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A “senior lecturer” at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England, for getting his Franks crossed. In a piece titled “General Botched Both Gulf Wars” in the National Post …

U.S. strategists have long been torn about which of the factions in Iraq represents our most natural ally. We have given protection to the Kurds since the end of Operation Desert Storm, …

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Gen. George Casey, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, has prepared a plan to reduce U.S. combat forces in Iraq from the current …

The perks and pitfalls of forward operating bases

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a large, new vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations into the American experience of war: GWOT, GSAVE, …

The history of air power in unconventional warfare

Any publication with insurgents and terrorists in its title is certain to attract a certain amount of attention these days, but a 2003 book …

Jointness hobbles the services in a decentralized fight

“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has …

If warlords cared about etymological niceties, they might be the first to decry the mutation of their evocative title into a bland bureacratic “ism.” These guys aren’t political theorists; they’re the commanders …

The enduring quest for decisive battle

At 10 o’clock in the morning Dec. 2, 1805, a few miles west of the Austrian town of Austerlitz, the main weight of the Austro-Russian forces …

These are bountiful days in U.S. shipyards, but the industry may be steaming into rough seas

After a decade-long decline in U.S. military shipbuilding budgets, from $11.5 billion in 1991 outlays to …

A look at Rumsfeld’s right-hand man

On a Tuesday afternoon in January, Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, sat in his spacious but Spartan E-ring office in the Pentagon, contemplating …