Monthly Archives: June 2014

opinionWar

Warrior Culture: Ditch Redskins, but Keep Apache

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have cancelled the trademark registration of the Washington Redskins football team, convinced the team’s logo ...
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The Myth of Obamas Realism

Never before in the history of the United States has there been such a yawning gap between the ...
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Why Urban Warfare Studies Still Matter

To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in urban warfare, but urban warfare is interested in you. At ...
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Will U.S. Military Advisers Face Mission Creep in Iraq?

President Obama announced as many as 300 U.S. military advisers may be deployed to Iraq to assist the ...
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Christopher Coker on Prospects for a Great Power War

What do you say to those out there Margaret Mead, John Horgan and others who say that war ...
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Two Views of Intelligence

The purpose of intelligence is to speak truth to power. Intelligence agencies exist to provide decision-makers with absolute, ...
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Just Killers, Moral Injuries

In 1915, six months after the outbreak of World War I, Sigmund Freud offered this less than prescient comment:   ...
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Getting Behind Hybrid Warfare

When ISIS stampeded its way across western Iraq, some observers described it as a new kind of “hybrid ...
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Are Manned or Unmanned Aircraft Better on the Battlefield?

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly referred to as “drones,” (also known as RPAs or UCAVs)  have become an increasingly ...