Strategy

Absent an offensive victory, things don’t look very bright for Kyiv.

David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (New York City, Harper). 536 pp., $32.00.  Not often does the release of a book coincide with...

The 2024 House authorization and appropriation bills for the Department of Defense contain language that is a welcome sight. In a section entitled “Accelerating Change with a Near-Term Hedge,” Congress...

Following the “long wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military is in the midst of attempting a major re-orientation toward the Indo-Pacific region. Concurrently, rising neo-isolationism on both ends...

A top priority for the Biden administration when the Russia-Ukraine War erupted was to secure maximum international support for a strategy to penalize and isolate Moscow. It is clear that...

As Vladimir Putin’s ill-conceived, ill-informed, and illegal invasion of Ukraine rages on, the Biden administration rightly deserves high praise for uniting the West against Putin’s war of aggression and territorial...

Andrew Lambert, The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). 544 pp., $35.00. STRATEGY ADDRESSES the general question...

Here’s What to Remember: By contrast, the U.S. military has been at war almost continuously since 2001. China’s military has not had much combat experience in recent decades, and this is recognized among...

Here’s What to Remember: One of the most interesting sections of this paper is an evaluation of the information war about Syria that has been underway between Russia and the West....

Here’s What to Remember:  Why risk major combat over, say, a Taiwan contingency if you can slow down the U.S. Pacific Fleet and associated joint forces long enough to conquer...

Here’s What To Remember: How do we gauge how well we are faring in this gathering strategic competition? Let’s answer briefly from the standpoint of the United States as a...

Here’s What to Remember: Unsurprisingly, China and Russia are identified as the only two threats with “formidable” capabilities against the United States, Iran and North Korea, meanwhile, are classified as “gathering”...