3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (435+ words) By the standard army scorecard, I had just presided over a failure. What came back was twelve beds, forty soldiers, and four tents, less than a tenth of the beds the field hospital had available, all packaged to move. Then…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (220+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense In modern warfare, the front line no longer begins where supply trucks stop. It begins wherever a drone can see. When a blue force commander says during…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (140+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense To avoid getting lost in the seemingly endless range of variables and possibilities, strategic appraisal begins with what can now be observed to narrow the range of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (299+ words) Deterrence, it only works if the adversary can see the capability and the resolve to use it. So a capability that is buried inside of a special access program signals neither of those things. Subscribe: Android | RSS Aaron Brown is…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (99+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense It’s that time of the year when we take a two-week pause to recharge, refresh and reset. Our team will get a chance to take some leave, spend…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (81+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense The operational environment, not culture, dictates strategy, East or West. As these Western examples demonstrate, the choice between a direct or indirect approach is based on risk…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (339+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense Diagnosing the Symptoms, Isolating the Causes If a military claims to want multi-domain specialists, but its promotion boards, medals, and career plans exclusively reward kinetic combat success,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) Editor’s Note: In this episode, the participants discuss the performance of four commercially available large language models. This discussion and the testing of these models do not constitute an endorsement by the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (767+ words) War Room – U.S. Army War College Creative Thinking about National Security and Defense I have routinely met soldiers who presented for a routine medical concern or command-directed evaluation, and quietly disclose months of worsening sleep, irritability, and emotional withdrawal they…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (753+ words) I have routinely met soldiers who presented for a routine medical concern or command-directed evaluation, and quietly disclose months of worsening sleep, irritability, and emotional withdrawal they normalized as “just part of the job.” Viewing these patterns both from the…...