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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).   |
Military History Quarterly
Gregory G. Bolich |
Military Technology: Using a Cloud of Dust in Ancient Warfare In the ancient world, a clever commander could use clouds of dust and dirt to gain a great victory and avoid a crushing defeat. |
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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. |
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Summer 2007
Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
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Summer 2004
Robert S. Bolia |
Overreliance on Technology in Warfare: The Yom Kippur War as a Case Study Using the Yom Kipper War as an example, this article describes the consequences of overreliance on technologically advanced systems over the course of a single war. |
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Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
Military History
June 2005
William R. Trotter |
The Music of War Ever since Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho, music has served as both a psychological weapon and a way to communicate in battle. |
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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. |
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
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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? |
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November 2004
Scott Boston |
Toward a Protected Future Force The US Army plans to introduce its next-generation ground force quickly, starting with an experimental battalion by the end of the decade and a full brigade--called a Unit of Action--in 2014. |
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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. |
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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. |
AskMen.com
June 19, 2003
Salvatore Mann |
Top 10: Must-See Archaeological Spots For those who like to enjoy the sights up close and personal, taking in the sounds and the feel of ancient cities and temples, here is a selection of some of the best destinations on Earth, many of which still have archaeological digs to this very day. |
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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. |
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Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
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. |
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Summer 2004
Gordon & Sollinger |
The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it. |
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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2007
John Keller |
The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future? |
National Defense
October 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus. |
AskMen.com
March 1, 2001
Harry Marks |
Top 10 Historic & Cultural Places If you're tired of beaches or ski resorts, then why don't you set off on a journey and discover 10 lands that have served as the home to great civilizations, legendary battles, great statesmen, revolutions, and various aspects that have defined and shaped the world, as we know it? |
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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. |
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
January 2012
Russell Aldrich |
U.S. Should Invest in Truly Unconventional Forms of Warfare Spending enormous resources to increase the already insurmountable conventional military advantage cannot compensate for a disadvantage in non-military warfare capabilities. The face of warfare is changing rapidly, and the United States must adapt. |
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. |
High on Adventure
April 2001
Les Furnanz |
In the Steps of Pharaohs Visiting Egypt's Incredible Pyramids, Temples, and Tombs... |
National Defense
March 2006
James A. Gavrilis |
Army Must Address Irregular Warfare Needs The Army's largest-ever modernization program, the Future Combat Systems (FCS), is expected to deliver a kit bag of new capabilities for the tactical force. It's easy to see how FCS technologies will provide a clear advantage in the conventional fight, but it is less clear how this program will improve capabilities in unconventional warfare. |
National Defense
December 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Ponders Future Force: Not Too Large, Not Too Small, Just Right In a pep talk to Army leaders recently, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pointed out the obvious: There aren't many countries out there building massive tank armies, and it is "unlikely that we will be re-fighting Desert Storm in the future." |
Wired
August 23, 2007
Ralph Peters |
Washington Ignores Cyberattack Threats, Putting Us All at Peril 21st-century-warfare will be to deny entire states the ability to process, protect, and communicate information. The Pentagon doesn't seem to fully grasp the dangerous potential of this new domain of warfare. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
Mesopotamian climate change At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in December, one archaeologist presented research that suggests that climate change affected the way cultures developed and collapsed in the cradle of civilization -- ancient Mesopotamia -- more than 8,000 years ago. |
National Defense
October 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Predicting the Future Of Warfare: Why Bother? Let down by the hype of technowarfare and wised up by the harshness of counterinsurgencies, the Army is not about to make grandiose jumps into the future. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of War: Can Special Ops Become Business as Usual? Is the Pentagon capable of shifting its resources and strategies over to so-called irregular warfare? Experts at the Special Operations Conference in D.C. debate whether or not the U.S. is ready for a new kind of fight. |
National Defense
January 2013
Rich Sorelle |
How to Equip the U.S. Military For Future Electronic Warfare The Navy and Air Force have adopted "air-sea battle." The concept entails highly coordinated, cross-domain operations designed to "disrupt the adversary's intelligence collection and command and control used to employ A2/AD weapons systems. |
National Defense
December 2014
Sarah Sicard |
Pacific Pathways to Expand Army's Presence in Region From September to November, soldiers based in Washington and Hawaii cut a swath through Asia with stops at Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan to conduct training with local forces. |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
George R. Mastroianni |
Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force The relatively recent separation of the Air Force from the Army, coupled with the rapid rise of the Air Force as a powerful, independent institution offers a unique opportunity to explore the organizational cultures of these two services, and to better understand the implications of culture on leadership styles in each of the services. |
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Spring 2005
Colin S. Gray |
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? For the West, and for the most part, 12 of the past 15 years can fairly be described as an interwar period. That brief no-name era, usually referred to neutrally as the post-Cold War period, came to an explosive end on 11 September 2001. |
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
January 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
While Still at War, Services Brood Over `What's Next?' The business of planning for the future indeed can be scary, especially when it comes to predicting when and where the nation will fight the next war. |
National Defense
February 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Special Operators Ponder the Right Mix of Roles and Missions U.S. Special Operations Command is growing. From 48,000 personnel today, its numbers are expected to increase to 58,000 in the coming years. But how will they be used? |
National Defense
November 2014
Sandra I. Erwin |
Generals Get Real About Missions, Budget Life in the "post-war" Army indeed will be different. It will not be one of dreary rotational deployments but one of multitasking and responding to unforeseen events. |
Popular Mechanics
November 10, 2009
Chris Plante, UGO.com |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review--Heard Of It? Analysts expect Modern Warfare 2's first week sales to breach $500 million. |
