Some Non-Western people accuse us of double standards. I believe they are right. I won't touch the double standard debate centering on t...

. In Germany, it's popular to say "we need to learn from the past, remember the past". Well, this is certainly true. The pr...

The French introduced the "Levée en masse", the creation of many huge armies with conscripts, quickly after the French Revolution ...

In 1870 when Chancellor Bismarck wanted a war with France for his very complicated grand strategy (that succeeded), he needed a provocation....

According to my experience, it only requires the knowledge of about 2,000 words and basic understanding of grammar of a foreign language fo...

The relationship of the NATO countries to Russia is often debated in our media. Russia could (well, it is doing so now) revive its economic...

It's still interesting that COIN (counter insurgency) offers so many challenges to Western Forces and that they rarely seem to be succe...

We have a recent discussion in Germany that deserves attention. This time, my entry in this blog will be about defense of freedom against in...

Wars have changed, or at least what kind of war people expect has changed. The best known version of war is probably the war that most war m...

It's a classical problem of the military; to achieve something in the organized violence called war you need to take risks. Demograph...