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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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Slide for Parameters Winter 2025–26
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
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.
SRAD Quick Takes | May 19, 2026

The Peru F-16 Sale: The Relationship Between Partner Politics, Extra-Hem...

On April 18, 2026, interim Peruvian President José María Balcázar temporarily suspended signing a $3.42 billion agreement for the purchase of 24 new F-16 C and D block 70 fighters, associated equipment, and support. The Peruvian government authorized
China Landpower Studies Center | May 15, 2026

Decoding China’s 15th Five-Year Plan

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in that instability to promote the Community of Common
China Landpower Studies Center | May 14, 2026

Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget and KMT Trip to Beijing, Part 2

In part two of this two-part episode, COL Kyle Marcrum and Dr. Jessica Liao discuss Taiwan President Lai’s special defense budget and the Kuomingdang Chair, Cheng Li-wun, visit to Beijing.
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Parameters  Bookshelf
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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Cover of Lessons Learned and Unlearned: The Drivers of US Indirect-Fire Innovation by Brennan S. Deveraux
Lessons Learned and Unlearned: The Drivers of US Indirect-Fire Innovation
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Cover of Occupation: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine by David Lewis
Occupation: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine
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Cover of Obama and the Bomb: New START, Russia and the Politics of Post–Cold War Arms Control by Frank Leith Jones
Obama and the Bomb: New START, Russia and the Politics of Post-Cold War Arms Control
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cover of The New Calculus of Escalation: Avoiding Armageddon in Great Power Conflict by Martin C. Libicki
The New Calculus of Escalation: Avoiding Armageddon in Great Power Conflict
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Covers of Tubby: Raymond O. Barton and the United States Army, 1889–1963 by Stephen A. Bourque; Patton’s Tactician: The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes Edited by James W. Holsinger Jr.
Review Essay: World War II Generals
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