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Less than War, More than Peace
The United States has focused so closely on conventional warfare in all its forms–land, sea, and air–that it has trouble when forms of warfare that are resolutely unconventional crop up. A… more →
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Less than War, More than Peace
silbey wrote 10 months ago: The United States has focused so closely on conventional warfare in all its forms–land, sea, a … more →
Fighting the Last War
silbey wrote 10 months ago: It is a commonplace of analysis–historical and otherwise–to suggest that militaries figh … more →
A Military Under Stress
silbey wrote 10 months ago: Suicide rates in the military have jumped over the past few years. The Army has seen the highest rat … more →
Cold War Transition, Part IV (Conclusion)
silbey wrote 1 year ago: Part I (Army),here Part II (Air Force) here The services remain largely stuck in their efforts to tr … more →
Cold War Transition, Part II: The Air Force
silbey wrote 1 year ago: Part I (Army),here The United States Air Force has been the poster child for avoiding the cold war t … more →
Marching Through Georgia
silbey wrote 1 year ago: Historical Background Much of the conflict between Russia and Georgia can be explained by looking at … more →
Attack on Iran?
silbey wrote 1 year ago: Is an attack on Iran about to happen? A Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker has spurred a ground … more →
Nuclear Iran?
silbey wrote 1 year ago: This is a very strange op-ed. Benny Morris, an Israeli historian, essentially argues that unless the … more →
Nagl leaving the Army
silbey wrote 1 year ago: And so the blowback against Petraeus and counterinsurgency in general continues. See here for a good … more →
Military, not Political
silbey wrote 1 year ago: The incident in the Persian Gulf between Iran and the United States last week has tended to be analy … more →
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Get You There
silbey wrote 1 year ago: Perhaps the most urgent lesson of any war is exactly the need to learn from the conflict. Combat is … more →
