David Johnson is a retired Army colonel. He is a principal researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is the author ...

In rethinking America’s approach to airpower, pundits should look to Mahan’s contemporary, the British naval theorist Sir Julian Corbett. Corbett regarded total command of the sea with skepticism, ...

There is nothing fantastical about a European mission in Ukraine. France and the United Kingdom are considering such a proposal and, as recent reporting suggests, have discussed it during President ...

Of course, calling for an end to counterforce targeting requires articulating an alternative. I advocate CMI targeting, which is an acronym I came up with to describe holding C onventional M ilitary ...

As an aside, it is worth highlighting that much of this is driven by wider factors. The approaches in a defense industrial strategy remain interconnected with defense planning and wider grand strategy ...

Put together, the above seems to paint a dire picture for Ukraine and its prospects going forward. But one of the key lessons from watching this war, and the way that it’s covered in the media, is ...

The semi-enclosed Baltic Sea is both a shallow and narrow basin connecting Europe’s northeast. It is composed of the littoral states’ territorial waters as well as their exclusive economic zones — ...

The shift in Ankara’s rhetoric is driven by the logic of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) leadership’s support for the Palestinian cause, its objection to a U.S.-led world order, and the ...

Editor’s note: Don’t miss our comprehensive guide to Russia’s war against Ukraine. In the two weeks prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marine Corps University ran a four-day wargame to simulate ...

Ukraine has used new technology to help to turn the tables on Russia. As one of the first conflicts in which both belligerents possess advanced tech infrastructure, this conflict has become a ...

Pillar II’s early promise was quick wins — distinct from the long horizon of the submarine project — but it seems the goal posts have been moved. Now, the 2027 rotational deployments of U.K. and U.S.

The war in Ukraine is the first major land war between two modern militaries equipped with advanced conventional weapons in decades. Its emerging lessons could fundamentally upend our understanding of ...