How Will We Fight?
Abstract In considering the question “How will we fight?”, this article begins by examining the threats we face from...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
How Will We Fight?
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Editor’s Corner Summer 2009
In These Pages This issue of Orbis focuses on the national security challenges facing the Obama administration, raising critical...
Making Government Work: Pragmatic Priorities for Interagency Coordination
Abstract Numerous studies outlining what needs to be done to improve the U.S. interagency system have been conducted in...
Managing and Assessing Risk
Managing Strategic Surprise – Lessons From Risk Management and Risk Assessment, edited by Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer and David...
Authoritative History for Which Generation?
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, by George C. Herring. Oxford University Press. Read the full...
Dangerous Revisionism: On the Founders, ‘Neocons’ and the Importance of History
Abstract Debates regarding the Bush Administration’s grand strategy began long before the forty-third president left office. A group of...
Military engagement, strategy, and policy
Many states increasingly rely on the United States for either the actual provision of security or the training and...
Forging the Future of American Security with a Total Force Strategy
Abstract An intense debate now rages concerning whether the Army should be preparing and organizing to conduct more ambiguous,...
The Imperative for an American General Purpose Army That Can Fight
The American Army should organize itself for war, and the most fundamental element of war, as the Prussian War...
Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review
President Obama’s defense team is beginning the congressionally mandated Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in an unusual set of circumstances:...