Based on a lifetime in uniform, I believe these boat strike missions are illegal, immoral, strategically hollow, and a ...
Walk across any U.S. Air Force base, and you’ll likely notice senior officers wearing patches from elite military institutions like the Weapons School or the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
On June 13, covert actions by Mossad inside Iran’s territory enabled Israel to start an air campaign and achieve air superiority over several days, as part of Israel’s Operation Rising Lion. Earlier ...
On June 1, 2025, Ukraine executed an unprecedented military operation that fundamentally altered the trajectory of the ...
Tactical planning involves determining the steps a business must take to reach the objectives developed through strategic planning. Contingency planning involves planning what a business will do if ...
It takes less than 24 hours after a Game of Thrones episode airs before the armchair generals emerge, eagerly dissecting the show’s latest events, including failures of strategic thinking. Yet those ...
Training for decisive action is the perfect place to focus on sharpening the spearhead of logistics. After 12 years of materiel-focused counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, tactical transportation ...
This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...
If you've ever found yourself asking "What's the difference between strategic and operational plans," you're not alone. Strategic business plans usually set long-term, big-picture goals for a company, ...