Joint Force Quarterly
120 (3rd Quarter 2026)
From Data to Victory- Thinking Beyond the Battlefield
- Mission Over Bureaucracy
Full Issue
Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 120, 3rd Quarter 2026
National Defense University Press
Dialogues
The Logic of America’s Defense Strategy
Elbridge A. Colby
Executive Summary
William T. Eliason
Forum
From Data to Victory: The Race for Analytic Superiority in Warfare
Robert Grossman and Emily Goldman
Determining Operational Objectives
Milan Vego
Examining the Lavelle Affair 54 Years Later: An Injustice That Needs to Be Rectified Now
Mark Clodfelter
JPME Today
Building the Mental Golden Dome: Arming the Joint Force for Defensive Cognitive Warfare
James Davitch
Boot Camp for the Mind: The Role of JPME in Developing National Security Strategists
Joseph Gagliano, Nick Gvosdev, Derek Reveron, Rebecca Russo, and Dana Struckman
Cyberspace Collaborative Awareness: A Model for Unity of Effort in Homeland Defense
Mike Knapp, Sean Atkins, and Matthew McLaughlin
Commentary
Mission Over Bureaucracy: Special Operations Command’s Warrior-Driven Model for Defense Innovation
Robert D. Seader
Disjointed Command and Air Domain Challenges in Alaska: The Case for a Single U.S. Combined/Joint Force Air Component Commander
Jeffrey W. Kempff
Reimagining U.S. Industrial Mobilization
Alexis R. Johnson
Features
Resilient by Design: Reforming Medical Logistics to Support Global Operations
Michael Ackman and Jonathan Fowler
Advancing Blood Production and Distribution: Leveraging AI in the Expeditionary Care Environment
Andrew Hall, Michael Carrillo, Garrion Jackson, Jennifer Hall, and Ryan Comes
Recall
“Creating the Point of the Spear”: The Deployment of Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as an Afloat Forward Staging Base during Operation Enduring Freedom
Justin B. Blanton
Book Reviews
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
Tobias Bernard Switzer
War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why
Frank Hoffman
