An Overture to Victory: Operation Vivaldi and Ukraine’s Path to Battlefield Decision
For twenty months, Russia’s 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies ground toward Lyman, a small city...
Read MoreRobert G. Rose | 09.24.26 | Commentary & Analysis
For twenty months, Russia’s 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies ground toward Lyman, a small city...
Read MoreRobert G. Rose and Matthew Revels | 05.20.26 | Commentary & Analysis
“You musicians of Mars must not wait for the band leader to signal you. . . . You...
Read MoreRobert G. Rose | 02.25.25 | Commentary & Analysis
When I was in NATO’s headquarters in Kabul, a belief emerged that negotiations with the Taliban...
Read MoreRobert G. Rose | 09.12.24 | Commentary & Analysis
There is only one principle of war and that’s this. Hit the other fellow, as quick as you...
Read MoreRobert G. Rose | 04.02.24 | Commentary & Analysis
Of course facial hair doesn’t constitute a warfighting domain. Of course cherry-picked historical...
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