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Parameters Autumn 2005 Thomas E. Ayres	"Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World In the aftermath of 9/11, some have called for a ruthless, `gloves-off' response that would sweep aside legal and political obstacles. Yet the American public's response to the Abu Ghraib abuses provides strong evidence that such an approach is still inconsistent with America's values.
Parameters Autumn 2005 Gerard P. Fogarty	Is Guantanamo Bay Undermining the Global War on Terror? U.S. policy in Guantanamo Bay is providing fuel to a rising global anti-Americanism that weakens U.S. influence and effectiveness, as well as denies the U.S. the moral high ground it needs to promote international human rights in the future.
Parameters Autumn 2005	Commentary & Reply Detainee Operations and the Law of War... On The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology... The Trouble with History and the Schlieffen Plan... 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 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 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.
Reason January 2005 Harvey Silverglate	Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
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 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 2007 Eric Wester	Last Resort and Preemption: Using Armed Force as a Moral and Penultimate Choice Using armed force in peace enforcement operations (PEO) need not be reserved for a Last Resort even while preserving the integrity of Just War theory.
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 Autumn 2007 Marc Lindemann	Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
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 Autumn 2007 John Loran Kiel, Jr.	When Soldiers Speak Out: A Survey of Provisions Limiting Freedom of Speech in the Military As service members become more vocal about the war, commanders need to become more familiar with how freedom of speech is applied in a military context.
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 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 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.
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 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 Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
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 Autumn 2008 Mark Cancian	Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future.
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.
Reason October 2002 Jacob Sullum	The Forever War: How long can an emergency last? The war on terrorism now looks less like World War II, and more like the war on drugs: an intermittently violent campaign against an amorphous enemy that can never be decisively vanquished. That fact has important implications for the debate about how much liberty we should give up.
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 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.
Reason February 2002 Chris Bray	The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters...
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 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.
National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland	Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies.
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.
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.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states.
Reason April 2003 Michael Young	Command Performances The civilian-military conflict over the conduct of war
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.
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons	Special Operations a Valuable Tool In Dealing With Bloody African Conflicts Deploying small numbers of specially trained troops, namely Army Special Operations Forces that are well versed in supporting indigenous troops, can pay dividends, said Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense.
Parameters Summer 2006 Colin S. Gray	Stability Operations in Strategic Perspective: A Skeptical View Stability operations, the demand for them and the provision of new capabilities to perform them well, are the downstream product of larger decisions on U.S. foreign policy and strategy.
Parameters Spring 2006 Anthony Vinci	The "Problems of Mobilization" and the Analysis of Armed Groups This article attempts to lay the foundation for a more agile, rationalized system of analysis for all types of armed groups which can take into account the evolving and adapting nature of contemporary armed groups.
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 March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Forces' Skills `Needed More Than Ever' Experts are questioning whether the Pentagon is making the best use of highly skilled special operations forces in the nation's war against extremist Islamic groups.
National Defense November 2009 Stew Magnuson	Debate Over Rules, Legality of Robots On The Battlefield Lagging, Experts Say As researchers push ahead with algorithms designed to give robots more autonomy, ethicists and legal minds warn that not enough thought is being given to the implications of using unmanned systems to apply lethal force.
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?
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch	Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2008 Paul Piper	Nets of Terror Terrorist activity on the Internet.
Parameters 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.
Reason July 2004 Jesse Walker	Corporate Soldiers Employees of private security companies in Iraq had been losing their lives, particularly after the spring insurgency began, and the firms found they couldn't rely on the armed forces for protection. So businesses are contracting with each other for military and intelligence support.
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Willie D. Jones	Declarations of Cyberwar What the revelations about the U.S.-Israeli origin of Stuxnet mean for warfare
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.
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie	The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks.
National Defense December 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable.