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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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        • 2024-E-Edition
          • Mobility Matters
          • Paradigm-Shifts
          • IBCS Gunnery
          • Enhancing_C-sUAS
          • Organic Red Air
          • The case for army nuclear power
      • Whats Trending
    • 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
          • Leader Conduct in Training
          • Future of Cavalry
          • Barbarossa through soviet eyes
        • Spring 2025 Edition
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      • Army AL-T
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          • Spring 2025
            • Tapping Global Expertise
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        • Winter 2024
          • Logistics For Data
        • Spring 2024
          • 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
          • Energy Boost
          • Green-Edge
          • The Software Advantage
          • Command and Control on the Move
          • Faces of the force
          • Innovating Future
          • Removing Boundaries
          • No Time To Waste
          • Shaking the Tree
          • faces of the force. Shift with the wind
          • agile acquisition for hardware
          • analytics at the edge
          • Pioneering the future with the B-52 legacy
          • Advancing climate literacy
      • Army Chemical Review
        • Writer's Guide
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        • Whats Trending
        • About Army Chemical Review
        • Archive
          • 2024 E-Edition
            • Chaplains as AI Ethicists in the U.S. Army
            • Peach Stone
        • 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
          • Officer1-Letter
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        • 2025 Annual Issue
          • The McConnell SBS
          • The Kim Regime
          • The Need for 740's
          • USACBRNS Force Modernization
      • Army Civilian Journal
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            • Army Civilians
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        • ACJ Writers Guide
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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
            • Developing Adaptive Leaders
            • Doctrine: Changing How We Educate
            • Trust is the Bedrock
            • Leader Development
            • About Data Ethics
            • The 392nd ESB-E Fielded
        • 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
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          • 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
            • The General Survey Act
            • On Contested Shores
            • Battle Harlem Heights
            • Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant
            • Gettysburg's Southern Front
        • 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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      • Army Lawyer
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        • 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
          • ma-atb-scra-lease-tax
          • The Five-Tool Judge Advocate
          • Navigating Climate Crises
          • five things
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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 Spring 2025
            • Quarter master 250
        • ASPB Summer 2024
          • HR Sustainment
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          • USINDOPACOM Maritime Environment
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          • training with industry program
          • 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
        • Whats Trending
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        • About Army Sustainment
        • Test
      • Aviation Digest
        • Aviation Digest April-June 2024
          • How We Fight
          • On the Wings of Destiny
          • Data-Driven Leadership
        • Aviation Digest Writers Guide
        • Aviation Digest Archive
        • Whats Trending
        • Aviation Digest Audio Articles
        • About Aviation Digest
        • 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
          • Transforming the unmanned aircraft systems
          • airspace command and control
          • reconnaissance and security
          • Attack Helicopters
          • The Future of Army Aviation Logistics
          • critical analysis of aviation support
          • The Role of the Aviation Support Battalion
          • Overcoming Capability Gaps
        • 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
          • What is hmi?
          • Incorporating LMs into Tsos
          • 250 Years of Building Strong
      • 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
            • On Mobile Brigade Combat Teams
            • Mortar Ammunition Planning
            • joint lightweight tactical vehicle
        • 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
        • About Field Artillery
        • 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
          • Future of Fires
      • 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
            • Mobile Defense for BCT
          • Spring 2025
            • Task Force Falcon
            • Maneuver Live Fires
            • Rethinking LSCO Training
            • Mission Partner Kit
            • Light Brigade Combat Team
            • Tactical Reconnaissance Strike in Ukraine
            • 14 June 1775
            • Move, Mask, Make
        • 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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        • Whats Trending
      • 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
            • Intelligence at Speed
            • G-2 Lessons
            • Adding Artificial Intelligence
        • Military Intelligence Writers Guide
        • 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
        • MIPB Audio Articles
        • About Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
      • 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
          • Maryland's Finest
          • Protection Through Social Media
          • Protection During Crisis
          • Community Policing
          • Leading From Within
        • Writer's Guide
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        • Military Police Audio Articles
        • Military Police Archive
          • 2025 E-Edition
            • Law Enforcement
            • Insights From ADP 6-22
            • Future of Air Assault
            • Adapting Military Police
            • Lessons Learned at JRTC
            • National Security
        • About Military Police
      • Military Review
      • National Security Law
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      • 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
            • Prioritizing Protection
        • Protection Writers Guide
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        • 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
          • May 2025
            • Generating Readiness
            • Medical Logistics
        • 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
          • 2025 E-edition
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          • Welcome-Harding-Fellows
          • Army SOF-Space-Cyber-Triad: Multidomain cognizance
          • leveraging proximity
          • 11th Cyber Battalion
          • SOF-Space-Cyber Triad In Action
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          • From triangle to circles. reshaping cyber-space-SOF-Triad for maximum operational impact
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