Military art and science Archives

Military art and science

Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

A general’s account of the military’s mistakes

Known Knowns

From a May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began…

Flies in amber

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The coming robot army

by Steve Featherstone,

Introducing America's future fighting machines

Untitled

Art by Tavis Coburn,

A war planner’s lexicon

by Harper’s Staff,

Calling all soldiers

by John Adams Wickham,

What is war?

by Harry G. Summers,

The public debate

by Ike Pappas, Haynes Bonner Johnson, George Herman,

Face the Nation

The American way of bombing

by Raphael Littauer, Norman Thomas Uphoff,

Don’t give it another thought