Category: War On The Rocks

Putin’s Lessons for the All-Volunteer Force

By Ryan Pallas “Since the need for change is rarely self-evident, most organizations usually resist learning so long as they think the existing way of doing business still works. The challenge is even greater for wartime militaries.” Michael Hunzeker, Dying to Learn The U.S. military, plain and simple, has a recruiting problem. All of the […]

America Ignores Africa at Its Own Peril

By Joe Bruhl America’s ambivalence toward Africa puts it at a dangerous disadvantage there — and impacts U.S. leadership around the globe. While Washington focuses on the Russian military threat in Eastern Europe and Chinese expansionism in the Pacific, Russia and China are outcompeting the United States in Africa in ways that could fundamentally alter […]