Of Interest
Parameters
Parameters: Spring 2026
Parameters | Spring 2026
Read More
Slide for Parameters Winter 2025–26
Parameters | Winter 2025–26
Read More
Parameters Autumn 2025 Slide
Parameters | Autumn 2025
Read More
Parameters | Summer 2025
Parameters | Summer 2025
Read More

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

External Articles | April 9, 2026

What is Strategic Rivalry? Why Should We Care?

The states most likely to draw America into its next major crisis or war are not unknowns. They are the usual suspects: The same handful of states that have threatened the United States repeatedly across decades. Interstate rivals have caused roughly



Parameters  Bookshelf
Cover of GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu: The Birth of Germany's Counterterrorism Force by Martin Herzog
GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu: The Birth of Germany's Counterterrorism Force
Read More
Cover of Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan by Frank K. Sobchak
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
Read More
Cover of The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II by Stephen R. Platt
The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
Read More
Cover of Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders by James Holland and Al Murray
Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
Read More
Cover of Ransom War: How Cyber Crime Became a Threat to National Security by Max Smeets
Ransom War: How Cyber Crime Became a Threat to National Security
Read More
Cover of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War
Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War
Read More
Cover for Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War
Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War
Read More
Cover for How Drones Fight: How Small Drones Are Revolutionizing Warfare
How Drones Fight: How Small Drones Are Revolutionizing Warfare
Read More