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Welcome to the Fall 2021 issue of National Institute’s new Journal of Policy & Strategy—a quarterly, online, and peer-reviewed journal. In this inaugural issue, readers will find features that will appear regularly in future issues. For example, under the initial heading “Analysis,” recent Defense Department officials Robert Soofer and Matthew Costlow provide an important examination of the Department of Defense’s 2020 Report on the Nuclear Employment Strategy of the United States. This DoD report itself correspondingly appears under the heading “Documentation,” a section in which the Journal of Policy & Strategy will regularly present key official government reports, speeches and Congressional testimony. Also included in this inaugural issue is an extensive and thoughtful commentary by General Larry Welch (USAF, ret.), former Air Force Chief of Staff and Commander of the Strategic Air Command. Interviews of important contributors to national security, conducted by David Trachtenberg, will be another regular feature of the Journal of Policy & Strategy. Also included in this issue are the proceedings from three online symposia (webinars) hosted by National Institute in 2021.