Essay: Navy, Air Force Reviving Offensive Mining with New Quickstrikes
Consumed with long-running irregular warfare challenges, the Pentagon took its eye off the ball with respect to maritime warfare, particularly…
Essay: Building a Mediterranean Arc of Stability for America’s Long War
The United States is truly involved in a Long War. While the Army and Marine Corps have enjoyed long periods…
Essay: Mistakes Are Not War Crimes
Let’s get one thing straight: Accidents are not war crimes. Unintentional or collateral damage does not constitute a war crime,…
Essay: Strategies That Matter — One Size Fits None
Airpower advocates exited the Gulf War trumpeting an unambiguous victory for airpower—and they were right. The air campaign against Iraq…
Essay: Strategies That Matter – Why Targets That Matter, Don’t
In 1954, U.S. Representative W. Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, announced what had been suspected: that…
Opinion: What if They Held a Salvo Competition and Nobody Came?
After Vietnam, the Department of Defense turned its attention back to the Soviet threat in Europe. Faced with an opposing…
Essay: Capability-Based Planning and the Death of Military Strategy
In the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, released days before the September 11 attacks, the Department of Defense announced a shift…