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Three ‘Distortions’ of Doctrinal Warfare — And the Hildebrand Question

Yesterday we explored how doctrinal warfare functions by narrowing populations into controlled binaries. Here is an outline for convenience’s sake: Doctrinal warfare (as we’ve writ...

An Evangelical Update to Just War Theory

Jay Thomas, First Things The first time I heard about just war theory was in my military ethics class. As midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, we understood that our nation expec...

Hildebrand and the Doctrinal Warfare Trap

The Pope Hildebrand story we’ve been running may be the perfect illustration to convince Catholics that the same media tactics used in politics have long been employed inside an in...

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war

The morality of warfare has been in the news recently. This occurs every so often, usually when the United States launches a dubious military action (like the one against Iran) and...

Questioning the just war doctrine

Iran Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare

How Iran's success against the US and Israel exposed how the US is operating from a dangerously dated playbook.

How the United States can take the lead in autonomous warfare

The debate over autonomous weapons has started from the wrong premise. Critics ask whether the United States should permit machines to kill. Advocates frame the question as whether...

Contra Pope Leo, Just War Theory Is Not Outdated

J. Daryl Charles, Providence In the few days since the issuing of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, many across the globe are responding to this 42,000-plus-wo...

US military is powerful enough to crush enemies, but can it defeat their 'final 10%?'

Modern warfare's final 10% problem means conventionally superior militaries face rising costs to coerce determined adversaries into defeat.

Contentious theological debate erupts about Mormons over War Department faith list

The Department of War has updated its faith codes after excluding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the list of Christian churches and causing a bitter theologic...

Department of War Establishes Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay

The Department of War (DoW) is launching the Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay (C-MIP) program, a key effort in the Secretary of War’s Project Patriot Pipeline initiative, and an importa...

Cardinals weigh replacing 'just war' language with 'proportional defense'

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, head of the Vatican's doctrine office, said the doctrine has led to church teaching being "manipulated to provide a theoretical foundation for the...

Inside the Pentagon’s new handbook on countering drones

The 100-page guide is part field manual, part history lesson and part philosophy of modern warfare.

US Strategic Command Launches ETHEREAL FORGE to Field Advanced Electromagnetic Warfare Capabilities

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. – U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center is launching ETHEREAL FORGE, a new initiative designed to accelerate the dep...

War Department's Science Enterprise Maintains Tight Focus on Half-Dozen Key Areas

Emil G. Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and War Department chief technology officer, shared his plan to guarantee U.S. troops always have the tools...

US forces eye ‘shoot and scoot’ strategy in theoretical Pacific war

Will the ‘Real’ Demons Please Stand Up?

Demonic energies disguised as “devout Christianity” are seizing control of the US military and government. The post Will the ‘Real’ Demons Please Stand Up? appeared first on The Go...

War Thrusts U.S. Military Prelate Into the Spotlight as One of America’s Most Consequential Catholics

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War Department Review to Ensure 'NATO 3.0' Becomes Europe-Led Defense Alliance

The War Department plans a review of its posture and footprint in Europe to determine how the U.S. is supporting NATO, how partners are supporting NATO and whether what's happening...

Hegseth orders new loyalty oath for Catholic troops

Pentagon says policy intended to clarify “chain of command issues” involving newly elected pope

Is the United States (Still) at War? How Wars Begin and End

Armed conflict is not a matter of political branding, rhetorical convenience, or domestic law positioning. It is a legal status that turns on objective facts. The post Is the Unite...

Department of War Establishes Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems to Ensure American Drone Dominance

The Department of War today announced the comprehensive consolidation of all Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (UxS) under a newly established, direct-report position to the Deputy S...

We Warned About Doctrinal Warfare Last Month. Brave AI Just Proved the Point by Inverting Our Thesis

For any newcomers, we begin in medias res today. We’ve got a whole bank of articles on this topic in the archive under the author’s name. One of the stranger developments in the Po...

The Cheapest War Is the One We Don’t Fight

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