Remembering D-Day 1944
79 years ago today, the greatest amphibious assault in the history of warfare took place in order to liberate Europe and to save the world from Nazi evil. A 2019 article in the New...
Category: Military History
Your summer 2023 reading recommendations are here!
Are you assembling your reading list for the summer? I am, so I thought perhaps you’d be interested in some ideas. If you are new to the national security arena, may I invite you...
Thinking about President Roosevelt’s prayer on D-Day, June 6, 1944
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...
Dr. Dave Johnson’s warning on brute force in Ukraine: “This is What the Russians Do”
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...
Dave Graham on Sam Moyn’s “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War” and much more!
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...
Guest Post: Bill Knightly on “Russia’s Baltic Fortress”
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...
Analyzing the Afghanistan disaster (Part 3): Do America’s war colleges need to change?
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...
Gen Mattis on law, lawyers, law school, and the commanders’ role in military justice
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...
Guest Post: Tobias Gibson on “Sinews of Peace and the Importance of Churchill”
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...
Tom Ricks on his new book, “First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country”
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...
