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ISSN 2770-2596 (Print) ISSN 2770-260X (Online)
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Spring 2025 JAMS: Strategic Resources and National Security (deadline 31 December 2024) Fall 2025 JAMS: Disruptive Technologies and AI in Military Applications (deadline 31 May 2025) Spring 2026 JAMS: Will to Fight (deadline 31 December 2025) JAMS uses a double anonymous peer review process to evaluate submissions. Subject matter experts who specialize in military history, national security, international relations, social science topics are recruited from internal and external agencies to support JAMS's annual publishing process. To learn more about the acquisitions process and MCUP's scholarly best practices, click on the Acquisitions button or email mcu_press@usmcu.edu.
In addition to the above CFPs, the editors are also interested in new research for 2024-25 that discusses propaganda and information warfare in the digital age, political warfare, democracy, and the changing nature of government, PME and wargaming, mission command, and all things cyber.
Article proposals and submissions can be sent to mcu_press@usmcu.edu.
Journal of Advanced Military Studies, vol. 15, no. 2 Fall 2024 The Evolution of Amphibious Warfare
Journal of Advanced Military Studies, vol. 15, no. 1 Spring 2024 The Militarization of Space
Journal of Advanced Military Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 Fall 2023 Russia, NATO, and the Conflict in Ukraine
Journal of Advanced Military Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 Spring 2023 The Next Generation of Warfare
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 13, no. 2 Fall 2022 Conflict on the Seas
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 13, no. 1 Spring 2022 Military Response to Natural Disasters and National Emergencies
Journal of Advanced Military Studies 2022 Special Issue on Strategic Culture
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 12, no. 2 Fall 2021 Wargaming and the Military
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 12, no. 1 Spring 2021 Political Warfare and Propaganda
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 11, no. 2 Fall 2020 Naval Integration and the Future of Naval Warfare
Journal of Advanced Military Studies vol. 11, no. 1 Spring 2020 Innovation and Future Warfare