Center for Strategic Communication

What is War? A New Point of View

By: Jill Long War is the coherent execution of all means to bring about sufficient adherence to a nation’s will in the international (global) arena; resulting in armed conflict only when all other…

Counterterrorism’s Center of Gravity Problem

Reading John Arquilla’s latest Foreign Policy piece makes, me, as I am wont to, think about dead Prussians. Arquilla takes a look at the battle for Obama’s “strategic soul” and contrasts it to Reagan’s own deliberations about the best...

War: Each of Us Students

By: Garrett Wood There is a danger in the empirical mode of reasoning that it will lead us to think of a thousand locals or twenty counterinsurgents as homogenous units of human being.