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Current Issue: Volume 56, Number 2 (2026) Parameters Summer 2026
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From the Editor in Chief
C. Anthony Pfaff
The State of the US Army
Richard D. Hooker Jr.
Fighting for Intelligence in Large-Scale Combat Operations: The Role of the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion–Next
Richard Appelhans, Michael Liesmann, B. Clay Jackson, and Mikael Heikkinen
Geopolitical Chessboard: How Vietnam Shapes American-Chinese Competition
Kiet H. Lê and Hiep X. Trần
Key Themes in Sino-American History
David J. Lorenzo and Ian Murphy
How Is Going to War Like Buying a Car?: The Bargaining Model of War
Richard R. Johnson
A New Security Framework for NATO’s Eastern Flank
Matthew J. Kukla and Anna Batta
Turning Tactical Victories into Strategic Success: Counterinsurgency in the Irish Civil War, 1922–23
Gareth Prendergast and John A. Nagl
Closing the Gap Between Threat and Rival
Antulio J. Echevarria II
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