Decisive Point Podcast

Decisive Point, the Parameters podcast companion series, furthers the education and professional development of senior military officers and members of the government and academia who are concerned with national security affairs. The podcast debuted in Au

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

Posted September 29, 2023

Fifty years ago, the US Army faced a strategic inflection point after a failed counterinsurgency effort in Vietnam. In response to lessons learned from...

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

Posted September 28, 2023

This podcast analyzes the US Army’s successive recruiting crises, identifying their consistent patterns and the efforts to resolve them, and makes...

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

Posted September 12, 2023

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

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

Posted September 7, 2023

This episode showcases the understudied institutional Army, the generating force, as a critical prerequisite for overall strategic success. Competition,...

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

Posted August 8, 2023

In 1944, Third US Army created a cohesive and flexible system for managing information and denying it to the enemy that aligned operational concepts...