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Publications | June 18, 2025

Parameters | Summer 2025

Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Indo-Pacific Challenges, Russia-Ukraine Issues, and Historical Studies).

Publications | Aug. 6, 2025

Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twe...

This integrated research project highlights gaps in the US Army’s understanding of, and preparations for, a great-power war in the twenty-first century. The project employs historical analysis to enhance Army leaders’ understanding of great-power

Publications | July 22, 2025

More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Paci...

As the US Army organizes, trains, and equips for an unforeseen future, service decisions should create or amplify relative operational advantages over the US military’s rising foe—the People’s Liberation Army. Discerning critical differences between

Publications | July 22, 2025

Weaponizing Risk: Recalibrating Western Deterrence

Can NATO increase the risks and costs of war for an adversary without unduly raising the alliance’s own? Can the alliance strengthen the credibility of NATO’s extended deterrence through a proxy strategy of “waging war without going to war”? 

Publications | July 15, 2025

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies in...

Explore artificial intelligence’s potential for military planning! This study examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning can enhance the US Army’s common operational picture and course of action development. Learn how advanced
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Parameters | Summer 2025
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Parameters Spring | 2025
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Parameters Winter 2024-2025
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Parameters | Autumn 2024
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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.

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Cover for Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine 
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Cover for Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror
Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror 
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Cover for Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East
Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East 
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Cover for Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military Lessons
Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military Lessons 
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Cover for How to Fight a War
How to Fight a War 
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Cover for The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire
The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire
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Cover for The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
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Cover for Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
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