Warfare

Competing for National Security and Resilience Partnerships

Bottom Line: the options – and competition – for national security and resilience partnerships will grow in the years ahead. Introduction...

Big Tech and the Futures of Conflict

There has been an understandable amount of discussion in the past two weeks about the role that social media and big tech are playing in...

Defense Futures: Why All Our Scenarios Should be Disruptive

(note: this article was originally published in 2016) I am often struck by the fact that, from a futures perspective, many of the...

Citizens and Involuntary Militia

A recent post in Small Wars Journal provides another scan hit supporting the maturation of an emerging issue we worked up back in 2017,...

Special Forces in the 21st Century

What should be Army Special Forces’ role in an era of great power competition, gray zone operations, and hybrid warfare?

Sensing the Future of Warfare

The Sensing Model is a valuable tool for looking at the future of conflict, particularly in a year of so many successive disruptions.