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Abstract The Department of the War (DOW) advocates and trains the Run, Hide, Fight (RHF) model as a primary response to active shooters on military installations. This article contends that RHF, a ...

Few figures in military history are more celebrated than Napoleon Bonaparte. There are more books written about him than there have been days since his passing on Saint Helena in 1821.[i] His ...

In 2003, then-Chinese President Hu Jintao noted China's "Malacca Dilemma," which referred to China's energy and trade vulnerability to the possible closing by a hostile power of the Strait of ...

Executive Summary: Drones originating from Russia entered Latvian airspace on May 7. Irrespective of whether the drones are Russian or Ukrainian, the threat against the Baltics is a result of ...

The footage has been running for years now on battlefields across the globe. Drones that cost $1000 on average are flying and hitting armor platforms like tanks. It takes on several drones to soften ...

A Counteressay to Captain Marc Liebman's "Waterfall of Five Reasons Why the PRC Will Not Invade Taiwan" Prefatory Note Marc Liebman is an accomplished Naval Aviator, combat veteran, and a ...

The modernization and expansion of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Armed Forces have caused reverberations around the world. Its leader, Xi Jinping, has said several times that the ...

Lessons from History for America's Strategic Focus "He who defends everything defends nothing," warned Frederick the Great, whose mastery of concentrating force made him a major military ...

NATO has spent years telling Moscow that reinforcements can move quickly across Europe. That promise loses credibility if the corps, divisions, movement-control teams, host-nation agencies, and ...

May is National Military Appreciation Month in the United States. Unlike many government designated days and months of appreciation, this has a surprisingly rigorous intellectual rationale that goes ...