The operational level of war, once dominant in Cold War-era debates over conventional strategy in the 1980s, is the missing link in mainstream security analysis. By demonstrating how strategic aims ...

Planners today struggle to properly apply operational art in large scale war — and they don’t fully realize why. It takes something like firsthand experience in a strategic level wargame against a ...

Clarify leadership roles by aligning cultural, strategic, operational, and tactical leaders with values, attitude, relationships, and behaviors respectively. This is a mashup of two frameworks - ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Violet Collins is a Contributing Fellow at Defense Priorities. American military engagement in Iran and Venezuela has been an unprecedented and overt demonstration of U.S. tactical ...

A friend of mine, still in uniform, was reading an Interpreter debate thread about the utility/futility of our presence in Afghanistan and asked me what I thought was meant when one contributor wrote ...