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The term grand strategy has an accepted use in war as the set of overall priorities that govern a war effort to its conclusion. In peacetime, a nation's overall goals in the world are open-ended. ...

Does anyone know what happened to the 2007 National Security Strategy Essay Contest? This was open to the general public and invited essays on the question of how to deter religiously motivated...

The question in the recent candidates debate was not the ethics of routine interrogation but the ethics of torture in an apocalyptical situation, in which one or more U.S. cities stood in imminent...

Dos anyone know what happened to the proposal by Secretary Rice (in her January 2006 Georgetown speech) that US embassies create chat rooms to engage local students with our diplomats?

Marc,

"Getting #3 is much harder,and would probably require a type of schooling that is pretty rare along with a "talent" for thinking unconventionally."

The way you would do this is by...

Shek and Tom Odom,

"Thanks for the response. As I was checking out the book today, I was having a hard time finding where COL Summers didn't downgrade COIN for US forces. He specifically states...

Marc,

"1. Publications, in academia, are not in and of themselves as sign of intellectual discipline. Rather, they are a sign of communications skills whereby the author is able to "match" their...

Shek - Your two posts following mine make a good point, ie. the difference between what Summers actually wrote and what the Army thought he wrote. Summers wrote that isolation of the battlespace of...

As a civilian I am not qualified to comment on the aspects of the article related to military personnel matters. But on larger strategy Lieutenant Colonel Yingling wrote the following:

"An...