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U.S. Marines with 2nd Distribution Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conduct tactical vehicle onload after exercise Native Fury 24 at a port in the United Arab Emirates.

Oct. 22, 2024

Giving Our “Paper Tiger” Real Teeth: Fixing the U.S. Military’s Plans for Contested Logistics Against China

There is growing concern that the U.S. military is unable to deter or win a conflict with China in the Western Pacific.

Air Force Academy cadets graduate during ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Air Force Academy, Colorado, May 26, 2021.

Oct. 21, 2024

Joint Force Quarterly 115 (4th Quarter 2024)

By the time you read this, our national elections will be imminent. Our next President, regardless of whom that will be, must confront the world as it is, not as it could be. No one solution will fit all foreign conflicts, and none of these will necessarily fit our domestic needs.

Cover of Strategic Forum 312: China's Forever War: What If a Taiwan Invasion Fails?

Oct. 16, 2024

China’s Forever War: What If a Taiwan Invasion Fails?

As the prospects of a war across the Taiwan Strait increase, more attention is being paid to the ramifications of conflict for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the region. Analysts have pondered what a PRC victory over Taiwan could imply for the regional military balance and the broader security architecture. Others have calculated the economic disruptions that a war would cause for China as well as for the global economy. Such assessments underscore the costs of conflict and thus the need to find ways to prevent war by deterring aggression.

Cover page of CSWMD 30 Years Anniversary PDF. "The World's Most Destructive Weapons" is overlayed on the cover with an image of Earth in the background.

Oct. 7, 2024

Thirty Years of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

NDU’s Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD), part of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, has been a trusted resource on WMD challenges to senior Defense and other interagency policy leaders for 30 years.

Marine Corporal Thomas Lord, air support operations operator with Marine Air Control Group 48, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, communicates critical information during Northern Lightning 23, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, August 16, 2023 (U.S. Marine Corps)

July 30, 2024

Joint Force Quarterly 114 (3rd Quarter 2024)

As I have written before in this space, change is a constant. NDU Press and Joint Force Quarterly are not immune to this fact. Recently, we moved to a more modern Web-based platform that will be less expensive to maintain and operate.

Eleven Mi-17 helicopters from 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucson, Arizona, are placed on flight line in preparation for transport to Ukraine.

July 29, 2024

Engines of Chaos: Counterlogistics in Competition

Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jackson Wilkie, defensive cyberspace warfare operator with Delta Company, 3rd Radio Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, monitors enterprise network for digital threats, Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

July 29, 2024

Cognitive Warfare The Fight for Gray Matter in the Digital Gray Zone

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali peacekeepers conduct operation dubbed “Frelana” to protect civilians and their property southwest of Gao, Mali

July 29, 2024

Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response The Imperative of an All-Domain Approach

Naval War College holds commencement ceremony for College of Naval Command and Staff and College of Naval Warfare 2023 graduating classes, June 16, 2023, on board Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island.

July 29, 2024

Jointness as Virtue: Increasing the Value of Joint Qualification to the Joint Force and Services

Technical Sergeant Justin Davis, tactical air control party specialist with 137th Special Operations Wing, Oklahoma National Guard, acts as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance air asset for multinational military members participating in antipiracy exercise on vessel moored at shore base facility during Tradewinds 23 in Georgetown, Guyana, July 24, 2023 (U.S. Air National Guard/Brigette Waltermire)

July 19, 2024

Commander’s Critical Information Requirements: Crucial for Decisionmaking and Joint Synchronization

Across the competition continuum, speed of action requires timely decisions and adjustments to a joint task force (JTF) operation plan. As mission command systems improve and information-gathering tools increase in sophistication, a consistent challenge for a headquarters staff is determining the relevant information to analyze for decisionmaking. Arguably, increased mission command technology and capabilities have outpaced decisionmaking performance, leaving then U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Mark A. Milley to remark, “The sheer volume and speed of conflicting information can easily bring decisionmaking to a screeching halt.” However, commander’s critical information requirements (CCIRs) are designed specifically to combat these challenges and enable the commander’s decisionmaking process.