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The MWI Book Club
An Army that reads is an Army better prepared to fight and win its nation’s wars. When the stakes on the battlefield are life...
Operation Vivaldi
For years now, the war in Ukraine has been fought on a largely static battlefield—characterized by attrition, with little opportunity for maneuver, and with...
How Commanders Win Wars
How did George Washington overcome virtually every material disadvantage to defeat the British during the Revolutionary War? How did Ulysses S. Grant turn the...
NATO's Ankara Summit
NATO just wrapped up its 2026 summit in Ankara, Turkey. Over two days of meetings and other events, the leaders of the alliance's thirty-two...
Logistics, Landpower, and Large-Scale Combat
For years of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, US Army forces, along with their joint and coalition counterparts, benefits from a logistics enterprise...
The Future of the All-Volunteer Force
In 1973, the US military took an enormously consequential step when it adopted an all-volunteer force model. That decision has produced the most professional,...