Military strategy - Topics

What actually ended the Hundred Years' War for England? AirLand Battle and the doctrine that won the Gulf War Space as a warfighting domain: satellites as targets When a plan outlives the situation it was written for Planning assumptions are where plans usually break Ends and means: when a strategy asks for more than it has Deterrence only works if the other side believes you will act Mobilization strategy: how fast an economy becomes an army Sea control vs sea denial: two very different navies Nuclear doctrine: no first use and what it actually commits you to Who actually writes a grand strategy? Air power alone has never won a war: or has it Nuclear strategy and the logic of assured retaliation Clausewitz vs Sun Tzu: which theory still explains modern war Strategic depth and why some countries can trade space for time Carrier aviation vs land based air power: the cost argument How many troops does it take to actually hold a city? Coercion vs brute force: getting an adversary to quit Air power alone rarely decides a war Joint exercises with a rival country: what each side is really signaling The Six-Day War: preemption and air superiority in six days Why hybrid warfare is so hard to attribute to anyone Island hopping: choosing which strongpoints to bypass What makes a bombing campaign succeed or fail? Why attrition strategies are so seductive and so costly Alliance strategy: commitments you cannot easily walk back Why strategies fail at the political level more often than at the military one What does a national defense strategy actually commit a country to How a campaign plan chains battles into a decision Proxy wars: when sponsors fight and locals die Escalation dominance and the ladder nobody wants to climb The Arctic is opening up and everyone is quietly repositioning