Frank G Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5905015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank G Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN F G |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Marine Corps |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Next National Defense Strategy: Mission-Based Force Planning
The Pentagon needs to embrace a new methodology called mission-based planning to size and shape the defense enterprise properly. This article critiques several proposals for reestablishing the long-standing two major theater war construct in the face of ongoing shifts in the strategic environment, including the nation’s $36 trillion debt and prospects of annual interest payments beyond $1 trillion. It presents a mission priority alternative focus…
AI’s impact on war’s enduring nature
Distilling the essence of strategy
I am certain of one thing: Colin Gray would be exasperated with claims that “Grand strategy is dead.”1 What he would have called a “banality” is commonplace these days.2 Some question the need for
National Security in the Post-Pandemic Era
Squaring Clausewitz's Trinity in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
Avoiding Strategic Inertia: Enabling the National Security Council
Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency
Re-Assessing the American Way of War
Hybrid Threats’: Neither Omnipotent Nor Unbeatable
In These Pages
Dereliction of Duty Redux: Post-Iraq American Civil-Military Relations
Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency
met with well deserved acclaim. It is a product of our collective understanding of insurgency and ongoing experiences in Iraq. It is also the product of various schools of thought about modern insurgencies, including what can be called the classical school, based on the concepts of Mao and revolutionary warfare
Complex Irregular Warfare: The Next Revolution in Military Affairs
Small Wars Revisited: The United States and Nontraditional Wars
Despite its own extensive experience in nontraditional wars, the United States has rarely excelled at this portion of the conflict spectrum in the past half century. Its current conventional military superiority will ensure that it gets much more experience in today's Small Wars Century, an era that began in the 1950s with the rise of revolutionary warfare. For several decades, thanks in large part due to lingering myths from the Vietnam war, thi…
The Guard and Reserve in America's New Missions
Supreme command: Soldiers, statesmen, and leadership in wartime. ; Armed servants: Agency, oversight, and civil‐military relations
The Literature of Rock, 1954-1978
Complex Irregular Warfare: The Next Revolution in Military Affairs
Hybrid Threats’: Neither Omnipotent Nor Unbeatable
Dereliction of Duty Redux: Post-Iraq American Civil-Military Relations
Small Wars Revisited: The United States and Nontraditional Wars
Despite its own extensive experience in nontraditional wars, the United States has rarely excelled at this portion of the conflict spectrum in the past half century. Its current conventional military superiority will ensure that it gets much more experience in today's Small Wars Century, an era that began in the 1950s with the rise of revolutionary warfare. For several decades, thanks in large part due to lingering myths from the Vietnam war, thi…
AI’s impact on war’s enduring nature
Squaring Clausewitz's Trinity in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
The Literature of Rock, 1954-1978
Supreme command: Soldiers, statesmen, and leadership in wartime. ; Armed servants: Agency, oversight, and civil‐military relations
Small Wars Revisited: The United States and Nontraditional Wars
Despite its own extensive experience in nontraditional wars, the United States has rarely excelled at this portion of the conflict spectrum in the past half century. Its current conventional military superiority will ensure that it gets much more experience in today's Small Wars Century, an era that began in the 1950s with the rise of revolutionary warfare. For several decades, thanks in large part due to lingering myths from the Vietnam war, thi…
The Guard and Reserve in America's New Missions
Complex Irregular Warfare: The Next Revolution in Military Affairs
Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency
met with well deserved acclaim. It is a product of our collective understanding of insurgency and ongoing experiences in Iraq. It is also the product of various schools of thought about modern insurgencies, including what can be called the classical school, based on the concepts of Mao and revolutionary warfare
In These Pages
Dereliction of Duty Redux: Post-Iraq American Civil-Military Relations
Hybrid Threats’: Neither Omnipotent Nor Unbeatable
Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency
Re-Assessing the American Way of War
Avoiding Strategic Inertia: Enabling the National Security Council
Squaring Clausewitz's Trinity in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
National Security in the Post-Pandemic Era
Distilling the essence of strategy
I am certain of one thing: Colin Gray would be exasperated with claims that “Grand strategy is dead.”1 What he would have called a “banality” is commonplace these days.2 Some question the need for
AI’s impact on war’s enduring nature
The Next National Defense Strategy: Mission-Based Force Planning
The Pentagon needs to embrace a new methodology called mission-based planning to size and shape the defense enterprise properly. This article critiques several proposals for reestablishing the long-standing two major theater war construct in the face of ongoing shifts in the strategic environment, including the nation’s $36 trillion debt and prospects of annual interest payments beyond $1 trillion. It presents a mission priority alternative focus…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Military History and Strategy (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (5 works) · Military and Defense Studies (5 works)