Putin thumbs his nose at Bush

Publication Date: Monday, August 11, 2008

Georgia is only a pesky midget blocking the way to Ukraine.  Russia’s ultimate and more important target is Ukraine, not Georgia.  This is why the Russian war against Georgia is of the utmost strategic significance.    {read more}

Russian recriminations: Feeling sorry for itself

Publication Date: Sunday, April 1, 2007

Policy makers should recall that Russian leaders are engaged in an orchestrated political offensive against the US.  Russians repeatedly complain that the US ignores Russia or doesn’t treat it as an equal, doesn’t provide it aid, trespasses into its sphere of influence, is reviving the Cold War and is launching wars using the pretext of terrorism – while interfering in Russia by criticizing Putin’s dictatorship. These outrageous, one-sided complaints against the US should not pass without rebuttal lest they be accepted as truth by appeasers, apologists, moral relativists and those ignorant of history.  {read more}

Strategy: Back to Basics... And More

Publication Date: Fall 2006-Spring 2007

For many citizens, military strategy is arcane, esoteric, and simply incomprehensible – and, in practice, seemingly ill-used, poorly practiced, or even absent.It often seems to be so also to the many whom are charged with developing or practicing military strategy and to the many whom pontificate about it.Thus, it is timely and instructive to recall some elementary truths and realities about war and strategy, and, in doing so, I think will state some general assertions and opinionated observations about the present and future of military strategy.  {read more}

It's propaganda time

Publication Date: December 2, 2005

Critics of the Iraq war are outraged over the revelation that the U.S. military has been paying millions of dollars to plant pro-American, Pentagon-written propaganda articles in Iraqi newspapers and to buy off Iraqi journalists with monthly stipends. As Professor Walter Jajko writes in a December 2, 2005 Los Angeles Times op-ed, it's about time.  {read more}

Under Attack, A Mute & Dumb America

Publication Date: Friday, December 2, 2005

The historical significance of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

Publication Date: Thursday, June 3, 2004

Professor Walter Jajko discusses the consequences and meaning of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. He gave these remarks, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences' quarterly journal, Dialogue and Univeralism, at the pre-screening of a CNN documentary on the uprising at IWP on June 3, 2004.  {read more}

The allied adversary: New allies seen as NATO's counter to France

Publication Date: Monday, May 3, 2004

A retired general and noted military strategist argues that the United States should capitalize on the friendship of the East European states who want a continuing American presence in Europe, and to counter an increasingly anti-US France.  {read more}

The State of Defense Counterintelligence

Publication Date: Monday, September 1, 2003

There can be no Revolution in Military Affairs without a Revolution in Defense Intelligence. There can be no Revolution in Defense Intelligence without a Revolution in Defense Counterintelligence.  {read more}

Deception: Appeal for Acceptance; Discourse on Doctrine; Preface to Planning

Comparative Strategy

Publication Date: April-June 2003

The United States has rarely resorted to strategic deception, even when appropriate opportunities for its use have occurred and even though its adversaries have used it. The U.S. tends to view deception as unacceptable; yet, used knowledgeably and artfully, it can be a powerful, economic, and sometimes decisive instrument. Deception is an exceptional instrument of national security policy and an essential element of military operations. Deception targets the adversarial decision maker; his mind is the decisive battle space. The indispensable conditions for the sustained conduct of deception are an apparatus, policy, philosophy, practitioners, and practice. The process of creating and executing a deception requires six rigorous and meticulous steps. The U.S. ought to use deception systematically to attack its adversaries' long-range, high-payoff targets.  {read more}

Failures of U.S. Intelligence: Americans Must Become Better Spies

The Transatlantic Response to Terrorism Special Report

Publication Date: Fall 2001

There is a growing danger that the two most important global "ships," the United States and the European Union, might pass each other in the night. As evidenced by President George W. Bush's two summer tours of Europe, and the media frenzies that preceded them, the sources of contention between the two world powers are numerous, and seemingly growing. At the heart of many of these disputes is the failure or unwillingness of one side to fully understand where the other side is coming from. If there is a positive result emanating from the tragic events of September 11, it may be that it presents a golden opportunity for the United States and the EU to work together on an issue of mutual concern: global terrorism. That will involve a significant new effort.  {read more}