D0-branes as light-front confined quarks

We argue that different aspects of light-front QCD at tile confined phase c all be recovered by the matrix quantum mechanics of D0-branes. The relevant matrix quantum mechanics is obtained from dimensional reduction of pure Ya ng-Mills theory to dimension 0 + 1. The aspects uf QCD dynamics which are s tudied in correspondence with D0-branes are: (1) phenomenological inter-qua rk potentials, (2) the whiteness of hadrons and (3) scattering amplitudes. In addition. some other issues such as the large-N behavior, tile gravity-g auge theory relation and also a possible justification fur involving: "non- commutative" coordinates" in the study of QCD bound states are discussed.