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Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us from Future Mistakes? The Weinberger Doctrine of 1984, for example, considered by many strategists the template of the first Gulf War, is both drawn from and cites Clausewitz. |
Parameters Summer 2005 R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Embedding: More Background... Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us?... Civil-Military Relations at the Top... etc. |
Parameters Summer 2008 J. Boone Bartholomees |
Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars. |
Parameters Summer 2005 William M. Darley |
War Policy, Public Support, and the Media Perhaps no element of the current conflict in Iraq engenders more emotion and acrimony within the military than debate concerning the role and influence of the news media on public opinion and national policy. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
Parameters Summer 2005 |
Commentary & Reply Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done... Clausewitz and "How Has War Changed?"... etc. |
Parameters Spring 2005 Colin S. Gray |
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? For the West, and for the most part, 12 of the past 15 years can fairly be described as an interwar period. That brief no-name era, usually referred to neutrally as the post-Cold War period, came to an explosive end on 11 September 2001. |
Parameters Summer 2006 David W. Barno |
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Audrey Kurth Cronin |
Cyber-Mobilization: The New Levee en Masse The U.S. needs a counter-mobilization. So-called information warfare and public diplomacy do not capture the extent of this shift. Putting today's developments within their historical context, the U.S. should get beyond its cultural myopia and turn more attention to analyzing and influencing the means and ends of popular mobilization. |
Military History Quarterly Winter 2007 |
Letter from Winter 2007 MHQ For centuries soldiers have used military history to develop a theory of war and principles for planning an armed conflict or campaign. The same is true for the current war in Iraq. |
National Defense December 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
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Parameters Winter 2006/2007 |
Commentary & Reply Beware of Boldness... The Most Professional Military... etc. |
AskMen.com Roberto Rocha |
6 Classic Books For Successful People Think that only hotshot CEOs write great business books? Think again. Some of the great strategic thinkers of the past few centuries offered written words of advice that are still valuable today. |