A Leader’s Guide to Conducting Staff Rides
Dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, armies have been using the “modern” staff ride,...
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Battlefield Assessments
Dangerous Myths, Ukraine, and the Future of Great Power Competition
Editor’s note: This article introduces a full report based on a contemporary battlefield...
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Lessons for America’s Longest-Running War from the Americas’ Longest-Running Insurgency
In 2016, Colombia achieved a remarkable success by seemingly bringing to an end the Western...
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Analyzing the Russian Way of War: Evidence from the 2008 Conflict with Georgia
Editor’s note: This report is an MWI Contemporary Battlefield Assessment, a collaborative effort...
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The Taming of the Tigers: An MWI Contemporary Battlefield Assessment of the Counterinsurgency in Sri Lanka
Editor’s note: This report is an MWI Contemporary Battlefield Assessment, a collaborative...
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Modern War Institute Cadets and Faculty Tour Sri Lanka Battlefield
The Modern War Institute takes a team of faculty and cadets to Sri Lanka to study the final operations of its decades-long civil war.
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MWI Battlefield Assessment on the Siege of Sarajevo
In this new report, MAJ Michael Jackson finds that the positional warfare of the siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s resembled the trench warfare aspects of World War I far more than the dynamic urban warfare American forces faced in Baghdad in 2003.
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