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…
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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…
Douhet, Mitchell, and Trenchard Oh My! Following the First World War, a trio of airpower theorists asserted the primacy of airpower and its ability to…
The Cold War Wasn’t So Cold The Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union profoundly impacted Latin America. The Cold War’s…
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…
If strategy is a calculated relationship between ends, ways, and means, then during the Cold War, American strategic ends — containment of the Soviet Union…
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…