By Thomas A. Drohan, Small Wars Journal: “To win complex wars, we need to have better strategies than those of our opponents."
Dropping DIMEs:
Leveraging All Elements of National Power on the Multi-Domain Battlefield
By Brandon Morgan, Modern War Institute: “... since the unconditional surrenders of Germany and Japan in 1945, the world has iteratively progressed to an era where US competitors and peer adversaries have been able to establish a complex of integrated air defenses, cyber, rocket, drone, informational, proxy forces, and nuclear fires. This makes unconditional surrender increasingly difficult to coerce and massive, land-based thrusts deep into the enemy’s political capital extremely risky—and thus irrelevant as a military planning factor to achieve success in great-power conflict."
By Gina Harkins, Military.com: "Operation Phantom Fury, the second chapter of the fight to retake Fallujah from Iraqi insurgents, will forever be known to Marines. It was the service's bloodiest urban combat since the Vietnam War's Hue City, and incredible examples of combat heroism and famous images of brotherhood emerged from the fight."
The U.S. Marine Corps Uses the 'Rule of 3' to Organize Almost Everything
By Bill Murphy Jr., Inc.: " It all started with a copy of Inc. magazine that my dad handed me back in 1998."