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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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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 | June 24, 2026

China Maritime Report #55: Loading the Well Deck: The PLA Navy's Maturin...

Since 2023, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has established an annualized rhythm of loading PLA Army (PLAA) combat, engineering, and support units onto PLA Navy (PLAN) amphibious ships for international exercises. This integration signals a
SRAD | June 22, 2026

Academic Year 2026–27 Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment

The United States faces a complex and ever-changing global environment. The Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment is designed to guide the collective defense community to research and write about critical national security challenges
SRAD | June 22, 2026

Systems Over Steel: How China is Redefining Amphibious Armor Survivability

The contemporary discourse on drone-driven warfare rarely suggests the end of maneuver, but it highlights an increasingly perilous gap between tactical movement and force survivability in a hypertransparent environment. Against this backdrop, the
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Parameters  Bookshelf
Cover of No Peer Rivals: American Grand Strategy in the Era of Great Power Competition by Ionut Popescu
No Peer Rivals: American Grand Strategy in the Era of Great Power Competition
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Cover of Death Before Dismount: U.S. Army Tanks in Iraq by Dr. Andrew Eric Wright Sr.
US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order: A Critical Analysis of Post–Cold War Strategies
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Cover of A Military History of the New World Disorder: 1989-2022 by Jonathan M. House
A War of Their Own: FULRO: The Other National Liberation Front, Vietnam 1955–75
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Cover of A War of Their Own: FULRO: The Other National Liberation Front, Vietnam 1955-75 by William H. Chickering
A Military History of the New World Disorder: 1989–2022
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Cover of US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order: A Critical Analysis of Post-Cold War Strategies by Richard Outzen
Death Before Dismount: U.S. Army Tanks in Iraq
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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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