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The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War
Jonathan Buckland | 06.03.26
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive...
Read MoreFalse Targets, Real Survivability: Here’s What’s Keeping the Army from Borrowing Ukraine’s Air Defense Decoy Techniques
Trevor Alexander and Christopher Burlison | 06.02.26
A Russian intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance drone is on the hunt in eastern Ukraine....
Read MoreDesigning Judgment: Leadership under Uncertainty on the Modern Battlefield
Modern military training excels at teaching processes such as the troop leading procedures, the...
Read MoreThe Sixty-Ton Problem: Scandium Supply Chain Risk the US Defense Industrial Base
Morgan Bazilian, Macdonald Amoah and Jahara Matisek | 05.28.26
The recent White House summit with Beijing produced an agreement to address US concerns regarding...
Read MoreAutonomous Ground Vehicles and the Sustainment Problem: One Brigade’s Experiment and What the Army Should Do Next
Marc Dibernardo and Dave Rowland | 05.27.26
Earlier this year, deep in an expansive training area, soldiers loaded an autonomous ground...
Read MoreThe Lethal, Learning Lieutenant: Advice for New Officers
Charles Faint | 05.22.26
Each generation of lieutenants enters the Army convinced that warfare is changing. Usually they...
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