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Book Review: Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence
May 16, 2023 — Military History | Author: Charles D. Melson | Reviewed by Charles G. Thomas, associate professor of comparative studies, Air University Global College | The struggle for Rhodesia, otherwise known as the Bush War, centered on the decolonization of Rhodesia and involved ugly racial dynamics. The reviewer sees this work as “as comprehensive and... MORE

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Book Review: Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence
Author: Charles D. Melson
Reviewed by Charles G. Thomas, associate professor of comparative studies, Air University Global College

The struggle for Rhodesia, otherwise known as the Bush War, centered on the decolonization of Rhodesia and involved ugly racial dynamics. The reviewer sees this work as “as comprehensive and critical as a single volume may be about Rhodesia’s military during the Bush War.”

Keywords: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Bush War, Selous Scouts, Rhodesian Light Infantry

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China's Future Military Capabilities
April 26, 2023 — Roger Cliff — Monograph by the US Army War College, US Army War College Press, Strategic Studies Institute — "The 2022 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America identifies China as the “pacing challenge” for the US military. This monograph examines the process by which China’s military capabilities are developed, the capabilities China’s military is seeking to acquire in the future, and the resulting implications for the US military. To date, all the extant studies have merely described the capabilities the People’s Liberation Army is currently acquiring. This monograph goes further by drawing on the Chinese military’s publications to identify and discuss the capabilities the People’s Liberation Army seeks to acquire in the future..."... MORE

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Book Review: War in the Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
April 21, 2023 — 50th Anniversary of Vietnam | by Ted N. Easterling | Reviewed by Dr. William Thomas Allison, professor of history, Georgia Southern University | Former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Ted Easterling evaluates the Marine Combined Action Platoons and their effectiveness, calling them an “appropriate counterinsurgency method” whose potential was... MORE

War in the Village
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Book Review: Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam
April 21, 2023 — There is no shortage of books that explore the Vietnam War and why it ended the way it did. This book does not focus on strategy or events but on the middle-level US and South Vietnamese pacification policy in the Phú Yên province and the communist strategy to counter it... MORE

Clear Hold, and Destroy
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Book Review: Determined to Persist: General Earle Wheeler, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Military’s Foiled Pursuit of Victory in Vietnam
April 21, 2023 — 50th Anniversary of Vietnam | by Mark A. Viney | Reviewed by Dr. Gregory L. Cantwell, professor, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College | How did the leadership dynamics of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the president, and others during the height of the Vietnam War play out? Determined to Persist analyzes General... MORE

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Book Review: Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts
April 7, 2023 — Military History | Edited by Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote | Reviewed by Dr. Michael E. Lynch, senior historian, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College | A book of useful and thought-provoking essays, Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military History explores 300 years of wars and the role POWs have played in them. Reviewer... MORE

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Book Review: Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War
April 7, 2023 — Changing Character of War | by Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha | Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, director of research and analysis and managing partner, C/O Futures, LLC | In Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War, Drs. Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, examine the nature of battlespace and how one can make sense of it... MORE

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Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War
by Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha

Book Review: Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service – Fourth Edition
April 7, 2023 — Diplomacy | by Harry W. Kopp and John K. Naland | Reviewed by Christopher Sandrolini, Foreign Service Officer and professor, US Army War College | Like the military, American diplomacy predates the federal government. Career Diplomacy describes the US Foreign Service’s history and its mission to represent the United States, conduct operations, and... MORE

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Parameters | Spring 2023
March 3, 2023 — The US Army War College has published The US Army War College Quarterly – Parameters, a refereed journal for contributions concerning contemporary strategy and Landpower, since 1971. Parameters is a product line of the US Army War College Press, which publishes and disseminates research and analysis for Army leaders and other defense experts in multiple forms... MORE

Trusting AI: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into the Army's Professional Expert Knowledge
February 8, 2023 — C. Anthony Pfaff, Christopher J. Lowrance, Bre M. Washburn, Brett A. Carey — IRP by the US Army War College, US Army War College Press, Strategic Studies Institute — "Integrating artificially intelligent technologies for military purposes poses a special challenge. In previous arms races, such as the race to atomic bomb technology during World War II, expertise resided within the Department of Defense. But in the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, expertise dwells mostly within industry and academia. Also, unlike the development of the bomb, effective employment of AI technology cannot be relegated to a few specialists; almost everyone will have to develop some level of AI and data literacy..."... MORE

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