Conclusions: Reflections on great power competition in a time of COVID-19
Dr. Graeme P. Herd, Marshall Center professor
If great power competition is the defining paradigm of our current era, COVID-19 acts as its X-ray. The pandemic reveals and reinforces a central feature of the structure of the current…
Great Power Competition and Europe
State and network-centric perspectives
By Dr. Graeme P. Herd, Marshall Center professor
In the United States, there is cross-party bipartisan agreement that China is the U.S.’ most serious long-term threat because it has come to be…
The Contest For Central Asia
AUTHOR: Alexander Cooley
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press, USA
REVIEWED BY: Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor
In the 1800s, Russia and Great Britain played a geopolitical “great game” to control trade routes from…
‘War by other memes’
AUTHORs: P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
PUBLISHED BY: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
REVIEWED BY: Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor
If war is, as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz so memorably…
Modern Propaganda
A most exquisite and indispensable fifth-generation warfare tool
By Joseph Vann, Marshall Center | Photos By The Associated Press
The art of propaganda is in the midst of a phenomenal revolution that few appreciate.
We are witnessing…
Defining Hybrid Warfare
By James K. Wither
Following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Crimea in March 2014, hybrid warfare ceased to be a subject studied only by military strategists and entered the wider policy domain as a significant security challenge for…
Hybrid War in the Lands in Between
BOOK AUTHOR: Mitchell A. Orenstein
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press, 2019
REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff
Mitchell Orenstein assures us that his book, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid…
Dispelling Myths
Defeating transnational organized crime requires a thorough understanding of how it works
By Dr. Paul Rexton Kan | Photos by The Associated Press
Organized crime syndicates and cartels are major nonstate actors in the international…
An Essential Military Role
Edited by: U.S. Army Col. William Mendel and Dr. Peter McCabe
PUBLISHED BY: JSOU Press
REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff
It is counterintuitive that nations should employ special operations military forces to combat…
What the Past Reveals
AUTHORS:
Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray
PUBLISHED BY:
Cambridge University Press, 2016
REVIEWED BY:
per Concordiam Staff
Seven precarious coalitions battled French attempts to dominate Europe in the Napoleonic…