2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38679I describe how the gluon chain model of QCD string formation meets a number of criteria which are required of any theory of the confining force, including: the correct center dependence and (at large-N) Casimir scaling of the string tension, the logarithmic broadening of the QCD flux tube, and the existence of a Luscher term in the static quark potential.Talk presented at the Nato Advanced Research Workshop on "Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD," Stara Lesna,Slovakia, January 21-27, 2002. 12 pages, 6 figures, uses crckapb.styHigh Energy Physics - Latticetext