MCU Journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of national security and international relations issues and how they have an impact on the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps directly and indirectly.

MCU Journal for Spring 2018 issue devotes much of its content to the myriad aspects of educating and training military personnel in articles emphasizing institutional, pedagogical, and historical perspectives. The PME Round Table section looks principally at the efforts of select components within Marine Corps Training and Education Command to enhance the development of Marines through the employment of innovative instructional and career-management techniques. The need to train military professionals to perform essential, often scientific, tasks and the concomitant requirement to develop within them the cognitive abilities necessary to manage, if not overcome, volatile and uncertain environments has, of course, generated dialogue among military educators, theorists, and practitioners long before the establishment of American PME.