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The Collapse of the Continuum of Conflict
National security professionals often conceptualize a continuum of conflict as a framework to understand the wide variety of ways in which conflict can manifest...
DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race
When the Chinese company DeepSeek recently released an artificial intelligence model called R1, its surprisingly advanced capability and the efficiency with which DeepSeek claimed...
Why Security Force Assistance Only Sometimes Works
After twenty years of America’s post-9/11 wars and the US military’s struggle to build capable and effective security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, there...
How the Assad Regime Fell
For well over a decade, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad managed to hold onto power during a complicated civil war involving a number of anti-regime...
Inside the Battle of Azovstal
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, one of its first targets was the city of Mariupol. Despite being outnumbered by—and less well equipped...
Amateurs Talk, Professionals Write
Writing is often treated as a peripheral activity in the military, but it is a defining characteristic of any profession—including the profession of arms....