Joint Force Quarterly
118 (3rd Quarter 2025)
Major Questions Doctrine and Defense- Building Strategic Lethality
- Finding Deep Fakes
Full Issue
Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 118, 3rd Quarter 2025
National Defense University Press
Dialogue
Executive Summary
William T. Eliason
Forum
Is Mobilization a Major Question?
Evan J. Ward
Rightsizing the PLA Air Force: Revisiting an Analytic Framework
Lauren Edson and Phillip C. Saunders
From High Seas to Highlands: Framing U.S. Defense Strategy With Southeast Asia’s Geography
Caitlin P. Irby
Building Strategic Lethality: Special Operations Models for Joint Force Learning and Leader Development
Spencer B. Meredith III
JPME Today
The Philosophical Foundations of the Civil-Military Relationship
John Mark Mattox
Finding Deepfakes: A Tabletop Exercise About AI, Decisionmaking, and Algorithmic Performance
Andrea Brennan, Gwyneth Sutherlin, Lisa Pagano-Wallace, and Hermie Mendoza
Commentary
Features
Increasing Operational Access: A Strategy for the Western Pacific
Shaun F. Callahan
Revive: Getting Medical Supplies and Expertise Right in Distributed Maritime Operations
Seth Reini and Jonathan J. Haase
A Conditions-Based Look at a Cyber Force
Shiraz Khan
Recall
The Long Pivot: The Development of the Joint Warfighting Concept
Wilson C. Blythe Jr.
Book Reviews
Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy, 2nd ed.
Todd W. Pennington and Emmy Kanarowski
The Insurgent’s Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail
David E. Spencer
Joint Doctrine
Intelligence Reform at 20: How Joint Military Intelligence Lost Its Groove and How to Get It Back
Laura J. Coco-Hampton and Karalee G. Picard
