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Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight
During the Cold War, U.S. Special Operations Forces accepted extreme levels of operational risk during routine training exercises. The…
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TNSR is Hiring an Executive Editor
The Texas National Security Review (TNSR, https://tnsr.org) is seeking a motivated, innovative, detail-oriented, and energetic…
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Confronting the Iraq War: Melvyn Leffler, George Bush and the Problem of Trusting Your Sources
Melvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Historians have…
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The Truth Shall Set You Free: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War
On this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma Clement Center Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar, who helped to oversee the…
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Japan’s Strategic Shift Is Significant, but Implementation Hurdles Await
Last month, the Japanese government released three landmark strategic documents: the National Security Strategy, the National Defense…
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Reconsidering Clausewitz on Friction – War on the Rocks
In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought…
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Into the Pickle Barrel: How Thinking About Precision as a System Can Expand the Munition Stockpile
The camera from a small drone steadies on a Russian T-72 tank somewhere in Ukraine. Slight movements can be seen in the video as the…
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The Triumphs and Tribulations of Peter the Great: What Putin’s View of 18th-Century Warfare Can Tell…
Why did Peter the Great wage the Seven Years War? Why did he fight the Swedes for seven years? And the Battle of Poltava, do you know…
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Manpower, Materiel, and the Coming Decisive Phase in Ukraine
In his latest discussion with Ryan on the war in Ukraine, Mike Kofman explains why the coming spring and summer will be strategically…
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Software Defines Tactics – War on the Rocks
The book “The Bomber Mafia” revolves around the efforts of military officers to develop effective tactics for a bomber force,…
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