Over The Horizon Journal

Exploring the Future of Warfare and Strategy

Over the Horizon Journal

December 17, 2025

It Takes a Network to Defeat a Network: Why United States Cyber Command Must Adopt a Starfish Model Against AI-Enabled Hackers

By: Joseph Hap
September 19, 2025

Integrating Autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft to Enhance U.S. Air Force Refueling Operations

By: Justin Leachman
June 26, 2025

Rewiring Readiness: Rethinking Military Learning for the Age of Uncertainty

By: Jeff DeGraff
June 9, 2025

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish: The Fish Fight in the Arctic

By: Jessie James & Rebecca Bodtke
April 25, 2025

Edge ISR: Revolutionizing Intelligence in Contested Environments

By: Ryan Blakeney
March 14, 2025

Uncharted Waters: Shaping the Future of Arctic Security

By: Jessie James & Rebecca Bodtke
January 17, 2025

Reconnaissance: More than just the R (in ISR)

By: Jonathan F. Ice
December 13, 2024

Founding Myths of the Space Force and the Need to Remember Political Reality

By: Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
November 22, 2024

Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO): The Maneuver Concept for Future Conflict

By: Nicholas E. Bixby
November 4, 2024

Field of Dreams: Designing the Military of 2040

By: Josh Cobb
October 21, 2024

Outsmarting the Fakes: Navigating Malicious Artificial Intelligence

By: Miguel Zapata
October 6, 2024

Maneuvering in Contested Skies

By: Zane Jarrett Taylor & William Dean Long
September 27, 2024

Predictive Models for Targeting Mobile Threats

By: Daniel Diamond & Elliot Stump
December 1, 2023

The Hypersonic Orbiter

By: Roman C. Lau
August 31, 2023

Dissecting the Law: Legislative Summary on the Future of JADO & Global Competition

By: Brian J. Cuce & Augustine Tran
July 1, 2022

The Russian-Ukrainian War and Just War Theory

By: Michael James Robblee
March 21, 2022

The Birth of the Problem-Centric Sensor-Agnostic Methodology

By: Charles Crouse
February 28, 2022

Sense-Making in JADC2: AF ISR Driving Change

By: Tyler Troesch
February 14, 2022

Hypersonic Airspace: How Hypersonic Weapons Conquer and Define the Realm Between Airspace and Space

By: Roman C. Lau
February 7, 2022

The Battle for Latin America

By: Alex Schwier, Claire Melton, & Brittany Stanley
January 31, 2022

David Epstein’s RANGE – Specialization and Cross-Domain Problem Solving: What it Might Mean for Education, Training, and Problem Solving in the Armed Forces

By: Brian R. Price
January 24, 2022

Artificial Intelligence in Space: Providing Near Real-Time Threat Analysis

By: Justin M. Jettòn
September 27, 2021

Editor’s Choice | Become the Hydra: Setting Leadership Expectations for Degraded Environments
September 7, 2021

Why the Department of Defense Should Create an AI Red Team

By: Rena DeHenre
August 31, 2021

The Third Road Threat: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare (Part 4/4)

By: Dan "Plato" Morabito
August 30, 2021

The ISR Traffic Jam: How to Improve ISR Operations in INDOPACOM

By: Don "Bash" Yates
August 26, 2021

The Third Road Threat: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare (Part 3/4)

By: Dan "Plato" Morabito
August 23, 2021

The Third Road Threat: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare (Part 2/4)

By: Dan "Plato" Morabito
August 19, 2021

The Third Road Threat: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare (Part 1/4)

By: Dan "Plato" Morabito
August 2, 2021

Editor’s Choice | Regional Command: A New “Whole of Community” Approach
July 23, 2021

Editor’s Choice | The Military Design Movement: Drifting towards Embracing Uncertainty and Transformation in Complex Environments
July 19, 2021

Why the AOC Cannot Execute JADC2

By: Hanna Terino
July 13, 2021

Disabled Weapons and Confounded Adversaries

By: Mangesh Sawant
June 29, 2021

“Free and Open Indo-Pacific” – Exploring the Sine Quo Non of the Quad

By: Priyanjoli Ghosh
June 28, 2021

Intelligence Automation: A Simple Way to Innovate then Dominate

By: Grant Ribler
May 10, 2021

The Power of Truth: How to Compete with Information Warfare

By: William Heitshusen
May 3, 2021

What’s Old is New Again: Leveraging Lessons from the Battle of Britain

By: Alex "HEFOE" Hillman
April 26, 2021

Towards a Strategic Value Proposition: Redefining 21st Century Defense Priority Assessments

By: Ryan Burke, Olivia Cretella
April 9, 2021

Rethinking Warfare in a Changing World: The Case For Expanding Doctrinal Warfare Principles

By: Todd Moulton
April 6, 2021

Editor’s Choice| A2/AD: Translating for the Warfighter Using Operational Art
March 30, 2021

Editor’s Choice: Geoeconomics with Jennifer Harris – OTH

By: Jennifer Harris
March 26, 2021

The $32,000 Hamburger – Macroeconomic analysis can rapidly contextualize foreign military expenses

By: Jeff Wright
February 1, 2021

Symbolism, Serendipity, and Strategic Wisdom: The Origin Story of a New Set of Wings

By: Jason "Toga" Trew
January 20, 2021

Blockchain and Psychological Operations

By: Daniel Riggs, Soma Mayazadeh
January 15, 2021

Regain EMS Dominance By Measuring Effectiveness Right

By: Jon-Michael Chombeau
December 21, 2020

Ideologies, Cults of Personality, and the Center of Gravity

By: Daniel Riggs
December 7, 2020

Defining the Cognitive Domain

By: Paul Ottewell
December 1, 2020

AF DCGS Next Generation: Transformation for Great Power Competition

By: Kelly Borukhovich and Tyler Morton
November 13, 2020

Should the U.S. Consider a Belarusian Defense Relationship?

By: Jacob Myers
October 30, 2020

Gain and Maintain Acquisitions Superiority: Why the USAF Needs to Deliver Faster, Fail Smarter, and Innovate Better

By: Kurtis A. Paul