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Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Patrick Porter
Another Chance to Watch Star Wars with Sam: Marines in Ramadi
Vince Perritano
Is the Islamic State Winning or Losing?
John Ford
How the Iran Deal Could Complicate U.S. Efforts to Prevent a Nuclear Breakout
Michael Eisenstadt
(W)Archives: A Civil War Surgeon’s Thoughts on the Eve of a Bloody Battle
Mark Stout
Is America an Empire?
Tyrone Groh
and
James Lockhart
Scholars Help Policymakers Know Their Tools
Dan Reiter
Bias in Battledress: Fixing the Hidden Problems of Military Prejudice
Bryan Coughlin
and
Katey van Dam
Calligraphy and Goat Cheese: Jaime Johnson at The Black Harpoon
Claude Berube
Man or Woman, Rangers Just Want the Best in their Formations
Ligeia Zeruto
How the AP Got the Iran Inspections Story Wrong
Cheryl Rofer
Hop to it: A Beer by Any Other Name
Alex Hecht
To Stem the Tide: Nuclear History, American Interests, and the Iran Deal
Francis J. Gavin
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
Why the New Syrian Army Failed: Washington and Unconventional Warfare
David Maxwell
Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal 10 Years Later: More Successful Than You Think
Daniel Byman
Pakistan’s “Strategic Shift” is Pure Fiction
C. Christine Fair
Falling Short of the Kennedy Mystique
James Goldgeier
Dealing with Putin’s Strategic Incompetence
Joshua Rovner
How Turkey’s entry into the anti-ISIL campaign might save the Islamic State
James Schmitt
Can History Save the World?
Nick Danforth
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
(W)Archives: When “Safe Zones” Fail
Mark Stout
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 5: Forlorn Hope
Stephen Armitage
Time to Think About “Hybrid Defense”
Mark Galeotti
What’s Eating Turkey? Ankara and the Islamic State
Burak Kadercan
The Not-Yet-Chiefs’ Reading List
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
North Korea Is Not Iran
Christopher Lee
(W)Archives: Beating the Spies
Mark Stout
Fax Machine Radicalization: A Menace
Seamus Hughes
Fax Machine Radicalization
Seamus Hughes
Can U.S. Courts Stop Chinese Cyberspying?
Kevin Carroll
Three Big Ideas on the Future of British Defense
Patrick Bury
The OPM Cyber Blunder is America’s Fault, not China’s
Matthew Hipple
(W)Archives: That Time Britain and France Almost Bombed the Soviet Union
Patrick Osborn
The Case for Dumping the Iran Deal
Thomas C. Moore
Down and Dirty on the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Aaron Stein
Mabus and McCain Actually Agree … DoD is Broken
Robert Kozloski
(W)Archives: “C’s List” — How the British Debated Covert Action in the Early Cold War
Rory Cormac
What DARPA’s Naval Drone Could Mean for the Balance of Power
David Blagden
Chicken Little or Attacking Terrorist Strategy? Why the U.S. Issues Warnings about Attacks
David Maxwell
(W)Archives: The U.S. Army Unit that was Nominated for an Oscar
Mark Stout
The 9 Scariest Things That China Could Do with the OPM Security Clearance Data
WOTR Staff
Reforming the National Security Council: What the Next President Needs to Know
Shawn Brimley
,
Julianne Smith
, and
Jacob Stokes
Counterterrorism, Backdoors, and the Risk of “Going Dark”
Walter Haydock
How Pakistan Beguiles the Americans: A Guide for Foreign Officials
C. Christine Fair
The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
and
Nathaniel Barr
No Patch For Incompetence: Our Cybersecurity Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cybersecurity
Adam Elkus
Bad Guys Know What Works: Asymmetric Warfare and the Third Offset
Benjamin Locks
(W)Archives: Prepositioning Combat Equipment in Europe? Been There, Done That
Mark Stout
Evans in WaPo: Why the latest government hack is worse than the Snowden affair
Ryan Evans
The Future of Close Air Support is Not What the Air Force Thinks
Benjamin Fernandes
False Equivalency in the “Indo-Pakistan” Dispute
C. Christine Fair
Is Stan McChrystal Right About Adapting to Win?
Kori Schake
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 3: Manifest Destiny
Stephen Armitage
(W)Archives: A Firsthand Account of the Battle of Manila Bay
Mark Stout
Practicing Innovation in the U.S. Navy
Ciro Lopez
The Fall of Heaven, Episode 2: The Midway Fleet
Stephen Armitage
Why Does Pakistan Accuse Indian Spies of Terrorism?
Michael Kugelman
The Myth of Entangling Alliances
Michael Beckley
Independent Long-Range Strike: A Failed Theory
T.X. Hammes
(W)Archives: The Battle of Midway and What Defeat Looks Like
Mark Stout
A Farewell to Sobriety, Part Two: Drinking During World War II
Jake Hall
The Patriot Act and the History of American Code Breaking
Peter Mansoor
What Bin Laden Taught us about Jihad in Pakistan
Thomas Lynch
Iraq after Ramadi: Saving the Anti-ISIL Strategy
Douglas A. Ollivant
(W)Archives: Occupation and the “Black Shame” on the Rhine
Mark Stout
Close Air Support in 2030: Moving Beyond the A-10/F-35 Debate
Derek O'Malley
and
Andrew Hill
Trading Space and Time in the Cold War Offset Strategy
Robert Tomes
Honor our Fallen By Getting Real on Pakistan
C. Christine Fair
Terrorists Are Just Like Us: The Bin Laden Docs and the Future of al Qaeda
Brian Fishman
(W)Archives: Fighting the Information War in Sweden
Mark Stout
Confessions of a Jihadi Nerd: A Guide to Reading the New Bin Laden Documents
Clint Watts
Read the New Bin Laden Docs
WOTR Staff
Short Legs Can’t Win Arms Races: Range Issues and New Threats to Aerial Refueling put U.S. Strategy at Risk
Greg Knepper
and
Peter W. Singer
(W)Archives: World War III, 1955-Style
Mark Stout
Getting the GCC to Cooperate on Missile Defense
Thomas Karako
Kill Ibrahim? The Pros and Cons of Targeting ISIL’s Leadership
Benjamin Runkle
Third Offset Tech: What the Experts Say
Alexandra Sander
Googling Iran: The Sources of Mistrust
Richard Klass
American Declinism Debated
Frank Hoffman
Secret Agent Man: How to Think about Autonomy
Adam Elkus
(W)Archives: Vietnam and the Meaning of Defeat
Mark Stout
Parsimonious Albion: Is the UK Going Wobbly?
Frank Hoffman
What’s Past is Prologue: A Story of U.S. Army Lineage, from 1915 to 2015
John Amble
ISIL’s Small Ball Warfare: An Effective Way to Get Back into a Ballgame.
Craig Whiteside
How the Military Can Keep its Edge: Don’t Offset — Hedge
Ben FitzGerald
and
Scott Cheney-Peters
Autonomy Whether You Like It or Not
Matthew Hipple
The Navy’s New Museum Drone and Strategic Malpractice
Robert Martinage
and
Shawn Brimley
Ensign Bobby Fisk’s Three Lessons of Muscat Love: Great Games, Baseball, and Jameson
Claude Berube
The Method behind the Islamic State’s Madness
Burak Kadercan
Grand Theft Autocracy
Aaron Mannes
(W)Archives: It’s Not Easy Being a Terrorist
Mark Stout
Why Integrate Women into Ground Combat Units?
Anna Simons
The Naval Historian and His Library: An Interview with John Hattendorf
Christopher Nelson
Female Rangers Will Lead The Way, Sooner or Later
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Are Turkey and Saudi Arabia Going to War in Syria?
Aaron Stein
5 Questions with J.M. Berger on the Oklahoma City Bombing
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: Aerial Bombardment and Hitting the Broad Side of a Barn
Mark Stout
Preparing for Warfare’s Subterranean Future
Benjamin Runkle
Fight Boko Haram by Aiding Cameroon
Alexander Powell
Why An “Economic” Approach to Foreign Policy Fails
Adam Elkus
Sanctioning to Deter: Implications for Cyberspace, Russia, and Beyond
Eric Lorber
and
Jacquelyn Schneider
Does Mullah Omar Still Matter?
Michael Kugelman
(W)Archives: Memorializing the Most Important Surrender in American History
Mark Stout
How U.S. Navy Intel Sees China’s Maritime Forces
Andrew Erickson
Groundhog Day in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
C. Christine Fair
Remaining Hurdles to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Ilan Goldenberg
Distributed Maritime Operations: Back to the Future?
Benjamin Jensen
The Iranian Nuclear Program and its Bureaucrat-in-Chief
Aaron Stein
Project Vulcan: Special Ops and the Tech Innovation End Game
Anthony Davis
,
James Geurts
,
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Jawad Rachami
, and
Christopher Zember
(W)Archives: The Battle of Okinawa and the Obscenity of War
Mark Stout
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Intel, Governance, and Ethics in Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms
Paul Scharre
What Comes After Strategic Surprise?
August Cole
The Bush Wars: Ellis on Population-Centric Counterinsurgency
Brett Friedman
(W)Archives: Rescuing Tommy
Mark Stout
Harry Potter and the Five-Sided Labyrinth
Anonymous
Jihadists as the Great Coalition Builders
Mark Stout
Commanding the Swarm
Paul Scharre
Resetting U.S.-Afghan Relations
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Mind the Gap: Spanning the Divide between Academics and Policy
Kathleen Hicks
It’s Time for a Tiger – and a Dragon
Claude Berube
Means Matter: Competent Ground Forces and the Fight Against ISIL
David Johnson
Just How Dangerous Is It Really?
Frank Hoffman
(W)Archives: Knowledge Wins
Mark Stout
An American in Her Majesty’s Ministry of Defence
Scott Smitson
A Collapsing Regional Order: Turkey’s Troubles in Iraq and Syria
Aaron Stein
The Human Element in Robotic Warfare
Paul Scharre
Military Superiority in an Interconnected World
Bob Butler
and
Jim Gosler
(W)Archives: Another Munich or Another Cuban Missile Crisis?
Tom Wein
A New Model of U.S. Defense Cooperation
Patrick Cronin
and
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare
Paul Scharre
The National Security Marketplace Must Become Stronger
Chris Taylor
The Seductiveness of Special Ops?
Michael Noonan
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
Welcoming Van Jackson, our newest Senior Editor
Ryan Evans
Nepal’s Dirty Little War: Counterinsurgency and the Fall of a Hindu King
Michael Vurens van Es
(W)Archives: Russian Air Force Gets a Free Pass
Mark Stout
Running (the World) in Circles
Frank Hoffman
A Shaky Case for Chinese Deception
Peter Mattis
Ten Reasons Why China Will Have Trouble Fighting a Modern War
Dennis J. Blasko
Between a Roomba and a Terminator: What is Autonomy?
Paul Scharre
More Mayhem from Moscow’s Victory in Minsk
Thomas C. Moore
Bridging the Air Gap: The Coming “Third Offset”
John Costello
Corruption in China’s Military: One of Many Problems
Dennis J. Blasko
Stamping out Violent Extremism: What can the U.S. Government Do?
Vera Zakem
How Many Fighters Does the Islamic State Really Have?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Resetting the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Michael Eisenstadt
A New Beginning for the United States in Central America?
R. Evan Ellis
Our Great War Synthesis
August Cole
Rethinking Deep Strike in the 21st Century
T.X. Hammes
Nothing Comes Without Conditions: China’s Relationship with Pakistan
Myra MacDonald
Video: The Third U.S. Offset Strategy and its Implications for Partners and Allies
Robert Work
(W)Archives: Ike’s Foresight — Publicizing the Concentration Camps
Mark Stout
Can You Handle the Truth? The Case for Returning Guantánamo Bay to Cuban Sovereignty
James Lockhart
A Deepening Defense Relationship on India’s Republic Day
Stephen Tankel
A Fresh Take on the Military Pay and Benefits Debate
Miriam Krieger
and
Kevin Kenney
What to Look For in the DoD Budget
Paul Scharre
Advice for France in its “War on Terror”
Thomas Lynch
,
Cindy Storer
,
Mark Stout
,
Stephen Tankel
, and
Clint Watts
Raffles and Slings in Singapore
Claude Berube
(W)Archives: Terrorism a Century Ago
Mark Stout
Wrong Assumptions: Integration, Responsibility, and Counterterrorism in France
Lorenzo Vidino
Military Command in the 21st Century Through the Eyes of Two Generals
Anthony King
Full Text: State of the Union Address
Barack Obama
Fear in the Pacific and Cyber Conflict in 2023
ML Cavanaugh
A Cold War Legacy: The Decline of Stealth
Andrew Metrick
Hollywood, Hackers, and HAL
Adam Elkus
Besting Boko Haram
Alice Hunt Friend
Why the Cold War Offset Strategy was all about Deterrence and Stealth
Robert Tomes
Why The Draft is a Forlorn Hope
T.S. Allen
Inspired, Networked & Directed – The Muddled Jihad of ISIS & al Qaeda post Hebdo
Clint Watts
(W)Archives: The UK’s Strategically Counterproductive Approach to Jihadist Propaganda
Mark Stout
Counterbureacracy and Lawfare: The Question of Torture in the War on Terror
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
Not So Chickenhawk: Pushing Back Against Fallows
Michael Cohen
Breaking the (Algorithmic) Black Box in Security Affairs
Adam Elkus
Brothers Forever at Rest in Arlington’s Section 60
David Mattingly
Local Flavor: What Asia’s Hedging Trend Tells Us about Asia, and Strategy
Van Jackson
Aspiring Yodas: Apply to Fill Andy Marshall’s Shoes on USAJOBS
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: Junk Science and Russian National Security
Mark Stout
Chinese Special Operations Forces: Not Like “Back at Bragg”
Dennis J. Blasko
U.S.-Cuban Relations: Lessons from China and the Soviet Bloc
James Lockhart
Answering the Pashtun Question
Myra MacDonald
After Peshawar, Expect Business as Usual in Pakistan
C. Christine Fair
(W)Archives: Patton’s Christmas Prayer and the Reality of War
Mark Stout
Re-Engagement with Cuba: The Strategic Calculus
R. Evan Ellis
Catch and Release in the Land of Two Rivers
Craig Whiteside
Torture in a Savage War of Peace: Revisiting the Battle of Algiers
Alistair Horne
The Answer to the Amphibious Prayer: Helicopters, the Marine Corps, and Defense Innovation
BJ Armstrong
The War on the Rocks 2014 Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
The CIA and Torture: Is the Senate Having Its Cake and Eating it Too?
Mark Stout
Afghanistan: Coming to the Bad End of the Good War
Jack Fairweather
(W)Archives: Torture and the Self-Correction of Democracies
Mark Stout
The Origins of Turkey’s Buffer Zone in Syria
Aaron Stein
Ten Rules for Building Militias in an Era of Terrorism and Persistent Conflict
Patricio Asfura-Heim
Explaining Pakistan’s Confidence
Myra MacDonald
Using Fiction to Understand Strategy and the Future
Mathew Burrows
(W)Archives: World War I and the “Lesser Included Threat”
Mark Stout
Sen. Corker: Monday Morning Quarterbacking Syria
Timothy Hoyt
The British War Movie America Needs
T.S. Allen
From Dotcom to Dotmil: A Matter of Hearts and Minds
Adam Elkus
What’s the Plan? The Afghan National Security Forces
Jason Campbell
Back to Night Raids: Counterinsurgency or Counterbureaucracy?
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
(W)Archives: “Drop One on Stalin”
Mark Stout
The Islamic State’s Stalled Offensive in Anbar Province
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
(W)Archives: CIA and the “Arab Mind”
Dina Rezk
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
The Lessons of the Dead in Helmand
George Vlachonikolis
Joining and Betraying Al-Qaeda: A How-To Guide
Ioannis Mantzikos
A Game-Changing Third Offset Strategy
Secretary Chuck Hagel
(W)Archives: Dissecting Fleet Admiral Nimitz’ Grad School Thesis
Mark Stout
The Rise of the Feral Adversary
Alon Paz
GOP? The NSA may actually be the biggest winner in the election
Sue Myrick
and
Andy Polk
Wisdom in Doctrine? Success, the Role of Force, and the Unknowable
Joshua Jones
American Power and the Culmination of Unconventional Warfare
Steve Thomas
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in America’s “Me” Decade
William Rosenau
What’s the Plan? The Afghan Government
Jason Campbell
(W)Archives: Why the Berlin Wall Had to Fall
Mark Stout
The Cold War Offset Strategy: Origins and Relevance
Robert Tomes
War, Interrupted, Part I: The Roots of the Jihadist Resurgence in Iraq
Craig Whiteside
5 Questions with David Danelo on his New Book, The Return: A Field Manual for Life After Combat
WOTR Staff
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: It Was an Accident
Mark Stout
What Black Ops 2 Gets Right About America’s Dirty Little Wars
Adam Elkus
The Power of the Story: Vladimir Putin and the Rise of the Russian Federation
Derek O'Malley
(W)Archives: The World War I You Remember Began 100 Years Ago at Ypres
Mark Stout
Strategic Overstretch and the Jihadist Generation Gap
Mark Stout
Innovation Warfare: Technology Domain Awareness and America’s Military Edge
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Christopher Zember
, and
Jawad Rachami
Canada Didn’t “Lose its Innocence” in Ottawa: How the Media Ignores History
Claude Berube
(W)Archives: Is That a Submarine or Just the Whiskey Talking?
Mark Stout
How We Lost Touch With Our Friends in Iraq
Andrew E. Lembke
To Save Money, Go Unmanned
Paul Scharre
and
Daniel Burg
Technology strategy then and now – the Long Range Research and Development Planning Program
Ben FitzGerald
Land of the Free Because of the Brave
David Mattingly
How About Some Unconventional Warfare? Thoughts On Countering ISIL
Clint Watts
(W)Archives: Industrial Hubris
Vince Houghton
Jordan: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Amanda Claypool
The fall of Kobane: The impact on Turkey, Kurds and the United States
Chase Winter
The Bartender who Accidentally Saved the World
Paul Kan
(W)Archives: How Realist was Kissinger?
Mark Stout
The Islamic State’s Anbar Offensive and Abu Umar al-Shishani
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Cyber Espionage and the Digital Redistribution of Wealth
Matthew Carin
15,000-plus for Fighting: The Return of the Foreign Fighters
Michael Noonan
The Tomb that Could Drag Turkey into the Syrian Civil War
Chase Winter
(W)Archives: Skepticism and Politics from the Rosenbergs to Khorasan
Mark Stout
How to Improve Drone Strike Policy
Diane Vavrichek
Why “Call of Duty” May Not Help Us Predict Future Wars
Adam Elkus
Be Careful What you Wish For: Commerce and Security in the U.S.-China Relationship
David Chmiel
What Truman’s Israel Policy Can Teach Obama about ISIL
James Fromson
Congress Can Fix DHS, but Needs to Fix Itself First
Tom Leonard
Judging Modi: The Historical Context
C. Christine Fair
Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!
Benjamin Runkle
ISIL Is Contained And That Should Be Good Enough
Christopher Bolan
(W)Archives: Amazing Images from the Birth of the Military Aviation Age
Mark Stout
It’s Time for a National Border Security Strategy
Tom Leonard
and
Joshua Katz
Say “Benghazi” Again, I Dare You
Ryan Evans
To Defeat ISIS, Keep it Simple
J. Michael Barrett
(W)Archives: He Rode a Tank, Held a General’s Rank, But Did He Direct Latin America’s Coups? Vernon Walters’s Diaries
James Lockhart
A Quick Take on the President’s Speech: The Good and Not-So-Good
Bryan McGrath
Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric PowerPoint?
Adam Elkus
Observations on the Long War
Conrad Crane
Are there parallels between 1914 and the Ukrainian Crisis?
Daniel Grandet
Lessons Learned: Intel Constraints and Israel’s Gaza Incursion
Andrew Marvin
From Estonia Without Love for the Islamic State
Michael Noonan
Kerry’s New Anti-Islamic State Coaltion: “No boots on the ground”
WOTR Staff
(W)Archives: PowerPoint, 1944
Mark Stout
Bad as Baghdadi? Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Man
Michael Kugelman
Remarks by President Obama to the People of Estonia
Barack Obama
Crescent Over The Thames
Jonathan Bronitsky
In Pakistan a Soft Coup Stalls
Myra MacDonald
A Master Plan to Counter China’s Growing Military Might?
Harry Kazianis
(W)Archives: The Myth of Germany’s Obsession with Patton
Harry Yeide
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Literary Window into Russia’s Chechnya Wars
Kori Schake
Crickets for the U.S. Defense Report Card
Frank Hoffman
Kim Jong-un: Starving for Power
Patrick Cronin
Don’t Forget Iran’s Ballistic Missiles
Behnam Ben Taleblu
(W)Archives: With Allenby at Gaza
Mark Stout
Bringing it all back home: The roots of militarized policing
William Rosenau
A New Defense Innovation Base
Adam Jay Harrison
,
Jawad Rachami
, and
Christopher Zember
Israel and the Demise of “Mowing the Grass”
T.X. Hammes
Ferguson and the Lessons of Conflict Zone Policing
Jason Fritz
More than a Missile: Judging Iron Dome
Zachary Goldman
Obama, Russia, and Ukraine: What You Think
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: Back to the Future with INF (and SRINF)
Anne Gruner
The Dangerous Nexus Between Radicalism in Britain and Syria’s Foreign Fighters
Roger Farhat
National Defense Panel: New Ideas Needed
Robert Haddick
“Vengeance is Not Our Goal”: A Conversation with Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz
Mark Hull
Israel’s Iron Maginot Line System
Mark Stout
(W)Archives: Germany’s Violation of Belgian Neutrality in 1914
Mark Stout
Israel and Gaza: Force is Futile
Claire Yorke
(W)Archives: Understanding the Office of Strategic Services
David Maxwell
Vets on Campus and the Civ-Mil Divide
Emma Stokien
On Not-So-New Warfare: Political Warfare vs Hybrid Threats
Frank Hoffman
Dempsey: Does Iraq have a political future?
Ryan Evans
Still Missing in Chile
James Lockhart
Afghanistan is not the next Iraq
Michael Kugelman
Time for U.S. Forces to Leave South Korea
Christopher Lee
Beyond UCLASS: Preparing the Navy for Next Generation Warfare
Samuel Brannen
and
Michael Horowitz
Defeating the Islamic State: Crafting a Regional Approach
Douglas A. Ollivant
and
Terrence Kelly
Pakistan: Did the Right Enemy Know Where Bin Laden Was?
C. Christine Fair
United States Assessment of the Downing of Flight MH17 and its Aftermath
Ryan Evans
#MH17: What we know so far – UPDATED
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: “Attention Emergency Descent” – From KAL 007 to MH 17?
Mark Stout
Strategy: Renewing the Center of Gravity
Daniel Steed
Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right
Shawn Brimley
and
Bryan McGrath
The Future of Warfare: Small, Many, Smart vs. Few & Exquisite?
T.X. Hammes
Rick Perry’s Dubious Foreign Policy Vision: 9 Sins
Sean Kay
and
Ryan Evans
Strategy: Does the Center of Gravity Have Value?
John Haines
Raising an Army: Ten Rules
Sean McFate
(W)Archives: Incidental Collection
Mark Stout
“Exclusive” on NSA Surveillance Reveals Almost Nothing New
Joshua Rovner
This Is Not the WMD Strategy You’re Looking For
Al Mauroni
Must-Read on WaPo’s latest NSA story
Ryan Evans
Realigning Your Mental Map: Sadr City, 2008
Andrew Steadman
Judging Jim Gant: Violence and Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Isaac Baruffi
A Rose by Any Other Name Still has Thorns: A Global Network of Navies
Claude Berube
From Magdeburg to Mosul: Iraq, Syria, and the 30 Years War
Marc Tyrrell
To Be [Engaged], or Not To Be [Engaged]? That is the [$100,000] Question
Kathleen J. McInnis
and
David Seddon
Inside the Collapse of the Iraqi Army’s 2nd Division
Yasir Abbas
and
Dan Trombly
Military intervention, Iranian-style
Farzan Sabet
The End of an Era in the Philippines?
Mark Munson
The War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
Usha Sahay
Hacking Defense: Changing How DoD Innovates
Adam Jay Harrison
and
Stephen Rodriguez
POTUS: Up to 300 Military Advisors to Iraq
Barack Obama
Unipolar No More: The Obama Doctrine and the Emerging Powers
Amitav Acharya
Less than 10K in the Graveyard of Empires
Thomas Lynch
National Security Education: A User’s Manual
Audrey Kurth Cronin
The Iraq Debacle: What To Read (and listen to), Part II
Ryan Evans
ISIS: This Too Shall Pass
Mark Stout
5 Questions with Ambassador James F. Jeffrey on ISIS and Iraq
Ryan Evans
The Iraq Debacle: What to Read
Ryan Evans
Obama to Maliki: This should be a wake-up call
Barack Obama
Hagel: Climbing Out From Under The Bus
James Joyner
The Secretary’s Playbook on Sergeant Bowe Berghdahl
Butch Bracknell
Why We Shouldn’t Take the State Department’s Terrorism Report on Pakistan at Face Value
Michael Kugelman
Why We Need the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon
Timothy Walton
Somewhere Between Gorgeous and Car Chase: The Laphroaig “Cairdeas” Series
Jarret Brachman
Photographs of the Dead in War
Marc Tyrrell
The Mission Goes First: Female Marines and the Infantry
Emma Stokien
Enabling Pakistan
Myra MacDonald
Obama at West Point: “America must always lead”
Barack Obama
The Ill-fated Mission of the USS Pueblo
Christopher Lee
American Amnesia In The Afghan War
Jacob Rozich
(W)Archives: Wandering Mujahidin Menace?
Mark Stout
An Incompetent War: Britain in Helmand
George Vlachonikolis
The Trouble with Turkey’s Drones
Aaron Stein
Who’s Killing Pakistan’s Shia and Why?
C. Christine Fair
U.S. Drones are from Mars, Euro Drones are from Venus
Ulrike Franke
Crimea taught us a lesson, but not how the Russian military fights
Dmitry Gorenburg
Finding the Right Enemy: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and al Qaeda
David Isby
(W)Archives: An Al Qaeda Strategist’s Lessons for the U.S. in Syria
Brian Fishman
Brainwashing, The Manchurian Candidate, and Cold War America
William Rosenau
Taking China’s Carrier Operations Seriously
Dean Cheng
These Aren’t the Defense Job Cuts You’re Looking For
Thomas Lynch
5 Questions with Dave Dilegge on Small Wars and COIN Cocktails
Ryan Evans
(W)Archives: Get. A. Grip.
Mark Stout
Afghanistan Needs the Terps to Stay
Ryan Evans
Nobody Puts Kashmir in a Corner
Myra MacDonald
The Ultimate 360-degree Evaluation
Guy Snodgrass
and
Ben Kohlmann
(W)Archives: The Tale of the Tape
Mark Stout
Five Pakistani Militants We Should Be Paying More Attention To
Michael Kugelman
Is Kim Jong Un a Puppet?
Christopher Lee
Houston, We Have a Problem: Russian Rockets, NATO Solidarity and the Need for Defense Acquisition Reform
Kathleen J. McInnis
Subversion Old and New
William Rosenau
Heroes Left to Die
Rusty Bradley
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