Also read "An Introduction to Strategic Leadership: Part I" and "Intro to Strategic Leadership Part II: Military Continue Reading
Libya: When Multi-National Military Interventions Go Wrong
One can best describe the principle behind forming international security organizations (ISOs) using an old Sioux saying: “One arrow alone is easy to Continue Reading
Intro to Strategic Leadership Part II: Military Leadership
Also read "An Introduction to Strategic Leadership: Part I." The upper echelons of the military, particularly in Western democracies, epitomize Continue Reading
An Introduction to Strategic Leadership: Part I
The general theme of most scholars defining strategic leadership refers to an organization's upper-echelon management person or group. These Continue Reading
The Responsibility to Protect and Its Unintended Consequences
Paragraph 139 of the United Nations charter regarding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in ethnoreligious conflicts states that the international Continue Reading
The Security Dilemma: Offense-Defense Balance and Differential
Academics define the security dilemma from a few different perspectives, but most revolve around realist international security studies theories. Continue Reading
What is Security?
The definition of security and the related theories vary greatly among scholars and those closely connected to the industry. However, the Continue Reading
Why Ukraine Matters…But It Shouldn’t
The Russo-Ukraine conflict is fast approaching the first anniversary of the invasion with no apparent end in sight. However, there is now an increased Continue Reading
An Eye in the Sky and Millions on the Ground
A Chinese surveillance balloon has dominated everyone’s news feeds for the last several days, but there is more to this story than is being reported. Continue Reading
Prospect Theory and the Russo-Ukraine Conflict
Plato stated that “necessity is the mother of invention.” Similarly, numerous prospect theory scholars assert that perceptions of gains versus losses Continue Reading
Rifts and Retribution or a Return to the Republic
The recent [2023] contentious votes to elect the next Speaker of the House were not the embarrassment or threat to democracy the demagogues on both Continue Reading
Hypocrisy and Much Ado About Something: The “Biden Files”
There is a lot to unpack from the recent disclosure that President Bident had several classified documents stored in a few dubiously secured Continue Reading