By Bruce D. Kowal The Proposal in Brief This is a proposal to create a United States Navy Auxiliary, a volunteer organization of U.S. Navy Continue Reading
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China’s “Lay Flat” Problem: Passive Resistance in an Age of Active Competition
In recent years, a quiet but consequential social trend has emerged in the People’s Republic of China: tang ping (躺平), or “laying flat.” At its core, Continue Reading
Iowa, Nebraska and Kentucky Lead Per-Capita Toll in Listed U.S. Iran War Deaths
By Dylan PrescottAs Armed Forces Day approaches, a new state-by-state analysis offers a stark reminder that wartime losses are not felt evenly across Continue Reading
Explaining Iran’s “These Hands Are Rated E for Everyone” Strategy
To most Americans, Iran’s foreign policy often looks less like grand strategy and more like a drunken bar fight. Missiles at Israel. Proxy attacks Continue Reading
When Ike Overtook Churchill
By Jonathan W. Jordan Editor’s Note: This excerpt and image from Ike and Winston by Jonathan W. Jordan are published with permission from Continue Reading
Far From Familiar Faces: Romanian Human Intelligence Teams during the GWOT
By a former Special Forces Officer “I know that I will be called upon to perform tasks in isolation, far from familiar faces and voices.” -The Continue Reading
The Battlefield Is Not a Diversity Workshop
There was a stretch of time when the Pentagon seemed to believe war was, at bottom, a branding problem. Not a logistics problem. Not a training Continue Reading
Iran’s Pink Missile Problem
Some regimes project power. Others perform it. And right now, Iran is doing theater. Not the kind meant to entertain—but the kind meant to Continue Reading
You May Fly Over a Land Forever; You May Bomb It, Atomize It, Wipe It Clean of Life — But…
“You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life — but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for Continue Reading
Sermons From Behind the Bodyguard
There is no creature on Earth more comical than the modern respectable person calling power vulgar while enjoying the quiet luxury of being guarded by Continue Reading
Leave No One Behind: It’s OK That the Rest of the World Doesn’t Understand
There are a lot of things about the US military that don’t make sense from the outside looking in. Why we train the way we do.Why we push people to Continue Reading
How Military Electronics Are Shaping the Future of Defense Operations
Photo by Ries Bosch on Unsplash Modern defense operations run on military electronics long before a single shot is ever fired. Sensors, processors, Continue Reading