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Minimum Viable Force: Operational Considerations for Future Force Design
What is the smallest-sized ground force that can operate in a single theater against a first-rate peer competitor?
Aug 17
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Maneuver in the Mountains: Opening Moves of the Chickamauga Campaign
The Campaigns for Chattanooga, Part 2
Aug 7
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Rebalancing Combined Arms: A Look at Future Force Structure
The modern system of combined arms discussed in last Dispatch shows no sign of going away in the 21st century.
Jul 24
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A Military-Industrial Complex With a State: Sweden in the 17th Century
Aug 23, 2025
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Strategy in an Endless War: The Arab-Byzantine Frontier, Part 1
Nov 4, 2025
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Venice and the Problem of Grand Strategy
Apr 26, 2024
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The Iran War Is Not a War: Military Contests vs. Strategic Objectives
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Triumph of the Byzantine System: The Arab-Byzantine Frontier, Part 3
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Red Commissars of the Serene Republic: The Venetian Way of War
Jan 13, 2025
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Parallel Readings and Combined Arms: Two Essential Books on 20th-Century Warfare
To truly understand any complex topic requires studying it from a variety of angles.
Jul 17
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Can the Small Drone Problem Be Solved?
Will counter-drone defense ever become effective enough that it becomes uneconomical to employ FPVs in mass quantities without any complementary effort?
Jun 30
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Virtual Fronts, Mobile Firepower
The growth of armies between the 18th and 20th centuries profoundly changed the nature of operational art.
Jun 25
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Strategic Maneuver
The purely military aspects of strategy often get short shrift. They lack the complexity—or at least dynamism—of tactics and operational art, and are…
Jun 14
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Maneuver in the Mud: The Tullahoma Campaign
The Campaigns for Chattanooga, Part 1
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Amateur Tactics, Professional Logistics: The Operational Level and the Study of War
A famous, but apocryphal, quote attributed to Moltke dismissed the American Civil War as “two armed mobs chasing each other around the country, from…
May 15
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The Iran War Is Not a War: Military Contests vs. Strategic Objectives
One of the frustrating things about much of the early commentary around the Iran war was how it framed the relationship between military force and…
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