Military Strategy

Here’s What You Need to Remember: You have to be cautious with historical fiction for sure. There does have to be some realism to the choice of variable and to the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the end, the answers to “how do we build a powerful army” remain painfully simple. The focus of ground combat operations has shifted dramatically since...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Many of you will protest who made my list, who got left off and who was placed where in the pecking order. Good! Get out...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A defensive fire attack means that the firefighters have arrived to an advanced enemy that has grown to a size and strength that prevents the...

Here’s What to Remember: “Clausewitz proclaims in effect that strategic fluency spares commanders and their political masters from reinventing the wheel whenever some new contingency with strategic import arises.” U.S. naval...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Strategist are not exempt from marketing their ideas. Far from it. The jingle or ad campaign that administration officials, congressmen, or whatever important audience we’re targeting...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: You have to be cautious with historical fiction for sure. There does have to be some realism to the choice of variable and to the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Military sage Carl von Clausewitz hints at why business precepts furnish partial guidance at best for martial ventures. Clausewitz distinguishes sharply between “preparations for war” and “war...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Many of you will protest who made my list, who got left off and who was placed where in the pecking order. Good! Get...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Avoiding bad wars is perhaps the most important responsibility of leadership. Among George Washington’s chief warnings in his Farewell Address was that the United States should take...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the end, the answers to “how do we build a powerful army” remain painfully simple. States that have access to enthusiastic populations with high...

Here’s What You Need to Know: What sorts of ideas from the strategic canon resonate? Here’s one: it oftentimes seems that strategy comes in threes. Clausewitz has his “trinity” of rationality,...