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The currency of great power competition in the 21st-century is neither ballistic missile nor aircraft carriers. It is rather a state's administrative capacity, structural resilience, and governing legitimacy. Because the

As if you needed another reason to vote. This is a historic constitutional crisis in the making—Trump’s Order Sets the Stage for Loyalty Tests for Thousands of Feds if he

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What's interesting is that "large-scale" future combat will more likely be asymmetric in the sense that small, distributed forces will be capable of destroying larger static ones. Systems confrontation and

The proliferation of autonomous anti-tank drones that we'll see in coming years will be not unlike when the spread of the crossbow signaled the beginning of the end of the

(U) Illegaly-armed groups took to the streets, setting up intimidating if hapharzard roadblocks, and conducting faux foot patrols in order to demonstrate loyalty to the regime. Analyst comment: The regime

I started writing an article about the deep roots of the intelligence-policy divide before Kent and Kendall and ended up writing an article about how Kendall was actually right, and

August 6th, 1945. A day that will live in infamy. #Hiroshima75 For context: "I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade proper or shall we bomb and blockade?

One of our biggest problems is that 19th-century inheritances have become so ingrained as to be nearly unextractable. For example, the core building blocks of infantry, cavalry, & artillery, that

Thread - What Heraclitus Teaches Us About Strategy (1/) Some view the world as mechanistic & deterministic, in which the future unfolds inexorably from the present. By measurement & analysis,

I don't know who needs to hear this but dividing the military into "Officer" and "Enlisted" classes is an antiquated holdover of aristocracy and has little actual relevance for the

Thread: A man has many faces, but we usually only see one of them. I had always known my father simply as “dad”. To me, he was at once fearsome