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 ...
The Myth of Obamas Realism
Never before in the history of the United States has there been such a yawning gap between the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two Views of Intelligence
The purpose of intelligence is to speak truth to power. Intelligence agencies exist to provide decision-makers with absolute, ...
Just Killers, Moral Injuries
In 1915, six months after the outbreak of World War I, Sigmund Freud offered this less than prescient comment: ...
Getting Behind Hybrid Warfare
When ISIS stampeded its way across western Iraq, some observers described it as a new kind of “hybrid ...
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 ...