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Why Do We Often Fail to Correctly Measure Success in Wars?

Journal Article | April 10, 2013 02:30 AM | Comments(13)

If physical success on the battlefield cannot be translated into part of a larger aim, it is largely irrelevant even if it does a great deal of physical damage to the enemy.

What is War? A New Point of View

by Jill Long

Journal Article | December 5, 2012 05:30 AM | Comments(21)

War is the coherent execution of all means to bring about sufficient adherence to a nation’s will in the international (global) arena; resulting in armed conflict only when all other means fail.

Primitivization of War and Prospects for Peace

by Mehar Omar Khan

Journal Article | September 14, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(3)

The barbarians have come and the rules of war and peace stand transformed.

Tip-Toe Through the Trinity

by Peter J. Munson

Blog post | September 3, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(2)

Labor Day reading from Christopher Bassford courtesy of Dave Maxwell.

War: Each of Us Students

by Garrett Wood

Journal Article | August 27, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(6)

There is a danger in the empirical mode of reasoning that it will lead us to think of a thousand locals or twenty counterinsurgents as homogenous units of human being.

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