Keir Giles, Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, led a seminar at King’s College London about Russia’s military transformation earlier today. Below are my notes from the seminar and the Q&A that followed:...
The US’s military and political goals in Afghanistan in Iraq have always been expressed in fairly nebulous terms, but the current behind-the-doors goal seems to be to simply draw down and get out as...
Today was the first meeting of the “Approaches to War” module at KCL (which was in a bit of disarray, as the original instructor, Dr. John Stone, will apparently not be teaching the course...
Joshua Foust, who writes the excellent Registan.net blog, testified before the Senate about intelligence community contractors (his full comments are available in the link). Meanwhile, Irvin Charles McCullough III promises to look into the...
Last night, I attended the departmental induction session for War Studies at KCL. I came to London and to this school knowing only that it has a stellar reputation for War Studies, so otherwise...
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There are plenty of great defense, strategy, and intelligence blogs written by professionals and well-known academics. As someone new to the field, I created this blog to help fellow novices wade into the world...
Someone posted the following account to the /r/military community on Reddit using a throwaway username. I’ll leave it up to you to determine the authenticity, but it’s a fascinating account with an important point...
I like to keep a TV show on in the background as I work, since I find the background noise less distracting than music but more reassuring than silence. Thanks to dual monitors and...
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