Notes: Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), 580. Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), 595. During the Great Northern War from 1700 to 1721, Charles XII’s Swedish Empire confronted an...
Part of the University of North Carolina Press’ Civil War America “Landmark Series,” edited by Peter S. Carmichael, Caroline E. Janney, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, the book contributes to broader scholarship examining how the Civil War transformed the...
On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones arrives as the latest addition to a niche subgenre of historical analysis that seeks to reconcile the psychological difficulty of killing with mankind’s rich history of successfully waged warfare. While...
In Autumn of Our Discontent, John Curatola contends the Soviet creation of an atomic bomb was not the single determinant for the United State’s 1949 decision to establish a large defense structure. Rather, the almost simultaneous confluence of several...
Written in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Finley has given her lead protagonists, the Caro family, the ultimate pre-retirement tour: a three-year assignment to Rome. Victor and Vanessa Caro, who embody a modern partnership between...
The failure of national security planners to adequately incorporate multiple perspectives into United States foreign policy has proven costly both financially and in terms of failure to achieve policy objectives. This unilateral focus stems from a combination of limited...
Notes: Julian S. Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918), 93. Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898), 7, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044013659107&view=1up&seq=9....
Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to have observed, “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” As we do each year at The Strategy Bridge, we...
Chapter 14 shifts back to a U.S. perspective on the last several years, noting that America could certainly stymie China’s ambitions for dominance of the international system—if the U.S. can summon the domestic political will to do...
In recent quarterlies published by The Strategy Bridge, many authors have tended to center the United States in discussions about strategic competition. In doing so, they have illuminated perspectives about the national security challenges facing that nation.
Hypothesis: the...
