Updated Jan. 5, 2026

ARMY magazine, a monthly publication of the Association of the U.S. Army, focuses on professional development, strategy, operations and military history for an audience of current and former soldiers, the defense industry and those who support the Army.

Contributed articles are gladly accepted for review. We only use unpublished work.

Articles or proposals for articles should be submitted to the editors for review by email or mail. The email address is armymag@ausa.org. The mailing address is Editor in Chief, ARMY Magazine, 2425 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201.

Details on submissions

ARMY magazine accepts factual articles, typically 1,200 to 1,800 words, and commentaries or op-eds, typically 800 to 1,200 words. If you have not written for ARMY before, please send a story proposal, outline and writing samples for editors to consider. If your articles come in longer than the magazine’s suggested guidelines, you may be asked to trim them to meet the guidelines.

ARMY does not accept unsolicited book reviews, but if you are interested in reviewing Army-related books, send a proposal and describe your areas of interest or expertise. ARMY no longer publishes poetry or cartoons.

Submitted articles should be in Microsoft Word or plain text, sent as an email attachment or in the body of an email. Do not embed photos or graphics in your text file. Submissions by mail should be double-spaced. Manuscripts will not be returned.

ARMY magazine articles and commentaries do not include footnotes. ARMY is not a scholarly journal that publishes academic papers. It publishes easy-to-read articles that are as free as possible of jargon and acronyms. However, footnotes are accepted in submissions because they help editors in fact-checking. As a general rule, please avoid using personal pronouns.

Authors who include in their article a quote from a book or other resource must provide a photocopy or screengrab of the quoted material for fact-checking purposes. ARMY magazine checks for accuracy and credits the appropriate source.

Commentaries should be thought-provoking essays about Army topics. As part of an educational nonprofit association, ARMY magazine does not publish commentaries on partisan political topics.

AI and sourcing

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), which has no human author and cannot reliably distinguish between biased and unbiased material, writers and readers alike need to be able to trust what they are reading. That is why ARMY magazine will not publish any material generated by AI.

To ensure credible and reliable sourcing and accuracy, and to guarantee full transparency, writers for ARMY cannot use AI to create publishable content and images. In the rare cases when ARMY publishes AI-generated material, as in illustrations, it will be clearly labeled that it was generated by AI.

AI may be used as a research tool, for suggesting avenues for research and facts to follow to non-AI, reputable sources. These follow-on sources must be readily available and not obscure. ARMY magazine editors will fact-check all these sources.

ARMY magazine also is setting guidelines for writers using Wikipedia as a research tool or source. Citations that rely on Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopedia, are not adequate for ARMY. As with AI, Wikipedia may lead to other, reputable sources, but Wikipedia may not be relied upon as a final source for a fact. If a writer’s article cites only Wikipedia sources, ARMY magazine editors will return it for the author to research using reputable sources.

Headlines

Writers are encouraged to suggest a headline for their article or commentary. However, it is a suggestion, and editors may change it.

Author biography

Your submission should include a biography, placed at the bottom of the article. Please keep it short, focused on your current job or title if that adds value to why you are writing about this topic.

Editing

Articles will be fact-checked and edited for context, style, grammar and spelling. ARMY adheres to Associated Press style.

Photographs

Authors are encouraged to submit photographs with their articles, but ARMY makes no promise to use them. The magazine only uses high-resolution digital photos. Digital images should be sent as separate files.

Captions—including who is in the photo, what is happening, when the photo was taken—should be included as well as the source of the photo.