National Security Policymakers—No Experience Necessary?
The United States possesses the most capable military in human history accompanied by the largest intelligence community in ...
The Long Gray Online
A core group of mid-grade officers are changing the way professional discussions, doctrinal analysis, and institutional innovations take ...
Rethinking the Role of Religion in Counterinsurgency
Insurgent violence in the name of religion dominates our headlines. This summer, Boko Haram advanced rapidly across northeastern ...
How Military Advisers Can Avoid Mission Creep in Iraq
The term ‘military adviser’ is often applied by governments to troops conducting military operations in order to address ...
American Witnesses of the Nazi Rise to Power
Your book Hitlerland chronicles the lives of Americans who witnessed first-hand the Nazis rise to power. What drew the Americans ...
CBRN Robotics: Unmanned Recon and Decon Systems Needed
Throughout my 23 years of experience across the full spectrum of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense, ...
Iran Nuclear Talks a Win-Win for Tehran, Washington
As the P5+1 talks with Iran drudge along toward a tentative agreement, it makes sense to throw out conventional ideas ...
What the War Classics Teach Us about Fighting Terrorists
Clausewitz has taken a beating in the War on Terror. His theories on warfare initially came about coincident ...
When Politics and Intelligence Meet
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, modern states and their intelligence organs have gone ...
Revisiting the First 102 Days of the War on Terror
The phrase Tora Bora became a tagline for anti-Bush stump speeches by John Kerry during his 2004 presidential ...