Writing Guidlines

Before submitting an article for publishing, please keep these things in mind:

  • The only topics Engaged will consider for publication are those related to Defense and Law Enforcement Technology, Diplomacy, Policy, Conflict, or War. 

  • While Beowulf is a non-partisan think tank and by extension, Engaged is a non-partisan publication, we understand that there are times where an intermingling of Military and Political concepts is necessary to explain a viewpoint. In this, we remember the following:

     “It would be quite impossible to write about the Spanish Civil War from a purely military angle. It was above all a political war.” 
    --George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

  • Refrain from anything that refers to “our” interests “abroad,” unless you are a government official or member of the military speaking on an official position.

  • Please attempt to make your article relevant and worth reading by someone in any one of the 196 countries on Earth, not just members of NATO.

  • Technical language is permitted, but please don’t go overboard. ENGAGED articles should create a balance between extremes: each article should be a reference for discussion and source material for specialists, but it should also engross and inform a general-interest reader, or someone who is not an expert in a certain subject: in short, good analytical thinking goes hand in hand with good reporting. 

  • The Editorial Staff at ENGAGED requires that authors fact check their work before submitting for publication as our staff is too small to screen the volume of articles submitted. Please provide sources for your data, and references should only be included as footnotes.

  • We welcome submissions that include charts, graphs, or other graphics as long as they are the property of the Author, however all submissions must be free of any special formatting.

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Last but not least, read the magazine. This will give you a sense of what we are looking for, not to mention that this is the easiest way to avoid submitting something that we may have already covered.