The New Age of Propaganda: Understanding Influence Operations in the Digital Age
Editor’s Note: A version of this article was originally published by The Interpreter, which is published by the Lowy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan think tank based in Sydney. War on the Rocks...
View ArticleOil and the Future of U.S. Strategy in the Persian Gulf
Will the so-called “shale revolution” allow the United States to disengage from the Persian Gulf? A rich body of scholarship argues that since the United States no longer depends on imports of Gulf...
View ArticleIn Statecraft, What is Tragedy Good For?
Hal Brands and Charles Edel, The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019). In January 405 BCE, Athens was in a desperate situation. The city had somehow weathered...
View ArticleThe Reaganesque Approach to Iran? Embrace the Moderates
In a moment hardly imaginable just a few years earlier, Ronald Reagan, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Mikhail Gorbachev during a 1988 visit to Moscow’s Red Square, warmly embraced the communist...
View ArticleOn Will and War
Wayne Michael Hall, The Power of Will in International Conflict: How to Think Critically in Complex Environments (Praeger Security International, 2018). “Will” may be the most underexamined term of...
View ArticleDo Generals Matter?
Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is proud to announce its first Distinguished Book Award. Three times a year, we will recognize a book that we view as essential for the professional development of...
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