Chaos as Condition, Order as Achievement: Rethinking US Strategic Assumptions in Twenty-First-Century Interventions
For the better part of a century, the grand strategy of the United States has been predicated on a...
Read MoreJ. William DeMarco | 01.20.26 | Commentary & Analysis
For the better part of a century, the grand strategy of the United States has been predicated on a...
Read MoreRaphael Parens and Christopher M. Faulkner | 01.15.26 | Commentary & Analysis
Ukraine has emerged as the world’s most intense proving ground for modern warfare. Yet, these...
Read MoreJoshua Koncar | 01.02.26 | Commentary & Analysis
Eisenhower was right—wars are won or lost on logistics. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the...
Read MoreCharlie Phelps and Benny Jenness | 12.10.25 | Commentary & Analysis
Three dozen silhouettes glided silently through the dense pine forests. The platoon’s tactical...
Read MoreIskander Rehman | 11.11.25 | Commentary & Analysis
“It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the...
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