The Battlefield Mocks ‘Diversity”
The debate over women in the infantry has heated up in recent weeks. Advocates of integration were thrilled recently...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Battlefield Mocks ‘Diversity”
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Outside Publications
When Refugees Were Welcome
Europe’s response to waves of refugees from the war-torn Middle East raises serious questions about its commitment to humanitarian values....
Did Donald Trump’s Presidential Luck Just Run Out?
Donald Trump was finally put in his place. Led by Carly Fiorina, who hit back with a pithy retort referring...
Emperor Nero’s Lesson on Ukraine
How does one fight a war for a buffer state? A war for the maintenance or reestablishment of a...
Securing the Sinai MFO Without a U.S. Drawdown
In the wake of a June 9 jihadist rocket attack on the Multinational Force of Observers (MFO) and other...
Book Review: Gaidar’s Revolution
Alexei Golovkov had a problem with the portrait of Lenin in his office. Golovkov, a top official in Boris...
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
What key lessons should U.S. policymakers and defense planners take away from the last 14 years of conflict? How...
The Bear in the Room
The protests that gripped Armenia in late June and early July have mostly ended. The protesters that once crowded Yerevan’s...
The Upside of Down: How the U.S. Wins by Losing Wars
When Sherlock Holmes first met Dr. Watson, the fictional detective famously declared: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” Holmes...
America’s July 4 Military Nightmare: With Our Recent History, Could We Even Beat the British Today?
At 9:44 p.m. on July 27, 1953, Private First Class Harold B. Smith had just sixteen more minutes of...