As such, The Strategy Bridge wanted to explore the state of civil-military relations in the United States and beyond for the final quarterly series of 2023. This quarterly’s articles take new perspectives on issues both familiar and...
Declinism looks and feels very different depending on who is deploying its rhetoric. A potent rhetoric that bears some relation to—but is not fully coextensive with—the structural and material conditions of decline, its rhetoric is exercised by...
Notes: Ben Hall, ‘’Military Briefing: Ukraine’s Battlefield Agility Pays Off’’, Financial Times, May 26, 2022; ‘’What Is Mission Command? Democracy and Freedom Can Play a Role in Military Effectiveness’’, The Economist, July 25, 2022; Mick Ryan,...
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...
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...
American overreach in the Middle East since the Iranian revolution is examined by Steven Simon in his new book Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East. Simon reviews more than four...
In his new book, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WW1 to Present, David F. Eisler grapples with one of the most complex questions in war fiction studies: Who can and should write a war story?...
Ten years ago, a disparate group of field-grade military officers toiled away at their keyboards. The world of national security blog posting was nascent, and several of them were working on individual projects, attempting to make sense...
The subject of John W. Lemza’s scholarly study The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen is a U.S. Army-produced documentary television series called The Big Picture that ran from 1951-1971 on network, local, and...
Notes: Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard, eds., To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond (Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2021), vii. Andrew Liptak, The U.S. Military Is Turning to Science...