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Book cover titled "The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power" by Robert D. Kaplan, best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography. The background features a dark, stormy, abstract texture with gray and black tones, evoking a somber and contemplative mood. The title and author’s name are displayed in large, serif font across the center of the cover.

May 29, 2025

The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

Robert D. Kaplan’s early 2023 book, The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, is the latest of his nearly two dozen books over the past 35 years.

Three books superimposed over one another in the following order: War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World; The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire; A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future For the Future Force

May 29, 2025

War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World | The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire | A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force

The war in Ukraine has been going on for 3 years now, and much has been written about Vladimir Putin’s strategic failures and the valor of the Ukrainian defenders.

Book cover titled "Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century" by Rebecca Patterson, Susan Bryant, Ken Gleiman, and Mark Troutman. The cover features a stylized line drawing of a classical female warrior figure holding a sword, standing atop a globe marked with stars. The background is a solid dark blue with contrasting gold and white text.

May 29, 2025

Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century

Winning Without Fighting is an excellent new book crafted by four veteran scholar-practitioners that presents a strategic framework for winning the competition between the United States and its allies on the one side and an emerging authoritarian axis that includes China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea on the other.

Wounded Marine gets injection of blood plasma from Navy Hospital Corpsman during battle for Okinawa, Japan. The corpsman is using the rifle as a plasma holder.

May 21, 2025

Both Joint and Not Medical Support at Okinawa, 1945

In 1945, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps invaded Okinawa. Heavy casualties were projected, and medical planning was thorough and multi-layered. Medical support was as joint as anything the period could offer, although quite different from today.

Soldier crouches as enemy fire passes overhead just off one of the beaches on east coast of Leyte Island, Philippines

May 21, 2025

Movement and Maneuver at Leyte, October 1944

Today’s joint force is grappling with changes in the character of war as a complex interplay of human innovation, proliferating technology, and international politics drives an expansion of warfighting domains.

Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launch unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with test reentry vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

May 21, 2025

Obstacles to Integrating Deterrence

This article calls for a strategic shift in how the United States addresses today’s security threats—ranging from peer nuclear adversaries to disruptive emerging technologies.

Chip shortage and US-China trade conflict. Global chip shortage crisis and China-United States trade war concept. China flag and US flag on computer on chip electronic circuit board. Computer hardware.

May 21, 2025

Defusing Weaponized Interdependence: A New Approach to Measuring Country Reliability

Eisenhower School faculty members Michael Harsch and Shaun Lee have developed an interesting analysis method for assessing the willingness of one nation to partner with another. This article explores how growing geopolitical risks are challenging the way countries manage global trade and supply chains.

Three sailors participate in mass casualty drill on flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, South China Sea.

April 17, 2025

Toward a 21st-Century Medical Offset Strategy

We are applying a late 19th-century to early 20th-century mindset to try to solve 21st-century problems.

Marine Corporal Thomas Lord, air support operations operator with Marine Air Control Group 48, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, communicates critical information during Northern Lightning 23, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, August 16, 2023 (U.S. Marine Corps)

July 30, 2024

Joint Force Quarterly 114 (3rd Quarter 2024)

As I have written before in this space, change is a constant. NDU Press and Joint Force Quarterly are not immune to this fact. Recently, we moved to a more modern Web-based platform that will be less expensive to maintain and operate.

Eleven Mi-17 helicopters from 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucson, Arizona, are placed on flight line in preparation for transport to Ukraine.

July 29, 2024

Engines of Chaos: Counterlogistics in Competition