The military has always been a “social experiment” The United States Army has a long and complicated history surrounding inclusiveness and diversity. Be it race,…
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A Quick Look at the Historiography Concomitant with the idea of a “Western Way of War” is the quest for decisive battle. Throughout much of…
Is it Counterintuitive? The 20th century witnessed the most destructive wars in human history, but high intensity conventional wars were the exception, rather than the…
Few historians have as monumental of an impact on the field as Edward M. Coffman. Throughout his career, he has broken new ground in military…
What Are They? How Has the Concept Played Out? Revolutions in military affairs have had meaningful impacts on the way wars have been fought. A…
How the Major Powers Innovated Between World War I and World War II The prolonged stalemate of trench warfare on the western front of the…
Is it merely the alignment of ends, ways, and means? Strategy is the deliberate alignment of means to goals, a product of competent leaders operating…
Harder than you might think The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 have shown that waging war is often much easier than terminating…
Economics is the Sine Qua Non of Waging War In their three-volume Military Effectiveness set, Allan R. Millett and Williamson Murray argue that political effectiveness involves a…
The United States has no Single Way of War This is a historiography for the masses article In his landmark book, The American Way of War, Russell…