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Current Issue: Volume 55, Number 1 (2025) Parameters Spring 2025

Welcome to the Spring 2025 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Russia, Ukraine, and NATO; Strategic Competition and Managing National Security; and Joint Sustainment Strategies), the regular Civil-Military Relations Corner installment, and a review essay.

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Parameters Spring 2025
USAWC Press

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From the Editor in Chief
Antulio J. Echevarria II

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Soldiering and Silences: Witnessing Child Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe and Martin Thorp

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Ukraine’s Not-So-Whole-of-Society at War: Force Generation in Modern Developed Societies
Ilmari Käihkö and Jan Willem Honig

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Russian Novel Nuclear Weapons and War-Fighting Capabilities
Spenser A. Warren

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Measuring Interoperability Within NATO: Adapted Off-the-Shelf or Bespoke Solution?
John R. Deni, Matthew R. MacLeod, Sarah E. Stewart, Katherine M. Banko, and Adrian Jones