Integrating strategic foresight tools into Joint Professional Military Education curricula will help develop an appreciation for the nonlinearity, complexity, and uncertainty...

Twelve academics at the American University of Cairo admit that the events of 2011, now called the Arab Spring, caught them unprepared

Does “the infantryman’s half kilometer” continue to have utility in an all-purpose service rifle in modern conflict?

The Army has an unfortunate tradition of considering insurgent conflict a sideshow effort and relegating the study of insurgencies to the fringes of military science. The...

The threat exists and continues to operate. But more importantly we must understand that it is waging unconventional warfare and only using terrorism as one of the means of...

The failure to understand and appreciate the religious dimension of political action is not without consequence.

In the book’s final chapter, Kaplan warns America’s pivot to Asia may overlook its greatest foreign policy opportunity: building an enduring partnership with...

Enabling our partners to conduct their own IO. There is no other way to get the message across the cultural divide.

Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.

Building a unified foreign policy establishment.

American leaders secured victory by reviewing the strategy and making corrections.  Conversely, Tripolitan leaders placed their faith in a comfortable, outdated strategy...

Cann’s book is very much a must read, especially considering the painfully limited Anglophone literature on the Portuguese Overseas War.

While not democracy in the American image, the Arab Spring has the potential to bring Islamists into conflict with jihadists.

The Battle of Chancellorsville ended 150 years ago this week. It still holds lessons for us.

Why acronyms are ruining shared military understanding.

Syria is already in crisis but the death or departure of President Bashar al-Asad is likely to intensify violence and destruction in the country, not quell it.

Combating the marijuana cartels on America’s public lands.

A Q&A with Kirk Sowell of Inside Iraqi Politics.  

The pressures on Yemen are centrifugal rather than centripetal, by which the power of the center is weakened to the benefit of poles of regional power. These centrifugal...

Bringing time into the assessment of counterinsurgency warfare.

Implications for information operations in Guatemala.

Why is this new age an age of instability—instead of an age of empires, or warring states, or even peace and prosperity?

If we ignore village life – or try to bend it to our view of what it should be – we will fail in Afghanistan as we did in Vietnam.

A new perspective on alternative analysis and the intelligence process

A critical analysis of statements by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri reveal a fragmented and weakened Al Qaeda disguising its internal incoherence and lack of appealing...

Ten easy to follow recommendations to help you become an effective military advisor.

Unlike a certain mathematical solution counterinsurgency is a laden with human error and complexity.

Interoperability is a function of leadership, hardship, and time. To quickly achieve it, focus on individual personalities, understand that everyone has value, and exercise...

Good stories trump doctrine for effecting cultural change because they reach us emotionally; they inspire.  Consider America's first battle and what we can...

An interview with MIT Professor Roger D. Petersen.