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It Wasn’t Me: Deepfake Threats to National Security

Fabricating a convincing photo of someone doing something they did not do used to be complicated—but not anymore.

December 2024

Maneuver Chess: Integrating Think-and-Fight Drills into Military Training

Think-and-fight drills increase the ability of personnel to rapidly assess information in chaotic environments.

November 2024

By volunteering in the communities outside their bases—the author started a local high school track and cross-country team—service members can give young people positive exposure to the military and its members and change their perceptions.

Recruitment Runs Through Our Local Communities

Recruiting is difficult for all the services, and they are instituting programs in an attempt to meet the challenge.

Commander Marc Mares, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve

November 2024

E-2C Hawkeye on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

Beyond Tactics: How the Hawkeye Proved the Power of Adaptability in the Red Sea

Training for naval aviators is too strictly geared toward combat against a peer adversary. As the battlespace evolves, the Navy should train for adaptability and flexibility.

Lieutenant Commander Nathan Sawyer

October 2024

The Navy needs a long-term mentoring program that connects junior officers with midcareer officers who can show them the significance of their service.

Officer Mentors Can Help Retention

Connecting junior officers too busy to see the impact of their work with midgrade officers within their warfare communities could aid retention.

Lieutenant Commander Andrew Kramer, U.S. Navy

October 2024

A U.S. Marine with 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, runs toward a target on a live-fire range during 4th LARs Marine Corps combat readiness evaluation at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, in September 2023. Marines at every command echelon must develop the elements necessary to face the inherent qualities of ground combat and the nature of war.

Ground Combat: Readiness is Paramount

In an information warfare-centric world, wars will still be fought and won or lost in ground combat.

September 2024

General John A. LeJeune, the 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, in front of the Navy Department at Washington in 1925. According to Lejeune, leadership is “the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enable an individual to inspire and control a group of people successfully.”

Leader Development: A Framework for Decision-Making

The primary effort of the Marine Corps must be to produce the most capable, lethal leaders the world has ever known.

September 2024

Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Jack C. Taylor Conference Center in April 2024. It is time to reassess the Naval Academy’s educational program to better support its graduates.

It Is Time to Review the Naval Academy’s Curriculum

It is time for a hard look at what midshipmen are being taught and how they are being prepared for the future.

September 2024

An R80D SkyRaider Unmanned Aircraft System goes through preflight checks during a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) exercise at Fort Drum, NY. The only limits to unmanned systems mission concepts are a warfighter’s imagination and ability to iterate.

Drones as Deterrence

The Navy and Marine Corps must organize to receive, test, proliferate, and reveal unmanned systems if Replicator is to become deterrence.

September 2024

Starboard bow view of USS Pueblo (AKL-44) lying at a pier before it was redesignated as USS Pueblo (AGER-2). The 1968 incident highlights the danger of maintaining geographically dispersed defense commitments.

To Understand the Dangers of Overcommitment, Look to the Pueblo Incident

The 1968 Pueblo should serve as a warning to the United States about the dangers of overcommitment.

September 2024

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