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Parameters Autumn 2008 Tomislav Z. Ruby	Effects-based Operations: More Important Than Ever To successfully utilize effects-based operations (EBO), we must ensure that EBO are properly planned and executed and that the effects are measured within the decision cycle of current operations.
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 Winter 2005/2006 Mitchell J. Thompson	Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones.
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 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 Autumn 2008 James N. Mattis	USJFCOM Commander's Guidance for Effects-based Operations This article is designed to provide the US Joint Forces Command staff with clear guidance on how effects-based operations (EBO) will be addressed in joint doctrine and used in joint training, concept development, and experimentation.
Parameters Summer 2005 R. D. Hooker	Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man.
Parameters Summer 2008 J. Boone Bartholomees	Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars.
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 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.
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 Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner	European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Samuel J. Newland	Review Essay Book review: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo... etc.
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 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.
Parameters Spring 2005	Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc.
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 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.
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.
Parameters Spring 2004	Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Christopher M. Schnaubelt	After the Fight: Interagency Operations The situation in Iraq may not be nearly as dire as some pundits and much of the media would have the American public believe, but there is certainly a long way to go.
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.
National Defense December 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Before War Strategy Is Settled, Political Aims Must Be Defined Amid uncertainty and unease about the future of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the importance of clear political objectives can't be overstated.
Parameters Summer 2008	Book Reviews A. J. Langguth's book Union 1812: Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence makes history read like a novel... Muhammad: Islam's First Great General by Richard A. Gabriel focuses on the political aspects of the religious leader... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Liotta & Owen	Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Donald Chisholm	The Risk of Optimism in the Conduct of War The Rapid Dominance approach to warfare can be appealing to a country like the U.S. that has technological advantages, but it requires an optimistic view on one's ability to manipulate the will of adversaries.
Parameters Spring 2005 Metz & Millen	Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new, unforeseen directions
Parameters Winter 2006/2007	Book Reviews From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. By Cole C. Kingseed... The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training and Root Causes. Edited by James J. F. Forest... etc.
Parameters 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.
Parameters 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.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Michael Lind	A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security.
Parameters Autumn 2006	Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc.
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 2008 Robert Gates	Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II.
Parameters Summer 2004 Brownlee & Schoomaker	Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war.
Parameters Spring 2007 Ryan C. Hendrickson	The Miscalculation of NATO's Death NATO's history, its ability to overcome crises, an analysis of NATO expansion, its institutional flexibility, and evidence of renewed interest in the alliance by many of the world's great powers.
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 November 2004	Commentary & Reply Technology and the Yom Kippur War... More on "Attrition" -- Maneuver, Theory, and Strategy... etc.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004	Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc.
National Defense May 2004 Harold Kennedy	The New face of Peacekeeping U.S. leaders have began to rediscover the value of peacekeeping operations.
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.
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.
Parameters 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 April 2005 Roxana Tiron	Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism.
Parameters Spring 2005 Kenneth Payne	The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield.
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.
Parameters Spring 2007 Paul Robinson	Ethics Training and Development in the Military While relatively new, formal military training programs for ethics have produced a number of common virtues that might provide a basis for a universal (military) code or ethic.
Parameters November 2004 Franklin Eric Wester	Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham	Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy.