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Parameters Autumn 2005 Sean M. Maloney	Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics.
Parameters Spring 2004 Sean M. Maloney	Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Mathematical Models: The Latest Weapons Against Urban Insurgencies The Defense Department is asking for models of social agendas and social behaviors to help them win the war.
National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	What the Firing of 4-Star Gen. McKiernan Means for Afghan War: Analysis What is the strategy in Afghanistan?
National Defense February 2005 Michael Peck	Soldiers Learn Hazards Of War in Virtual Reality The U.S. Army is testing the utility of a web-based training technology, the military version of the popular multiplayer online role-playing games, that lets soldiers share their combat experiences with troops preparing to deploy.
Parameters Summer 2006 Shawn Brimley	Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Battle-Scarred Troops Have Message for Army Training: Get Real A decade at war has presented officials with a dilemma: The training environment now must be made even more authentic to hold the attention of soldiers who already have experienced the real deal.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Games Are Gaining Ground, But How Far Can They Go? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks toward simulation systems to teach soldiers about the tradeoffs involved in rebuilding Iraq.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations.
National Defense August 2006 Grace Jean	Disjointed Defense Simulation Programs Prompt Reorganization The increasing demand for virtual training and war gaming has prompted the Defense Department to reorganize how it manages modeling and simulation.
Reason November 2004 Ben Fenwick	Meanwhile in Afghanistan The coming "warlord war" in America's other occupation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Training for the War on Terror Military personnel throughout the ranks hone their skills with advanced training and simulation systems.
Outside November 2009 Brian Mockenhaupt	Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it.
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson	Soldiers At Lowest Ranks Need Better Cultural Training, Officers Say Trainees must make tough life-or-death decisions, such as what to do when they burst through a door and find a family inside. Are these innocent civilians or insurgents? Should they pull the trigger?
National Defense December 2009 Shea, Willadsen & Lashlee	Military in Korea Expands Use of Simulations in War Games More so than in most other places, modeling and simulation are critical to training in Korea.
Wired September 2004 Steve Silberman	The War Room Inside the fully immersive proving ground where tomorrow's soldiers are being trained by coalition forces of the Pentagon, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Equipment Choices Shaped by Afghanistan War While the Obama administration ponders a future strategy for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Army is rushing to buy new combat equipment especially suited to that nation's high altitudes and tough terrain.
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	Mobile Simulators Give Soldiers Early Roadside Bomb Training The mobile counter-IED interactive trainer is one of two new simulators exposing ground forces to the hazards they may face before they arrive in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	Simulation, Gaming Sector Plagued by Fiscal Challenges Restrictions on the travel of government officials gutted the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando, Fla. Conference attendance, which aims to increase the use of serious games by the Defense Department, dropped to a third of the previous year's show.
National Defense February 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Training and Simulation Industry Optimistic About Future Opportunities Smaller defense budgets are forcing the military to conduct fewer costly live exercises and instead put troops in the cockpits and drivers' seats of more affordable simulators.
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Parameters Spring 2006 Ali A. Jalali	The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past.
TIME Asia June 14, 2010 Tim McGirk	Armed Farces The U.S. has spent $26 billion building up the Afghan army. But it is still poorly trained and rife with internal rivalries. Will it ever be fit to fight?
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 Ben Ames	Streamlined databases drive military simulation Improved displays and screens are helping engineers build sharper pictures, but the greatest improvement in military simulation and mission rehearsal has been in software.
Salon.com November 16, 2001 Janelle Brown	"Beneath the Veil" redux Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War"...
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean	Game Branches Out Into Real Combat Training The Army's PC-based video game, America's Army, is morphing beyond its original mission, becoming the platform for numerous other military and government training simulations.
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National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	Greater Appetite for Unpiloted Aircraft Combat Zones Fuels Demand for Simulators The growing demand for unmanned spy aircraft in combat zones has increased the burden on training organizations that are being asked to produce more operators, and faster.
National Defense December 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Sets Sights on `Airman of the Future' Video Games Gaming technologies, officials say, would allow the Air Force to broaden the training options available to airmen, and would help the service save money by shifting flying time from real aircraft to simulators.
National Defense December 2006 Grace Jean	Army Training Evolving to Develop Better Combat Leaders The initiative to improve combat leadership skills earlier in soldiers' careers, by better understanding the cognitive processes involved in decision-making, has gained momentum inside military academies and other academic institutions.
AskMen.com Jasper Anson	Top 10: Battle Scenes Since cinema's early days, battle scenes have been popular with all audiences. And today's state-of-the-art battle scenes can get your heart pounding and your jaw dropping. Here's our list of the top ten movie battle scenes of all time.
Salon.com September 27, 2001 Steve Kettmann	Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them...
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National Defense October 2014 Chelsea Todaro	Do-It-Yourself Simulators Speeding Up Army Training A new generation of simulation software is promising to put more control into the hands of trainers, who can create their own computer-based exercises in a matter of hours.
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ifeminists July 10, 2009 Wendy McElroy	Arm the Afghan women Give an Afghan woman the right to own a gun and you protect her long after the current tragedy has become old news. A gun in the hand of a mother who is protecting her child may be the most humanitarian relief of all.
National Defense February 2014 Stephen A. Mackey	Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests.
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National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc.