While the concerns and excitement surrounding Force Design 2030 (FD 2030) often focus on organizational concepts like Expeditionary...

We are witnessing an historic moment in U.S. military history: the dulling of the Marine Corps mind. Take the current debate on Force...

A Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System Launcher in Hawaii (https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/12/14/us-marine-commandan...

A few weeks ago, media commentators on modern warfare and combat arms widely shared this video, which allegedly shows a Russian tank...

Editor-in-Chief's Note: The letter below and those that follow it were forwarded to the Warfighting Society. Written in response to Major...

If you're a manoeuvrist or believe in manoeuvre warfare, then you risk being both a hostage to bad history and to closing yourself off...

James Kitfield. Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War. New York...

I first heard of the OODA Loop as a young corporal at FOB Hit, Iraq, in 2005. I remember sitting on a pallet of soda cans amidst steel...

Scene: The garrison command post of a U.S. Marine Corps infantry battalion on a weekday morning, just after PT. LtCol Patrick “Paddy”...

In a previous essay, I suggested that maneuver warfare, the official warfighting doctrine of the U.S. Marine Corps, is fading from that...

Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 (https://mmpgamers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_8&products_id=10) Bottom Line Up...

I fully agree with the concerns of the authors of the three recent articles on our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our Defense Department...

If maneuver warfare were a man, what would we make of him? When “he” arrived on the scene in the late 1970s, he stood full of vim and...

(For the full audio version presented by Controversy and Clarity, please visit: https://anchor.fm/damien-oconnell/episodes/The-Ghost-and-...

Failure tends to drive reflection, and recently here at The Maneuverist, two authors have reflected on the recent collapse of American...

Members of the Islamist Militant Group Boko Haram https://ctc.usma.edu/boko-haram-beyond-headlines-analyses-africas-enduring-insurgency/...

Marines of the III Marine Amphibious Force in 1968. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/invading-north-vie...

A book review by Damien O'Connell (originally written in 2008) Operation Albion by Michael Barrett. Indiana University Press, Bloomington...

Chapter 5 November 2022. King Hall, Naval Postgraduate School. “Do you recognize this auditorium?” asks Saint Barbara. General Smith...

Plato and Aristotle in Raphael's "The School of the Athens" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical)#/media/File:Sanzio_01_croppe...