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National Defense October 2005 Grace Jean	Stryker Units Win Over Skeptics The success of the first two Stryker Brigades has fueled more confidence in the capabilities of the vehicle, but soldiers in those brigades continue to evaluate strategies for best utilizing the Stryker.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics.
National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Stryker Brigades `Self-Reliance' Worries Army Training Command Access to the latest information on insurgent tactics in Iraq can be a decisive weapon for Army commanders prepping their units for war.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Stryker Units Get Instant Feedback From Troops at War As the Army prepares to receive its 1,000th Stryker light armored vehicle this month, commanders are quickly absorbing lessons from combat operations in Iraq and are developing new tactics to help counter violent insurgencies in Iraq's major cities.
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front.
National Defense October 2005 Grace Jean	Stryker Brigades Train for Upcoming Deployment The first Stryker brigade is preparing to put boots on the ground again next summer. Soldiers now have access to several training facilities and technologies that fuse intelligence from the theater directly into their training.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Heavy Armor Gains Clout in Urban Combat An ongoing debate within the U.S. Army is whether to revise its tactics and doctrine for the employment of heavy armored vehicles in urban areas.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Christopher J. Toomey	Army Digitization: Making it Ready for Prime Time The Army's commitment to creating a digitized force elicits some key questions about how the Army will make the transition from an analog force in the face of rapidly changing technology while maintaining the capability to meet key strategic and operational challenges.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Northwestern Cities Peg Prosperity to Army Programs Towns in the Pacific Northwest are hoping the expansion of the Army's Stryker brigades and the development of the Future Combat Systems will lead to continued economic benefits to the area.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Brigades Will Deploy With Hundreds More Trucks The Army is expanding its logistics and transportation operations as part of a broader reorganization intended to field combat brigades that can operate independently, without the support of higher echelons.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Efforts to Reorganize U.S. Army Tied to Emergency War Spending As Iraq war costs approach the $300 billion mark, the Defense Department's increasing reliance on emergency appropriations to pay for military equipment is stirring controversy on Capitol Hill.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson	An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Army National Guard Unit Trains with FCS Micro Unmanned Vehicle Members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard are the first warfighters to train with a gasoline-powered, micro air vehicle (gMAV) prior to their deployment to Iraq this month.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Ponders Formation Of Expert Logistics Units As the U.S. Army reorganizes from a division- to a brigade-based combat force, it also intends to change the way it delivers supplies and logistics support to the front lines.
Parameters Summer 2004 Mahnken & Fitzsimonds	Tread-Heads or Technophiles? Army Officer Attitudes Toward Transformation This article presents selected results of the first systematic effort to understand officer attitudes toward transformation in recent years.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	A Year at War: One Million Pieces of Damaged Equipment Repairs of worn-out and war-damaged Army equipment are certain to remain a $13 billion to $15 billion-a-year business - if not higher - for the foreseeable future.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system.
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Overextended National Guard Undergoing Sweeping Changes National Guard leaders are planning a fundamental re-structuring aimed at making the force more versatile and relevant. These efforts come as the Guard faces dilemmas and stresses which experts say are the result of overuse as an operational force in deployments.
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers Test `Land Warrior' Technology Small-unit commanders in the Army soon may receive a new computer-radio suite that connects soldiers into a wireless network and tracks their location.
National Defense February 2013 Paul J. Kern	U.S. Troops Deserve a Competitive Equipment Advantage The Army can take advantage of commercial competitive practices for fast-moving technologies, rather than lengthy bureaucratic processes. The armed forces should have the best capability when they need it -- and at a more affordable price in a time of lean defense budgets.
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 October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean	New Blue-Force Tracking System on the Horizon A combat team in California has been testing a situational awareness aid that could replace the digital battle-tracking system on its Stryker vehicles.
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Advanced Communications Net Debuts with 3rd Infantry Division Based on lessons from the initial phase of the Iraqi conflict, the Army has decided to put together a vastly improved communications network, which is being showcased by the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, and later will be expanded to other units.
National Defense December 2009 Erwin & Wright	Ft. Polk Brigade to Produce 6,000 Advisors Per Year to Train Iraqi and Afghan Forces In the coming months, the Army will be augmenting its brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan with hundreds of additional officers who will take on the duties of advising and training those nations' forces.
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Will Broaden Access To Satellite Communications Before the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division heads back to Iraq, its units are expected to receive upgraded satellite communications and new vehicles outfitted with the command-and-control computers and radios.
Parameters 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.
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Allots Additional Funds To Fix, Modernize Truck Fleet With a boost of at least $2 billion in the Army's budget for tactical trucks, officials are grappling with how best to strike the right balance between immediate and future needs.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Guard Equipment Bill Surpasses $100 Billion A commitment by the Army to pour $21 billion into the National Guard's procurement accounts is reassuring, but still not enough to fill equipment shortages.
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	No Quick Fixes on the Horizon For Army Logistics Operations The Army intends to field quick-reaction brigades that can respond to contingencies and help facilitate the deployment of a larger force. The goal is to avoid the lengthy buildups that preceded the most recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Vetronics and Vehicle Power Upgrades to be Part of Major Redesign of Stryker Armored Vehicle Armored vehicle designers at General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) are designing next-generation digital vetronics and vehicle power systems for the next-generation Stryker combat vehicle.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Still Needs World-Class `Red Force' in Training Centers Standing by his decision to send the service's elite training troops to fight in Iraq, a senior Army official said he is considering changing the structure and use of the units that so far have been assigned to play the enemy's role in large-scale exercises.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 J.R. Wilson	Army Plans Extensive Training and Simulation Infrastructure for Future Combat System The Army has created a unique special unit called the Evaluation Brigade Combat Team (EBCT) to test and evaluate every component of the new Future Combat System (FCS) before fielding.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Demand Grows for Light-Armored Vehicles The Marine Corps is creating five new light-armored reconnaissance companies and is buying 120 vehicles to equip these units.
National Defense December 2006 Harold Kennedy	State Units Test Portable Combat Training Program The National Guard -- under pressure to keep supplying thousands of troops for Iraq and Afghanistan -- is pioneering what it says is a more efficient, less expensive way to train those soldiers for combat.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon	The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Redefining Combat Among the hard lessons the U.S. Army is learning in Iraq is that the line between "major combat" and "stability operations" is blurred, at best, and that the enemy gets to decide when the war is finally over.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	Army May Slow Down Procurement of New Light Reconnaissance Vehicle The Army is looking to procure a new scout vehicle for infantry units. But funding constraints and other priorities could hold the project back as the service pushes forward with its modernization plans.
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.
National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	`Land Warriors' Link Up With Stryker Vehicles An Army Stryker battalion will outfit hundreds of its soldiers with the high-tech "land warrior" ensemble this summer. These soldiers will help determine whether the system is suitable for combat and if the Army should continue to invest in the technology.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	For Army's Future Combat Vehicles, Flying by C-130 No Longer Required There's been an evolution in thinking in the Army on transportability. Building an 18-ton vehicle that can survive the rigors of combat like an Abrams proved to be too hard and unrealistic from an engineering standpoint.
National Defense October 2007 Mike Cast	Army Deploys Testers to Assess Systems That Were Rushed to War The Army has fielded scores of new high-tech combat systems in Iraq and Afghanistan, but much of this technology was put into the hands of troops without undergoing the full-scale Army acquisition process.
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 July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	In Damage Control Mode, Army Builds Future Network for Combat Brigades For the Army, this may be its last chance of salvaging the surviving pieces of the ill-starred "future combat systems."
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army `Land Warrior' Not Yet Ready For War, Gears Up for Next Tryout After a disappointing evaluation by users of a new high-tech soldier ensemble, the Army is redesigning portions of the system to make it lighter and easier to use, officials said.
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean	Army Strives for Training That Resembles Combat Combat rehearsals that replicate conditions in Iraq provide valuable training for troops who have yet to experience the real war.