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Category Archives: War
About 300 active-duty members of the US Armed Forces die in accidents each year
It’s not clear that Trump’s wars will cause a rise in deaths in our armed forces (given that improvements in medical care steadily reduce accidental and criminal deaths). Approximately 250 to 320 active-duty members of the US Armed Forces die … Continue reading
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Decoding The Just Security Institute
Written with AI: The role of Just Security within the national security ecosystem extends into the granular management of professional reputations and the long-term archiving of dissent. While it functions as a coordination hub, it also operates as a prestige … Continue reading
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Our Enemies Exploit Western Legalism
Defeating the exploitation of Western legalism requires a transition from seeing law as a constraint to seeing it as a maneuver space. The thinkers who address this usually fall under the banner of lawfare—the use of law as a weapon … Continue reading
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Decoding Military Historian Antulio Echevarria
Antulio Echevarria occupies a different intellectual niche from David Kilcullen or Frank Hoffman. He is less a practitioner of counterinsurgency and more a Clausewitzian historian of strategy. His work tries to clarify what modern conflict is, rather than inventing new … Continue reading
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‘Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law’
That’s the title of an essay by Australian law lecturer Amanda Alexander in the 2023 book, Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law. She writes: The distinction between civilians and combatants and the … Continue reading
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Decoding Hybrid War Expert Frank Hoffman
Frank Hoffman occupies a specific niche inside the U.S. national security ecosystem. He is not primarily a regional expert like Michael Eisenstadt and not a political advocate like think tank policy entrepreneurs. His role is conceptual architect. His main contribution … Continue reading
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Elites Don’t Like The Trump Rhetoric About The Iran War
The FT reports: “‘Cavalier and demeaning’: the Trump team’s hyper-aggressive war rhetoric” Per Alliance Theory, the current “War of Words” over Operation Epic Fury is not a debate about ethics—it is a status war over the “Sacred Language” of American … Continue reading
Pentagon Switches To Plain Talk Instead Of Elite Talk
Coop LoPresto (@LCplLoPro) writes on X: There’s a couple things in here that, while not a huge deal, I can dig. And mainly it’s just the language of the presentation. Ever since Hegseth became SecDef/War/Bro, you can hear staff officers … Continue reading
Decoding The Pentagon
The unfolding conflict with Iran, Operation Epic Fury, serves as the ultimate “stress test” for the newly rebranded Department of War. As of March 3, 2026, the operation is entering its fourth day, and the friction between the executive coalition … Continue reading
Decoding War Studies Expert Andreas Krieg
According to Kings College, London: “Andreas Krieg is a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, Royal College of Defence Studies and fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. He has spent more than … Continue reading
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