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Sailors carry Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Isaac Eaker, assigned to intelligence department’s satellite imagery analyzation division, to elevator on flight deck during medical drill aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington while underway in Pacific Ocean, November 11, 2024

Bullets, Bandages, and Fairy Dust: Improving DMO Health Services Support With Wargaming

This article highlights the need for better integration of health services into wargames and exercises, emphasizing the importance of realistic scenarios, multilateral cooperation, and investment in modeling tools.


Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, arrive at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, October 7, 2024, during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 25-01

The Urgency of Warfighting Renewal: Five Principles for Today’s Professional Military Education

This article highlights the urgent need to reform Professional Military Education (PME) to prioritize warfighting skills and strategic thinking, as called for in the 2018 National Defense Strategy.


Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force–Crisis Response–Central Command provide assistance during evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021 (U.S. Marine Corps/Nicholas Guevara)

Risk: A Weak Element in the U.S. Strategy Formulation

This article explores the critical but often overlooked role of risk analysis in U.S. national security decision-making, emphasizing its importance in strategy formulation and execution.


2025 Joint Staff Industry Solarium

Register for the 2025 Joint Staff Industry Solarium

Enjoy a day of robust discussion on the defense industrial base and all of its commodities (munitions, subsistence, infrastructure, and more). Networking breaks throughout the day will offer the opportunity to meet members of the OSD staff, Joint Staff, and industry, interagency and Service representatives.


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)

Joint Force Quarterly 116

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.


Chinese soldiers browse news on desktop computers at People’s Liberation Army garrison in Chongqing, China, November 14, 2013.

Is the PLA Overestimating the Potential of Artificial Intelligence?

This article reviews over 370 PLA Daily articles to assess how the PLA envisions AI transforming key areas of warfare, including situational awareness, decisionmaking, unmanned weapons, and cognitive domain operations.


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.