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. 

 

| Dec. 30, 2025

Breadth or Depth: The Ongoing Battle in Professional Military Education

Ryan Wadle and Heather Venable

The subject of military history as taught in the U.S. Army’s school system is much in the air of late. The editors of Parameters chose in 1981 to reintroduce Michael Howard’s timeless article on military education writ large. Such an introduction could serve just as well some 40 years later, when the state of joint professional military education (JPME) remains a heated source of debate.

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Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 29, 2025

The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relation in the United States

Lindsay L. Rodman

Kori Schake’s The State and the Soldier is an engaging, compact, and comprehensive examination of U.S. civil-military relations history.

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley (WMEC 38) steam alongside while patrolling the Gulf of Alaska July 5, 2025. Alex Haley relieved Munro as the Bering Sea cutter in early July. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. j.g. Samika Lewis.)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 29, 2025

U.S. Arctic Sea Lines of Communication: The Imperative for a Maritime Complex and Corridor in the Bering Region

Samuel Krakower and Troy Bouffard

Maritime activity has been a constant feature of the world’s oceans since the development of seafaring capabilities.

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Army UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter crew chiefs with Charlie Company, Detachment 2, 1-171st General Support Aviation Battalion, 57th Troop Command, New Jersey Army National Guard, conduct medical evacuation training with combat medics with 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New Jersey Army National Guard, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, November 7, 2023 (New Jersey National Guard/Mark C. Olsen)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 29, 2025

What’s Old Is New: LSCO Casualty Evacuation in the 21st Century

Jonathan S. Pederson

An update and integration of our military medical strategy is needed before the next large conflict.

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Senior Airman Chase Anderson, 168th Cyberspace Operations Squadron cyber warfare operator, Iowa Air National Guard, works on network defense during International Cyber Defense Competition, February 22, 2025, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa (U.S. Air National Guard/Michael J. Kelly)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 29, 2025

The Cyber Deterrence Dilemma: Parallels Between Cyber and Intelligence Special Operations

Jorge R. Kravetz

In December 2020, the United States experienced one of the most sophisticated cyber espionage attacks in its history: the SolarWinds supply chain breach.

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An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 12:01 Pacific Time May 21, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. ICBM test launches demonstrate that the U.S. ICBM fleet is ready, reliable and effective in leveraging dominance in an era of strategic competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elora J. McCutcheon)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 29, 2025

Political Objectives, Nuclear Forces, and the Enduring Value of U.S. Intercontinental-Range Ballistic Missiles

Michaela Dodge

Intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs), or missiles that fly over 5,500 kilometers (approximately 3,400 miles), have been a key component of the U.S. nuclear triad since the 1960s.

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U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division fire a Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile while conducting squad attacks during Fuji Viper 22.3 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 17, 2022. During this exercise Marines sharpened critical combined arms skills, ensuring they are ready and capable to execute a wide range of missions anywhere in the world. 1/3 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Juan Carpanzano)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 22, 2025

Ukraine, the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, and the Elusive Crisis-Era Munitions Production Surge

Bryce Loidolt

A growing chorus of U.S. defense analysts, lawmakers, and military officials has emphasized that the United States lacks the munitions production capacity to meet the demands of the contemporary strategic environment.

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Noah Benton, Titan Dynamics chief technology officer, prepare a 3-D-printed unmanned aerial system for flight during a demonstration April 25, 2024 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The goal of the demonstration was to create, build and fly a UAS within 24 hours. The team spent the week at Eglin creating UASs for various designs and mission specialties. (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.)

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 22, 2025

Fabrication at the Tactical Edge

Aubry J. Eaton and Dustin T. Thomas

In 1945, General Henry “Hap” Arnold observed that in the future, “science and research will have the same relative importance as pilot training.”

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Cover of the book Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 22, 2025

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

Nalonie J.M. Tyrrell

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Amy Zegart has long been intrigued—and often confounded—by America’s obsession with what she calls “spytainment”: the blending of espionage and entertainment.

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Cover of the book Collusions by Michael Kimmage

Joint Force Quarterly 119 | Dec. 22, 2025

Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability

Peter R. Carkhuff

Collisions by Michael Kimmage offers a timely contemporary history of the conflict in Ukraine in which he argues that the war is the culmination of three different yet overlapping geopolitical “collisions” between Russia and Ukraine, Russia and Europe, and Russia and the United States.

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