A New Horizon For Maneuver Support Experimentation: The Final MSPIX and a Vision For The Future
1/25/2026
Analysis of the final Maneuver Support Protection Integration Experiment (MSPIX) held in May 2025, marking the transition to Concept-Focused Warfighting Experime...
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Further Defining Protection Support Planning
1/1/2026
Protection planning often breaks down when it matters most. This article examines why current processes leave units without clear, actionable guidance and how ad...
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Failing to Consider Protection in Large-Scale Combat Operations: The Siverskyi Donets River Crossing
9/15/2025
Analysis of Russia's failed Siverskyi Donets River crossing in 2022. Learn critical protection lessons on survivability, air defense, and area security for milit...
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Protection: The Australian Army Combat Engineer Regiment Approach
8/31/2025
Major Peter J. Witcomb examines how the Australian Army Combat Engineer Regiments (CERs) contribute to the protection warfighting function, emphasizing that prot...
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Enabling Convergence: How Engineers Protect the Multidomain Battlespace
8/31/2025
Enabling Convergence: U.S. Army engineers integrate protection, mobility, and infrastructure across land, air, cyber, and space domains to secure operational fre...
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Protection: The Fabric of the Warfighting Functions
8/31/2025
This article examines the U.S. Army’s protection warfighting function, its role as the connective fabric among other functions, and how risk management principle...
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Fight to Protect the Force
8/31/2025
Lieutenant Colonels Bryan B. Ault and Douglas D. Bazil discuss the challenges of protecting Soldiers and critical assets in modern combat. They explore solutions...
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War-Gaming
6/4/2025
This article highlights the need to revitalize and standardize war-gaming in the U.S. Army at the battalion and brigade levels. Captain Aleksandrs V. Schuler adv...
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Protection in an Armored Division- The Iron Way
2/1/2025
This article details how the 1st Armored Division improved its protection strategy during Warfighter Exercise 25-1. It explains their Converse of Targeting metho...
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Prioritizing Protection: Creating Synchronized Success
2/1/2025
This article examines the critical integration of the protection warfighting function within modern military operations. It emphasizes synchronized planning, sta...
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Protective Fires
12/31/2023
The Line of Departure is the premier platform for accessing the latest articles, insights, and discussions from official U.S. Army branch journals. Designed to f...
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Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood Commanding General
12/31/2023
Major General Christopher G. Beck reflects on the progress made in Protection capabilities over the past year at the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, empha...
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reimagining how we fight
12/31/2023
Reimagining How We Fight" by Colonel John F. Antal (Retired) discusses the evolving nature of warfare, highlighting key disruptors such as artificial intelligenc...
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Protection warfighting function professional media list
12/31/2023
This list is an important reference for the professional development of all protection leaders in the Army. Continuous self-development is one of the ways that w...
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The Inaugural Protection and Maneuver Support Senior Leader Forum
12/31/2023
The inaugural Protection and Maneuver Support Senior Leader Forum took place from July 23-25, 2024, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, bringing together Army leader...
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