Mackubin T. Owens Adjunct Fellows mowens@ashbrook.org
Mackubin T. Owens is Professor of Strategy and Force Planning at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1994. He was wounded twice during the Vietnam War and awarded the Silver Star medal. Dr. Owens earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dallas, his M.A. in economics from Oklahoma University and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Advisers, Not Advocates by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 15, 2009)
From Atlanta to Durham Station and Spring Hill to Nashville by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2009)
Petersburg to Appomattox by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2009)
The Campaign for Atlanta by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2009)
The Virginia Overland Campaign of 1864: From the Wilderness to the Gates of Petersburg by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2009)
What to do About Piracy? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2009)
What It Takes to Save the Republic: Lincoln as Commander in Chief by Mackubin T. Owens (On Principle, February 2009)
Brute Force by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2009)
The Shinseki Appointment: Recycling Hoary Falsehoods by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2008)
Bush and the Pursuit of Victory: A Lesson From Lincoln by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2008)
Haditha Again: Justice? We Dont Need No Stinkin Justice! by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2008)
Reflections on Memorial Day by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2008)
Americans Under Fire: Three Accounts of Fighting the War on Terror by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2008)
Review of The Echo of Battle: The Armys Way of War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2008)
Opening the Gateway to Victory: The 1862 Campaigns in the West by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2008)
Oil Sands: Achieving Balance between Energy Security and Environmental Concerns by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2008)
McCain Appeal by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2008)
Americas "Long War(s)" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2008)
Gettysburg: The Controversies, Part I by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2007)
Energy Security vs. Energy Independence by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2007)
Emancipation as Political-Military Strategy by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2007)
Vigilance and Responsibility: Civil Liberties During the Civil War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2007)
Democracy at Arms by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2007)
From Stones River to Chattanooga by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2007)
A Marine Takes Charge of Military Transformation by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2007)
The Democrats "Fairy Dust" Energy Plan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2007)
Dismantling Terrorism by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2007)
Why Did the Confederacy Lose? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2007)
Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2007)
Maroons Rush In by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2007)
Stephen Glass Meets the Winter Soldiers by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2007)
Lees Invasion of Pennsylvania by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2007)
From Beaver Dam Creek to Antietam: Lee’s Virginia-Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2007)
Grant and Lee by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2007)
Review of Dangerous Nation by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2007)
Another Tale of May: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2007)
A Tale of Two Mays in Wartime: What a Difference a Year Makes by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2007)
Copperheads, Then and Now by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2007)
Casey and Westmoreland: Kicked Upstairs? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2007)
George W. Bush’s War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2007)
"Search and Destroy": The Origins of Our Air-Mobile Army by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2006)
The "Transformation" Mistake by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2006)
America’s Untapped Fuel Supply by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2006)
Fuel for Thought by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2006)
Are We Winning in Iraq?: Defeatism is Unwarranted by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2006)
Men@War: Haditha in Context by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2006)
Rumsfeld and His Critics by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2006)
A Dereliction of Duty: Military Officer Shouldnt Try to be Policymakers by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2006)
An Honest Account by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2006)
Americas Role in the World: Republican Empire and the Bush Doctrine by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2006)
Webb Loss by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2006)
Transformation: The Changing Requirements for Victory on the Battlefield by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2006)
Vigilance and Responsibility: Alexander Hamilton’s Strategic Sobriety by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2006)
Alexander Hamilton: The Indispensable Founder by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2006)
Strength and Constancy: It’s a Strategy by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2005)
Hamiltonian W. by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2005)
Defeated by Defeatism: Why Jack Murtha is Wrong by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2005)
Hurricane Katrina and the Future of American Civil-Military Relations by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2005)
How Not to Honor Our Honorable Dead: Ending the Summer of Cindy Sheehan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2005)
Sterile Irrelevance by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2005)
Behind the Casualties by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2005)
A Noble Soldier, Not a Great Soldier by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2005)
Will This War Ruin the Army? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2005)
Rollin on the Rivers by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2005)
A Generational Thing by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2005)
A Mans Job: Ground Combat is More Than Just a "Womens Issue" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2005)
Lincolns Strategy: Emancipation Was an Early Goal by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2005)
Horror and Valor of War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2005)
The Problem with "Pushing Back" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2005)
Distinctions of War: General Mattiss Mistake by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2005)
Iwo Jima and the Future of the Marine Corps by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2005)
Bootin Number Talk by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2005)
Judging Rumsfeld by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2005)
The "Troubled Vet" Returns by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 23, 2004)
Review of James Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2004)
Two, Three, Many Fallujahs by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2004)
A Shooting in Fallujah: Act of War or War Crime? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2004)
I Like Both Kinds of Music: Country and Western by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2004)
On the Offensive by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2004)
Seared in My Memory: Reclaiming Stolen Honor This Election Year by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2004)
September 17, 1862: High Tide of the Confederacy? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2004)
John Kerrys Two Vietnams: The Swift Vets and the Record by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2004)
General Attempt to Campaign by the Book by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2004)
A Tangled Web: Kerrys Defenders Have to Deal with Historyand the Facts by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2004)
Against the West: Islamic Radicals Hate Us for Who We Are, Not What We Do by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2004)
Journalism at War: Let’s Not Return to the Old Days by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2004)
The Reagan of History: Reflections on the Death of Ronald Reagan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2004)
Reconstruction Redux?: Let’s Hope Not by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2004)
Wingates Wisdom: Why Diplomats Blame Israel First by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2004)
Review of The Pentagons New Map by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2004)
Delenda Est Fallujah: Insurgents Must Be Crushed by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2004)
"When I Left We Were Winning" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2004)
Senator Kennedy, Iraq is No Vietnam by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2004)
A Review of The Iraq War: A Military History by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2004)
The Curse of Jihad by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2004)
Abraham Lincoln Saved the Union, But Did He Really Free the Slaves? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2004)
The "Correlation of Forces," Then and Now by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2004)
Lost on Cold Mountain: The Anti-Gods and Generals by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2004)
The Rumsfeld Mystique by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2004)
The American Way of War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2003)
So Much For a "Quagmire" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2003)
No Comparison: Iraq is Not Like Vietnam by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2003)
A Strategy for Republican Empire? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2003)
Vigilance and Responsibility by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2003)
The Marines Perfect War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2003)
9/11: The End of "The End of History" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2003)
The Bush Doctrine and the Poverty of International Relations Theory by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2003)
The Episcopal Church: Eternal or "Eternally Out of Date?" by Mackubin T. Owens, The Rev. Jonathan Ostman (Editorial, August 2003)
Kagan’s The Peloponnesian War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2003)
Reflections on the Fourth of July by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2003)
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2003)
Civilian Rumsfeld: Overseeing the Military by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2003)
Postwar Iraq: The Big Picture by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2003)
The Combat Card by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 2003)
International Anarchy by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2003)
He Wants to Go Back: Mark Helprins "What We Did Wrong" Assessment by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2003)
Reflections on Memorial Day by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 2003)
A Founding Reunion: Embedment Reacquaints Freedom of Speech and National Defense by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2003)
Transforming Transformation: Defense-Planning Lessons from Iraq by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2003)
Tikrit Ahead: The War’s Not Over by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2003)
Wisenheimer: Does John Kerry Mean What He Says? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2003)
Sniping: War Critics Divorce War From Politics by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2003)
LAudace : The War Plan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
Doing It Without Turkey by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
A Clausewitzian Read: The Proper Balance by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
Patience: The Main Thing Remains The Main Thing by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
Saddam’s Secret Weapon: Peter Arnett@work by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
Saddams Style: Gauging the Chem/Bio Threat by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2003)
War and Memory: "Gods And Generals" As History by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2003)
Oops!: Maybe the Two-War Standard Made Sense After All by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2003)
Quo Vadis?: Trent Lott and GOP Principles by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2002)
The Democratic Partys Legacy of Racism by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2002)
Shakespeare Was No Pacifist by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2002)
If The Government Wont Do It... by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2002)
Lincoln Got It, Too: Underestimating Bush by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2002)
The Color Of Combat: The Minority-Disproportion Myth by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2002)
Soldier’s Voice: Wartime Policymaking by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2002)
With Eyes Wide Open by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2002)
Soldiers Arent Cops by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2002)
A Long Road by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2002)
Posturing by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2002)
With All Due Honor by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2002)
Body Counting: Painting the War by Numbers by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2002)
It’s Not Over Until It’s Over: Why We’re Still in Afghanistan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2002)
Abraham Lincoln, the American Founding, and the Principles of the Republican Party by Mackubin T. Owens (Dialogues, February 23, 2002)
George Washington vs. Multiculturalism by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2002)
Detainees or Prisoners of War? by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2002)
September 11 and the Meaning of America by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2002)
Vigilance and Responsibility in Americas War Against Terrorism by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2001)
The Usual Suspects: Osama Bin Chomsky and Americas Academic al Quaeda by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 2001)
The Coming War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2001)
The Terror War Against America by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 2001)
The Kerrey Affair: Why the Scars of Vietnam Will Not Heal by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 29, 2001)
Bob Kerrey’s Vietnam War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 14, 2001)
Browns Budding Brown Shirts by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, April 2001)
Ronald Reagan, Hedgehog by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2001)
Real Liberals versus the "West Wing" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2001)
Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 2001)
Book Review of Harry Jaffas A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 2000)
Al Gores Assault on the Constitution by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 2000)
Missile Defense and the Future of American Power by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 2000)
History and the Movies: The Patriot and Glory by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2000)
Bureaucrats and Gasoline: Why Gas Prices Are So High in the Midwest by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 2000)
The Political Economy of Oil by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2000)
The Confederate Flag: Symbol of Valor on Behalf of a Bad Cause by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 2000)
Military Ethos and the Politics of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Mackubin T. Owens (On Principle, February 2000)
Dont Ask, Dont Tell: The Saga Continues by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, January 2000)
The Vietnam War: Winnable After All by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, December 1999)
The Senate Rejects Junk Arms Control by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, October 1999)
Sense and Nonsense About Guns by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 1999)
Two Cheers for Congresss Tax Plan by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, September 1999)
Kosovo: "Twas a Famous Victory" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 1999)
Fixing U.S. Foreign Policy by Mackubin T. Owens (On Principle, June 1999)
Bill Clinton: War Leader or "Indolent Prince?" by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 1999)
Vietnam, Kosovo, and Strategic Failure by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, May 1999)
Clintons Flawed Foreign Policy by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, March 1999)
NBC’s : Slandering an Entire Generation of Warriors by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 1999)
Bill Clinton and the Corruption of the American Republic by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 1999)
The Clinton Strategy: Saddam Hussein v. Ken Starr by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, November 1998)
The 1998 Elections: A Symposium: U.S. National Security and the 1998 Elecions by Mackubin T. Owens (On Principle, October 1998)
Warren Gamaliel Clinton by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 1998)
Global Warming vs. US National Security by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, August 1998)
Reflections on the Fourth of July by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, July 1998)
South Asian Nukes: International Relations 101 by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, June 1998)
Sex, Tyranny, and the Presidency by Mackubin T. Owens (Editorial, February 12, 1998)
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