Bombs over Belgrade: An Underrated Sino-American Anniversary
Tom Fox
Building a 21st Century Defense Acquisition Workforce
Peter Levine
The Gentleman from Nebraska Misfires on America’s Foreign Policy Debate
Emma Ashford
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: Trump Turns the Screws on Cuba
Michael Bustamante
Net Assessment: The Revolution in Military Affairs – Is Anything Different This Time?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
The Suez Crisis and the Fog of Diplomacy
Jordan Chandler Hirsch
The New Age of Propaganda: Understanding Influence Operations in the Digital Age
Zac Rogers
,
Emily Bienvenue
, and
Maryanne Kelton
Migration and Terrorism: The United States Can Learn from Europe’s Mistakes
Sam Mullins
The Airmen We Need: Americans With Disabilities in the Air Force
Rachel Reynolds
Five Eyes Must Lead on 5G
Rep. Mike Gallagher
and
Tom Tugendhat, MP
Bombshell: Comedy or Chocolate
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
A Close Look at France’s New Military Cyber Strategy
François Delerue
,
Alix Desforges
, and
Aude Géry
How Does the Next Great Power Conflict Play Out? Lessons from a Wargame
James Lacey
Bringing the Air Division Back to the Future
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
Horns of a Dilemma: Emerging Threats, Technology Challenges, and Institutional Change
John Carlin
,
Michael Daniel
,
Samantha Ravich
,
Matthew Travis
,
Michelle Van Cleave
, and
Robert Chesney
‘A War to the Death’: The Ugly Underside of an Iconic Insurgency
Lincoln Krause
Blurring the Lines Part III: Airpower Applications in the Gray Zone
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
One Year On, Should India Rethink Its Reset with China?
Atman Trivedi
Reassuring Allies and Strengthening Strategic Stability: An Approach to Nuclear Modernization for Democrats
Frank A. Rose
and
Benjamin Bahney
Air Force Manned Reconnaissance at a Crossroads
Robert S. Hopkins, III
Horns of a Dilemma: Law Enforcement Responses to New Threats
John Demers
and
Ellen Nakashima
Preparing for China’s Rapid Rise and Decline
Collin Meisel
and
Jonathan D. Moyer
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy is a Mess
Aaron Stein
More Iranian Sanctions for What Purpose?
Mark Fitzpatrick
Andrew W. Marshall: In Memoriam
Thomas G. Mahnken
Japan’s Air Force Steps Up Its Scrambles. What Are the Risks?
Peter Layton
Cyber Command, the NSA, and Operating in Cyberspace: Time to End the Dual Hat
Andrew Schoka
Back to the Future: The Return of Violent Far-Right Terrorism in the Age of Lone Wolves
Bruce Hoffman
From Athens to AI: The Return of History, the Revenge of Rivalry, and the Resurgence of Great Power Competition
C. Lee Shea
Libya’s Looming Contest for the Central Bank
Jalel Harchaoui
Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
Iskander Rehman
The Developing Fight for Tactical Air Control
Jules Hurst
More than Planes and Pickle Buttons: Updating the Air Force’s Core Missions for the 21st Century
Heather Venable
Reframing Rigor for Senior Service Colleges
Megan J. Hennessey
What a U.S. Operation Against Russian Trolls Predicts About Escalation in Cyberspace
Erica Borghard
All Sane Men Believe in Reserves
Claude Berube
Why Not a Space Force? Cautions of Organizational Re-Design
Kevin L. Parker
Sister Islands in the Indian Ocean Region: Linking the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to La Réunion
Darshana M. Baruah
Loyalty and Dissent: Getting Flag Officers to Hear the Truth
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
What Does “European Defense” Look Like? The Answer Might Be in the Sahel
Quentin Lopinot
How We Do Strategy as Performance up at Newport
Jim Cook
The Transatlantic Tussle — A Historical Case Study on How to Handle NATO
David I. Goldman
Tactical Art in Future Wars
Robert H. Scales
Germany’s Self-Delusion About a ‘No-Spying’ Pact with China
Peter Mattis
The Russian Missile that Could End the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
America and Japan in a Post-INF World
Sugio Takahashi
and
Eric Sayers
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Defense Budget Masterpiece
Christopher Dougherty
and
Susanna Blume
Samson the Carrier and Goliath the Amphib: Twin Giants of a Compromised Fleet Architecture
Noel Williams
The Hypocrisy of the Techno-Moralists in the Coming Age of Autonomy
Frank Hoffman
Future War: Not Back to the Future
Mike Dana
Red Sky in Morning: Naval Combat at the Dawn of Hypersonics
Ryan Hilger
Australia Learns the Risks of Contracting With Private Security Companies
Sarah Percy
‘No Concessions’? A Closer Look at U.S. Hostage Recovery Policy
Danielle Gilbert
Russia’s Soft Strategy to Hostile Measures in Europe
Andrew Radin
and
Raphael S. Cohen
The Warlord on Careers in National Security: Seven Forks in the Road
John Collins
Do Great Nations Fight Endless Wars? Against the Islamic State, They Might
Haroro J. Ingram
and
Craig Whiteside
Army Talent Management Reform: The Culture Problem
Leonard Wong
and
Stephen Gerras
Net Assessment: Can Conservatism Save the Liberal Order? And What Are We Conserving?
Melanie Marlowe
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
John Collins on Weapons of Mass Destruction
Al Mauroni
Drivers, Decisions, Dilemmas: Understanding the Kashmir Crisis and its Implications
Sameer Lalwani
and
Emily Tallo
Jaw-Jaw: China’s Great Power Disease
Edward Luttwak
and
Brad Carson
It Is Time for Germans to Talk About Sicherheitspolitik
Ulrike Franke
The Chinese Military Speaks to Itself, Revealing Doubts
Dennis J. Blasko
Wet Work in Salisbury: Sergei Skripal and the Human Factor of Russian Active Measures
Aaron Edwards
What Is Europe’s Place in Sino-American Competition?
Luis Simón
Church and State in Ukraine and the Power Politics of Orthodox Christianity
Irina du Quenoy
Drones of Mass Destruction: Drone Swarms and the Future of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons
Zachary Kallenborn
and
Philipp C. Bleek
In Defense of Best Practices
Michael Lortz
WOTR Podcast: Mayhem and Misadventures in the Middle East
Douglas A. Ollivant
,
Elizabeth Saunders
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Nick Danforth
Coming to Terms with America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
Jason Dempsey
Say It With Statues: Brick-and-Mortar Revisionism in Orban’s Hungary
Vivian S. Walker
A Sovereign Democracy and a Dud Partner: Explaining the Slide in U.S.-Turkey Relations
Nadir Firat
Trump, Kim, and the Three P’s of Summit Diplomacy
Bruce Jentleson
The Best Defense Ever? Busting Myths About the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review
Joan Johnson-Freese
and
David T. Burbach
Jaw-Jaw: How Chinese Sharp Power Takes Aim at American Democracy
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and
Ely Ratner
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and
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Jim Steinberg
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Josh Eisenman
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Peter Feaver
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Mary Beth Long
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Andrew May
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Celeste Ward Gventer
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and
Sen. Ben Sasse
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Richard Burr
,
Sen. John Cornyn
,
Mark Warner
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Gregory Fenves
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Stephen Slick
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,
Evelyn Farkas
,
Daniel Fried
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Mary Neuburger
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and
Aaron Y. Zelin
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,
Eric Edelman
,
Kristen Silverberg
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Lorinc Redei
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Ben Connable
and
Michael McNerney
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Sam Roggeveen
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David Johnson
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,
Erin Simpson
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Radha Iyengar
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David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
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Richard Hanania
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Al Mauroni
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Richard Kuzma
,
Ian Shaw
,
Zac Dannelly
, and
Drew Calcagno
The U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Renaissance: It’s More Than Ships and Aircraft
George Galdorisi
and
Scott C. Truver
Paramilitary Activity: The Unintended Consequences of America’s Undeclared War Against Assad
Aaron Stein
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Kerry Brown
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Michael Singh
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Melanie W. Sisson
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Thomas Wonder
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Kamal Alam
and
David Lesch
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Jeffrey W. Hornung
and
Michael J. Green
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Ryan Middleton
and
William Wagstaff
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Erin Simpson
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Radha Iyengar
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Job C. Henning
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Justin Sherman
and
Deb Crawford
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Lindsey Ford
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and
Francesco Femia
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Liz Economy
and
Brad Carson
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Stephen Tankel
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Risa Brooks
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Jesse Schmitt
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Hal Wilson
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Joe Schuman
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Matthew Reed
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Mike Benitez
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Robert Levinson
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Andrea Gilli
and
Mauro Gilli
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Caleb Slayton
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Stephen Tankel
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Richard Kuzma
and
Tom Wester
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Irina du Quenoy
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Robert Levinson
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Eric Brewer
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Walter A. Berbrick
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Scott Cuomo
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Noah Spataro
,
Jeff Cummings
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Olivia Garard
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Simon Frankel Pratt
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