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• Online Exclusive Article Archive 

 

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April 2025 Online Exclusive Articles

Turning a Pond into the Sea: Updating the Army’s Understanding of the Recruiting Information Environment to Expand the Pool of Potential Recruits

Max Z. Margulies, PhD
Maj. Andrew Webster, U.S. Army

The Army must understand and shape the information environment in a way that makes a larger portion of the population interested in joining. A strong information environment strategy would make Army recruiting efforts easier regardless of the total number of uniformed service members it needs.

Article published on: 14 April 2025

 

Snakes in the Shadows: Hezbollah’s Threat Slithers Past U.S. Security Radar

Brandon Schingh

Hezbollah’s activities, along with those of its proxies operating in Latin America, pose a serious, challenging, and evolving threat to the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

Article published on: 10 April 2025

 

A Still-Faltering System: How the Lack of Institutional and Individual Accountability Surrounding Sexual Assault Harms the U.S. Armed Forces

Alan Cunningham
Barbara Snow, Esq.

Stopping the crisis of sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of sexual misconduct in the U.S. Armed Forces is one of the most important tasks the military faces in resolving internal, institutional issues.

Article published on: 01 April 2025

 

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March 2025 Online Exclusive Articles

To Conserve Fighting Strength in Large-Scale Combat Operations

Lt. Gen. Mary Krueger Izaguirre, DO, U.S. Army
Maj. Gen. E. Darrin Cox, MD, U.S. Army
Maj. Gen. Paula C. Lodi, U.S. Army
Brig. Gen. Roger S. Giraud, U.S. Army
Brig. Gen. Clinton K. Murray, MD, U.S. Army
Brig. Gen. Deydre S. Teyhen, DPT, PhD, U.S. Army
Col. Vincent F. Capaldi, MD, U.S. Army
Col. Kevin M. Kelly, MD, U.S. Army
Col. Jonathan C. Taylor, MD, U.S. Army
Col. Joseph C. Holland, U.S. Army, Retired
Command Sgt. Maj. Victor J. Laragione, U.S. Army

LSCO will markedly change casualty care. Maximizing return-to-duty rates will maximize lethality, but to do so, the Military Health System must increase the emphasis on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disease and nonbattle injury as well as battle injury casualty care.

Article published on: 31 March 2025

 

Distributed Combined Arms Rehearsals: Say Goodbye to Giant Terrain Models

Maj. Gen. Thomas M. Feltey, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Jay A. Ireland, U.S. Army
Maj. Micah C. Barley, U.S. Army
Maj. Scott W. Russell, British Army

Mass gatherings have become extremely risky due to the prevalence of unmanned aircraft systems on the battlefield. 1st Cavalry Division is experimenting with virtual combined arms rehearsals to overcome this threat.

Article published on: 25 March 2025

 

Global Health Engagement: A Crucial Tool to Enable Health Service Support Prior to Conflict and Its Vital Implications for Irregular Warfare Campaigning

Col. Cynthia Facciolla, DVM, U.S. Army
Col. Bert Kinkead, U.S. Army, Retired
Maj. Christine Argueza-Prince, U.S. Army
Erik Glassman
Garfield Skyers

Global health engagement incorporated into irregular warfare campaigns provides a means to help build a globally integrated healthcare system that will be required on the future battlefield well before the transition from a permissive to a contested or denied operational environment.

Article published on: 13 March 2025

 

Guerilla Casualty Care Nodes and Web Networks on the Future Battlefield

Col. Shaun R. Brown, DO, FACS, U.S. Army
Col. Danielle B. Holt, MD, MSS, FACS, U.S. Army
Col. Kyle N. Remick, MD, FACS, U.S. Army, Retired
Lt. Col. Regan F. Lyon, MD, U.S. Air Force
2nd Lt. Ryan M. Leone, U.S. Army*
2nd Lt. Mason H. Remondelli, U.S. Army*

Utilizing guerilla casualty care nodes within web networks will enable joint force military, indigenous, and host-nation medical assets to overcome the barriers to combat casualty care that will be seen on the future battlefield.

Article published on: 12 March 2025

 

The Russia-Ukraine War: It Takes a Land Force to Defeat a Land Force

Lt. Col. Amos C. Fox, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired

Using the Ukraine-Russia as an example of what conflicts of the future will continue to look like, the author strives to debunk theories that assert modern technology has somehow changed the basic character of war itself, and that have thus diminished an accurate understanding of the role of land forces in twenty-first century wars. The author asserts that, irrespective of the important, but ancillary, conflicts fought in other domains, wars of the future will continue to be what they have always been, primarily struggles over territory that will be decided ultimately in the outcome of battles between land armies.

Article published on: 03 March 2025

 

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February 2025 Online Exclusive Articles

Army SOF’s Chinese Language Challenge

1st Lt. Alexander Mosher, U.S. Army

U.S. special operations forces face a shortfall in Chinese language speakers. This need can be addressed through enhanced ROTC language programs and recruitment efforts targeting those with Chinese fluency.

Article published on: 12 February 2025

 

Moving from a Losing Disease Model to a Winning Wellness Model in Military Mental Health

Maj. Tashina Miller, PhD, U.S. Army
Maj. Julie Skiles, U.S. Army

The Army must shift its mindset to win the war related to mental health readiness.

Article published on: 10 February 2025

 

Becoming Multidomain Practitioners: Tactical Training for Multidomain Operations at Echelon

Maj. Gen. David S. Doyle, U.S. Army
Col. Charles M. Knoll, U.S. Army
Col. Daniel R. Leard, U.S. Army

The 4th Infantry Division (Ivy) commander details the objectives for its “Ivy Mass” biennial joint multidomain fire support coordination exercise in a broader discussion of why commanders of Corps, divisions, and brigades should more aggressively pursue future concepts related to moving beyond Field Manual 3-0, Operations in the practical application of measures to achieve multidomain effects.

Article published on: 05 February 2025

 

Data-Centric at the Division: 3rd Infantry Division’s One-Year Journey to Transform and Modernize

Col. Jason H. Rosenstrauch, U.S. Army
Maj. Daniel R. DeNeve, U.S. Army
Maj. Henry G. Harpen, U.S. Army
Maj. Kevin J. Quigley, U.S. Army

By building its organization around the efficient use of data, 3rd Infantry Division reduced staff burden in collecting data, empowering leaders to make faster, better-informed decisions with improved prognostic capability.

Article published on: 04 February 2025

 

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January 2025 Online Exclusive Articles

Lethal Force, Risk, and LSCO: Preparing for Permissive Rules of Engagement in Large-Scale Combat Operations

Lt. Gen. Milford “Beags” Beagle Jr., U.S. Army
Lt. Gen. Joseph B. Berger III, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Jack D. Einhorn, U.S. Army

Considering the scale, scope, and violence of large-scale combat operations, the rules of engagement will need to be permissive to effectively execute mission command with the appropriate level of control, and commanders must have a personal understanding of the law of armed conflict and ensure the same for their subordinates.

Article published on: 17 January 2025

 

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The Army’s Command Assessment Program: The Doctrinal Foundation

Col. Andrew Morgado, U.S. Army
Bob O’Brien

Army leaders undergo a rigorous, comprehensive selection process for battalion and brigade command during the Army’s Command Assessment Program.

Article published on: 15 January 2025

 

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Operational Effectiveness and Civilian Harm Mitigation by Design

Michael J. McNerney
Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler, U.S. Air Force, Retired

Policymakers and warfighters must understand how civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) improves strategic outcomes and operational effectiveness, and that CHMR plays a key role in helping the United States align its military actions with its values.

Article published on: 08 January 2025

 

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Data Literacy: How We Prepare for the Future

Gen. Gary M. Brito, U.S. Army

The large amounts of data on the battlefield must be managed, filtered, and understood to be useful. The rapid rate of technological expansion and the explosion of digital systems providing us data underscores the need for data-literate soldiers.

Article published on: 07 January 2025

 

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