James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton professor of international law and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and John Harvey Gregory lecturer on world ...

David Johnson is a retired Army colonel. He is a principal researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is the author ...

Col. John Christianson is a military fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an F-15E weapon systems officer and electronic warfare officer who has also flown the EA-6B and ...

Al-Shabaab’s territorial gains come as Somalia is entering a period of profound political and institutional transition. With elections looming and international donor support wavering, the state is ...

In rethinking America’s approach to airpower, pundits should look to Mahan’s contemporary, the British naval theorist Sir Julian Corbett. Corbett regarded total command of the sea with skepticism, ...

Of course, calling for an end to counterforce targeting requires articulating an alternative. I advocate CMI targeting, which is an acronym I came up with to describe holding C onventional M ilitary ...

Nonetheless, this moment of reckoning comes after years, if not decades, of drastic reductions in the size of European navies. Even though European states have managed to sustain various maritime ...

Justin Johnson spent over a decade working on defense budgets and policy on Capitol Hill and at the Heritage Foundation before spending four years in a variety of senior positions in the Pentagon from ...

As militaries increasingly adopt AI and automation, there is an urgent need to clarify how these technologies should be used in nuclear operations. Absent formal agreements, states risk an incremental ...

The Decisive Battle Bias As most U.S. observers agree, China is the rightful pacing challenge for the United States due to its economic growth, military strength, and revisionist ambitions. Despite ...

Autonomy in Software and Hardware Makes Readiness Possible It is clear that intelligent systems are changing how militaries fight across the spectrum of conflict. Advances in artificial intelligence, ...

Editor’s note: Don’t miss our comprehensive guide to Russia’s war against Ukraine. In the two weeks prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marine Corps University ran a four-day wargame to simulate ...