Protection Writer's Guide

By The Protection Professional Bulletin

July 1, 2023 | Protection, 2023 Annual Issue

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Protection is a professional-development bulletin designed to provide a forum for exchanging informa-tion and ideas within the Army protection community. We include articles by and about officers, warrant of-ficers, noncommissioned officers, enlisted Soldiers, De-partment of the Army civilian employees, and others. Writers may discuss training, current operations and exercises, doctrine, equipment, history, personal view-points, or other areas of general interest. Articles may share good ideas and lessons learned or explore better ways of doing things.

Articles should be concise, straightforward, and in the active voice. If they contain attributable informa-tion or quotations, appropriate endnotes should be included. Text length should not exceed 2,000 words (about eight double-spaced pages). Shorter after action type articles and reviews of books on protection topics are also welcome.

Include photographs (with captions) and/or line dia-grams that illustrate information in the article. Please do not include illustrations or photographs within the text; instead, send each of them as a separate file. Do not embed photographs in Microsoft® PowerPoint or Word. Save digital images at a resolution no lower than 200 dpi. Images copied from a website must be accom-panied by copyright permission. Please see the Photo/ Illustration Guide at <https://home.army.mil/wood/application/files/2516/5512/2839/Protection_Writers_Guide.pdf> for more information.

Provide a short paragraph that summarizes the content of the article and a short biography that includes your full name, rank, current unit, job title, and education; your mailing address; and a commercial daytime telephone number.

Articles submitted to Protection must be accompanied by a security release from the author’s unit or activ-ity security manager prior to publication; the security release cannot be signed by the author. All informa-tion contained in the article must be unclassified, nonsensitive, and releasable to the public. Protection is distributed to military units worldwide. As such, it is readily accessible to nongovernment or foreign individ-uals and organizations.

We cannot guarantee that we will publish all sub-mitted articles, photographs, or illustrations. They are accepted for publication only after thorough review. If we plan to use your article in an upcoming issue, we will notify you. Therefore, it is important to keep us informed of changes in your e-mail address and tele-phone number. All articles accepted for publication are subject to grammatical and structural changes as well as editing for style.

Protection is published annually. Submission dead-line for articles is 15 August. Send submissions in Word by e-mail to usarmy.leonardwood.mscoe.mbx.protectpb@army.mil.

Note: Please indicate if your manuscript is being considered for publication elsewhere. Due to the lim-ited space per issue, we usually do not publish articles that have been accepted for publication at other Army venues.