Project MUSE®: International Perspectives on Military Education - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in International Perspectives on Military Education.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2024) through current issueLatest Articles: International Perspectives on Military EducationTWOProject MUSE®International Perspectives on Military Education2998-37382998-372XLatest articles in International Perspectives on Military Education. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Mission-Critical Communication: A Proposal to Teach Interpersonal Communication Skills at The Basic School
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984880
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For more than 2,000 years, communication skills have been taught to pupils around the world. In one of the earliest recorded examples, Aristotle’s students at the ancient Greek Lyceum learned how to persuade an audience by studying pathos, logos, and ethos (a.k.a. the rhetorical triangle).1 During the intervening millennia, communication and leadership scholars have produced a significant body of work aimed at teaching individuals how best to communicate with, motivate, and lead their teams. This article uses Gail Fairhurst and Stacey Connaughton’s term for leadership communication, to refer to the broad field of study that places communication skills at the center of effective leadership.2 Additionally, this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallMission-Critical Communication: A Proposal to Teach Interpersonal Communication Skills at The Basic School2026-03-10text/htmlen-USMission-Critical Communication: A Proposal to Teach Interpersonal Communication Skills at The Basic School2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®784922026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Deepening Army Officers’ Initial Training: Conclusions from a Comparative Analysis between the U.S. and the Spanish Army
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984872
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The professional competences army cadets are meant to achieve to become lieutenants and captains are in constant change. That has a direct impact on the training programs they need, as stated by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): “the complexity of the demands generated by an increasingly interdependent, changing and conflictual world places the objectives of education and the strategies to achieve education goals in center stage of the debate on broad educational reform.”1 The importance for Spain has been condensed in Entorno Operativo 2035 (Operational Environment 2035) issued by the Spanish Armed Forces. It states that they are living in a changing and uncertain world and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallDeepening Army Officers’ Initial Training: Conclusions from a Comparative Analysis between the U.S. and the Spanish Army2026-03-10text/htmlen-USDeepening Army Officers’ Initial Training: Conclusions from a Comparative Analysis between the U.S. and the Spanish Army2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®871142026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Endurance and Executive Function: Implications for Military Education from a Study of Marine Officer Fitness and Cognition
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984873
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The U.S. Marine Corps describes professional military education (PME) as both the transmission of foundational military knowledge and the cultivation of intellectual habits necessary to mastering the art and science of war.1 Learning, Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 7, expands on this notion of intellectual habits, challenging Marines to cultivate an “intellectual edge,” defined as a set of cognitive competencies which include “problem framing, mental imaging, critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, reasoning, and problem solving.”2 These competencies represent top-down, higher-order cognitive processing skills that largely draw from core executive functions such as working memory, cognitive flexibility
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallEndurance and Executive Function: Implications for Military Education from a Study of Marine Officer Fitness and Cognition2026-03-10text/htmlen-USEndurance and Executive Function: Implications for Military Education from a Study of Marine Officer Fitness and Cognition2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®1284862026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Identifying Moral Perspective Preferences in National Security Professionals
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984875
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Professional military education (PME) focuses a great deal of attention on decision-making, including examination of different models for decision-making, Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 and System 2 thinking, cognitive biases, and the role of assumptions and heuristics in reflection and other cognitive activities.1 To address good decision-making, which ought to include proper ethical content, PME institutions also often teach some form of moral deliberation— how to choose right from wrong. Most rely on the three dominant moral perspectives: virtue, deontology, and utilitarianism.2This article addresses ethics education in two contexts: the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) and the Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA). The NWC
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallIdentifying Moral Perspective Preferences in National Security Professionals2026-03-10text/htmlen-USIdentifying Moral Perspective Preferences in National Security Professionals2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®485352026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Online Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Korean Military Students’ Experiential Perspectives
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984876
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South Korea maintains one of the few remaining conscription systems among modern democracies, mandating nearly all able-bodied men in their early 20s to serve in the military for approximately 18–21 months. Unlike voluntary service-based systems, the Korean military is composed largely of conscripts who are often university students temporarily suspended from civilian life and education. This context shapes a unique psychological landscape: young men at a formative age are abruptly immersed in a hierarchical, regimented environment characterized by limited autonomy, constrained communication with the outside world, and constant exposure to geopolitical tension. The latter is especially pronounced given South
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallOnline Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Korean Military Students’ Experiential Perspectives2026-03-10text/htmlen-USOnline Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Korean Military Students’ Experiential Perspectives2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®805642026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Reason for Victory: The Theoretical Elements of National Security Policy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984877
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On 24 February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin decided to put his theory of military victory over Ukraine to the test. He believed that larger militaries will usually defeat smaller militaries, that a socially fractured Ukraine would not mount an effective resistance to a Russian invasion, that Russian-speaking Ukrainians would quickly align with Russia, and that Russia’s years of investment in its military had successfully increased its military capability.1 These were among the many theories that underpinned Putin’s prediction that Russia would rapidly conquer Ukraine. As the world learned in the months and years that followed 24 February, the Russian leadership had done a poor job estimating the likely
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallReason for Victory: The Theoretical Elements of National Security Policy2026-03-10text/htmlen-USReason for Victory: The Theoretical Elements of National Security Policy2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®996592026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Teaching Beyond the “Band of Brothers”: Shakespeare at War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984878
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The inspirational leader, whether of good or evil character, loves a kind of theater, can use words, and hears their music.List his discourse of war, and you shall hearA fearful battle rend’red you in music.Stories take many shapes in military culture. Ranging from sea stories to historical case studies, stories are embedded in the way servicemembers communicate with each other. As a language and modality-agnostic method of transferring information, storytelling is an ancient and universal pedagogy that builds community and contributes to collective sense-making. Hertha D. Wong references the rich Native American warrior storytelling tradition as “commune-bio-oratory (community-life-speaking)” and Frank Us-beck
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallTeaching Beyond the “Band of Brothers”: Shakespeare at War2026-03-10text/htmlen-USTeaching Beyond the “Band of Brothers”: Shakespeare at War2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®962332026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Using Tactical Decision Games as A Cognitive Assessment and Development Tool
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984879
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Decision-making during tactical military situations is challenging and time-sensitive, due to the dynamic, high-risk, and inherently uncertain nature of combat environments. Possible choices and their outcomes are sensitive to everything from weapons and personnel available to the weather conditions. Moreover, an “optimal” choice may be relative if the scenario presents a series of tough decisions, all with adverse outcomes. In such cases, underlying preferences (e.g., risk tolerance, speed versus security) may fundamentally vary between decision-makers. Currently, quantitative methods for measuring decision-making performance under such uncertain conditions remain limited. This shortcoming complicates any
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallUsing Tactical Decision Games as A Cognitive Assessment and Development Tool2026-03-10text/htmlen-USUsing Tactical Decision Games as A Cognitive Assessment and Development Tool2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®1046842026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10From The Editors: Building Bridges for Military Learning
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984925
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We are excited to publish this second volume of International Perspectives on Military Education (IPME), continuing our collective dream as editors to catalyze global dialogue and knowledge sharing on the evolving challenges and best practices in professional military education (PME). Marine Corps University Press has been an amazing editorial partner in this journey, supporting a hybrid publication format that facilitates fresh takes and new ideas on the scholarship of military teaching and learning (MSOTL).Defense sectors around the world now face an operational and strategic environment characterized as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), a concept first introduced by the U.S. Army War College
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/895/image/coversmallFrom The Editors: Building Bridges for Military Learning2026-03-10text/htmlen-USFrom The Editors: Building Bridges for Military Learning2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®73312026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10