Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Parameters Autumn 2004 Felicetti & Luce	The Posse Comitatus Act: Liberation from the Lawyers Let's get the policy into the light of day, move the lawyers off center stage for a few minutes, and resolve the important issue of how to best secure the American homeland while protecting civil liberties.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years.
IDB America February 2002 Charo Quesada	Armies for peace A former Spanish defense minister calls for democratization of the military in Latin America...
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture.
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 April 2009 Grace V. Jean	U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Culturally Attuned Warriors Candidates who hope to join the Army's Special Forces, whether recruited from the services or other programs, will face higher standards in training.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Election Aftermath: What's in it for the Military? One potential target of the new Congress is the large supplemental spending budgets that fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Tulak, Kraft, & Silbaugh	State Defense Forces and Homeland Security State Defense Forces represent a valuable additional component for homeland security and homeland defense contingency planning and operations. They can provide key technological and procedural bridges to link US Northern Command to local first-responders and state and federal agencies during operations.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Memo to Commanders: Less Micromanaging U.S. technological prowess has made it possible to centralize command-and-control functions in the military, to the point that a general sitting at the Pentagon can micromanage a war half a world away.
Job Journal August 3, 2003 Rich Heintz	Get a Jump on Your Future in Today's Military The Pentagon's newest recruitment campaign emphasizes career skills.
CIO April 15, 2002 Stephanie Overby	Leadership Lessons from the Modern Military Military methods hold unexpected how-tos for corporate CIOs...
National Defense April 2005 Roxana Tiron	Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism.
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.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan.
National Defense November 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Industry Responds to New Security Environment The sweeping changes seen in the military and national security posture of the United States in recent years will have far-reaching implications, particularly for those in the business of defense.
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss	We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Units That Work With Civilians Often Disregarded, Soldiers Claim Experienced military troops who are trained to communicate with foreign audiences are neglected and underutilized, argue the authors of "United States Special Operations Command," a new book that is sparking debate within the special operations community.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Coalition Training U.S. special operations forces step up collaboration with allies.
National Defense July 2005 Sandra Erwin	BRAC `05 Choices Embody Lingering Terrorism Fears Against the current technology-driven backdrop, it would seem counterintuitive that the Pentagon's proposed base-closure and realignment plan reverts in many ways to the bunker mentality that prevailed during the Cold War.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire.
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 December 2014 Stew Magnuson	Army Takes Stock of Its Domestic Chem-Bio-Nuclear Response Capabilities More than a decade after the Army reluctantly took on the responsibility for responding to domestic chemical, biological and nuclear attacks or accidents, it has built a force of more than 18,000 dedicated personnel.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Northern Command Actively Enlisting Partners The U.S. Northern Command--established in 2002 to prevent a repeat of 9/11--is seeking assistance from a wide range of organizations to help it protect the United States, its territories and interests, said Army Col. Stover James, the organization's director of interagency coordination.
National Defense July 2009 Matthew Rusling	Specialized Chem-Bio Unit to Fully Stand Up in 2011 The Defense Department is beefing up the nations response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive attacks.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Keller	Military Research in Crisis The United States is in the midst of a military research, development, and preparedness crisis. Few people realize it; of those who do, most underestimate its dimensions.
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Shifting Focus to `Stability Operations' After years of trying to minimize U.S. participation in peacekeeping operations, the Bush administration is embarking upon an ambitious effort to improve the ability of the military services--and related civilian agencies--to conduct such missions as part of its global war on terrorism.
National Defense July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Operators Seek Greater Cooperation From Foreign Forces The U.S. Special Operations Command increasingly will focus on recruiting and training "surrogate" forces in countries where terrorists are known to thrive, officials said.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines to Take Over Responsibilities For Training Foreign Forces The Marine Corps assumes a permanent role in the training of foreign troops. Previously, Marines had done this on an ad hoc basis.
Parameters Spring 2005 George H. Quester	Demographic Trends and Military Recruitment: Surprising Possibilities This article will attempt to project current demographic trends in the United States and abroad, along with several related determinants, a substantial distance into the future, so as to explore some possibly surprising implications for the recruitment of armed forces
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought.
National Defense December 2009 Stew Magnuson	Integrating Civilian Agencies Into Military Operations Remains Difficult The United States' "whole government" approach to rebuilding war-torn nations is nevertheless moving forward.
National Defense August 2009 Jason Jacks	Updated Global Information Grid Would Bring Web 2.0 to the Defense Department Frustrated that the different communications networks deployed by its four branches aren't always able to speak to one another, the Defense Department is moving forward with a major overhaul of its global information grid.
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.
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 June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study.
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.
National Defense May 2004 Harold Kennedy	The New face of Peacekeeping U.S. leaders have began to rediscover the value of peacekeeping operations.
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean	Commandos see expanded mission portfolio To boost its unconventional warfare capabilities, Canada is revamping its special operations military organization and emphasizing counter-terrorism skills in elite unit training programs.
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.
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.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
National Defense November 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Preparation Is Key to Disaster Response Amidst the outrage and finger-pointing that followed Katrina, several lawmakers and homeland security experts called for the federal government to make the Defense Department the lead agency for disaster response.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
National Defense July 2009 Grace V. Jean	Lesson for Army: Forget Everything You Learned Before You Went to Iraq The Army will try to groom leaders who can adapt to many forms of war, says Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chief of the Army Training and Doctrine Command.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Commanders Grapple With Changing Missions, Smaller Fleet As the size of the fleet continues to shrink, decision makers at the Pentagon are grappling with how to reshape a Navy that is fighting unconventional wars largely with Cold War weapon systems.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.