Thu, 15 Oct 2026
In this episode, Colonel Mike Rosol joins MWI’s Charlie Faint in the West Point Class of 1974 Recording Studio to reflect on a career spanning armored warfare, multiple deployments to […]
In August 2009, my Ranger platoon was twenty hours into a twenty-seven-hour firefight in the Khowst mountains of Afghanistan. Three platoons inserted onto a high ridgeline in darkness, hunting enemy […]
During a year on the staff of the ROK/US Combined Forces Command in 2023, I never asked an American counterpart the question behind much of our work: Would the United […]
In this episode with host Dr. Charlie Faint, retired Colonel Pat Howell reflects on a career that took him from the 82nd Airborne Division and conventional engineer units to the […]
The increasing use of drones on the modern battlefield has sparked a great debate about their impact on the ever-changing character of warfare. Whether framed as evolutionary drivers of that […]
The 2025 National Security Strategy called for a “military capable of denying aggression anywhere in the First Island Chain.” During 2026, MWI focused its research efforts on understanding how the […]
What if a security commitment designed to preserve freedom of action ends up taking that freedom away? That possibility sits at the edge of the American debate over Taiwan. The […]
The US Army currently has fifteen Patriot battalions and eight THAAD batteries—finite resources that are badly needed across the service’s global operational footprint. EUCOM needs them to deter an ever-encroaching […]
In urban warfare, the enemy, terrain, population, and tactical problem can change faster than a military’s formal lessons-learned process. Armies cannot wait until a campaign ends to study what happened. […]
On August 14, Han Kuang 42, the field phase of the latest edition of Taiwan’s largest annual wargame, drew to a close. For many military hardware enthusiasts, the sight of […]
Welcome back to Five Questions for a General, a production of the Modern War Institute at West Point. This series features specially selected cadet hosts who are given an incredible professional development […]
It is 2027. China has spent three years repositioning forces under cover of maritime exercises and coast guard operations. In October, Beijing declares an expanded air defense identification zone covering […]
Deterrence in the Pacific The Class of 2006 War Studies Conference is the culminating event of a yearlong MWI Fellowship bringing together both MWI Fellows and subject matter experts to […]
For the past several years, scholars and practitioners have vigorously debated the utility of armored formations on an increasingly lethal modern battlefield characterized by a proliferation of sensors, precision long-range […]
On March 5, 2022—four days before South Korea held what would become its closest presidential election in history—North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile eastward into the sea. It was […]
In this episode, host Dr. Charlie Faint sits down with EOD officer Michael Villahermosa for a wide-ranging conversation about combat, leadership, professional growth, and service. Villahermosa traces his path from […]
