Morality and Pragmatism in the Obama Doctrine
Speculation remains as to what sort of foreign policy captain President Obama is and whether the president has articulated foreign policy doctrine specific to his administration.
The Human Terrain System: Clashing Moralities or Rhetorical Dead Horses?
Do the military need socio-cultural knowledge in order to complete their missions? Yes. Is this only provided by the HTS? No.
Air-Minded Considerations for Joint Counterinsurgency Doctrine
An effort is now under way to draft a joint COIN doctrine informed by an air-minded perspective to reflect the range, speed, and capabilities of aerospace forces.
US Military Doctrine since the Cold War
The American military at the end of the Cold War was a formidable force, large in size, very well equipped, and quite capable of meeting any conceivable Soviet warfare challenge, nuclear or conventional. Its recovery from Vietnam was total. Thoughts of honing its fast fading counter-insurgency skills or of a search to discover how best to participate in peace-keeping and nation-building ventures were far from its doctrinal priorities.
