The Harding Fellowship

Lead the Army’s Professional Discourse

A three-year broadening opportunity — earn a fully funded master’s degree, then serve as editor-in-chief of your branch journal.

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Deep Reconnaissance: The Need for Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance in LSCO

By 1SG Kyle C. Ward

1SG Kyle Ward argues that near-peer electronic warfare exposes the vulnerability of technology-centric ISR, making human-centered long-range surveillance and reconnaissance essential. He traces LRS history and calls for re-establishing LRS teams for deep reconnaissance in LSCO.

Camouflaged soldier lying prone in tall dry grass, partly hidden under a mesh veil, looking through a burlap-wrapped optical scope

Infantry

AI-generated illustration representing a strategic leader balancing self, people, and organizational leadership.

Army Civilian

LATEST RELEASE

The Humanized Arena: Strategic Leadership, Decision Making, and the Socio-Emotional Environment

By Dennis Eger, EdD

Three battalion Soldiers sitting in front of a wall of various computer screens executing mission rehearsal exercises at Fort Sill Mission Training Complex.

Air Defense Artillery

LATEST RELEASE

A Strategic Inflection Point for Air Defense Deception Tactics

By CW2 Erick P. Forsythe

Army History

LATEST RELEASE

The Art and Artifacts of Combat Artist and War Correspondent Tom Lea

By Leigh E. Smith Jr. and Naomi Absalon

The Army’s professional journals are uniquely important. Through open access, the journals inform the Army, share lessons laterally, provide an outlet for thoughtful dissent, allow us to learn from our past, and make us better communicators. At the institutional level, the Army is modernizing the journals through improved accessibility, incorporation into education programs, and an emphasis on embracing the digital age. But these changes are not enough. Leaders must also underwrite reasonable risk for their subordinates who take up the pen and encourage professional writing that improves our Army, even if they have dissenting opinions.
Lt. Col. Zachary Griffiths, U.S. Army

Forward medical personnel treating casualties in austere combat conditions

17 min read

Closing the Gap: A Combined Lyophilized Product Strategy for Forward Resuscitation

By SFC Jeffrey R. Wadford

Forward combat medical units face rising risk as evacuation delays and blood shortages increase in large-scale conflicts. A combined lyophilized plasma and platelet strategy offers a practical, cold-chain-free solution to extend life‑saving resuscitation at the point of injury.

Pulse of Army Medicine

4 min read

Perspective from the Force: SOF Sustainment for Denied Area Operations in LSCO

By CW2 Yuwei Lee

Denied-area operations in large-scale combat operations (LSCO) require Green Berets to provide their own sustainment. For this article, the focus is only on food procurement, as the saying often attributed to Napoleon goes, “An army marches on its, Special Warfare Journal Archive

Special Warfare

Military helicopter transporting suspended cargo over coastal waters during expeditionary resupply operations.

10 min read

Over the Ocean: What the Falklands Campaign Can Teach the Army About Emerging Theaters

By LTC Nathaniel A. Rice

Lessons from the Falklands Campaign highlight how long-distance logistics, commercial shipping, and improvised sustainment enabled combat power without ports—offering critical insights for Army readiness, maritime lift, and future Indo-Pacific operations.

Army Sustainment

A person is silhouetted against a bright sky against the shadow of a helicopter.

15 min read

The 3P’s: Observations for BN S-3’s from the NTC

By MAJ Jeong Hong

NTC observations for Field Artillery Battalion S-3s highlight the “3 P’s”—People, Products and Processes—as the foundation of effective operations. Well-trained staffs, clear systems and disciplined battle rhythms help battalions maintain tempo, adaptability and mission success.

Field Artillery

A person wearing a brown jacket with an American flag patch is standing in front of a blurred computer screen displaying a software interface.

11 min read

The Torchbearer’s Truth: Synthesizing Warrant Officer Functions for Decision Advantage

By CW3 Trevor A. Mayfield, Military Intelligence

Warrant Officers are more than technical experts—they are integrators, honest brokers, and decision enablers. Using the 3R2C framework, this article shows how WOs translate complexity into command advantage across every echelon.

Warrant Officer Journal

A group of soldiers walking in front of a helicopter.

12 min read

42nd Infantry Division Protection Cell: Breaking the Reactive Cycle

By MAJ Joshua Tosi

During WFX 25‑3, the 42nd Infantry Division protection cell shifted from reacting to immediate threats to proactive, 96‑hour planning. A tiered protection prioritization list, deeper integration with FUOPs and targeting, and predictive intelligence improved anticipation of risk and mission resilience.

Protection

Military police receive counter-sUAS and drone operations training during a field exercise.

9 min read

Protecting Army Power Projection: Integrating sUAS into Police Operations

By MAJ Kievell Ruffin

Integrating small unmanned aircraft systems into Army military police law-enforcement activities strengthens force protection, improves threat detection, and enhances power projection readiness across the strategic-support area while supporting lawful, effective security operations.

Military Police

Seven military aviators in flight suits and Army Combat Uniforms stand in a row on a flight line in front of a Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with rotors spread, during a site visit to gain tiltrotor familiarization experience in support of MV-75 doctrine development.

5 min read

The Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program: Building Readiness for the MV-75

By CW3 Joshua D. Baker

Army DOTD builds training strategy for the MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, leveraging Marine Corps tiltrotor expertise, virtual prototypes, and doctrine updates to prepare aviators for the Army's first new aircraft in nearly 40 years.

Aviation Digest

Trains Concept diagram showing DEB Engineer sustainment flow from Corps Support Area through Field Trains to Combat Trains during a breach or wet-gap crossing.

6 min read

Sustaining Division Engineer Battalions

By CPT Jonathan Emley

Army force restructuring shifts engineers to division-level battalions, creating new sustainment challenges. Updated planning and use of combat trains models are key to maintaining readiness and supporting dispersed or unified engineer operations in large-scale combat.

Engineer

Soldiers practice casualty evacuation, loading a simulated wounded soldier onto a litter in snowy conditions during cold-weather medical training.

5 min read

Decontamination in Extreme Cold Weather: Operational Viability of HEPA Vacuum Systems for CBRN Response

By 1LT Jackson Riley

Traditional liquid-based decontamination systems are unviable in extreme cold weather, as they freeze on contact, damage sensitive equipment, and cause severe hypothermia. Recent ERDC CRREL testing proves that high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuum systems offer a highly effective, logistically lean dry-decontamination alternative, maintaining up to a 96% contaminant removal rate even in subzero Arctic environments.

Army Chemical Review

U.S. Army soldiers in full combat gear and carrying rifles run along a paved path through a wooded area during a ruck march at Fort Gordon, Georgia.

10 min read

Restoring the Scholar-Warrior: A Shared Mandate

By Maj. Nicholas Christensen and Maj. William Sack

Signal Corps PME reform proposal urging students, instructors, and institutions to embrace academic rigor, adaptive curriculum, and critical thinking to develop scholar-warrior officers ready for modern multi-domain operations.

Army Communicator

12 min read

Modernizing Strategic Army Human Intelligence Collection: Africa as a Case Study

By SFC Caleb M. Mazaika

This article argues that the U.S. Army's Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection methods must evolve from the tactical, counterinsurgency-focused approaches of the post-9/11 era to meet the challenges of strategic competition with China and Russia. Using Africa as a case study, the author illustrates how great power competitors are leveraging economic, military, and cultural instruments to gain influence and access to resources across the continent.

Military Intelligence

Graduation of the ninth class of The Judge Advocate General’s School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in April 1943. (Source: Bentley Historical Library: Bentley Image Bank).

17 min read

‌Silk Stockings or the Danger Zone: The World Wars, SAGEBRUSH, and the Past, Present, and Future of USAR Legal Support

By COL SGM (Retired) Stephen W. Minyard

From WWI's "danger zone" to WWII's War Crimes Group, U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocates mobilized attorneys nationwide to support industry, conscription, and combat divisions—including one JAG's fatal secret Pacific mission. Part I of a four-part history of USAR legal support.

Army Lawyer

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10 min read

‌From Contact to Overmatch: Redefining Armor Fundamentals Through Transformation in Contact

By COL Bryan Bonnema, MAJ Aram Hatfield, and MAJ David Sturm

An examination of how the 1st ABCT, 3rd Infantry Division is transforming armored warfare execution through the Isolation-Exploitation-Regeneration framework, integrating unmanned systems, persistent sensors, and network-enabled operations while maintaining core Armor fundamentals.

Armor

The authors of the article stand smiling in front of flags.

10 min read

Taking the Baton: Preparing for Leadership Transitions in the Army

By MG Ryan Janovic and MG Mark Miles

The Army Cyber Center of Excellence is testing two new leadership transition approaches for signal and cyber officers. The initiatives replace brief, static courses with a year of tailored, general-officer-guided prep and a structured two-week command handoff to preserve unit momentum.

Gray Space

Soldiers load an Infantry Squad Vehicle into a CH-47 Chinook for a long-range air assault.

13 min read

No Substitute for Boots on the Ground: An Infantry Battalion’s Value Proposition for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

By MAJ Zackery R. Spear

Light infantry battalions provide critical advantage in the Indo-Pacific through persistent presence, allied integration, reconnaissance, drone-enabled strike capabilities, security, and austere sustainment—delivering affordable combat power where control ultimately depends on forces ashore.

Infantry