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Benjamin Jensen

Professor of Strategic Studies, Marine Corps University

Benjamin Jensen is an associate professor of international relations at the Marine Corps University and a scholar-in-residence at the American University School of International Service.
Ideas

What Ukraine can now do with longer-range US missiles

Q&A with a Marine Corps University professor.

  • Benjamin Jensen, The Conversation
Ideas

Ukraine’s Success Shows Mastery of 3 Essential Skills of Modern Warfare

Operational art can still trump relative combat power, and deception is still possible in our age of satellites and cellphones.

  • Benjamin Jensen, The Conversation
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At Guadalcanal, the US Won Through Cost Imposition. Our Adversaries Do Much the Same Today

The WWII battle has plenty to teach us about 21st-century conflict.

  • Benjamin Jensen and Brig. Gen. William Bowers, The Conversation
Defense Systems

US military steps up cyberwarfare effort

Cyber Command's campaign against the Russian Internet Research Agency indicates a priority shift from reacting to electronic intrusions into military networks to engaging in active operations that seek to stop enemies from achieving their objectives.

  • Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen