War on the Rocks
WEBWar on the Rocks. Placing Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait in the Context of the End of the Cold War. William Henagan, Celina Ladyga, Robert Obayda, and Ryan Evans. Sport and War: Martin Pengelly on his book “Brotherhood”.
The Importance of the Battle of Belleau Wood - War ... - War on …
WEBJun 4, 2018 · The Battle of Belleau Wood occurred 100 years ago in June 1918 during World War I. The battlefield lays about five miles west of the town of Château-Thierry, barely fifty miles northeast of Paris, France. Looking at the strategic context in early 1918, Belleau Wood was only one small piece of a major …
Machiavelli’s 27 Rules of War - War on the Rocks
WEBAug 3, 2014 · At the end of the dialogue, in Book Seven, Machiavelli’s Fabrizio offers 27 “general rules” of war, which are listed here: What benefits the enemy, harms you; and what benefits you, harm the enemy. Whoever is more vigilant in observing the designs of the enemy in war, and endures much hardship in training his army, will incur fewer ...
Understanding War’s Enduring Nature Alongside its Changing …
WEBJan 21, 2014 · The nature of war describes its unchanging essence: that is, those things that differentiate war (as a type of phenomenon) from other things. War’s nature is violent, interactive, and fundamentally political. Absent any of these elements, what you’re talking about is not war but something else. The character of war describes the changing ...
The Malacca Dilemma: Growing Chinese Military Power
WEBNovember 5, 2021. The People’s Republic of China has risen over the past two decades to become the world’s largest economy, when measured by purchasing power parity. As Chinese global economic interests and influence have expanded so, too, has the size and capability of the Chinese military. In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma ...
The Tank Is Not Obsolete, and Other Observations About the …
WEBSeptember 6, 2022. After six months of war in Ukraine, some observers have insisted that “we are seeing the very nature of combat change” and that tanks, along with fighter jets and warships, “are being pushed into obsolescence.”. But it is too soon to write off the tank, and we should resist jumping to other sweeping conclusions about ...
Think Tanks and American Interventionism - War on the Rocks
WEBNov 24, 2021 · Influential Democratic and Republican national security voices have condemned the president’s decision to withdraw.John R. Allen, a former commander of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and now president of the Brookings Institution, called upon Biden to “reverse his decision.”Richard Fontaine, head of the Center for a New American Security and longtime aide to the late Sen. John McCain ...
Advantage At Sea Requires Rethinking Influence - War on the Rocks
WEBMar 5, 2021 · Editors note: This essay is the sixth in a series of eight articles, “Maritime Strategy on the Rocks,” that examines different aspects and implications of the recently released tri-service maritime strategy, Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power.Be sure to read the first, second, …
The Return of Great-Power Proxy Wars - War on the Rocks
WEBSep 2, 2021 · International developments, including proxy wars in Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen over the past decade, revealed this to have been an insightful list. Western democracies put up with extended deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years, so the diagnosis of a “syndrome” appears to have been premature.
Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet …
WEBNov 8, 2019 · In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center, sits down with Professor Paul Pope and Dr. Kiril Avramov of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas and Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, to discuss the history of influence operations and active ...