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. 

 

Cover of Strategic Forum 313

Strategic Forum 313 | July 22, 2025

Drone Delivery of Bioweapons: Responsibilities for Force Readiness

James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis

The U.S. National Drone Association recently sponsored the inaugural international U.S. Military Drone Crucible Championship to provide a venue for American and allied military drone training, advanced piloting, operational utility, and countermeasure capability.

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Cover of A Framework for Countering Organized Crime.

Strategic Monograph | July 15, 2025

A Framework for Countering Organized Crime

David H. Ucko and Thomas A. Marks

States continue to struggle in their efforts to counter organized crime. Despite states having scored successes at the operational level, organized crime has proven too adaptable and too resilient to be seriously affected. Instead, ground has been lost politically, societally, and even territorially to armed gangs, cartels, and other illicit structures. The result is a steady erosion of the rule of law, of norms of sovereignty, of governance, and of human security.

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Air Force intelligence analysts from 9th Intelligence Squadron analyze geographical data at Beale Air Force Base, California, February 19, 2025

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

Intelligence Reform at 20: How Joint Military Intelligence Lost Its Groove and How to Get It Back

Laura J. Coco-Hampton and Karalee G. Picard

In a 2015 Joint Force Quarterly article, several analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) proposed a vision for how the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) would lead analytic transformation into what we now call “strategic competition.”

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Book cover of The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail by David H. Ucko.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

The Insurgent’s Dilemma

David E. Spencer

As an expert on insurgency in Latin America, my investigations of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) led me to observe an interesting dilemma: The FARC adopted methods that made it militarily strong yet undermined the popular base it was trying to mobilize.

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Book cover of Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy (Second Edition) by John J. Klein.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

Space Warfare

Todd W. Pennington and Emmy Kanarowski

The second edition of Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy, John Klein’s landmark work on spacepower, is a substantial expansion and update to the original.

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Cover of the book, Human, Machine, War.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

Human, Machine, War

Frank Hoffman

The U.S. military is often criticized for emphasizing the application of exquisite and ever more expensive technology over other factors in its conception of future warfare.

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B-21 Raider conducts flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, September 18, 2024.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

The Long Pivot: The Development of the Joint Warfighting Concept

Wilson C. Blythe Jr.

The final withdrawal of troops from Iraq in December 2011 left most U.S. military leadership with the desire to shift their focus from counterinsurgency—which had achieved a position of intellectual dominance in the U.S. military during the war on terror in the late 2000s—back to conventional warfighting.

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Space Force Guardians participate in Moonlight Defender, designed to focus on refining defensive and offensive skill sets of Cyber Guardians,
centered around Moonlighter imaging satellite, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 15, 2023.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

A Conditions-Based Look at a Cyber Force

Shiraz Khan

The 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy explicitly calls to “deter cyberattacks from state and non-state actors and will respond decisively with all appropriate tools of national power to hostile acts in cyberspace, including those that disrupt or degrade vital national functions or critical infrastructure.”

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Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Samantha Warren and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Kennedy Garcia provide intensive care
unit skills training to local nurses aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy during Pacific Partnership 2022, Puerto Princesa,
Philippines, August 6, 2022.

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

Revive: Getting Medical Supplies and Expertise Right in Distributed Maritime Operations

Seth Reini and Jonathan J. Haase

In the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military medical enterprise achieved historical highs for saving lives and treating extreme injuries.

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet from the

Joint Force Quarterly 118 | July 15, 2025

Increasing Operational Access: A Strategy for the Western Pacific

Shaun F. Callahan

The geostrategic challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Western Pacific is a contest that the United States must counter with the collective implementation of the instruments of national power in pursuit of improved operational access for the U.S. joint force.

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