Ryan Baker

There’s a lot to unpack, but the claim that the USMC has lost crisis response market share to SOF and others strikes me as correct. It also points to a glaring hole in the push for 3.0 presence… why pay top dollar for a mid-ROMO capability when others can do the job faster and cheaper?

Possibly of interest: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/19/f...

There's a whole literature on that:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblin...

Let's start by challenging a fundamental misconception.

The term "supply chain" suggests a linear process from raw materials to finished products.

In reality, supply networks are complex, interconnected webs of relationships.

Think of them more like this.

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Professor, Tear Down This Wall: Is the Divide Between Security Studies and Strategic Studies Permanent? Here at War on the Rocks, Joshua Rovner has written an insightful and provocative essay about the origin and nature of what seems to be a permanent rift

... Strategists, in turn, see themselves as doctors who do not want disease outbreaks to happen but know everything there is to know about how viruses do their deadly work."

warontherocks.com/2016/04/prof...

Adam Elkus captured this dimension well in a WOTR post a few years ago: "In short, security scholars see themselves as firefighters and often indirectly or directly imply that strategists are arsonists. ...

Oh, man. I have a tag in my citation database for the strategy vs security vs peace studies debates. It's been going on within US political science departments at least since the end of the Cold War.

Nice work, Dani!

Now out in HDiplo - a tribute to Bear Braumoeller, and a reflection on losing your advisor #polisky issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/jt2...

Thank you!

Thanks!