ALT: Lee Corso: Not So Fast, My Friend

Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com The Argument in December 2020             In the Fall of 2020, I was writing the above invited article f…

Why should the military care about academic freedom?

The management of military personnel is frequently discounted in strategic discussions. This article uses the US Marine Corps as a case study to demonstrate how entrenched cultural practices can perpe...

Photo by Bruce Squiers on Pexels.com Why Honor?  Before moving forward, I want to engage the why of thinking about military honor; it is important to situate this both in the context of recent…

ALT: Kermit The Frog Typing

Spring 2026 Cohort

While this post is longer than my usual posts, I think it is important to go into more detail on this ethical practice, since it is one that subsequent posts will use as foundational. What is Moral…

Approximately 43,000 service members were killed by the influenza virus that was first identified at an Army base in Haskell County, Kansas.

What Chess teaches us about the 2026 US Israel - Iran conflict

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Operation Epic Fury fails almost all the tests of righteous warfare.

Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are

If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

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ALT: a man in a brown coat says you gotta pay the troll toll

If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.

The Center of Gravity in A Coalition and What Victory Means

Former JAGs warn that threats to strike Iran’s power plants would violate the law of war and endanger U.S. service members’ legal and moral obligations.