The United States has engaged in 17 nation-building efforts since 1900, with only four resulting in established democracies—a 24% success rate if democracy establishment is the metric (Figure 1). How ...

One of the joys in my life is volunteering at the USO lounge at our local airport. Here I serve soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, most of them currently on active duty and traveling from one ...

Planners today struggle to properly apply operational art in large scale war — and they don’t fully realize why. It takes something like firsthand experience in a strategic level wargame against a ...