While serving as a company XO with the 1st Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2014, Ryan Crayne and his company were training in Bridgeport, California when they received emergency overseas deployment orders to Afghanistan. https://lnkd.in/eK5Tsmnq
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Frank Sobchak, PhD
Chair, Irregular Warfare Studies, Modern War Institute, USMA West Point. Senior Fellow GNSI at USF. Adjunct Professor, Joint Special Operations…
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Eric Hundman, Ph.D.
China specialist, geopolitical analyst, and Mandarin speaker with more than 15 years of experience as an open-source researcher, writer, public…
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John Amble
Editorial Director at Modern War Institute at West Point
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Ryan Burke
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Updates
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Not sure if the fiction genre is a useful tool to think about the future of war? Read this story by Major Garrett Chandler (Garrett C.). #FICINT https://lnkd.in/d7ZEFJZN
The Price of Victory - Modern War Institute
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"In the broadest sense we believe that the road to deterrence and victory (if deterrence fails) has three general axes of advance: strategy, acquisition and logistics, and human capital." How prepared is the United States—militarily, economically, and otherwise—for the prospect of a protracted war?
On (Protracted) War: The Challenge of Sustained Large-Scale Combat Operations - Modern War Institute
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"The reserve component Ranger battalion would also encourage Rangers who are leaving active duty to transition to the Army National Guard.... It would mean the opportunity for the Army to bolster the return on its substantial investment in these elite soldiers." What if the Army added an additional Ranger battalion? And what if it placed it in the Army National Guard?
Part-Time SOF: The Case for a Ranger Battalion in the National Guard - Modern War Institute
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From strategic surprise to sustainment operations under siege, these are the lessons that have been on display since last October 7.
A Year Since October 7: Three Key Lessons from the War in Gaza - Modern War Institute
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Iran's large-scale ballistic missile attack against Israel is still being unpacked for lessons. But three immediate takeaways should inform the way we think about the future of air defense.
Iran’s October Surprise: Three Takeaways for Future Air Defense Strategy - Modern War Institute
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"Part of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps, [the Yahalom Unit's] organization, training, and equipment rightly reflect that at its core, underground warfare is as much an engineering challenge as a strictly combat one." Israel has acknowledged that it has been sending raiding forces into Hezbollah's tunnel network in southern Lebanon. Why?
Israel’s Campaign against Hezbollah and the Fight for Southern Lebanon’s Tunnels - Modern War Institute
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"Many of their operatives right now are probably running scared. That's exactly the type of psychological fear the Israelis are hoping to have here." The unprecedented attack against Hezbollah pagers and ICOM radios was a stunningly successful operation—and a glaring failure of the group's operational security. So what comes next?
MWI Podcast: Pagers, Walkie-Talkies, and a Shadow War - Modern War Institute
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"If the concept is actually influenced by systems thinking, there is little evidence of it. The extensive bibliography contains nothing relevant (the hand of John Maynard Keynes’ dead scribblers might well be at play here)." An important joint publication—the Joint Concept for Competing—is filled with both the language and the ideas of complex systems. But it fails to actually apply systems thinking. The new version should rectify that.
Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System - Modern War Institute
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Over the course of a deployment as theater-level rocket artillery liaison in 2016 for Operation Inherent Resolve, Brennan Deveraux fired more than five hundred HIMARS rockets at ISIS targets. He joins THE SPEAR to tell the story of one of them.
Podcast: The Spear – Combat in a Technological War - Modern War Institute
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