Decisive Point Podcast

Decisive Point Podcast


Latest Episodes

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 2-03 – Dr. Christopher J. Bolan, COL Jerad I. Harper, and Dr. Joel R. Hillison – “Diverging Interests- US Strategy in the Middle East”
February 04, 2021

Today, two-thirds of soldiers depart the US Army with a disability rating. Unfortunately, some soldiers are exploiting a generous disability system overextended beyond its original purposes and potentially damaging trust in the military, jeopardizing Army

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 2-02 – Dr. Andrew Bell – “Civilians, Urban Warfare, and US Doctrine”
February 03, 2021

The novel coronavirus is only the latest in a series of global crises with implications for the regional order in the Middle East. These changes and the diverging interests of actors in the region have implications for US strategy and provide an opportuni

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 2-01 – Dr. Raymond A. Millen – “Stability Operations in WW II - Insights and Lessons”
January 04, 2021

The stability achieved by the US military in the European Theater of Operations after D-Day was the direct result of good military governance concurrently deployed with combat operations. The role of civil affairs in securing this stability has been under

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-10 – Mr. Jody Prescott – “Gender Blindness in US Doctrine”
December 15, 2020

US military Joint and Army civil affairs doctrine have failed to consider the operational relevance of gender, posing a risk to mission accomplishment and force protection. A comparison of NATO and Australian Defence Force doctrine reveals gender consider

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-09 – Dr. Tim Hoyt and Pamela M. Holtz – “Challenging Prevailing Models of US Army Suicide”
December 15, 2020

Statistics behind reported suicide rates in the military are often insufficiently analyzed and portray a distorted picture of reality. Several models for identifying individuals at risk for suicide have been proposed but few show adequate predictive power

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-08 – Michael J. Eisenstadt and Kenneth M. Pollack – “Training Better Arab Armies”
September 25, 2020

US security force assistance missions to Arab partner states have had limited success, due in part to a tendency to impose American doctrine, which embodies American cultural values and norms, on Arab armed forces. Accordingly, US security force assistanc

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-06 – Audrey Kurth Cronin – “Technology and Strategic Surprise - Adapting to an Era of Open Innovation”
September 23, 2020

Technological revolutions affecting state power are either open or closed. The precursor to the digital age is not the twentieth century, with state-controlled programs yielding nuclear weapons, but the late nineteenth century, when tinkerers invented the

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-05 – Nina Jankowicz and Henry Collis – “Enduring Information Vigilance - Government after COVID-19”
September 21, 2020

The framework of Enduring Information Vigilance will help ally and partner governments deny advantages adversaries gain through their use of information operations in our new global perpetual information environment. This approach recognizes the persisten

Decisive Point Podcast – Ep 1-03 – Jason Healey – “A Bizarre Pair - Counterinsurgency Lessons for Cyber Conflict”
September 13, 2020

The lessons of counterinsurgency have deeper implications for cyber conflict than previous research has identified. Two decades of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan provide insights into the cyber strategy of defending forward including treating major cy