Associate Professor of International Affairs. Teach/research national security, coalition operations, civil-military relations. threads.net/@ryangrauer
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Book Review Roundtable: Considering the Inheritance of America's Post-9/11 Wars
1. Introduction: Long Wars and Lingering Effects Joshua Rovner Coming to grips with wartime failure is never easy. Psychological, political, and organizational pressures conspire against honest reflection. War is an intensely emotional business, and it demands enormous personal sacrifice. Collective evaluations are difficult because individual participants have a highly subjective view of events.
Understanding Battlefield Coalitions
This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations.
Practice Makes Perfect for Battlefield Coalitions
Successful strategies effectively use force, directly or indirectly, to secure and advance broader political objectives.
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-2003
ABSTRACT Under what conditions do battlefield coalitions fight as greater or less than the sum of their parts? Introducing the Belligerents in Battle dataset, which contains information on actors fighting in 492 battles during interstate wars waged between 1900 and 2003, we present, for the first time, a portrait of the universe of battlefield coalitions. Battlefield coalitions win more often and suffer fewer casualties than belligerents fighting alone.
Understanding battlefield coalitions
ABSTRACT Battlefield coalitions are distinct warfighting collectives. They are the groups of forces created by states that are formal allies, states that have no written agreement to cooperate militarily, non-state actors, or some combination thereof to engage in combat at the operational and tactical levels of war. They are also increasingly common belligerents in war, but there is little scholarship on their creation, composition, operation, and achievements.
Ryan Grauer: The Austin ‘problematique’
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated retired Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to be his secretary of defense. Gen. Austin is a decorated officer whose remarkable 41-year career in uniform included service as the vice chief of staff of the Army and commander of Central Command. In addition, he is only the sixth African American general to earn a fourth star. Nevertheless, Gen. Austin is one of the worst choices Mr. Biden could have made for the person to lead the Pentagon.
H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review 137 on “Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability.” | H-Diplo | ISSF
The technology of war is changing. Remarkable developments are underway in artificial intelligence, cyber technology, autonomous weaponry, hypersonic munitions delivery vehicles, additive manufacturing, remote sensing, stealth, and precision guidance.
Roundtable 11-12 on Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 | H-Diplo | ISSF
Books on Chinese military issues have traditionally been of interest to a small and inward-looking community of security-minded China-focused academics and policy analysts far from the mainstream of their disciplinary fields and professions. But with China’s growing prominence on the global stage, interest in Chinese defense and strategic matters has also become more widespread. This roundtable on M.
Journal of Strategic Studies
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