October 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Command Sgt. Maj. T. J. Holland, U.S. Army
The FORSCOM command sergeant major discusses the importance of developing a framework to measure lethality and identifies critical elements that must be assessed to accurately communicate a unit’s preparedness to fight and win.
Article published on: 04 October 2024
September 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland, U.S. Army
Brig. Gen. Shane R. Reeves, U.S. Army
The U.S. Military Academy‘s superintendent and the dean of its Academic Board explain the modernization measures being implemented at West Point and provide a vision for its future.
Article published on: 27 September 2024
Ian M. Sullivan
Wargaming is an essential tool for the Army and joint force as they train to conduct large-scale combat operations against peer competitors.
Article published on: 27 September 2024
Capt. Chelsey Sturtevant, U.S. Air Force
Machine learning and AI can be adopted into operational intelligence collection to assist imagery analysts process, exploit, and distribute the enormous amount of data now being compiled for assessment.
Article published on: 20 September 2024
Maj. Michael Zequeira, U.S. Army
While truly reliable autonomous weapons are still far from deployment ready, there is a role within offensive and defensive operations where AI can play a role as critical combat multiplier: unburdening planning staffs to provide more focused efforts on the uniquely human aspects of operational planning.
Article published on: 18 September 2024
Maj. Jim Gallagher, U.S. Army
Dr. Edward J. Oughton
AI’s ability to enhance the speed and accuracy of data processing and deliver effects on the battlefield is reshaping the dynamics of modern warfare. However, technical challenges and ethical considerations necessitate a cautious and well-regulated approach to AI integration in multidomain operations, especially regarding the broader implications of autonomous and semiautonomous weapon systems.
Article published on: 18 September 2024
Maj. Gen. James P. Isenhower III, U.S. Army
Maj. Allison Webb, MD, U.S. Army Reserve
The former 1st Armored Division commander and division psychiatrist offer their insights into why the Army’s approach to suicide prevention is failing and provide recommendations to reverse this trend.
Article published on: 13 September 2024
August 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Maj. Benjamin C. Stumpf, U.S. Army
A principal barrier in preventing effective cooperation between the U.S. Army and the humanitarian community is a lack of understanding by soldiers. Understanding the humanitarian principles and its accompanying diversity is a crucial first step that military professionals can take to ensure humanitarians are at least not an obstacle and, at best, achieve a degree of unity of effort in future military operations.
Article published on: 29 August 2024
Capt. Jared A. Sparrey, U.S. Army
Officers, NCOs, Department of Defense civilians, and junior enlisted can all be considered leaders when it comes to helping prevent suicide. By knowing the risk factors, circulating information, and arming your formations with prevention tools, you can help prevent suicide.
Article published on: 28 August 2024
Gen. James E. Rainey, U.S. Army
In the final article of this three-part series, the commander of Army Futures Command discusses how the Army Warfighting Concept will drive transformation now and in the future.
Article published on: 22 August 2024
Gen. James E. Rainey, U.S. Army
In the second article of a three-part series discussing Army transformation, this article focuses on how we drive and manage change in the midterm.
Article published on: 15 August 2024
Gen. James E. Rainey, U.S. Army
The United States and its allies are competing with determined adversaries during a period of unprecedented technological change. To guarantee security, the U.S. Army must recognize the change and adapt faster than any army in the world. This article is the first in a three-part series discussing how we win.
Article published on: 09 August 2024
July 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Gregory I. Hughes, PhD
Shanda D. Lauer, PhD
Wade R. Elmore
The study explores how learning techniques that require minimal investment of time and resources could be integrated into an Army education and training environment.
Article published on: 31 July 2024
Col. Rick L. Tillotson, U.S. Army, Retired
When units conduct mission analysis for deployment missions, they should consider expeditionary civilian augmentation as a sourcing solution for covering identified skill capability gaps in their formations.
Article published on: 12 July 2024
Capt. Timothy Naudet, U.S. Army
Capt. Robert B. Skinker, U.S. Army
The dataset is the center of gravity in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics because a human ultimately decides what information goes into the dataset and how it is organized. Therefore, AI ethics should be evaluated on the use of explicit steps in engineering the dataset to ensure unbiased sampling, proper acquisition, consent, license, approval, and an equitable outcome.
Article published on: 12 July 2024
Benjamin Kurylo
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has reemerged as a focal point in the great power competition among the United States, Russia, and China, and the three powers have made military cooperation with the LAC countries an essential aspect of their efforts to assert their influence in the region.
Article published on: 12 July 2024
Maj. Andrew M. Poller, U.S. Army
Capt. Brandon Toum, U.S. Army
The Army must continue to develop layered defense systems that both provide mobile and static protection from enemy unmanned aircraft systems in support of maneuver forces. Lessons learned by the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, during their recent deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait will help in this endeavor.
Article published on: 08 July 2024
June 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Col. Todd Schmidt, PhD, U.S. Army
The Army University Press has developed a nonresident writing fellowship, the Lt. Gen. (Ret.) James M. Dubik Writing Fellows Program, to encourage military professional writing on important national security and defense topics. In this letter, the director of the Army University Press provides some background on the program and announces the inaugural cohort of scholars selected as the 2024–2025 class of Dubik Fellows.
Article published on: 07 June 2024
Dr. Omer Dostri
Israel has implemented various strategies and platforms to counter adversary information operations during its ongoing fight against Hamas and its supporters.
Article published on: 05 June 2024
Michael J. Forsyth
Recent conflicts suggest that gaining and maintaining air superiority in an era of drone usage is becoming increasingly difficult, and the inability to unambiguously secure air superiority presents a serious challenge to ground forces.
Article published on: 04 June 2024
Col. Matthew R. Myer, U.S. Army
Combining the content of the most recent guiding documents and the chief of staff of the Army’s focus areas implemented at the garrison level shapes a path of continuous transformation for installations.
Article published on: 04 June 2024
Lt. Col. Josh Suthoff, U.S. Army
Capt. Nicolas Carpenter, U.S. Army
The U.S. Army must continue to build and maintain a waterborne capability to provide commanders options and flexibility in the highly restrictive terrain environment inherent in the Pacific theater.
Article published on: 04 June 2024
May 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Maj. Patrick Kelly, U.S. Army
Maj. Hannah Smith, U.S. Army
The challenge for Command and General Staff College and the professional military education system overall is to enable and encourage uses of AI that will augment student learning while mitigating uses that will hamper students’ development of critical-thinking skills.
Article published on: 23 May 2024
Maj. Robert A. Coombs, U.S. Army
Artificial intelligence allows military planners the potential to rapidly adjust training scenarios in support of evolving developments and changes on the battlefields, but we may be missing a critical opportunity to apply the same technology to create a whole-of-force training environment.
Article published on: 15 May 2024
Lt. Col. Zachary Griffiths, U.S. Army
The director of the Harding Project, established to renew professional military writing, provides a detailed guide on how to write a book review for a military journal.
Article published on: 13 May 2024
Lt. Col. Matthew L. Jamison, U.S. Army
Army Air Defense Artillery (ADA) officers are competing for the opportunity to command battalions at a decreasing rate, but there are changes the Army could implement to stop this trend.
Article published on: 03 May 2024
April 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Alan Cunningham
To defeat AI-enhanced Chinese special operations forces, the United States must not only invest funding, research, and battlefield application in the appropriate weaponry, equipment, and hardware and software but also develop new training and skill development programs to specifically have AI-capable combat and combat support operators.
Article published on: 25 April 2024
Lt. Col. Richard A. McConnell, DM, U.S. Army, Retired
Maj. Cleber H. B. Simões, Brazilian Army
Maj. Roney Magno de Sousa, Brazilian Army
Maj. Thiago Caron da Silva, Brazilian Army
A collaboration between U.S. and Brazil army officers used a scientific approach to examine wargaming options applied to land military scenarios that discovered analog simulations could effectively improve visualization.
Article published on: 15 April 2024
Lt. Gen. Milford H. Beagle Jr., U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Tom Gaines, U.S. Army
As the Army continues transforming to meet evolving threats on the battlefield, it is meeting with levels of complexity that surpass previous experience. To win, the Army must train leaders to become strategic problem solvers who create new approaches and reimagine the future fight.
Article published on: 09 April 2024
Maj. Thomas Haydock, U.S. Army
To provide maneuver units with more realistic training at their home stations, the Army needs to revise its doctrine regarding its opposing force program and create a scalable model for an opposing force (OPFOR) that can approximate the professional OPFOR found at the Army’s combat training centers.
Article published on: 09 April 2024
1st Lt. Harrison Manlove, U.S. Army
The lessons-learned process can and should begin before conflict termination through observations. Preliminary lessons and observations are a good place to start and should be the focus for analysts until a conflict’s conclusion, when more concrete lessons may be drawn to change institutional behaviors.
Article published on: 03 April 2024
March 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Gen. James E. Rainey, U.S. Army
Gen. Gary M. Brito, U.S. Army
Technology is rapidly changing how militaries and proxy forces engage in armed conflict, but war continues to remain a human endeavor, and people are the U.S. Army’s number one asymmetric advantage.
Article published on: 12 March 2024
February 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Lt. Gen. Milford H. Beagle Jr., U.S. Army
Disruptive transformation is largely a mindset and behavior change among leadership teams that sets up organizations to thrive in a disruptive world. According to the commander of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, we must foster a culture that thrives on disruptive change.
Article published on: 13 February 2024
Lt. Col. Jay Ireland, U.S. Army
Maj. Ryan Van Wie, U.S. Army
Two U.S. Army officer combat veterans who also have significant practical experience and success in professional-level writing discuss the importance of developing writing skills to discipline individual logical thinking processes while contributing important information and informed discussion regarding issues of concern to the army. They observe that this reflected in a worrisome trend within the military among officers and NCOs who demonstrate lapsing interest in participating in informed debate in military journals and other venues dealing with national security. They invite leaders at all levels to encourage their soldiers to take the opportunity to apply themselves in ‘putting pen to paper’ and publishing their insights in one of the many publication venues now available that cater to military thinkers.
Article published on: 09 February 2024
Lt. Col. Erik Davis, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Nicholas Frazier, U.S. Army
Mentorship comes in many shapes and sizes. Leaders should consider supporting informal mentorship and networking communities by setting up and moderating an informal online community.
Article published on: 07 February 2024
January 2024 Online Exclusive Articles
Lt. Col. D. Max Ferguson, U.S. Army
This article introduces the concept of a catalyst paper as a distinct approach to writing Army white papers that encourages all ranks to share observations from the field, introduce suggestions, and examine lessons learned. Such grassroots research papers are written to help busy leaders think, spark dialogue among their peers, and introduce their teams to new methods. Commanders can share them across units and help nominate papers for publication in Army professional journals for dissemination and preservation.
Article published on: 16 January 2024