John F. Sullivan
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Interpreting Sun Tzu: The Art of Failure?
If you now wish to inquire into the Way of [the ancient sages], may I suggest that one can hardly be certain of it? To be certain of it without...
Military Strategy
Siege Mentality: A Tale of Two Wus
“What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. ” —Sun Tzu, The Art of War [1] Victors who do not know how to build on their victories...
Military Strategy
Sun Tzu's Fighting Words
For good generals do not attack in open battle where the danger is mutual, but do it always from a hidden position, so as to kill or at least...
Military Strategy
Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic
When the people of Yue studied the art of long-distance archery, they looked up at the sky and shot, but their arrows landed only five paces away...
China
#Reviewing The Hundred-Year Marathon: Running on Flimsy Historical Grounds
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower . Michael Pillsbury.
Grand Strategy
A New Sun Tzu Translation: Is There Any Blood Left in This Old Stone?
Sun Tzu: The Art of War . Peter Harris.
Military Strategy
Rethinking Sun Tzu
POWs and the Captured Chariot Incentive Program BUY ON AMAZON The author James Clavell once wrote that if he were ever put in charge of the U. S.
Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense
Reflecting on an Epic Horse Campaign in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Brian Glyn Williams • RealClearDefense
The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
26th MEU – U.S. Needs Crisis Response MAGTF
By Marine Corps Compass Points
The Influence of History on a Sea Power
By CDR Salamander
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
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