For over a decade, The Strategy Bridge has helped to lead a conversation among practitioners, scholars, and students about strategy, national security, and military affairs. Written early in 2013 our guiding principles reflect what we have always tried to do here. 

1. Writing and strategy are communal affairs. We exist to develop a community of thinkers and writers who seek to improve the level of discussion in these areas.

2. By creating this community, we will support the authorship of quality content in the areas of policy, strategy, and military affairs.

3. By creating this community, we will also create networks of individuals that support current thinkers and practitioners, as well as support the development of future leaders in these areas.

4. Forever in our sight should be the development of the next generation of thinkers and practitioners in the realm of strategy.

We believe these principles to be as true today as they were when written a decade ago. The Strategy Bridge built an amazing community and helped shape an online publication world that looks remarkably different. We hold great faith in the next generation of strategy thinkers and practitioners. While we fervently believe that there remains much work to be done, we also believe that the time is right for that work to occur elsewhere.

Just as strategy must change and adapt, so too must its practitioners determine when the strategy has run its course. The Strategy Bridge’s journal will remain online and it will remain free as it always has, a repository of the work of our community, as a resource for future research, and as a marker on the path to our community’s development and the development of those who will come next.

Strategy requires deep study, rigorous thinking, deliberate writing, and honest debate. It has been our absolute honor to have participated in this project with you for so many years. We look forward to continuing the conversation in other ways, through the sustainment of our Strategy Bridge Podcast and our in-person strategy sessions, and perhaps in new ways in the future. 

Strategy is always about positional advantage, about ensuring an opportunity for another move, a next step, a follow-on decision. We look forward to watching our community’s next moves.

The Strategy Bridge Journal has been brought to you by our Managing Editors, Dr. Heather Pace and Dr. Katherine Voyles and our Editors Robert Mihara, Brett Friedman, Jo Brick, Marc Milligan, Nicole Dean, and Ryan Waddle; delivered by our Communications Team Daniel Clark, Rowan Wise, and David Retherford; and supported by our Assessments Team Katherine Batterton and Kimberly Hale. The Strategy Bridge Board of Directors are Richard Ganske, Mikhail Grinberg, Tyrell Mayfield, and Eric Murphy.

The Strategy Bridge is read, respected, and referenced across the worldwide national security community—in conversation, education, and professional and academic discourse.

Thank you for being a part of The Strategy Bridge community. Together, we can #BuildTheBridge.

Header Image: Quebec City Bridge, Quebec City, Canada 2018 (Olivier Piquer).