August 9, 2021 Irregular Soldiers and Rebellious States With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly drawing down, and with new calls to focus on the threats... Read more »
June 11, 2019 The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA.... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 14, 2018 We Are Losing On December 12th, the Jamestown Foundation held the organization’s annual terrorism conference. During the first panel, a member of... Read more »
July 9, 2018 Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The... Read more »
May 11, 2018 Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of legend. Thousands of brave young men from all over... Read more »
May 11, 2018 Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II,... Read more »
May 11, 2018 Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three thousand civilians... Read more »
May 11, 2018 Decisive Force: The New American Way of War The existence of a national style of warfare, an American Way of War, has been used to characterize fundamental... Read more »
May 11, 2018 After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War The writings of Carl von Clausewitz loom so large in the annals of military theory that they obscure the... Read more »
May 11, 2018 Clausewitz and Contemporary War While many scholars agree that Clausewitz’s On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it... Read more »