Military science - Topics

Why armies copy doctrine faster than they copy capability Wargaming a plan before anyone moves Writing doctrine for a war you have never fought The revolution in military affairs that was predicted and never arrived Course of action analysis: picking between three bad options How a new field manual actually gets written and adopted Clausewitz vs Sun Tzu: which theory still explains modern war Why the lists of principles of war keep changing Who actually writes a grand strategy? Why strategies fail at the political level more often than at the military one Coercion vs brute force: getting an adversary to quit What is new military history and why did it annoy traditionalists? Friction and the fog of war in planning Why so much military theory is written by the side that lost Where do guerrillas fit in a typology of armed forces? Fourth-generation warfare is less a theory than a description How do you study a battle that can only be observed once Is military science a real science or applied history Operations research and how it changed military decision making Military science vs military studies: where the line gets drawn Why classified work makes normal peer review almost impossible Game theory and nuclear deterrence: how the math got taken seriously Doctrine vs theory: who really decides how an army fights Why military science journals are mostly read by military scientists What a graduate degree in military science is actually worth Can you model a whole war inside a computer simulation When historians and military scientists read the same battle differently What defense economists actually study Which edition of Clausewitz's On War should a beginner actually read?