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These papers represent 23 different recommendations by twenty-three different Army War College students. Some ideas and recommendations are specific and affect narrow slices of the Army; others are broad and span multiple services or components. Some are tactical; others strategic. Some very aspirational; others very practical. Regardless, they are the thoughts of strategic thinkers who have embraced their responsibility to help posture the enterprise for the future by thinking and writing about tough issues. The enterprise is better for their effort.The pathway for the AY15 Seminar was built upon our exploration of a central idea - a guiding principle. Grounded by the framework provided in the October 2014 Army Operating Concept, the Seminar explored the fundamental question: "What kind of Army does the nation need in 2025 and beyond?" The Seminar moved along two separate but supporting lines. First, through classroom work the students gained an understanding the environment which will shape the Army of 2025 and beyond. The Seminar applied a variety of lens - political, military, fiscal, technological and structural - to add perspective to our vision and view. Second, the students played substantive roles in the Unified Quest 15 (UQ 15) series of workshops and wargames. UQ 15, the Army's Title 10 wargame, gave the Seminar the opportunity to experiment with emerging concepts and thought and add a robust experience to their classroom education. The beneficial outcomes of the Seminar's two lines of inquiry are this compendium of student papers, 23 Army War College graduates who are engaged and contributing to the future of the enterprise and, perhaps as importantly, hundreds of hours of thought, debate, discussion and reflection on the future Army - which also serves as the seed-corn for ideas and questions to be explored by Futures Seminar students and the Army in the years to come.Using a Grand Strategy to Build an Army of the Future * The Future of Army Futures * A