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Web graphic for the summer 2026 issue of Parameters
Parameters | Summer 2026
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Parameters: Spring 2026
Parameters | Spring 2026
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Parameters | Winter 2025–26
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Parameters | Autumn 2025
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The US Army War College Quarterly, Parameters, is a refereed forum for contemporary strategy and Landpower issues. It furthers the education and professional development of senior military officers and members of government and academia concerned with national security affairs.

Parameters is indexed in, inter alia, Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, US Government Periodicals Index, LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Lancaster Index to Defence & International Security Literature (UK), and PAIS Bulletin. Book reviews are indexed in Gale Group’s Book Review Index. Parameters is also available through ProQuest and UMI.

Recent Publications
SRAD Quick Takes | June 9, 2026

In Dire Straits: Iran, Hormuz, and the Risks to the Global Order

Jacob Stoil and Daphné Richemond-Barak
China Landpower Studies Center | June 2, 2026

Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defen...

Taiwan's legislature spent six months blocking a major defense budget, then passed a scaled-down version days before the Trump-Xi summit. Jessica C. Liao and Kyle Marcrum argue why the story the US media tells is flawed.
China Landpower Studies Center | May 22, 2026

“An Enviable Position in the Pacific”: An interview with General Xavier ...

Guest host Tom Spahr and General Xavier Brunson, commander of United Nations Command, ROK-US Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea (UNC/CFC/USFK), discuss Korea, the Indo-Pacific, and mission command.
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Parameters  Bookshelf
Cover of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, by Edward Fishman
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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Cover of War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips, by Matthew Ford
War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips
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Cover of America's Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation, by Michael A. Hunzeker and Mark A. Christopher
America’s Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation
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Cover of The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History, edited by Lee L. Brice and Timothy M. Roberts
The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History
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Cover of A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Peace, edited by Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm
A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Peace
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Cover of Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992–1995 by Jonathan Carroll
Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
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Cover of Blood, Mud, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year That Made Winston Churchill by J. Furman Daniel III
Blood, Mud, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year That Made Winston Churchill
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Cover of Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security by Andrew Preston
Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
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