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Decisive Point Podcast

Season 7
2026
Season 6
2026
Season 5
2024
Season 4
2023
Season 3
2022
Season 2
2021
Season 1
2020

Recent Episodes

  • Decisive Point Podcast

    By Katie Crombe, John A. Nagl

    Fifty years ago, the US Army faced a strategic inflection point after a failed counterinsurgency effort in Vietnam. In response to lessons learned from the Yom Kippur War, the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command was created to reorient thinking and doctrine around the conventional Soviet threat. Today’s Army must embrace the Russo-Ukrainian conflict as an opportunity to reorient the force into one as forward-thinking and formidable as the Army that won Operation Desert Storm. This article suggests changes the Army should make to enable success in multidomain large-scale combat operations at today’s strategic inflection point.

  • Decisive Point Podcast

    By Brian McAllister Linn

    .adetail.news .article-body { max-width: 90% !important; }This podcast analyzes the US Army’s

  • Decisive Point Podcast

    By Conrad C. Crane

    This podcast offers a preview of the latest Parameters demi-issue and full issue. Read the issue here: https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/7/

  • Decisive Point Podcast

    By John A. Bonin, James D. Scudieri

    This episode showcases the understudied institutional Army, the generating force, as a critical prerequisite for overall strategic success. Competition, crisis, and conflict require more than the manned, trained, and equipped units that deploy. This podcast analyzes six case studies of institutional Army reforms over 160 years to examine adaptation in peace and war. The conclusions provide historical insights to inform current practices and fulfill the Army’s articulated 2022 Institutional Strategy.