External Contributions

A decade ago, three four-star generals warned that the Pentagon's concept of competition ignored that "competition and conflict are about people." Yet the Army proposed cutting special operations forces by up to 20 percent. Rolander examines why that warning produced no durable institutional change.

As competition with China intensifies around Taiwan, Mahanian orthodoxy may be dangerously outdated. McNeil draws on Corbettian sea power theory to argue for a counterintelligence-informed approach to naval strategy.