Alessandra Nisch
Putin’s Wars: Testing Boyd’s Strategy of ...

President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.

Putin’s Wars: Testing Boyd’s Strategy of Applied Friction

Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal 1942-1943: A Critical Turning Point in the Pacific and Window to Multi-Domain Operations

Guadalcanal 1942-1943: A Critical Turning Point in the Pacific and Window to Multi-Domain Operations

The narrative that claims the Battle of Midway served as the turning point in the Pacific Theater relies on the assertion that following the battle, the Japanese military shifted to the strategic defensive, ceding the initiative to the Allies in the Pacific Theater. Although this may seem logical, given that Imperial Japan never experienced a battlefield victory of strategic proportion against the U.S. following Midway, one must carefully examine Imperial Japan’s battlefield actions to determine the validity of this assertion.

Guadalcanal August 1942 - February 1943: Alpha and Omega of Airpower

Guadalcanal August 1942 - February 1943: Alpha and Omega of Airpower

Japanese efforts to wrest control of the airfield on Guadalcanal from the Americans failed due to their miscalculation of the preeminence of airpower and their refusal to understand that food was more important than soldiers or weapons. Although American victory was announced on February 9, 1943, in reality the Japanese Army had been starved from the air four months earlier. Airpower had come to legislate the movement of supplies by sea.