A new issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly is out. Allan Dafoe (Yale) and Devin Caughey (MIT): Honor and War: Southern US Presidents and the Effects of Concern for Reputation. James Igoe Walsh (UNC): Precision Weapons, Civilian Casualties, and Support for the Use of Force. Kathleen J McInnis (King’s): Lessons in Coalition Warfare: Past, Present and Implications for the Future. Andrew Shaver (Princeton): Can Countries Buy Their Way Out of Insurgencies? Evidence from Iraq. Andrea Lopez (Susquehanna): Lessons We May Not Want to Learn: Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century. The myth of the better war: Christopher reviews Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency by Gian Gentile. James Orbesen on counterinsurgency’s resurrections: No matter how many times the doctrine has proved a bloody failure, the American military keeps coming back to counterinsurgency tactics. America’s black-ops blackout: Nick Turse on unraveling the secrets of the military’s secret military. James Kitfield interviews Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on why special ops will keep us from war. Why Washington can’t stop: Tom Engelhardt on the coming era of tiny wars and micro-conflicts. Get ready for a whole new way of war: Our leaders must think big and prepare for the chaotic battlefields of the future. A military for the 21st century: Col. Douglas Macgregor on threats that define it. James Carroll on why it’s time to abolish the Air Force. Will the F-35, the U.S. military’s flaw-filled, years-overdue Joint Strike Fighter, ever actually fly? The business of America is war: William J. Astore on disaster capitalism on the battlefield and in the boardroom.
