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MH-60S Seahawk assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5 picks up nets from flight deck during vertical replenishment aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington while underway in Pacific Ocean, June 14, 2024 (U.S. Navy/Nicholas Russell)

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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. In a similar way to the experiences of the Germans who lived under communist rule for decades until the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago, Syrians are both rejoicing and awakening to the full impact of an authoritarian regime now passing into the dustbin of history.


General Dwight D. Eisenhower on D-Day, June 6, 1944 (CSU Archives/Everett Collection)

One Hundredth Anniversary of the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy: A Tribute in Three Verses

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.


Marines with 2nd Distribution Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conduct tactical vehicle onload at United Arab Emirates port after exercise Native Fury 24, May 28, 2024 (U.S. Marine Corps/Meshaq Hylton)

Giving Our “Paper Tiger” Real Teeth: Fixing the U.S. Military’s Plans for Contested Logistics Against China

This article explores the growing concerns about the U.S. military’s ability to deter or win a conflict with China in the Western Pacific, focusing on the role of logistics in future military success.


Air Force C-130 Hercules flies over group of Navy SEALS, Norwegian naval special operations commandos, and attack submarine USS Hampton during exercise Arctic Edge, March 9, 2024 (U.S. Navy/Jeff Atherton)

The Key to Arctic Dominance: Establishing an Arctic-Focused Subordinate Unified Command

This article discusses the strategic importance of establishing an Arctic-focused subordinate unified command under USNORTHCOM to enhance the responsiveness and resilience of the U.S. Armed Forces.


Air Force Academy cadets graduate during ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Air Force Academy, Colorado, May 26, 2021.

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By the time you read this, our national elections will be imminent. Our next President, regardless of whom that will be, must confront the world as it is, not as it could be. No one solution will fit all foreign conflicts, and none of these will necessarily fit our domestic needs.


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jackson Wilkie, a defensive cyberspace warfare operator with Delta Company, 3rd Radio Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, monitors the Marine Corps enterprise network for any digital threats inside an administrative logistics operation center at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on April 8, 2024. The cyberspace Marines were tasked to set up MCEN access to the ALOC and sustain the network integrity during exercise Corvus Dawn 24 battalion operations. CD24 sharpened 3rd RADBN's ability to provide technical information related capabilities to III Marine Expeditionary Force and the joint and multi-national force throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Wilkie is a native of Michigan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Bridgette Rodriguez)

Cognitive Warfare: The Fight for Gray Matter in the Digital Gray Zone

Τhe United States is facing unprecedented challenges in the cognitive domain. While democracies struggle to develop frameworks that promote collective understanding, adversaries are employing gray zone tactics—those that never rise to the level of war—as a form of cognitive warfare against the United States and other democratic societies. François du Cluzel, head of innovative projects at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s Allied Command Transformation Innovation Hub, describes the key distinctions of the emerging cognitive domain.


Newly commissioned U.S. Navy Ensigns take the oath of office during the U.S. Naval Academy's Class of 2023 graduation ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., May 26, 2023. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

Was 50 Years Long Enough? The All-Volunteer Force in an Era of Large-Scale Combat Operations

Ιn an era of geopolitical competition among major powers, a large-scale war could last longer and result in more casualties than anything the United States has experienced since World War II. It is unclear whether the all-volunteer force (AVF) that the United States has relied on for the past 50 years, with extraordinary and unexpected success, can meet the manpower requirements in quality and quantity and in time to win the large-scale combat operations that the Department of Defense (DOD) is preparing for.


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