A global power with global interests can’t always afford to pick how it wants to fight. That is an essential insight for understanding the American way of war. And strategists are always eager to ...
The American way of life has served as a guiding principle throughout our history and as a thread that has bound the nation and its people together. The concept is deeply ingrained in our individual ...
Since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American Way of Life—a belief or set of beliefs that assigns certain attitudes and/or behaviors to our national character—has served as the primary ...
This article appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Americans often look back to the mid-20th century as a time when the country was cohesive and unified, ...
What makes a good strategy? One of the U.S. Army’s most distinguished scholars, Tony Echevarria, Jr., recently questioned the way we conceptualize and teach strategy. In an op-ed entitled “Is Strategy ...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Consensus is in short supply in modern America, to hear the political scientists tell it: polarization along geographic, educational, class, ...
“I do not wish to see this country a country of selfish prosperity where those who enjoy the material prosperity think only of the selfish gratification of their own desires, and are content to import ...
“The American tradition has always been that once our troops are committed to battle, the full power and means of the nation should be mobilized and dedicated to fight for victory—not for stalemate or ...
A global power with global interests can’t always afford to pick how it wants to fight. That is an essential insight for understanding the American way of war. And strategists are always eager to ...