S.L. Nelson
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Military Personnel
Hegseth's Herculean Task
Enable action by removing barriers. Phase five of John Kotter’s famous change model proves the most stubborn as Secretary Hegseth continues to reform...

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Toward a Continental Approach for Arctic Homeland Defense
A regionally centered homeland missile defense posture remains an important component of U. S.

Military Strategy
Redefining Strategy in the High North: Wargaming a Contested Arctic
The Arctic used to be the kind of place officials invoked when they wanted to sound serious about the future: a far-off white expanse, forbidding and...

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American Caesar
Trump’s Gaza Gambit—A New Chapter in Western Counterinsurgency History rarely unfolds in neat, predictable chapters. Instead, it is shaped by the...

Air Warfare
The Machines Are Here
AI Wargaming and Battle Management for NATO How three experiments show the future of human-machine teaming in combat, strategy, and command. The...

Military History
Mao's Triumph
The Strategic Alchemy Behind Victory in the Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was not merely a contest of armies, but a vessel in which the fate...

Russo-Ukraine War
Nothing New Under the Rising Sun
The evolution of technology over time is a formula that keeps compounding and increasing the capability of belligerents in war while truncating the...

Military Strategy
Training While You Fight
Imagine an operating environment where friendly forces develop and simulate optimal solutions as they enter the battlespace. Future-leaning...

Military Personnel
Pete Hegseth: Selfless Chivalry vs. Selfish Chauvinism
Editor's Note: This article was orgininally published on January 30th, 2025 and reposted today in response to secretary Hegseth's recent speech to...

Military Strategy
Why the U.S. Military Must Build a Mental Agoge for Its Leaders
Forged for the Future: Why the U. S.

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
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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