October 2006 Issue
The spec ops stretch
The impending expansion of Army special operations forces laid out in this year’s Quadrennial Defense Review is spreading waves of unease throughout the Special Forces community.
By Sean D. Naylor
The impending expansion of Army special operations forces laid out in this year’s Quadrennial Defense Review is spreading waves of unease throughout the Special Forces community.
By Sean D. Naylor
TO NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES For their empty response to Washington’s call for more troops in Afghanistan. An urgent meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels attempted to drum up 2,500 extra troops in...
TO THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT For dissolving its Office of Force Transformation. OFT’s lofty and sometimes intangible mission certainly had its critics and naysayers. But the vision it was charged with creating and...
TO SENS. JOHN WARNER, JOHN McCAIN AND LINDSAY GRAHAM For crafting a thoughtful alternative bill to the White House plan for new legislation on how to treat and prosecute terror suspects.
I welcome you here today to kick off the Department of Defense Biobased Product Event.”
Let us be clear as spring water: We welcome the Defense Department’s effort to replace toxic cleaners and solvents with kinder, gentler ones made from plants. We just wish it came with...
— Philip Grone, U.S. deputy defense undersecretary for installations and environment
Let us be clear as spring water: We welcome the Defense Department’s effort to replace toxic cleaners and solvents with kinder, gentler ones made from plants. We just wish it came with...
— Philip Grone, U.S. deputy defense undersecretary for installations and environment
Revenge of the staff weenie
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, the long history of military humor proves that satire may well be the last refuge of the patriot. Perhaps the single best source for...
By Christopher Griffin
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, the long history of military humor proves that satire may well be the last refuge of the patriot. Perhaps the single best source for...
By Christopher Griffin
Essay: A question of faith
Do we yet understand the nature of the “Long War” for the future of the Middle East?
By Tom Donnelly
Do we yet understand the nature of the “Long War” for the future of the Middle East?
By Tom Donnelly
Airstrike
Professor Collins’ spirited defense of the ground perspective is exactly the kind of discussion I hoped my article would catalyze. His views are predictable, and not just because he is...
By Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Professor Collins’ spirited defense of the ground perspective is exactly the kind of discussion I hoped my article would catalyze. His views are predictable, and not just because he is...
By Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
From the ground up
Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap’s essay on air power, “America’s asymmetric advantage,” in the September AFJ was a blast from the past — a throwback to the...
By Joseph J. Collins
Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap’s essay on air power, “America’s asymmetric advantage,” in the September AFJ was a blast from the past — a throwback to the...
By Joseph J. Collins
Lessons from Lebanon
Much has been written about Israel’s strategic errors in this summer’s conflict with Hezbollah, from the embrace of the long-since discredited notion that a war can be won with...
By Ralph Peters
Much has been written about Israel’s strategic errors in this summer’s conflict with Hezbollah, from the embrace of the long-since discredited notion that a war can be won with...
By Ralph Peters
New rules for new enemies
We put an Army on the battlefield that I had been a part of for 37 years. It doesn’t have any doctrine, nor was it educated and trained, to deal with an insurgency. ... After the...
BY LT. COL. JOHN A. NAGL AND LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
We put an Army on the battlefield that I had been a part of for 37 years. It doesn’t have any doctrine, nor was it educated and trained, to deal with an insurgency. ... After the...
BY LT. COL. JOHN A. NAGL AND LT. COL. PAUL L. YINGLING
Air power’s lost lessons
The period between the first and second world wars served as the formative years for the development of American military aviation and air power theory. The practical application of air...
BY LT. COL. SKIP HINMAN
The period between the first and second world wars served as the formative years for the development of American military aviation and air power theory. The practical application of air...
BY LT. COL. SKIP HINMAN
Why doctrine matters and how to fix it
Not too long ago a bright war college student said to his instructor, “I know all this Clausewitz stuff is important, but I’m going to the Army Staff and what I really need to...
By COL. ROBERT KILLEBREW (Ret.)
Not too long ago a bright war college student said to his instructor, “I know all this Clausewitz stuff is important, but I’m going to the Army Staff and what I really need to...
By COL. ROBERT KILLEBREW (Ret.)
Halloween surprise?
It’s October, and voters appear likely to turn over control of the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate, too, to the Democrats. So it’s time for an October surprise....
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
It’s October, and voters appear likely to turn over control of the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate, too, to the Democrats. So it’s time for an October surprise....
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Ideological threats
Ralph Peters once again offers a needed perspective on the reality of today’s ideological fight [“The hearts-and-minds myth,” September]. While academia may loathe...
Ralph Peters once again offers a needed perspective on the reality of today’s ideological fight [“The hearts-and-minds myth,” September]. While academia may loathe...
In this issue
Is doctrine too rigid for the adaptive thinking needed to win the war we fight today, or did decades of relative peace cause us to drift from war-fighting fundamentals? This debate over...
Is doctrine too rigid for the adaptive thinking needed to win the war we fight today, or did decades of relative peace cause us to drift from war-fighting fundamentals? This debate over...
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