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A Quick Look at the Historiography Concomitant with the idea of a “Western Way of War” is the quest for decisive battle. Throughout much of history, militaries and generals have sought to decide conflicts in one decision — achieving goals through annihilation of the enemy rather than protracted, prolonged wars of attrition and exhaustion. An…
href="https://www.rfmwill...I’m deeply grateful for Col. Cole Kingseed’s thoughtful review of The Airborne Mafia in Army Magazine. As someone whose own scholarship and professional example I’ve admired for years, his engagement with the book means a great deal to me. Few historians have written with more clarity and insight about the U.S. Army’s post-World War II evolution than Col.…
...Between 1905 and 1914, the various powers in Europe and the United States developed air power at a much different rate. During this period, the United States lagged behind significantly in air power development primarily because there was not a glaring need for its development, whereas in Europe, war was on the horizon. European development…
href="https://www.rfmwilli...On October 25, 1983, US President Ronald Reagan launched Operation Urgent Fury, an air and sea invasion of the tiny island of Grenada. Initially alluding to the need to protect American citizens on the island and quelling unrest, the ultimate reason for U.S. intervention was to prevent further Communist influence in the hemisphere. Soviet and Cuban military aid...
Is it Counterintuitive? The 20th century witnessed the most destructive wars in human history, but high intensity conventional wars were the exception, rather than the rule. Small wars, irregular warfare, insurgencies, and other violent conflicts dotted the historical landscape throughout the period. The breakup of colonial empires after World War II, in particular, witnessed...
