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WEBGregory Poling, Kristen Gunness, Collin Meisel, and Eric Robinson. Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Cyber Effects in Warfare: Categorizing …
Addressing the U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis
WEBMar 10, 2023 · How bad is the recruiting crisis? During the last fiscal year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers, or 25 percent of its target. This shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476,000 to 466,000. And the current fiscal year is likely to be even worse.
Loitering Munitions in Ukraine and Beyond - War on the Rocks
WEBApr 22, 2022 · Loitering munitions are not new to Russian operations. Russia’s military has two systems comparable to anything that Ukraine may build or acquire. The first system, the Lancet, was successfully employed in Syria in 2021 by Russian special operations forces. With a loiter time of 30 to 40 minutes and a range of approximately 40 kilometers ...
Lessons from the Littoral Combat Ship - War on the Rocks
WEBNov 15, 2021 · The Beginnings of the Littoral Combat Ship. Following the end of the Cold War, the disappearance of the threat from the Soviet Union meant that the U.S. Navy lost its great raison d’etre. The lack of a clearly defined naval mission in the 1990s, combined with the same budgetary pressures faced by the other services as defense funding fell ...
To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best ...
WEBSep 6, 2022 · We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment. Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain in recent years.
Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics and the …
WEBNov 23, 2021 · In a 2016 War on the Rocks article, David A. Shlapak and Michael W. Johnson projected that the Russian army would overrun the Baltic states in three days. Become a Member. Most of these wargames, such as RAND’s Baltic study, focus on fait accompli, an attack by the Russian government aimed …
The Need to Train Data-Literate U.S. Army Commanders
WEBOct 17, 2023 · The strategic documents guiding the U.S. Army are littered with phrases like “data-centric,” “data management,” “data interoperability,” and “data-driven.”. The Department of Defense’s Data Strategy states that “Data is a Strategic Asset” and the secretary of the army’s second objective is “…to ensure the Army ...
China’s 'Three Warfares' in Perspective - War on the Rocks
WEBJan 30, 2018 · China introduced the concepts of public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare when it revised the “Political Work Guidelines of the People’s Liberation Army” in 2003. Knowledge of these “Three Warfares” — as they became known in Chinese military writings — slowly dispersed to Western security analysts.
The Tank Is Not Obsolete, and Other Observations About the …
WEBSeptember 6, 2022. After six months of war in Ukraine, some observers have insisted that “we are seeing the very nature of combat change” and that tanks, along with fighter jets and warships, “are being pushed into obsolescence.”. But it is too soon to write off the tank, and we should resist jumping to other sweeping conclusions about ...
The Changing Character of Combined Arms - War on the Rocks
WEBMay 23, 2022 · The Nature of Combined Arms. Just like war, there is an enduring nature and changing character to combined arms. Combined arms involve combining capabilities in a simultaneous manner to prevail. Traditionally, this combination involved indirect and direct fire to support ground maneuver and closing with the enemy. For Stephen Biddle, the essence of combined arms is captured in the concept of ...