Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
[ad_1] During the Cold War, U.S. Special Operations Forces accepted extreme levels of operational risk during routine training exercises. The Green Light teams, for instance,...
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TNSR is Hiring an Executive Editor
[ad_1] The Texas National Security Review (TNSR, https://tnsr.org) is seeking a motivated, innovative, detail-oriented, and energetic executive editor to take the reins after the successful inaugural tenure...
Confronting the Iraq War: Melvyn Leffler, George Bush and the Problem of Trusting Your Sources
[ad_1] Melvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) Historians have always faced the problem of...
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War
[ad_1] On this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma Clement Center Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar, who helped to oversee the Russian language broadcasts of...
Japan’s Strategic Shift Is Significant, but Implementation Hurdles Await
[ad_1] Last month, the Japanese government released three landmark strategic documents: the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the Defense Buildup Plan. Collectively,...
Reconsidering Clausewitz on Friction – War on the Rocks
[ad_1] In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought about inducing friction...
Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile
[ad_1] The camera from a small drone steadies on a Russian T-72 tank somewhere in Ukraine. Slight movements can be seen in the video as...
The Triumphs and Tribulations of Peter the Great: What Putin’s View of 18th-Century Warfare Can Tell Us About Ukraine
[ad_1] Why did Peter the Great wage the Seven Years War? Why did he fight the Swedes for seven years? And the Battle of Poltava,...
Manpower, Materiel, and the Coming Decisive Phase in Ukraine
[ad_1] In his latest discussion with Ryan on the war in Ukraine, Mike Kofman explains why the coming spring and summer will be strategically decisive....
Software Defines Tactics – War on the Rocks
[ad_1] The book “The Bomber Mafia” revolves around the efforts of military officers to develop effective tactics for a bomber force, emphasizing the feedback cycles...