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Title page of Le Petit Journal, October 20, 1907, with original caption translated as, “The Apache is the sore of Paris. More than 30,000 prowlers against 8,000 city policemen.”

July 15, 2025

A Framework for Countering Organized Crime

States continue to struggle in their efforts to counter organized crime. Despite states having scored successes at the operational level, organized crime has proven too adaptable and too resilient to be seriously affected. Instead, ground has been lost politically, societally, and even territorially to armed gangs, cartels, and other illicit structures. The result is a steady erosion of the rule of law, of norms of sovereignty, of governance, and of human security.

Two military personnel analyze satellite imagery on a computer monitor. One woman, wearing glasses and a fleece jacket, points to a section of the map displayed on the screen, while the other, in camouflage uniform, observes attentively. The setting appears to be a military or intelligence operations room equipped with computers and monitors.

July 15, 2025

Intelligence Reform at 20: How Joint Military Intelligence Lost Its Groove and How to Get It Back

In a 2015 Joint Force Quarterly article, several analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) proposed a vision for how the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) would lead analytic transformation into what we now call “strategic competition.”

Book cover of The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail by David H. Ucko. The cover features a black-and-white historical photograph of a man standing on horseback, aiming a rifle, with others around him. The title is in bold red and blue text at the top, and the author's name appears at the bottom in white. The image conveys a theme of guerrilla warfare or armed rebellion

July 15, 2025

The Insurgent’s Dilemma

As an expert on insurgency in Latin America, my investigations of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) led me to observe an interesting dilemma: The FARC adopted methods that made it militarily strong yet undermined the popular base it was trying to mobilize.

Book cover of Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy (Second Edition) by John J. Klein. The cover features a cosmic scene showing Earth from space with illuminated city lights on the surface, and a large celestial body, possibly the Moon, rising above the Earth's horizon with a glowing light behind it. The background is filled with stars. The title and author’s name are prominently displayed below the image, with the Routledge logo in the bottom right corner.

July 15, 2025

Space Warfare

The second edition of Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy, John Klein’s landmark work on spacepower, is a substantial expansion and update to the original.

Book cover for Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars, edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie. The image shows a pilot in a futuristic cockpit with glowing digital controls and displays, looking out at a landscape filled with advanced aircraft and holographic interfaces, suggesting a fusion of human and machine capabilities in warfare.

July 15, 2025

Human, Machine, War

The U.S. military is often criticized for emphasizing the application of exquisite and ever more expensive technology over other factors in its conception of future warfare.

B-21 Raider hovers above desert ground while conducting flight testing.

July 15, 2025

The Long Pivot: The Development of the Joint Warfighting Concept

The final withdrawal of troops from Iraq in December 2011 left most U.S. military leadership with the desire to shift their focus from counterinsurgency—which had achieved a position of intellectual dominance in the U.S. military during the war on terror in the late 2000s—back to conventional warfighting.

U.S. military personnel in camouflage uniforms work intently at computer stations in a command center. One service member points at a screen while others focus on their monitors. The environment suggests a high-tech operations or cyber defense setting.

July 15, 2025

A Conditions-Based Look at a Cyber Force

The 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy explicitly calls to “deter cyberattacks from state and non-state actors and will respond decisively with all appropriate tools of national power to hostile acts in cyberspace, including those that disrupt or degrade vital national functions or critical infrastructure.”

Medical professionals provide intensive care unit skills training. Three individuals, wearing face masks and protective clothing, including one in an Australian Air Force uniform with a red cross patch, work together using a manual resuscitator. The image is framed from a low angle, possibly through medical equipment, emphasizing the urgency and teamwork in a clinical setting.

July 15, 2025

Revive: Getting Medical Supplies and Expertise Right in Distributed Maritime Operations

In the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military medical enterprise achieved historical highs for saving lives and treating extreme injuries.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet from the "Fighting Redcocks" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Philippine Sea, April 22, 2025.

July 15, 2025

Increasing Operational Access: A Strategy for the Western Pacific

The geostrategic challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Western Pacific is a contest that the United States must counter with the collective implementation of the instruments of national power in pursuit of improved operational access for the U.S. joint force.

SpaceX’s Starship SN8 prototype shortly after liftoff from Boca Chica, Texas.

July 15, 2025

T-BIRRD: Transforming the Future of Military and Humanitarian Logistics

The adage “amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics” resonates more profoundly than ever in an age of rapid technological advancements and global challenges.