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Decisive Point Podcast

Decisive Point, the Parameters podcast companion series, furthers the education and professional dev

Episodes

Total: 155

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-23 – Kevin D. Stringer and Jelle J. H. Hooiveld Urban Resistance to Occupation: An Underestimated Element of Land Warfare`
2023/11/20

Due to a global trend toward urbanization and Russian and Chinese aggression toward Ukraine and Taiw

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-22 – Luke P. Bellocchi – The Strategic Importace of Tawian to the United States and Its Allies: Part Two
2023/10/30

Taiwan has become increasingly important to the United States and its allies as the Russia-Ukraine W

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-21 – Caitlin P. Irby – US-Russia Foreign Policy: Confronting Russia’s Geographic Anxieties
2023/10/16

The United States must place Russia’s focus on geographic concerns at the center of future strategy

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-20 – Wilson Jones – The Chechen Kadyrovtsy’s Coercive Violence in Ukraine
2023/10/5

Download this transcript: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Oct/10/2003316775/-1/-1/0/DP-PODCAST-TRANSC

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-19 – Katie Crombe and John A. Nagl – A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force
2023/9/29

Fifty years ago, the US Army faced a strategic inflection point after a failed counterinsurgency eff

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-18 – Brian McAllister Linn – A Historical Perspective on Today’s Recruiting Crisis
2023/9/28

This podcast analyzes the US Army’s successive recruiting crises, identifying their consistent patte

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-17 – Conrad C. Crane – Parameters Autumn 2023 Issue Preview
2023/9/12

This podcast offers a preview of the latest Parameters demi-issue and full issue. Read the issue her

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-16 – John A. Bonin and James D. Scudieri – Change and Innovation in the Institutional Army from 1860–2020
2023/9/7

This episode showcases the understudied institutional Army, the generating force, as a critical prer

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-15 – Spencer L. French – "Innovation, Flexibility, and Adaptation: Keys to Patton’s Information Dominance"
2023/8/8

In 1944, Third US Army created a cohesive and flexible system for managing information and denying i

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-14 – Luke P. Bellocchi – "The Strategic Importance of Taiwan to the United States and Its Allies"
2023/7/31

This podcast presents four factors to consider in evaluating Taiwan’s strategic importance to the Un

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-13 – Allison Abbe – “Understanding the Adversary: Strategic Empathy and Perspective Taking in National Security”
2023/7/12

National security practitioners need to understand the motives, mindsets, and intentions of adversar

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-12 – Nicholas A. A. Murray – “Geniuses Dare to Ride Their Luck: Clausewitz's Card Game Analogies”
2023/6/30

Scholars have been using the wrong card games to analyze Carl von Clausewitz’s analogies in On War,

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-11 – Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano – “Responding to Future Pandemics: Biosecurity Implications and Defense Considerations”
2023/6/8

In an evolving and expanding biothreat landscape caused by emerging biotechnologies, increases in gl

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-10 – Gustavo F. Ferreira and Jamie A. Critelli – “Taiwan’s Food Resiliency—or Not—in a Conflict with China”
2023/6/2

The US military, intelligence, and diplomatic communities have overlooked a key vulnerability in the

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-09 – Ned B. Marsh and Heather S. Gregg – “Daoism and Design: Mapping the Conflict in Syria”
2023/5/16

In contemporary military operations, some problems are so complex they do not give way to linear sol

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-08 – Conrad C. Crane – Parameters Summer Preview
2023/4/26

This podcast offers a preview of the latest Parameters demi-issue and full issue.Keywords: China, Ta

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-07 – Robert J. Sparrow and Adam Henschke – “Minotaurs, Not Centaurs: The Future of Manned-Unmanned Teaming”
2023/4/12

Contesting Paul Scharre’s influential vision of “centaur warfighting” and the idea that autonomous w

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-06 – Andrew Colvin – “The Case for an Army Stability Professional”
2023/4/5

The US Army is unprepared to occupy and stabilize territory because it does not adequately educate a

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-05 – Brenda Oppermann – “Enhancing US Global Competitiveness through Women, Peace, and Security”
2023/3/27

In this episode: Global powers, regional hegemons, and non-state actors engaged in a perennial state

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 4-04 – Dr. John Nagl and Alex (Special Operations NCO) – Review and Reply: On “Why America’s Army Can’t Win America’s Wars”
2023/3/13

Since achieving victory in World War II, the United States military has a less than enviable combat