February 2011 Issue
Building critical thinkers
Throughout our long history, the Army has developed capable and prominent strategic leaders. We pride ourselves in the long line of strategic leaders who have served this great Army and our...
BY GEN. MARTIN E. DEMPSEY
Throughout our long history, the Army has developed capable and prominent strategic leaders. We pride ourselves in the long line of strategic leaders who have served this great Army and our...
BY GEN. MARTIN E. DEMPSEY
Cyber defense
A critical shortage of cyberspace-domain-trained and certified personnel affects the U.S.’s ability to defend itself against the spectrum of conflict in the cyberspace. This shortfall...
BY LT. COL. DAVID M. HOLLIS AND KATHERINE HOLLIS
A critical shortage of cyberspace-domain-trained and certified personnel affects the U.S.’s ability to defend itself against the spectrum of conflict in the cyberspace. This shortfall...
BY LT. COL. DAVID M. HOLLIS AND KATHERINE HOLLIS
Not by widgets alone
During the major combat operations phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Army Patriot air and missile defense units were involved in two fratricide incidents. In the first, a British GR-4...
BY JOHN K. HAWLEY
During the major combat operations phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Army Patriot air and missile defense units were involved in two fratricide incidents. In the first, a British GR-4...
BY JOHN K. HAWLEY
A better way to educate
Keeping up the professionalism and developing the talent of the officer force while in a prolonged war requires a new strategy for achieving necessary sequential officer education....
BY COL. GWYNNE T. BURKE (RET.)
Keeping up the professionalism and developing the talent of the officer force while in a prolonged war requires a new strategy for achieving necessary sequential officer education....
BY COL. GWYNNE T. BURKE (RET.)
What really matters
Much of what I am about to discuss here may be unpopular with many in the defense community. But there comes a time when one reaches an intellectual critical mass, when silence is more...
BY GENE MYERS
Much of what I am about to discuss here may be unpopular with many in the defense community. But there comes a time when one reaches an intellectual critical mass, when silence is more...
BY GENE MYERS
Safeguarding soldiers
History teaches us many lessons. The first is that those who do not learn lessons from history are destined to repeat them. Another is that since 1918, the Air Force and its predecessor...
BY DONALD E. DAVIS
History teaches us many lessons. The first is that those who do not learn lessons from history are destined to repeat them. Another is that since 1918, the Air Force and its predecessor...
BY DONALD E. DAVIS
Undermanned, overwhelmed
One of the frustrating challenges of Afghanistan has been how to build a legitimate, capable and effective Afghan state at all levels that addresses the needs of the people and denies the...
BY DAN GREEN
One of the frustrating challenges of Afghanistan has been how to build a legitimate, capable and effective Afghan state at all levels that addresses the needs of the people and denies the...
BY DAN GREEN
Crucial cuts TO DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES for a fiscal 2012 budget request that falls woefully short of the serious cuts that are essential and unavoidable.
Fiscal failure TO CONGRESS for its failure to pass the fiscal 2011 DoD spending bill. Almost half of the way through fiscal 2011, the Pentagon is still operating under continual resolutions. Forcing...
Engine stall TO Representative TOM ROONEY, R-Fla., for his amendment to strike funding for the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Passage of the Rooney amendment was a rare Beltway...
‘Terps to troops
Patrolling the desert plains of Eastern Zabul province, Afghanistan, my gunner spots 10 civilians walking with AKs and PKMs.
BY LT. COL. PAUL T. DARLING
Patrolling the desert plains of Eastern Zabul province, Afghanistan, my gunner spots 10 civilians walking with AKs and PKMs.
BY LT. COL. PAUL T. DARLING
In this issue
In their presidential debt commission report, released in December and ominously titled “The Moment of Truth,” co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson point out that the...
In their presidential debt commission report, released in December and ominously titled “The Moment of Truth,” co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson point out that the...
Joint force provider
In “Goodbye, JFCOM” [AFJ, November], retired Col. Bob Killebrew argues convincingly for the elimination of U.S. Joint Forces Command as a four-star-led combatant command. He...
In “Goodbye, JFCOM” [AFJ, November], retired Col. Bob Killebrew argues convincingly for the elimination of U.S. Joint Forces Command as a four-star-led combatant command. He...
Controlling armed robots
I AM an engineering psychologist in an Army organization that is in the forefront of research and development and applications work on military robotics and automated battle command systems....
I AM an engineering psychologist in an Army organization that is in the forefront of research and development and applications work on military robotics and automated battle command systems....
Fiscal jeopardy
U.S. federal government finances are on an unsustainable path — that is the unmistakable message from the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission and emphasized by Defense...
BY COL. MARK D. TROUTMAN
U.S. federal government finances are on an unsustainable path — that is the unmistakable message from the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission and emphasized by Defense...
BY COL. MARK D. TROUTMAN
Learn together
A major finding of the April report from the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) indicated an increasing need for additional joint and service-specific subject matter to be taught earlier...
BY LT. COL. PAUL BROOKS, CMDR. JOHN MYERS AND LT.COL. SCOTT STEPHENS
A major finding of the April report from the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) indicated an increasing need for additional joint and service-specific subject matter to be taught earlier...
BY LT. COL. PAUL BROOKS, CMDR. JOHN MYERS AND LT.COL. SCOTT STEPHENS
Hunt to kill
In increasingly complicated security dilemmas, some states are finally and overtly coming to grips with the reality that blunt military responses are the path to progress. The engagement in...
BY A.E. STAHL
In increasingly complicated security dilemmas, some states are finally and overtly coming to grips with the reality that blunt military responses are the path to progress. The engagement in...
BY A.E. STAHL
Reality check
Misperceptions about close-air support (CAS) continue to plague the relationship between ground and air forces. CAS is a mission area where myth and reality often coexist.
BY MAJ. AARON W. CLARK AND LT. COL. J. BRAD REEVES
Misperceptions about close-air support (CAS) continue to plague the relationship between ground and air forces. CAS is a mission area where myth and reality often coexist.
BY MAJ. AARON W. CLARK AND LT. COL. J. BRAD REEVES
Close-air support at work
On May 25, the soldiers of 3rd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, and a special operations team, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 1313, left Forward...
BY MAJ. AARON W. CLARK AND LT. COL. J. BRAD REEVES
On May 25, the soldiers of 3rd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, and a special operations team, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 1313, left Forward...
BY MAJ. AARON W. CLARK AND LT. COL. J. BRAD REEVES
The culture war within
In December, Congress passed a bill to repeal the law that had banned openly homosexual men and women from serving in the military since 1993. On Dec. 22, President Obama signed the...
By L. MICHAEL ALLSEP Jr., DAVID A. LEVY and LT. COL. JAMES E. PARCO
In December, Congress passed a bill to repeal the law that had banned openly homosexual men and women from serving in the military since 1993. On Dec. 22, President Obama signed the...
By L. MICHAEL ALLSEP Jr., DAVID A. LEVY and LT. COL. JAMES E. PARCO
Think beyond targeting
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula asserts that the military activities of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are indivisible because the effect they provide military...
BY LT. COL. MARK ELFENDAHL
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula asserts that the military activities of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are indivisible because the effect they provide military...
BY LT. COL. MARK ELFENDAHL
Tricare reality check TO THE MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA for its predictable but nonetheless unrealistic response to proposed military health care reforms as part of the new defense budget cuts.
Rash reaction TO REP. HOWARD P. ‘BUCK’ McKEON for his rash response condemning the new defense cuts. The new House Armed Service Committee chairman rushed out a heated response to Defense...
Critical cuts TO DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES for his latest defense reforms, an adept attempt to get ahead of the debt-crisis curve. In his plan to cut $78 billion over the next five years, Gates...
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