By Mike Morris, Strategy Bridge: “U.S. forces have mostly enjoyed the relative autonomy necessary to figure out what must be done to prepare for combat.
By Steve Cohen & Randy Forbes, The Hill: “The reason these risks were termed “acceptable” is that our current notion of acceptability — or accountability — often does not reach high enough.
By Kyle Amonson, Small Wars Journal: “War and conflict has been as much a constant in human history as humans. As Kenneth Waltz states, “there is no peace in a condition of anarchy,” and there will always be a form of anarchy as long as human nature is a variable in our complex domestic and international systems.”