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Publications | May 29, 2024

Parameters | Summer 2024

The Summer issue is out! In this edition: "What American Policymakers Misunderstand about the Belt and Road Initiative" by Zenel Garcia and Phillip Guerreiro; A Major's Perspective “Professional Discourse Is Shaping the Force”; Civil-Military
China Landpower Studies Center | June 24, 2024

PODCAST: Chinese Strategy and Statecraft: Coercion and Competition in th...

What are the objectives of China’s foreign and security policies under Xi Jinping?  What is the role of Australia and other middle powers in responding to Chinese actions in the Indo-Pacific?  Are the United States’ China policies set to change with
China Landpower Studies Center | June 24, 2024

PODCAST: Paramilitaries Abroad: China’s Use of Nontraditional Security F...

Episode 107 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast examines how China uses its paramilitary and internal security forces to project power abroad and build global influence.Our guests begin by dissecting the Chinese security apparatus: contrasting the
Publications | May 29, 2024

Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry

Why Countries Get External Security from Washington—and Internal Security from BeijingOn a visit to Budapest in late February, China’s minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong, secured a face-to-face meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
European Security | May 28, 2024

The New NATO Force Model: Ready For Launch?

Allies are in the process of a dramatic change to the Alliance’s force structure, which will see the NATO Response Force (NRF) replaced with a three tiered structure of Allied forces, to include an Allied Reaction Force (ARF), all of which is
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Parameters Summer 2024
Parameters | Summer 2024
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Parameters Spring 2024
Parameters | Spring 2024
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Welcome to the Winter 2023–24 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of two In Focus commentaries which bring to light observations from the Russia-Ukraine War, two forums addressing deterrence and strategic influence, and the inaugural Director’s Corner for the China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC). Keywords: deterrence; Ukraine; Russia; Putin; NATO; unmanned aerial systems; deep strike; reconnaissance-strike complex; electronic warfare; Russia-Ukraine War; nuclear; misperception; Russia; multidomain operations; freedom to roam; grand strategy; offshore balancing; offensive realism; regional hegemony; stopping power of water; Middle East; integrated deterrence; strategy; Cold War; flexible response; New Look; economic interests; globalization; strategic competition; multinational exercises; bilateral exercises; reflexive control; strategic behavior; strategic analysis; nonlinearity; complex adaptive system; civil-military relations; general officers; promotions; flag officers; political participation; People’s Liberation Army; Chinese Communist Party; Belt and Road Initiative; China; Landpower; security assistance; Iran; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Enduring Freedom; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush; Barack Obama; Civil War; Army of Tennessee; John B. Hood; William Tecumseh Sherman; Battle of Atlanta; Close Combat Lethality Task Force; Secretary of Defense General James N. Mattis; Iraq; Vicksburg Campaign; Ulysses S. Grant; William T. Sherman; Chickasaw Bayou; World War I; World War II; W. E. B. Du Bois; Talented Tenth; 1920s; citizen-soldier; National Guard; modern Army; Harry S. Truman; atomic bomb; Japan; nuclear war; North Korea; George W. Bush; Kim Il-Sung; Kim Jong-Un; China; Xi Jinping; Chinese Dream; authoritarianism; diplomacy; Samuel P. Huntington; Carl von Clausewitz; Dwight D. Eisenhower; George S. Patton; Kenneth Payne; Jan Smuts; South Africa; World War I in Africa; German South West Africa; German East Africa
Parameters | Winter 2023–24
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Parameters | Autumn 2023 From the Acting Editor in Chief Conrad C. Crane https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/8 In Focus A Historical Perspective on Today’s Recruiting Crisis Brian McAllister Linn https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/9 Parameters | Autumn 2023 A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force Katie Crombe and John A. Naglhttps://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/10 Strategic Challenges The Strategic Importance of Taiwan to the United States and Its Allies: Part Two – A Focus on Policy since the Start of the Russia-Ukraine War Luke P. Bellocchi https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/11 The Impact of Antarctic Treaty Challenges on the US Military Ryan J. Bridley and Kevin W. Matthews https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/12 US-Russia Foreign Policy: Confronting Russia’s Geographic Anxieties Caitlin P. Irby https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/11 Historical Studies Urban Resistance to Occupation: An Underestimated Element of Land Warfare Kevin D. Stringer and Jelle J. H. Hooiveld https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/14 The Chechen Kadyrovtsy’s Coercive Violence in Ukraine Wilson A. Jones https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/11=5 SRAD Director’s Corner US Army War College Russia-Ukraine War Study Project Eric Hartunian https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/15 Autumn Book Reviews USAWC Press https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/16
Parameters | Autumn 2023
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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.

Parameters  Bookshelf
Book Review: Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition
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Book Review: Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
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Book Review: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
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Book Review: The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
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