Expeditions with MCUP is an online academic journal that offers authors a forum for the debate of trending domestic and international topics. Expeditions with MCUP will have all the advantages of a scholarly journal, including peer review and expert editing, but in a shorter time frame than a traditional print journal. Our authors will discuss the full spectrum of themes within the context of national security, international relations, and geopolitics as they apply to and impact the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps directly and indirectly.

	NATIONAL SECURITY Limited Wars in the Periphery: The Dilemma of American Military Assistance  Jahara Matisek and Joshua D. Williamson
	MILITARY SCIENCE The Desert War: Marine Corps Aviation in Desert Storm, January-February 1991 Fred Allison, PhD How Can the United States Move toward Gender-Neutral Special Forces?: Lessons from the Norwegian Military Mariah Loukou The Operational Warfare Revolution: How Operational Art Can Prepare the Marine Corps for an Era of Great Power Competition Matthew J. Schultz The Finely-Honed Blade: Clausewitz and Boyd on Friction and Moral Factors  by Martin Samuels
	FOREIGN POLICY Military Competition between the United States and China in the South China Sea: A Critical Analysis ​by Nicky C. Cardenas To Win without Fighting: Defining China's Political Warfare ​by Professor Kerry Gershaneck Policy, Perception, and Misperception: The United States and the Fall of the Shah by Kyle Balzer Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Its Foreign Policy and Foreign Legion Mark D. Silinsky, PhD
	GEOPOLITICS Lake Chad: Changing Hydrography, Violent Extremism, and Climate-Conflict Intersection Thomas E. Griffin Water Scarcity in Brazil: A Case Study Denise Slater
	INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY Freedom’s “Flying Snake”: The AIM-9 Sidewinder in the Cold War James Young, PhD

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