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Parameters Autumn 2006 Jeffrey Record	External Assistance: Enabler of Insurgent Success For either the insurgent side or the counterinsurgent side, material strength unguided by sound strategy and unsupported by sufficient willingness to fight and die is a recipe for almost certain defeat. But most insurgencies seek foreign help for good reason.
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 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 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 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 Spring 2004 Robert R. Tomes	Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare Thirty years after the signing of the January 1973 Paris peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, the United States finds itself leading a broad coalition of military forces engaged in peacemaking, nation-building, and now counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq.
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 Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy	The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 C. A. Fowler	Asymmetric Warfare: A Primer The armed forces of United States are the most capable military ever assembled. Are they designed, however, to handle a determined insurgency? Here's a look using famous engineer Frederick W. Lanchester's Mathematics in Warfare as a guide.
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 2004 Robert M. Cassidy	Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before.
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 Summer 2005 Christopher M. Ford	Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency Using Iraq as a model, this article seeks to examine the relationship between the people and the insurgency, with the ultimate questions being: What role does the civilian population play in the insurgency, and how can this situation be influenced to achieve success?
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.
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 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 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 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 Spring 2004	Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad.
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 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 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 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 Summer 2004 Ralph Peters	In Praise of Attrition There is no shame in calling reality by its proper name. We are fighting, and will fight, wars of attrition.
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 Summer 2008 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.	Making Revolutionary Change: Airpower in COIN Today The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are air wars as well as ground wars. Airpower has played a critical role in counterinsurgency combat.
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 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 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.
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.
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 Summer 2005	Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc.
Parameters November 2004	Commentary & Reply Technology and the Yom Kippur War... More on "Attrition" -- Maneuver, Theory, and Strategy... 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 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 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.
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 Summer 2006 Lou DiMarco	Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency.
Reason February 2002 Chris Bray	The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters...
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Martin J. Muckian	Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies: Adapting to the New Adversary The ongoing conflict in Iraq has sparked a renewed interest in the study of counterinsurgency, leading many to comb the wars of the twentieth century for lessons that can be applied to today. Much of this recent analysis has focused on the knowledge gained from fighting Marxist revolutionaries.
Military History Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr.	Korean War: A Fresh Perspective More than forty-five years after shipping out to fight in Korea, the author gains new insight into what the war had been all about.
Vietnam Stephen B. Young	LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that.
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 Summer 2008 J. Boone Bartholomees	Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars.
Salon.com May 16, 2002 Suzy Hansen	A little bit at war Wall Street Journal's Max Boot says that, contrary to the Powell doctrine, America can and should fight small wars, build nations and do without an exit strategy...
Parameters Summer 2008 Jeffrey Record	Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work.
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.
Parameters Autumn 2008	Commentary & Reply Dispute over using airpower in counterinsurgency (COIN)... Waging the communication war...
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.
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.