Gian P. Gentile

How Effective is Strategic Bombing?

Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo

In the wake of WWII, President Truman established the US Strategic Bombing Survey to determine how effectively strategic air power had been applied du...

Reimagining the Character of Urban Operations for the U.S. Army

How the Past Can Inform the Present and Future

Provides a historical analysis of how militaries have deployed light and mechanized infantry with armored forces during close urban combat, to identif...

Wrong Turn

AmericaÕs Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

Colonel Gian Gentile’s 2008 article “Misreading the Surge” in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals th...

Four Problems on the Korean Peninsula

North Korea's Expanding Nuclear Capabilities Drive a Complex Set of Problems

North Korean provocations and threats have created an unstable environment on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's ongoing development of nuclear weapo...

A History of the Strategic Implications of the Great Recession and Its Aftermath on U.S. National Defense

The Great Recession began in 2007, when a contraction in the U.S. housing market led to widespread losses in the financial sector and, subsequently, t...

Fighting Abroad from an Ally's Land

Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Forces in the Indo-Pacific

Discussions about U.S. military posture in the Indo-Pacific often assume that the United States will have the ability to not only quickly access its m...

The Evolution of U.S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present

The total force era, 1970-2015

Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a "trad...

The Evolution of U. S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present

The Old Regime: the Army, Militia, and Volunteers from Colonial Times to the Spanish-American War

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