strategy

When it comes to video games, I peaked 15 years ago.

The superiority the U.S. Air Force has enjoyed in skies around the world for the past three decades is coming to an end, the service's new top officer said in his first major strategic document, published this week

"If we don't change — if we fail to adapt — we risk losing the certainty with which we have defended our national interests for decades"

A new “Marine Littoral Regiment” coming to Hawaii — the first of its kind in the Marine Corps — represents a major shift for the service in the “great power” competition playing out in the Western Pacific and preparation for a high-tech missile war in the region

The new acting secretary of the Navy said recently that he is open to designing a fleet that is larger than the current 355-ship plan, one that relies significantly on unmanned systems rather than solely on traditional gray hulls

"The message is pretty blunt. It dramatically erodes the U.S. military edge is Asia, and over the long-term, America's military primacy in Asia is clearly under threat," said one expert about the pace of Chinese military tech development

Advanced land-based missiles that can kill ships hundreds of miles out to sea could change future wars in the Pacific

Between Aug. 7, 1942, and Feb. 9, 1943, U.S. forces sought to capture – and then defend – the Pacific island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese military. What started as an amphibious landing quickly turned into a series of massive air and naval battles. The campaign marked a major turning point in the Pacific theater of World War II

Carl von Clausewitz is one of the most profound military thinkers of all time. His famous book On War is our bible and he is a god among military strategists. But we should stop teaching Clausewitz in the U.S. military.

'The Many Faces of War' is a well-researched, creative, historical, mythological and academic look at war, in the cold and often harsh light of trauma, damaged brains, mythology and a very broad sweep of literature

The recent resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis reminds us that serving the nation at the strategic level is not an amoral activity, nor a place where realism pushes ethics off the stage or where Machiavelli is more useful than Aristotle

In November 1862, in the wake of the Union victory at Antietam, President Lincoln fired his general-in-chief General George B....

To create an environment where this was feasible—where officers could use individual judgment and yet cooperatively further the overall objective...

B.H. Liddell Hart is considered by some to be the Clausewitz of the 20th century, and his most important book,...

The U.S. military has made lethality the lone benchmark to gauge everything from readiness, training, and global strategy under the...

The other day I began re-reading Piers Mackesy’s The War for America, 1775-1783. It was as brilliant as ever, a...

The Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) has always been a fun dog to kick. MDMP can be a laborious process,...

Everyone talks about how admirable mission command is. Seldom is heard a discouraging word about it. So I was surprised...

Skilled leaders have discovered ways throughout history to take advantage of ambiguity. And it can counter the overdoses of established...

It took me a long time to work out what was going on in Afghanistan. What I saw in front...

And it is pretty funny. The other day I suggested that it would be good to have a reading list...

Editor’s Note: This article by Richard Sisk originally appeared on Military.com, the premier source of information for the military and veteran community. The U.S....

The Navy used to boast that in a crisis, one of the first questions the president asks is, “Where are...

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik (ret.) writes that “our Army too often looks at war as independent from its purposes.” That’s...