Today we commemorate one of the most important events of World War II: D-Day. 78 years ago thousands of U.S. and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe and to end...
Today’s guest post is by Dr. David E. Johnson, a retired Army colonel and a principal researcher at the RAND corporation. After reading his essay I am coming around to idea that the President’s...
In today’s post my friend (and, really, mentor of many years) retired colonel Dave Graham reviews Yale’s Sam Moyn’s provocative new book “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,.” I think...
In today’s post retired Army colonel turned historian Bill Knightly treats us to a brief tutorial on Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on NATO’s eastern flank. Notwithstanding all the media discourse about Russia’s threats to...
Today’s guest post is the third in a series of essays examining the Afghanistan disaster (Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here). Today’s author is Adam Oler, a familiar name to those who...
Former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps general Jim Mattis made his views clear about the importance of a commander-centric military justice system earlier this year when he spoke at our 2021 Center...
Today’s guest post comes to us from Tobias Gibson who is Chair of the Political Science Department and the Director of the Security Studies Program at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. If that institution...
Wondering what to do with that gift card you received on the 25th? I very highly recommend you use it to get a copy of Tom Ricks’ new book, First Principles: What America’s Founders...
Today’s guest post is a truly fascinating one by my great friend, Adam Oler, who explains the sophisticated counter-atrocity education the National Defense University (NDU) offers military and civilian leaders attending its graduate programs. ...
This family heirloom was begun by my late grandmother, and completed by my mother before she too passed away in 1992. I believe the words reflect the view of many veterans, and I hope...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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