Sept. 7, 2023 Moral Injury: Wrestling with Definitions and Conceptual Drift Establishing some degree of consensus on key clinical elements that support the notion of moral injury is critical as research on moral injury continues to investigate treatment options and address its root causes.
Sept. 7, 2023 Marooning Moral Injury: An Ethical Inquiry The negative implications of multidisciplinary research reveals that moral injury holds no enduring value as a clinical diagnosis. Yet interdisciplinary research could explore communal healing rituals to engage the broader community in moral healing from war.
Sept. 7, 2023 Conceptualizations of War and Moral Injury: Implications for Commanders and Therapists When we perceive or characterize war as entirely evil or as outside morality, as in the case with amoral realism and pacifism, we deny its legitimacy as a tool of good statecraft, in turn creating challenges for psychological and spiritual care providers and commanders.
Sept. 7, 2023 Moral Injury and Suicide Risk The interpersonal theory of suicide can assist the military as it develops mechanisms to address the effect of moral injury on suicidal ideation among the active duty and veteran populations.
June 30, 2023 A Case for an Independent Cyber Force Applying a test using the DOTMLPF-P analysis framework to the question of the necessity of a separate cyber service component reveals DoD cyber operations do not maximize the United States’ ability to fight a cyber war.
June 30, 2023 Systematizing Supply Chain Warfare Airpower thinkers must reconsider supply chain warfare, using a systems perspective with a focus on the supply chain target set.
June 30, 2023 Violence, Culture, and a Path to Peace To address contemporary tribal and religious wars, the US and its allies should employ indigenous forces, Special Operations Forces, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance tools, in a carefully calibrated manner.
June 30, 2023 Talking Space: History, Strategic Communications, and Space Security The Space Race of the 1960s and the Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s demonstrate the efficacy of strategic messaging in America’s persistent endeavors to ensure global peaceful uses of space and to secure its defense.
June 30, 2023 A Rational Choice?: Russia’s Potential Use of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons Three propositions have enabled the possibility Putin will employ nonstrategic nuclear weapons. An analysis of these propositions will help the US better scope strategic messaging in its deterrence efforts.