Editor’s Corner Summer 2008
It is a great honor to assume the post of editor of this august and important journal. For over half a century...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Editor’s Corner Summer 2008
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
War and the East
Abstract This article proposes three lesson plans for teaching Asian military history to High School students. Each case study—Sun...
The Strange Death of Postwar Europe
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (New York: Penguin Books, 2005). Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The...
War and the West
Abstract The outline of human history over the last two thousand years is framed by armed conflict. Many would...
Rethinking the Battle of Ideas: How the United States Can Help Muslim Moderates
Abstract There is little disagreement in Washington that the United States is losing the so-called Battle of Ideas, and...
Stumbling into the Future? The Indirect Approach and American Strategy
Abstract The United States has yet to reconcile its strategic culture to the realities of the post-9/11 era. In...
Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency
Abstract Following its encounter with insurgent violence in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has sought to improve...
Knowing When to Salute
Abstract Due to a strong “Can Do” spirit and a well-engrained, albeit simplistic, notion of civilian control over the...
Dissent and Strategic Leadership of the Military Professions
Abstract One of the central difficulties to a right understanding of American civil-military relations is the nature of the...
Effective Advice in Decisions for War: Beyond Objective Control
Abstract For half a century the study of civil-military relations has focused on the problem of civilian control, with...