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Exploring changes in the practice of war while the fundamental nature and principles of war are unchanging. Includes mercenaries, PMSC, Hybrid Warfare, revolution in military affairs. For in...
As I post this, the cease-fires in Lebanon and Iran are still holding, and much longer than I expected. We usually think of cease fires as a...
Every time the United States or Israel use military force, there are immediate claims that those military forces are committing war crimes....
The United States is in yet another war. The usual pundits say that we cannot win while others say we have already won. The same people seem...
I am not sure, but I think that I mention the Laws and Customs of War in about half of my episodes. (Clausewitz, of course features in almos...
I believe that the Law of War remains valid in modern warfare and is essential to establishing peace after war. Despite that belief we see S...
In podcast episode 128, posted just before Operation Epic Fury began, I outlined how I think that an attack on Iran could be just, necessary...
In the last episode, I said that I would compare we know about Operation Epic Fury against the Weinberger-Powell doctrine for the use of Ame...
I keep on trying to podcast about other things and current events keep distracting me. In my previous episode in this series, “The Persian P...
By the time anyone reads or listens to this podcast, the situation with Iran may be completely different than when I write this. In keeping...
Can strategic bombing of cities ever be justified? In the previous episode of this podcast series (E126), Col. Altieri said that the air for...
The philosopher of war, Carl von Clausewitz, described three legs that support the architecture of war: Primordial violence, the play of cha...
The inevitable never happens. It is the unexpected always. -- J.M. Keynes 1938 Almost everyone plays with predicting the future. Persons who...
The idea that we would invade Greenland is about the stupidest idea I ever heard. I find it difficult to believe that anyone believed that i...
Recently, there has been controversy over public statements from some politicians about the responsibility of members of the armed forces to...
This series on Terrorism is wrapping up with the problem of state sponsored terrorism. This form of international terrorism is most clearly...
In the last few episodes, I explained that international terrorism can be considered a war form and how it has been practiced through histor...
If terrorism, unlawfully attacking civilian targets to achieve a political outcome, is a modern war form, a different manner of armed confli...
I decided to change the trajectory of this series. Rather than continue with the history of terrorism, I am jumping ahead to how terrorism f...
This continues my description of terrorism and warfare. The previous episode defined terrorism. This episode traces terroristic attacks from...
What is terrorism? Is it something as old as warfare or something that has changed the nature of war? Is fighting terrorism the same as coun...
I am reluctant to post much of anything about the current armed conflict in Gaza. As the saying goes, the first casualty in war is the truth...
It seems that the time has come in Putin’s war on Ukraine that both sides indicate a willingness to negotiate. But negotiate what? This epis...
Although diplomacy should not end when fighting begins, there are two conditions in war where one or more parties will seek to negotiate pea...
Recently, Pope Leo XIV used the anniversary of the atomic bombing that ended WW2 to call for the rejection of war as a means to resolve conf...
Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos, by Professor Candace Rondeaux is a must read for anyone i...
I am picking up my podcast series where I left off, addressing the challenges of peace. War is an act of violence among nations or states, a...
Now that I have laid the groundwork for what I think everyone needs to know about war, I can digress and address current topics of interest,...
In my closing podcast summarizing the Ancient Art of Modern Warfare I review key points from Episodes 91-96 about peace, with an application...
After taking a Christmas break, I am picking up on my summaries of the Ancient Art of Modern Warfare. In the previous episode, I described t...
In this second episode of my summary series, I address the Nature of War. That nature is violence directed at an opponent to coerce him to s...
For a little more than five years and 105 episodes, I have been podcasting on what I believe everyone can and should know about war and some...
In a recent episode of my podcast series of “The Ancient Art of Modern Warfare” (E104) I described possibilities for an end to the fighting...
Last week, I attended the annual “Summit” meeting of the International Stability Operations Association, or #ISOA. This association includes...
Is a negotiated peace possible, or even desirable between Russia and Ukraine? How can this be done without validating Russia’s invasion of U...
We often hear that this or that military attack caused disproportionate civilian casualties. Most often, these accusations are directed agai...
What is the common theme to mercenaries, natural resources, hypersonic missiles, Gaza, and exploding pagers? I can think of several, but in...
The fighting in the Kursk Oblast is still ongoing, and it would be much to soon to derive any lessons to be learned from this event. This ep...
The war in Ukraine has taken a very interesting, and I think, exciting turn of events. The advent of combined arms maneuver warfare reminisc...
Clausewitz’s descriptions of friction, taken with the often antagonistic interplay among his trinity of passion, policy, and probability, ke...
Clausewitz wrote that there are three forces at work when a nation goes to war: “unbridled passion,” reason, and the play of chance and prob...
War is really very simple, but Clausewitz cautioned that by saying that in war, even the simplest thing is difficult, sometime insurmountabl...
If the only acceptable outcome of war is a peace, and the only sustainable peace is a just peace, then it is essential to answer the questio...
The subject of Just War, or Justum Bellum, is a frequent topic in these podcasts. If, however, the only acceptable justification for any war...
In Chapter 17 of the Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli wrote that a prince ought to desire to be thought of as clement and not cruel. It is more im...
Just as it takes two parties to agree to fight a war, it takes both parties to agree to peace. Getting both warring parties to agree to peac...
Ending a war begins when one side or the other believes that the cost of continuing to fight exceeds any expectations of success. This could...
My podcasts on The Ancient Art of Modern Warfare presented the elements of war that I think every citizen should know in holding our elected...
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s book, The Go-Between. Although the way people do...
“Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hen...
Who is this Clausewitz guy? The Army War College studies many different theories and theorists of war, from Thucydides of ancient Athens, Su...