Improving Corps Deep Fires: NATO’s Innovations for U.S. Forces
7/21/2026
NATO experimentation is reshaping corps deep fires for large‐scale combat. Lessons from Ukraine highlight new concepts—corps‐level JAGICs, airspace battle manage...
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Survive to Fight: Operationalize the Drone Fight in Modern Field Artillery Operations
7/14/2026
This article examines how evolving drone threats are reshaping Field Artillery operations, arguing that HIMARS units must prioritize signature management, concea...
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Engineering Resilient Fire Support in LSCO: Electromagnetic Warfare Considerations
7/16/2026
Discover how the fires enterprise can engineer a more survivable architecture to maintain responsive, accurate fire support within a heavily contested electromag...
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The 3P’s: Observations for BN S-3’s from the NTC
7/14/2026
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 ...
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Literacy in Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Creating Literacy in AI and Large Language Models in Army Professional Military Education
6/28/2026
As AI reshapes military operations, Army leaders face a growing literacy gap. A proposed Professional Military Education framework would build AI and large langu...
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The Law of War and You: Not Just for Academics, Eggheads, and JAGs Pt. 2
6/23/2026
U.S. forces are shifting away from restrictive counterinsurgency rules toward more permissive, law‑of‑war–based operations. Fires officers must adapt through tra...
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The Law of War and You: Not Just for Academics, Eggheads, and JAGs, PT. 1
6/23/2026
Fires officers must master the law of war to make rapid, high-stakes decisions in modern combat. As battlefields grow faster and more urban, leaders must apply p...
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AI as a Staff Instrument: Lessons from a Shadow Staff
6/23/2026
AI-enabled "Shadow Staff" teams helped military students simulate Blue Staff, Red Staff, and White Cell functions, accelerating planning, wargaming, and adjudica...
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Reforming Army Badge Programs: Fostering Award Alignment with a Vision of Competency, Readiness, and Lethality
5/31/2026
This article examines the need to reform U.S. Army badge programs by introducing recurring validation and recertification to ensure skills remain current, credib...
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Difficult Steps
5/31/2026
SSG Betts confronts the Army's silent crisis: NCOs are breaking under impossible expectations with inadequate tools. With more service members lost to suicide th...
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Some Who Wander, Are Lost: Why DA PAM 600-3 (and 600-25) are Required for Counseling and Self-Development
6/9/2026
Career paths are not one-size-fits-all. Using DA PAM 600-3 and 600-25 in counseling and self-development ensures leaders understand assignments, education, and o...
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The Crossroad of Convergence: Future Sustainment of Long-Range Artillery
5/26/2026
Long-range artillery effectiveness depends as much on sustainment as on fires. Persistent force-structure reductions have left field artillery brigades reliant o...
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Reactive Counterfire: Why?
5/26/2026
Modern artillery moves too fast for traditional reactive counterfire. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the article argues for a shift to custody-based, proactive...
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Preliminary Observations: JLTV-Mounted Q-50 Innovation Efforts
5/26/2026
Preliminary Army testing compares JLTV- and HMMWV-mounted Q‑50 radar systems, finding gains in mobility, survivability, communications, and endurance with the JL...
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The Way Forward
4/27/2026
Suicide has claimed more service members than two decades of war. An NCO-led, cost-free prevention model shifts action upstream—training leaders and peers to spo...
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