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Lead Study · No. 007 · Doctrine · Cold War

What Vietnam Changed: The Rebuilding of American Military Doctrine, 1973–1991

The U.S. Army left Vietnam without a theory of victory. Within a decade it had written a new one — and chose to forget the war that had made it necessary.

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Index of Published Notes

  1. No. 008

    Deterrence Without Parity: Three Historical Cases of Asymmetric Signaling

    How weaker states establish credible cost-imposition thresholds against stronger rivals without matching their aggregate military balance.

    ~11 min · Deterrence · Doctrine · Geopolitics
  2. No. 007

    What Vietnam Changed: The Rebuilding of American Military Doctrine, 1973–1991

    The U.S. Army left Vietnam without a theory of victory. Within a decade it had written a new one — and chose to forget the war that had made it necessary.

    ~14 min · Doctrine · Cold War
  3. No. 006

    Reading Ottoman Fiscal Data: A Note on Archival Sources and Deflation

    Why raw nominal figures from central treasury ledgers mislead without silver-content adjustments and provincial tax-farming context.

    ~9 min · Political Economy · Geopolitics