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Parameters Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy	The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations.
Parameters Summer 2006 Lou DiMarco	Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency.
Parameters Summer 2008 Robert M. Chamberlain	With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN This article questions the assumption that enhancing the power of the state will make the population less likely to support insurgents.
Parameters Summer 2004 Robert M. Cassidy	Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher M. Schnaubelt	Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
Parameters Spring 2004 Robert R. Tomes	Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare Thirty years after the signing of the January 1973 Paris peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, the United States finds itself leading a broad coalition of military forces engaged in peacemaking, nation-building, and now counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Jeffrey Record	Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed?
Parameters Summer 2007	Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
Parameters Spring 2006 Wade Markel	Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. and its Army again find themselves confronted with a tenacious insurgency, this time in Iraq. Here's a look at Britain's victory in Malaya as a model to emulate.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Michael R. Melillo	Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing.
Parameters Summer 2006	Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc.
Parameters Summer 2007 Clancy & Crossett	Measuring Effectiveness in Irregular Warfare There is little foundational understanding of what success means in irregular warfare that will assist analysts in interpreting operational effectiveness.
Parameters Summer 2008 Kenneth Payne	Waging Communication War This article sets out to explore the ramifications of poor communication and lack of support of the population in a modern war.
Smithsonian December 2006 Eliza Griswold	Waging Peace in the Philippines With innovative tactics, U.S. forces make headway in the "war on terror" in the Philippines.
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Jim Baker	Systems Thinking and Counterinsurgencies This article presents the essentials of a successful counterinsurgency strategy by applying a technique known as systems thinking. Systems thinking has proven successful in other contexts at explaining human behavior, policy choices, unintended consequences, and the resistance of systems to change.
Parameters Autum 2008	Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006	Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Jeffrey Record	External Assistance: Enabler of Insurgent Success For either the insurgent side or the counterinsurgent side, material strength unguided by sound strategy and unsupported by sufficient willingness to fight and die is a recipe for almost certain defeat. But most insurgencies seek foreign help for good reason.
Parameters Autumn 2008	Commentary & Reply Dispute over using airpower in counterinsurgency (COIN)... Waging the communication war...
Parameters Autumn 2007	Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Daniel S. Roper	Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War Though policy initiatives since September 11, 2001 have positively influenced certain agencies in their efforts to secure America, some steps have actually limited the nation's effectiveness in countering the threats it faces.
Parameters Summer 2007 Frank G. Hoffman	Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency? A look at the impact and implications of the classical school of thought on revolutionary warfare and an evaluation of the newly issued Army/Marine counterinsurgency (COIN) manual.
National Defense August 2007 James A. Gavrilis	Army Must Embrace Unconventional Fight Even a major unconventional campaign such as Iraq can have major conventional operations as part of it. In war the two are not mutually exclusive. The trick is finding the right mix.
National Defense February 2008 Stew Magnuson	To Counter Terrorism, Philippine Army Takes Lessons From U.S. Forces For the past six years, a little known special operations campaign in the Philippines' restive southern provinces has applied theoretical counterinsurgency models in a real-world scenario.
Parameters Summer 2007 Brian Reed	A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency A network analysis of war and insurgency differs markedly from conventional approaches, a fact that might require us to rethink some of our more conventional analytical tools.
Parameters Summer 2005 Christopher M. Ford	Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency Using Iraq as a model, this article seeks to examine the relationship between the people and the insurgency, with the ultimate questions being: What role does the civilian population play in the insurgency, and how can this situation be influenced to achieve success?
Wired November 27, 2007 Noah Shachtman	How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social -- Not Electronic A network-centric approach to war allows us to swiftly locate our target and destroy it, but it doesn't allow us to connect with local people to rebuild a city.
Parameters Spring 2007 Richard Swain	Reflection on an Ethic of Officership Reminder that America's Army has operated for over 200 years without an officer's creed to govern the actions of its leaders.
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Martin J. Muckian	Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies: Adapting to the New Adversary The ongoing conflict in Iraq has sparked a renewed interest in the study of counterinsurgency, leading many to comb the wars of the twentieth century for lessons that can be applied to today. Much of this recent analysis has focused on the knowledge gained from fighting Marxist revolutionaries.
Parameters Summer 2006 David W. Barno	Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars.
Reason December 2007 Damon W. Root	The Party of Jefferson What the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer.
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Raymond Millen	The Hobbesian Notion of Self-Preservation Concerning Human Behavior during an Insurgency The primary bond which holds society together is the promise of security. Once this is broken, the individual is thrust into a state of nature, which is mitigated only by the establishment of a common power.
National Defense February 2008 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Special Forces Target Hearts and Minds Two lesser known missions - designed to win the "hearts and minds" of local populations - are being increasingly recognized as an important tool for combating terrorism.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s.
Parameters Summer 2006 Conrad C. Crane	Beware of Boldness The main argument of this article is that the US military does not need a culture that encourages daring risk-taking, especially at senior levels. We may already be paying a price in Iraq for this new emphasis on boldness.
Outside February 2007 John Falk	This Is the War on Terror. Wish You Were Here! Welcome to the tropical Philippine island of Jolo, where life is like a Corona ad. Except those guys in the water are U.S. Green Berets, and those kids on dirt bikes are jihadists known for kidnapping Western tourists.
AskMen.com Aaron Broverman	Top 10: American Military Missions These 10 American military missions represent what it means to be American and trace the shaping of world history by the world's last standing superpower.
National Defense May 2006 Perry & Flournoy	The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Robert N. Charette	Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations.
Parameters Summer 2008 J. Boone Bartholomees	Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars.
National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo	A Single Day Changed Supply Strategy in Iraq A coordinated sabotage of supply roads in Iraq changed the way the U.S. Army's support command had to do business from that point on.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best.
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 November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded.
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al.	10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things.
National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level.
National Defense May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	In Today's Wars, Air Strikes Under Fire The Air Force and the Army feud over who gets to be in charge of the "big guns" on the battlefield. The rivalry has become irrelevant in current wars, where one doesn't win by killing, but by gaining the trust of the population.