Defense and the National Interest

Dr Simon Newman
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Westminster, UK
[Note: Dr. Newman has been kind enough to share some working notes he made for the London's Metropolitan Police Department. It's an excellent example of how that framework can help stimulate insights and creativity, which to me is the real purpose of models [...]

If We Can Keep It: A National Security Manifesto for the Next Administration, by DNI Editor Chet Richards. Now available on Amazon.

From zenpundit:
On Monday February 4th, Chicago Boyz will be hosting a blogging roundtable on Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Colonel Frans P. Osinga. Slightly over ten years since his death, the influential strategist and iconoclastic USAF Colonel John Boyd remains a subject of controversy despite the fact that (or [...]

SWJ’s Dave Dilegge takes on Ralph Peters (Go Dave!)
As Dave notes, the urge to solve political and social problems with brute force runs deep. Near the end, Dave quotes Steve Metz of the US Army War College [-- see correction in the first comment, below]:
As always, I’m green with envy over Ralph’s way with [...]