By M.P. Woodward One of the joys of writing military and intelligence fiction is that I get to relive the years I spent living adjacent to the Continue Reading
National Security
We Probably Learned the Wrong Lessons from the GWOT
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the U.S. military is adapting from two decades dominated by Iraq and Afghanistan toward an environment Continue Reading
Sinking Legality | The Hidden Dangers of Waging War on the High Seas
By Morgan Ellis Author’s Preface This article is based on publicly available information and accepted principles of international and military Continue Reading
The Army Azimuth: True Bearing for Land Dominance
Introduction: The Next Link in the Strategic Chain This article continues my examination of the 2025 National Security Strategy and the 2026 Continue Reading
Stop Building the Enemy’s Biography
By Juan Pablo Vivaldi Remy Every staff I have served on eventually does the same thing when intelligence grows thin: someone starts building the Continue Reading
You Think You Want a Non-Interventionist U.S., Until You Get a Non-Interventionist U.S.
For most of my adult life, the United States has been at war somewhere. I spent a good portion of my own military career in those wars, particularly Continue Reading
Afghanistan: A Woman, Just Like Me
By Kaitlyn Trevathan On Saturday, September 11, 2021, my dad shared a post reflecting on his memory of 9/11. He wrote, “In the coming hours Continue Reading
The War That Won’t Wait for Us
By Carlin McKeahow Picture a command post at two in the morning. The coffee has been sitting on the burner too long. Somebody has half a sandwich Continue Reading
Extremism Starts Before the Weapon
My understanding of radicalization did not begin in a classroom. It began much earlier, shaped by personal experience, growing up in environments Continue Reading
The Sky Is Full of Secrets and the Filing Cabinet Has a Security Clearance
UAP disclosure is the perfect American scandal because everyone gets to be wrong in their own special outfit. The government, naturally, behaves Continue Reading
Why Are So Many People Suddenly Obsessed With the USS Liberty Incident (Again)?
Every few months, it, seems, the USS Liberty incident makes the rounds online again. Someone discovers it for the first time. Someone else insists Continue Reading
There Is Merit in the Admiral’s Reading List
By Bruce D. Kowal It is a marvelous tradition of the chiefs of our armed forces to publish a professional reading program, a reading list for Continue Reading