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Consequently, the wargaming community stands at a dangerous precipice at the convergence of a stagnant labor force and a patchwork system of passing institutional wargaming knowledge. How do we establish or improve wargaming education, including sponsors, participants, and future designers? The question stems from the uncomfortable truth that the wargaming discipline has no foundational pipeline and no established pathway from novice to master.

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Without undue federal interference, these state-level, public- private partnerships work best to achieve results and provide relief to disaster-prone areas.Ī Framework for Professional Military Education These range from differing types of disasters, political environments, nonprofit sectors, and commercial entities. Each state has distinct attributes that make state-level partnerships attractive. These collaborations also need the freedom to shape their partnerships in each of their unique state environments. For these disaster-management collaborations to continue, state governments, businesses, and nonprofits must plan now for their future. How American States Use Partnerships to Manage the Unthinkableĭisaster Labs explores how state governments partner with businesses and nonprofits to manage large-scale emergencies in California, Florida, New York, and Virginia. security policy as well as the Marine Corps. All of the authors, whether writing about the idea of hybrid warfare or the potential for conventional conflict in the Baltic region, uncover the continuities and novelties of the current situation and o er recommendations grounded in their professional experience with U.S. This unexpected reality prompted the authors to analyze Russian military capability, tactics, and operational concepts, both through the contemporary filter of events in Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria, as well as the historical legacy of the Soviet Union. Russia’s renewed assertiveness has created what might look like a new adversarial geopolitical context.

Del GaudioĬonsidering Russia helps us understand the implications for strategy and military planning behind Russia’s failure to integrate, as was maybe too naively expected, into the Euro-Atlantic and global economic and security architecture. The cityscape compresses time and space while increasing uncertainty and complicating the conduct of military operations.Įdited b y Matthew R. Each city block sees shifting allegiances that often seem unclear from the outside. Interests change from neighborhood to neighborhood, often intersecting global, political, and economic networks. The density and connectivity of urban environments create a new type of complex terrain. Because the majority of the world’s population lives within cities, the future of strategic competition and conflict reside there as well. The pattern of human settlement and interaction is changing and the future is urban.

This edited volume, composed by military professionals in the Gray Scholars Program at Marine Corps University, describes the changing character of urban operations. Jensen, Henrik Breitenbach, and Brandon Valeriano Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban OperationsĮdited b y Benjamin M. Clausewitz’s lesser-known and often-misunderstood Guide to Tactics, republished here for the first time as a standalone English text with critical annotations, serves as the foundation of the Marine Corps’ warfighting philosophy and provides a guide to thinking about the nature of tactics and combat for the modern warfighter.

The philosophy on which the Marine Corps’ seminal warfighting doctrine is based rests on a tradition of professional military scholarship that reaches back to Carl von Clausewitz’s treatise On War. An Annotated Guide to Tactics: Carl von Clausewitz's Theory of the Combat

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