Jan. 27, 2025
The Art of Campaigning: Joint Planners Working at the Intersections of Everything
Understandably, there is quite a bit of confusion about the correct use of the military term campaigning.
Adopting a Data-Centric Mindset for Operational Planning
The Department of Defense (DOD) and its Service components are investing in advanced technologies to gain and maintain a competitive advantage over adversaries and pacing threats such as China and Russia.
Preparing for Adversary Employment of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons: Tactical Effects, Operational Impacts, Strategic Implications
For the past 30-plus years since the end of the Cold War, the Department of Defense has been able to operate with no real threat of nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
Risk: A Weak Element in U.S. Strategy Formulation
Risk is an enduring reality in strategic decisionmaking. The rigorous assessment of risk is—or should be—a critical step in strategy development.
Executive Summary
As we go to press with this issue, Bashar al-Asad, one of the long-time dictators in the Middle East, has fled to Russia, and the Syrian people have risen to make that happen.
Joint Force Quarterly 116 (1st Quarter 2025)
As we go to press with this issue, Bashar al-Asad, one of the longtime dictators in the Middle East, has fled to Russia, and the Syrian people have risen to make that happen.
Oct. 22, 2024
The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
In his seminal 1958 paper The Delicate Balance of Terror, political scientist Albert Wohlstetter famously argued that nuclear deterrence was far less intrinsically stable than was commonly supposed.
The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age
The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age offers readers a unique perspective on the relevance of Alexander’s aspirations, battles, campaigns, and leadership for the 21st century.
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945–49
As an idea that is teeming with clichés, recent examples of catastrophic failure, and an apparent lack of any institutionalization of lessons, “winning the peace” is an element that must be grappled with in modern strategy.
From Sparta to Hostomel: The Enduring Role of Joint Forcible Entry Operations
With few exceptions since World War II, the U.S. military possessed global access to intermediate staging bases that enabled it to mass combat power in an uncontested manner prior to war.