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...
The future of armed conflict is a divisive topic in which competing camps and actors grapple to control the narrative. Not formalized in existing literature, four basic schools of thought exist in the conflict and defense studies fields. These...
Through forty short chapters, the author examines diverse case studies representing, chronologically, various aspects of war at different times and in different areas around the world. The scope of the book is expansive in terms of time and space,...
An Army Afire begins by describing the crisis conditions the U.S. Army faced amid the Vietnam War. These crises occurred on a global scale. In Vietnam, there were prison riots at Long Binh and an armed standoff...
Mongols, Teutonic Knights, Napoleon, and the Germans are but a few of the many invaders who wreaked havoc from the Vistula to the Urals and created a fear of invasion that is deeply ingrained in the Russian...
Notes: J.D. Work “The Retreat of Cyber Forces after Offensive Operations,” in Armies in Retreat: Chaos, Cohesion, and Consequences ed. Timothy G. Heck and Walker D. Mills (Leavenworth, Kansas: Army University Press, 2023), 401. An...
Scholars and practitioners have been examining the art of command since organized warfare began and have identified two models: centralized and decentralized. Commanders should rely on capable, well-trained, well indoctrinated subordinates’ talents, judgments, and initiative to gain victory. War...
Notes: Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). Christopher Hemmer and Peter J. Katzenstein, “Why Is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism,” International Organization 56,...
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: Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, & U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945, (Berkeley; University of California Press, 2005), 252. “Super Bowl Ratings History (1967-present)” Sports Media Watch, accessed December 3, 2023, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/super-bowl-ratings-historical-viewership-chart-cbs-nbc-fox-abc/....
