How a Russian Razor Blade Explains American Strategic Culture
Americans and Russians use very different shaving implements, and this fact provides an extremely useful representation of our equally different approaches to war and strategy.
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Author: M. L. Cavanaugh
The Watch and The Pen: The Strategist’s Two Tools
To think deeply about strategy, avoid the distractions of modern personal technology, writes MWI Non-Resident Fellow ML Cavanaugh.
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Clausewitz in Space: The Trinity for Trekkies
MWI Non-Resident Fellow ML Cavanaugh turns to a Hollywood classic for a tool to understand Clausewitz’s famous trinity of passion, reason, and chance.
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Winter is Coming: Sociology and the Next Great War
MWI non-resident fellow ML Cavanaugh places current political trends—in the United States and globally—are part of a long-term historical pattern, and that we are entering an era in which great war is increasingly likely.
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What is Strategy?
MWI Non-Resident Fellow ML Cavanaugh examines the many competing definitions of strategy that have been put forth and offers a simple and clear definition of his own.
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