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    • Air Defense Artillery
      • ADA Journal 2023 Issue 1
        • Issue 2023 Table of Contents
        • Ensuring War-Winning
        • What Are You Going to Do About It
        • Leveraging the Cloud
        • Tactical Data Link University
        • 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command
        • Military Personnel Exchange Program
        • Engagement Operations Center Modernization and Mobility
        • Air Defenders are Force Protectors
        • Signalers Work to Change
        • Growing a Brigade
      • ADA Writer's Guide
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      • ADA Journal 2024 E Edition
        • E-edition-TOC
        • Mobility Matters
        • Paradigm-Shifts
        • IBCS Gunnery
        • Enhancing_C-sUAS
    • Armor
      • Armor Writer's Guide
      • About Armor
      • Fall 2023 Edition
        • Ready Today Preparing for Tomorrow
        • Brilliant at the Basics
        • To Fight or Not To Fight
        • The Division Cross-Domain Task Force
        • Tanks Need the Infantry to Lead the Way
        • Peaking at LD
        • Controlling Chaos
        • Arctic-Cavalry-Ops
        • Junior Leaders in Age of Experimentation
        • Training-LSCO
        • Maximizing Operational Readiness in the Baltics
        • Manning-NGMBT
      • Armor Archive
        • Fall 2024 Edition
          • Ready for Next Fight Armor Force Training Standards
          • Develop Future Master Gunners
          • Combat Vehicle Service Optimization
          • The Trouble with LOGSTATs
          • Organizing Light Cavalry in the Army of 2030
          • BCT Armor Reserve
          • Applying Patrolling Principles to Large-Scale Combat Operations at National Training Center
          • U.S Tank Gunnery: Historical Ebb and Flow of Proficiency
          • Strike Swiftly
          • The Defensive Lynchpin
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    • Army AL-T
      • Army AL-T Writer's Guide
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      • Winter 2024
        • Logistics For Data
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        • From the Editor-in-Chief
        • The Green Machine
        • Acquisition Book of Knowledge
        • Prevention is the Best Defense
        • A Greener Organic Industrial Base
        • From Open to Closed
        • Faces of the Force - Evangelina Tillyros
        • H2Rescue Mission
        • A Green Tech Easy Button
        • Climate-Resilient
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        • The Software Advantage
        • Command and Control on the Move
        • Faces of the force
        • Innovating Future
        • Removing Boundaries
        • No Time To Waste
        • Shaking the Tree
    • Army Chemical Review
      • Writer's Guide
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      • Archive
        • 2024 E-Edition
          • Chaplains as AI Ethicists in the U.S. Army
      • 2024 Annual Issue
        • US Army CBRN Capability Development Update
        • CBRN From a Global Perspective
        • The Dragon Cave
        • Genetic Frontiers
        • Experiences of Lieutenants in Korea
        • Away From the Flagpole
        • The Battle of the Bulge
        • CBRN Core Functions
        • Beyond The Bricks
        • Leadership Lessons Learned From an addict
        • battle of the bulge
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    • Army Communicator
      • Archive
        • Fall-Winter 2024
          • Looking-Forward
          • All Gas! No Breaks!
          • Warrant officer talent management. Getting a seat at the table
          • Getting to the Heart of the Harding Project
          • First-Signal
          • Doctrine: Changing How We Educate
      • Spring 2024
        • Signal-Training-Future
        • Maintaining the Heritage of the Regiment
        • Aligning Signal Occupational specialties
        • Change is Inevitable; Growth is optional
        • Signal Corps Support of Amphibious Operations
        • The Case for Taking the Hard Jobs
        • Solving the Military Recruiting Crisis
        • How does the Army Retain Warrant Officers
        • Signal Enlisted MOS Convergence Explained
        • Modernizing PME in the Digital Age
        • Building a Legal Interoperable SFAB
        • Forging the Path for Future Army Leaders.
        • Activating the Army’s Newest Signal Brigade.
        • Signal Corps Direct Commission Program
        • Enabling Maneuver
        • A Storied Heritage of the ‘Fighting 44th’ ESB-E
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    • Army History
      • Archive
        • Summer 2024 Issue
          • Rivers, Rails, and Wooden Bateaux
          • Army Museums: Tradition, Innovation, and Education
          • Army Museums: Tradition, Innovation, and Education
          • U.S. Army History in the Okinawa Prefectural Archives
        • Fall 2024 Issue
          • Historical Honesty
          • Army Artist Coverage of the Eightieth Anniversary of D-Day
          • A Bold Experiment
      • Spring 2024 Issue
        • Correcting the Record
        • Native Guides
        • Harbor Defense Museum
        • Army Artists Documenting Disaster Relief
        • Making War Upon the Map
        • From the Mountains to the Bay
        • Gunboats Muskets and Torpedoes
        • Obstinate Heroism
        • War In The Far East
        • U.S. Go Home: The U.S. Military in France, 1945 to 1968
        • BR_Korean-Showdown
        • The Inheritance
        • BR_Sacred-Duty
        • Chief historian's footnote
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      • Archive
      • Issue 2 - 2024
        • Conversation Curveballs
        • Lawyers as Leaders
        • A Case for Confetti
        • Staying Army Strong
        • The Power of H2F
        • An Interview with Fred L Borch
        • Countering Lawfare
        • Fiscal Implications
        • Sources and Limitations
        • Counsel for Wellness. A Strategic Imperative for Reservists
        • Implementing Quality of Life
        • The end of average
      • Issue 3 - 2024
        • Court-is-Assembled
        • An Interview with Colonel (Retired) Tom Strassburg
        • A View from the Forward Line of Own Troops
        • Range
        • Lore of the Corps. The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
        • Avoiding-Slips
        • Practice Notes
        • Vague-Law
      • Writers Guide
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    • Army Sustainment
      • Army Sustainment Archive
        • ASPB Winter 2025
          • Empowering Sustainment Through Financial Excellence
          • Predictive logistics is the way of the future
          • 2040-Battlefield-Sustainment
          • The C2 Fix Initiative
          • Human Resources
          • Battlefield algorithm
          • Army Sustainment Enterprise's
        • ASPB Fall 2024
          • Base Clusters
      • ASPB Summer 2024
        • HR Sustainment
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        • USINDOPACOM Maritime Environment
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        • Honoring Tradition Adapting to the Future
        • Premature Battery Failure in Maintenance
        • Hell on Wheels
        • Petroleum Quality Analysis System- Enhanced
        • Building a data-evidence-based decision-making culture
        • Logistics Evolution at the National Training Center
        • Division Sustainment
        • Closing the Gap
        • test
      • Army Sustainment Writers Guide
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    • Aviation Digest
      • Aviation Digest April-June 2024
        • How We Fight
        • On the Wings of Destiny
        • Data-Driven Leadership
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      • Aviation Digest Jan-Mar 2024
        • Pilot-in-Command
      • Aviation Digest Oct-Dec 2022
        • Aviation Implications to Field Manual 3-0
      • Aviation Digest Oct-Dec 2023
        • Training Focus on Fundamentals
      • Aviation Digest Jul-Sep 2024
        • Stress-Trouble-Shoot
        • Refining-Teaching-Methods
        • Combat Aviation Brigades
      • Aviation Digest October-December 2024
        • Unmanned and Unprepared for Large-Scale Combat Operations
        • Unmanned Aircraft Systems
        • Intelligence Reachback
      • Aviation Digest January-March 2025
        • Aviation Warfighter Culture
    • Engineer
      • Engineer Archive
      • July 24 Engineer
        • Operation Turning Point
        • Engineers on the Peninsula
        • Condition Checks
        • Dedicated GIS Assets
        • Engineers-Partnerships-Recruitment
        • EAB-Engineer-Battalion-Training-at-JRTC
        • Lessons-Ukraine
        • planning for construction of the perfect castle
        • lieutenant development
        • Reflections from a deputy district commander
        • The Future Role of Engineer Reconnaissance
        • Port damage repair
        • Data-Driven
        • Engineer and Last Remaining Fort Belvoir USAES Employee Retires.
      • 2024-E-Edition
        • engineer reconnaissance
        • The use of Arrk
        • CI-ENG
      • Engineer Audio Articles
      • Whats Trending
      • About Engineer
      • Engineer Writers Guide
      • Engineer 2025 E-Edition
        • The Bureaucratic Blind
        • Open Data Sources
    • Field Artillery
      • Field Artillery Writers Guide
      • Field Artillery Archive
        • Field Artillery 2025 E- Edition
          • Artillery Insights From The American Civil War: Introduction
          • High-Frequency Communications
          • Artillery Insights: doctrine
          • Look Up
          • DOTMLPF Artillery Insights. Organization
          • Brigade-Relevance
          • Utilization of Unmanned System Field Artillery
          • AI ’s New Frontier
          • AI's New Frontier in War Planning
          • Project Convergence
          • emergence of fires
      • FA 2024 Issue 1
        • Message from the Chief
        • Battle of Fort Ridgely
        • Enhancing Tactical Level Targeting
        • The Crucible of Fires
        • The Combat Aviation Brigade
        • Looking to the Past for LSCO
        • Airborne Employment
        • Airborne Corp Employment
        • The Marine Corps Combat Evaluation
        • Training Multinational Corps on Joint Air Land Integration
        • Deliberate Dynamic Targeting
      • Field Artillery Audio Articles
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      • Whats Trending
      • FA 2024 Issue 2
        • Tattoos and Constitutions
        • A Day of Honor – Connecting the Past to the Present through Tradition, Memories and Experiences
        • Beyond destruction.
      • Field Artillery 2024 E- Edition
        • Dispersed Command Posts
        • The Battlefield Coordination Detachment in Future Warfare
    • Infantry
      • Infantry Writers Guide
      • Infantry Spring 2024
        • Infantry and Reconnaissance
        • C-SUAS at the Tactical Level
        • Experimenting Quadcopters
        • More Than a Marksman
        • Modernizing IBOLC
        • Weapons Maintenance
      • Infantry Archive
        • Winter 2024-2025
          • Infantry-ISV-Modification
          • Mobile Command Posts
          • Power Generation
          • Can you hear me now
          • Cutting Your Teeth with the Basics
          • Breaking through the Dragon’s Teeth
          • Three-Tiered UAS Manning
          • Large-Scale, Long-Range Air Assault Lessons Learned
          • Rate of Fire Against Men
          • Human-Machine Integration
        • Spring 2025
          • Task Force Falcon
          • Maneuver Live Fires
      • Whats Trending
      • Infantry Audio Articles
      • About Infantry
      • Infantry Fall 2024
        • Harding Project
        • Integrating drones
        • Putting the ‘C’ Back in BCT
        • Relearning Infiltrations
    • Military Chaplaincy Review
      • May 2024 Edition
        • MG-Green
        • SGM-Simmons
        • Looking-Glass
        • Representing-the-Moral-Warrior
        • Legal Religion
        • Force Management and Organizational Capability
        • Chaplain Pursuit of Buffered Selves
        • Sacred Speech in Future Armed Conflict
        • Leading in Gaps
        • In Praise of Heroic Masculinity
        • Reflection on Praise of Heroic Masculinity
        • heroic masculinity-the reflection
        • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
        • Generations
        • Combat-Trauma
        • The Great Dechurching
        • Creativity, Theology, and Posttraumatic Growth
        • Army-IRL
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    • Military Intelligence
      • Military Intelligence Archive
        • 2025-1Jan
          • Intel-Support
          • If I were a lieutenant today
          • Leveraging Imagery
          • Multinational and Combined Intelligence at the Division Level
          • Planning and Executing
        • Continuous Transformation Special Edition
          • Intelligence and Fires Capabilities Integration
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      • Whats Trending
      • MIPB January - June 2024
        • Optimizing the Alternate Targeting Methodology F3EAD
        • Building Interrogation and Detention Operations
        • Consolidating Gains in Detainee and Interrogation Operations
        • Intelligence Discovery Experiment
        • Intelligence Cooperation and Individual Decision Making
        • Intelligence Intent and Guidance
        • Building Intelligence Intuition
        • Properly Refining Priority Intelligence Requirements
      • MIPB July - December
        • Bridging-the-Gap
        • OPFOR-Intel-Training
        • Intel-Debriefing
        • CHASE-ing Excellence in Collection Operations
        • Innovating-in-Grayspace
        • Closing the gap between hobby and professional wargaming
        • Cyberspace Threat Intelligence
        • Get Your Red Pen Ready
        • Intelligence Preparation In The Subarctic
        • Integrating Space domain considerations
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    • Military Police
      • MP 2024 Table of Contents
        • History of the 972nd Military Police Company
        • Enhanced Combat Support During the Vietnam War
        • Enabling Protection During a Crisis
        • The Transformation of the 508th Military Police Battalion
        • Preventing Terrorist Attacks Through Community Policing
        • The Role of the MSCoE NCOA
        • Using UAS
      • Writer's Guide
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      • Military Police Audio Articles
      • Military Police Archive
      • About Military Police
    • Military Review
    • National Security Law
    • NCO Journal
    • Protection
      • Protection Archive
        • Protection 2023 Annual Issue
          • Protection Analysis
          • ADP 3-37 Protection
          • Protection Integration
          • EOCOP-LSCO
          • Hydra
          • WFF
        • 2025 E-Edition
          • The Iron Way
      • Protection Writers Guide
      • Whats Trending
      • Protection Audio Articles
      • About Protection
      • Protection 2024 Annual Issue
        • Commanding General
        • Maneuver Support and Protection Integration Experiment
        • survivability
        • Protective Fires
        • Protection Leader Forum
        • reimagining how we fight
        • Protection warfighting
        • 52d-BEB-Impact
        • The Application of the U.S. Army RM Process is Broken
    • Pulse of Army Medicine
      • Archive
        • November 2024 Issue
          • Fighting Strength
          • physician assistants in lsco
          • fighting the heat
          • The war in Ukraine
          • Embracing Co-Intelligence in Military Leadership
          • The power of reflection
          • Individual Critical Task Lists
          • Enhancing-Joint-Care
      • October 2024 Issue
        • Physical Therapists in the Force-68F
        • Navigating the Future of Military Medical Training and Operations
        • Writing the Textbook
        • Battle of the Future
        • General Ronald Blanck in Vietnam
        • Pulse of Army Medicine Podcast
        • Optimizing Patient Transfers in Non-Contiguous Maritime Environments
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    • Special Warfare
      • Special Warfare Writers Guide
      • Spring 2024
        • Letter from the Editor
        • The Three Pillars of Irregular Warfare Education
        • Strategic Disruption
        • Revisiting The Special Operations Imperatives
        • Misconceptions about Irregular Warfare
        • Echelon of Automation
        • Just War and Irregular Warfare
        • commander's corner.
        • Army special operations forces’ Maritime operations
        • FM 3-05 Army Special Operations
        • Shortening the competition kill chain
        • Voices of ARSOF
        • operation black ditch part 2
        • special operations and counter-occupation
      • Special Warfare Archive
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      • Summer-Fall 2024
        • Welcome-Harding-Fellows
        • Army SOF-Space-Cyber-Triad: Multidomain cognizance
        • leveraging proximity
        • 11th Cyber Battalion
        • SOF-Space-Cyber Triad In Action
        • Collaboration
        • SOF-SPACE-CYBER TRIAD
        • From triangle to circles. reshaping cyber-space-SOF-Triad for maximum operational impact
        • Six ACFT Events
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          • Beer and Skittles: Forrest Harding’s Warrant Officer
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          • The Role of US Army Warrant Officers
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          • CW2-Fuchigami
          • A review of The China Hands
          • [Argument For] Constructive or Equivalent Credit for Warrant Officer Professional Military Education
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          • Mentorship-Part2
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