David Henry Barnett: Selling Out A Nation
A Personal History David Henry Barnett was raised in Robinson Township in Pennsylvania (Babcock and O’Toole, 1980). He was “detached…from...
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John Antal
- Mar 2
- 8 min
Ten Lessons from Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: The First War Won Primarily with Unmanned Systems
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan from September 24 to November 10, 2020. This 44-day war...
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Zack Callahan
- Mar 2
- 7 min
Autonomous Undersea Vehicles: An Emerging Intelligence Collection Platform
Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) have been in development since the late 1950s; they have seen limited military application with the most...
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John Antal
- Feb 14
- 4 min
Mask or Die: Surviving in Today’s High-Tech Battlespace Against a Peer Enemy
“The tendency towards under-rating firepower...has marked every peace interval in modern military history.” Captain Sir Basil Liddell...
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Millie Morse
- Feb 14
- 12 min
Seeking the High Ground: American Space Strategy
Disclaimer: This piece was originally drafted in May 2021 and has not been altered since its initial submission. The international system...
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John Antal
- Nov 29, 2021
- 6 min
Death from Above
How Secure Tactical Video Transmission Impacted the 2d Nagorno-Karabakh War An Azerbaijani Loitering Munition (LM) detonates over an...
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Jacob Williams
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
CYBERCOM, the IC, and Cyberwarfare
In 2018, U.S. CYBERCOM published its command vision titled “Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority.” ¹ This vision follows in a long...
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Audrey Kuhnle
- Nov 28, 2021
- 7 min
Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War
Book Review: Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War Summary of Events On the morning of October 5th, 1973, Israel...
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Matt Gill
- Oct 4, 2021
- 11 min
Intelligence Plans: a study for effective intelligence teams in Large Scale Combat Operations
NOV 6, 1942 GEN Patton Diary entry. Off the coast of Tunisia. “In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the...
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 10 min
The Brains Behind The Operations
Book Review: Code Girls While gentlemen do not read each other's mail, the women who pioneered cryptanalysis during the World Wars did so...
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Mathias Mesich
- Oct 4, 2021
- 9 min
NGSO Systems and Their Significance to Intelligence Collection
Satellite infrastructure has played an increasingly critical role in global communication since the 1960’s. Within the past five years,...
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Olivia Jackson
- Sep 24, 2021
- 7 min
Intelligence in the Irish War of Independence
In the Early 20th century Ireland sought independence from Great Britain, as they were unsatisfied with British rule. Ireland did not...
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Sarah Mesich
- Sep 24, 2021
- 10 min
Counterintelligence and Neuroscience: The Merits and Limitations of the Polygraph, fMRI, and EEG
Author and lecturer Terrence McKenna speculated that language was developed in pursuit of deception – in other words, that our most...
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Ryan Sullivan
- Sep 8, 2021
- 7 min
The Soviet Sisyphus: Intelligence Failures Derived from the Soviet-Afghan War
In December 1979, Hafizullah Amin, the president of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), found his country seized via a highly...
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Sean Slaughter
- Sep 8, 2021
- 6 min
History Is Repeating Itself in Afghanistan
Update: Since the writing of this paper, the Afghan army has fled and Kabul has fallen much quicker than expected. These events do not...
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Clay Parham
- Sep 8, 2021
- 16 min
The Turkey-Kurdish Conflict: An Intelligence Analysis
Introduction Turkey is a NATO partner, so it is surprising that they have active insurgencies in their territory. The largest of these...
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Mitchell J. Jordan
- Sep 8, 2021
- 6 min
Electronic Warfare Sensors in the Hands—and Eyes—of Frontline Warfighters
Introduction The application and dissemination of electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and signals intelligence (SIGINT) to...
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Olivia Jackson
- Sep 8, 2021
- 20 min
Operation Atlantic Resolve
Operation Atlantic Resolve refers to the ongoing military efforts of the United States in response to Russia’s involvement in Ukraine,...
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Trevin Hazel
- Sep 8, 2021
- 16 min
Case, Response, and Results Analysis: Paris Attacks – November 13, 2015
Introduction: A Pivotal Act of Terrorism On November 13, 2015, nine Islamist extremists associated with Islamic State (IS) launched a...
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Matt Gill
- Sep 8, 2021
- 4 min
9-11, Afghanistan and NSTR
As America sat perplexed, confused, and possibly angry as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the inevitable occurred. Many started...
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