About the Initiative

For the third year in a row, the French École de Guerre has had the great opportunity to work in close cooperation with PRISM. Six École de Guerre students completed research papers with the support of PRISM. The partnership has enhanced the ability of the officers in École de Guerre to understand key global issues and has further strengthened their ability to interact with American partners. 

 

General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, President-elect of the United States, 1952 (Library of Congress/ Fabian Bachrach)

JFQ 115 | Oct. 22, 2024

One Hundredth Anniversary of the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy: A Tribute in Three Verses

Gregory D. Foster

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy. E

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Recruits call home during scheduled divisional phone calls at Navy’s Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, December 9, 2023 (U.S. Navy/Stuart Posada)

JFQ 115 | Oct. 22, 2024

Stop Talking to Yourself Military Recruiting in the Modern Age

Richard R. Bell, Elizabeth Goldsmith, Robert Martinez, and Donghyun Lee

The decision to join the military is profoundly influenced by how individuals perceive military service. Recent evidence indicates that young people tend to have a negative view of the military, and the Department of Defense (DOD) has struggled to effectively communicate with the youth market.

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Cartoon map of Union General Winfield Scott’s proposed Anaconda Plan to cut off Confederacy from external markets and sources of materiel and blockade Southern coasts and secure control of Mississippi River, December 1861 (Library of Congress/J.B. Elliott)

JFQ 115 | Oct. 22, 2024

Considering the Utility of Modern Blockade in a Protracted Conflict With China

Thomas A. Krasnicki

The January 2023 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) publication The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan is a thorough and sobering report detailing 24 hypothetical scenarios in which China takes military action to unify Taiwan with its mainland.

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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, May 28, 2024. Exercise Native Fury 24 is a key multi-lateral exercise sponsored by U.S. Central Command and executed by U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command in collaboration with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This iteration emphasizes the strategic use of logistics and leverage the extensive network of roads and infrastructure across the Arabian Peninsula. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Meshaq Hylton)

JFQ 115 | Oct. 22, 2024

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

Zachary S. Hughes

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

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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)

NDU Press

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.

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

Strategic Forum 312 | Oct. 16, 2024

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

Joel Wuthnow

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.

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Cover page of CSWMD 30 Years Anniversary: The World's Most Destructive Weapons

NDU Press | Oct. 7, 2024

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

CSWMD

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.

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Cover of JFQ 114.

| 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.

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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, April 22, 2022

Joint Force Quarterly 114 | July 29, 2024

Engines of Chaos: Counterlogistics in Competition

the 2023-A Class of the Advanced Logistics Readiness Officer Course

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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, April 8, 2024

Joint Force Quarterly 114 | July 29, 2024

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

Michael J. Cheatham, Angelique M. Geyer, Priscella A. Nohle, and Jonathan E. Vazquez

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