Fabius Maximus

Military and strategic theory

This archives lists posts about following topics in military and strategic theory.

Contents

  1. Fourth Generation Warfare
  2. Military theory
  3. Financial or Economic Warfare
  4. Our National Security machinery
  5. Grand Strategy

1.  Fourth Generation Warfare

I have developed a simple typology to show the relationship of the many works on modern warfare, to show the relationships among the various theories about modern warfare.  This has evolved into a first cut at a solution to 4GW.  These are the first steps in a long series.

  1. A solution to 4GW — the introduction
  2. How to get the study of 4GW in gear
  3. Why We Lose at 4GW – the two types of 4GW
  4. Arrows in the Eagle’s claw — solutions to 4GW
  5. Arrows in the Eagle’s claw — 4GW analysts
  6. Visionaries point the way to success in the age of 4GW
  7. 4GW: A solution of the first kind - Robots!
  8. 4GW: A solution of the second kind 
  9. 4GW: A solution of the third kind – Vandergriff is one of the few implementing real solutions.
  10. Theories about 4GW are not yet like the Laws of Thermodynamics

Also valuable is the The Counterinsurgency Library — a vast listing of online articles about COIN.

Here is a list of information sources and books I have found useful:  You might find these info sources useful — I do!

2.  Military theory

  1. The 2 most devastating 4GW attacks on America, and the roots of FM 3-24, 19 March 2008
  2. A key to the power of FM 3-24, the new COIN manual, 20 March 2008
  3. Dark origins of the new COIN manual, FM 3-24, 23 March 2008
  4. Insights about modern war from the NIC’s 2020 Project, 11 April 2008
  5. How often do insurgents win? How much time does successful COIN require?, 28 May 2008
  6. COIN – a perspective from 23rd century textbooks, 10 June 2008
  7. A lesson in war-mongering: “Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief”, 8 July 2008
  8. Is COIN the graduate level of military hubris?, 30 July 2008
  9. The War Nerd shows how simple 4GW theory can be, 22 January 2009
  10. The US Army brings us back to the future, returning to WWI’s “cult of the offense”, 13 February 2009
  11. Important reading for every American who wishes to understand our foreign wars, 7 April 2009
  12. A joust between two schools of American military theory, 19 May 2009
  13. James Bond is not just our hero, but the model for our geopolitical strategy, 18 May 2009

3.  Financial or Economic Warfare

  1. A brief note on the US Dollar. Is this like August 1914?, 8 November 2007
  2. Economic Warfare, 10 November 2007
  3. Words to fear in the 21st century: Lǎo hǔ, lǎo hǔ, Lǎo hǔ, 14 July 2008
  4. Two essential texts in the theory and practice of financial warfare, 11 September 2008
  5. Rumors of financial war: Russia vs. US, 22 September 2008

4.  Our National Security machinery

A related question concerns grand strategy.  Does America need a grand strategy?  If so, what should it be?  Answers to these questions illuminate many of the questions hotly debated about foreign policy and national security.

  1. ABCDs for today: About Blitzkrieg, COIN, and Diplomacy , 21 February 2008
  2. One telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht and the US Military , 10 March 2008
  3. America needs a Foreign Legion , 18 April 2008
  4. Militia – the ultimate defense against 4GW  , original September 2005; revised 30 May 2008
  5. Lawrence Korb of CAP and CDI advocates a militia, 4 June 2008
  6. Thoughts on fixing America’s national security apparatus , 11 August 2008
  7. No coins, no COIN, 6 October 2008
  8. US Army – the antidote to US civil disorder, 3 January 2009

5. Grand Strategy

A related question concerns grand strategy.  Does America need a grand strategy?  If so, what should it be?  Answers to these questions illuminate many of the questions hotly debated about foreign policy and national security.

  1. The Myth of Grand Strategy , 31 January 2006
  2. America’s Most Dangerous Enemy , 1 March 2006
  3. The Fate of Israel , 28 July 2006
  4. Why We Lose at 4GW , 4 January 2007
  5. America takes another step towards the “Long War” , 24 July 2007
  6. One step beyond Lind: What is America’s geopolitical strategy? , 28 October 2007
  7. ABCDs for today: About Blitzkrieg, COIN, and Diplomacy , 21 February 2008
  8. How America can survive and even prosper in the 21st Century – part I , 19 March 2007; revised 7 June 2008
  9. How America can survive and even prosper in the 21st Century – part II , 14 June 2008
  10. America’s grand strategy: lessons from our past , 30 June 2008  – chapter 1 in a series of notes
  11. President Grant warns us about the dangers of national hubris , 1 July 2008 - chapter 2
  12. America’s grand strategy, now in shambles , 2 July 2008 — chapter 3
  13. America’s grand strategy, insanity at work , 7 July 2008 — chapter 4
  14. Justifying the use of force, a key to success in 4GW , 8 July 2008 – chapter 5
  15. A lesson in war-mongering: “Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief” , 8 July 2008 — chapter 6
  16. Geopolitical analysis need not be war-mongering , 9 July 2008 — chapter 7
  17. The world seen through the lens of 4GW (this gives a clearer picture) , (10 July 2008 — chapter 8
  18. The King of Brobdingnag comments on America’s grand strategy, 18 November 2008
  19. “A shattering moment in America’s fall from power”, 19 November 2008
  20. Is America a destabilizing force in the world?, 23 January 2009
  21. The US Army brings us back to the future, returning to WWI’s “cult of the offense”, 13 February 2009

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