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Decisive Point Podcast | Dec. 15, 2020

“Gender Blindness in US Doctrine”

US military Joint and Army civil affairs doctrine have failed to consider the operational relevance of gender, posing a risk to mission accomplishment and force protection. A comparison of NATO and Australian Defence Force doctrine reveals gender
Decisive Point Podcast | Dec. 11, 2020

“Challenging Prevailing Models of US Army Suicide”

Statistics behind reported suicide rates in the military are often insufficiently analyzed and portray a distorted picture of reality. Several models for identifying individuals at risk for suicide have been proposed but few show adequate predictive
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 25, 2020

“Training Better Arab Armies”

US security force assistance missions to Arab partner states have had limited success, due in part to a tendency to impose American doctrine, which embodies American cultural values and norms, on Arab armed forces. Accordingly, US security force
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 23, 2020

“Two Worlds - African American Servicemembers, WWII and Today”

The theory of social stigma provides a context for the subjective experience of African American servicemembers in World War II. Those experiences reveal the paradox the military faces when addressing racial discrimination. An examination of these
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 21, 2020

“Technology and Strategic Surprise - Adapting to an Era of Open Innovation”

Technological revolutions affecting state power are either open or closed. The precursor to the digital age is not the twentieth century, with state-controlled programs yielding nuclear weapons, but the late nineteenth century, when tinkerers
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 14, 2020

“Enduring Information Vigilance - Government after COVID-19”

The framework of Enduring Information Vigilance will help ally and partner governments deny advantages adversaries gain through their use of information operations in our new global perpetual information environment. This approach recognizes the
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 8, 2020

“Disintegrating the Enemy - The PLA’s Info-Messaging”

The DoD can exploit weaknesses in Chinese military attempts at political warfare, or “enemy disintegration,” most recently observed in PLA media on the subject of the pandemic. Targeted information efforts will signal the United States’ refusal to be
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 4, 2020

“Disintegrating the Enemy - The PLA’s Info-Messaging”

The lessons of counterinsurgency have deeper implications for cyber conflict than previous research has identified. Two decades of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan provide insights into the cyber strategy of defending forward including treating
Decisive Point Podcast | Sept. 1, 2020

“The COVID-19 Enemy Is Still Advancing”

The US military has a historical precedence for dealing with a pandemic while simultaneously conducting large-scale combat operations. Two twentieth-century examples assess the extent to which the military adapted operations following an influenza
Decisive Point Podcast | Aug. 28, 2020

“Toward a Racially Inclusive Military”

Racialized structural inequalities and related social biases in US society and replicated in the military hinder diversity and inclusion efforts necessary to maintain a ready force. Examining the history of Blacks in the military through a social
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