War
War Is Extinct, and We Miss It! Part 2: Why ...
Big war is winnable, but we do not know if or when we have won a small war. America has ...
War Is Extinct, and We Miss It! Part 1: What ...
America’s most successful wars were fought to enforce diplomacy with foreign governments that had a central decision-making entity. Those wars ...
Why Are God, Jehovah and Allah Taking All the Blame?
In a recent article for Cicero, Forest Grace claimed that monotheistic Western religions (which he defined as Islam, Judaism and Christianity) are inherently ...
Women in Combat: Why Now, Whats Next
The Secretary of Defense has spoken. More than two centuries of male-only combat arms in the United States military have ...
The War Aquatic with Nancy Sherman
In her 2010 book, The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers, Dr. Nancy Sherman, a Georgetown ...
Why Are the Religions of the West so Violent?
As religious conflicts continue to escalate in the world, one cannot help but concede that mankind really has not improved ...
The Islamic State Meets the Laws of Economics
The so-called Islamic State’s Caliphate faces an adversary more deadly than the bombs being dropped upon it. It has not ...
Winning the Peace in Mesopotamia
Academics, generals, and the intelligence community are generally in agreement concerning the changing character of war: yesterday’s wars were waged over land, today’s ...
A New Image for an Old al-Qaeda
Over three decades, al-Qaeda has undergone a number of changes. Faced by an alliance of powerful governments and ISIS, another ...
The Talibans Siege of Kunduz Highlights a Worrying New Dynamic
The Taliban seized the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on 28th September after five months of fighting. Even though the city was recaptured ...