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National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.
Wired October 2009 Noah Shachtman	Robert Gates: Overhaul the Pentagon Every secretary of defense talks about changing the Pentagon, then almost immediately gets stymied by bureaucratic resistance. However, Robert Gates' talk is turning into action.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates: Industry Unharmed By Program Cancellations The Pentagon needs to stop buying "exquisite" technology that does not meet real military needs in favor of larger quantities of critical items.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness?
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget.
National Defense March 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Tough Decisions on Future Military Roles and Missions A new commander in chief next year will decide if and when U.S. troops will leave Iraq.
National Defense November 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Defense Spending: Today's 'Broken' Budgeting Process Must Change The defense budget process is a balancing act, where selected segments of the government and industry determine the allocation of resources to a vast array of requirements. The process, however, has not worked.
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.
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 October 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Candidates Imprecise On Pentagon Spending Neither President George W. Bush nor his opponent, Sen. John F. Kerry, has dwelt to any great degree on the nuts and bolts of military spending.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp	Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
Wired November 27, 2007 Noah Shachtman	How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social -- Not Electronic A network-centric approach to war allows us to swiftly locate our target and destroy it, but it doesn't allow us to connect with local people to rebuild a city.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
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.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.
National Defense September 2009 Gregory S. Martin	Achieving Balance Over Time Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been articulate and decisive in moving the Defense Department, military services and agencies toward a more "balanced" force. But will this balance be applicable in years to come?
National Defense November 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	More Than Money, Defense Needs Compelling Narrative Pentagon watchers already are warning that this is no time for business as usual, considering the domestic political climate and the fiscal crunch that could put defense spending in the cross hairs of a future deficit-reduction deal.
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building.
National Defense December 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Latest Pentagon `Roadmap' Reveals Serious Frustration Roadmaps -- which involve lengthy studies and exhaustive reports -- can be quite useful in highly technical areas that require in-depth research. The latest Pentagon roadmap, however, seeks to address the decidedly non-technical issue of "irregular warfare."
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Stan Crock	The Road To -- And From -- Iraq For geopolitical junkies not yet sated by the flood of 24-hour war news, Bob Woodward's minutiae-filled "Plan of Attack" and Thomas P.M. Barnett's provocative "The Pentagon's New Map" offer a perfect pairing.
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
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.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Bruce Nussbaum	Clark: What's Wrong with U.S. Policy in Iraq His new book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire, is, in effect, Clark's campaign manifesto, providing insights into what he believes and what he would do as Commander-in-Chief.
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Drawdown: It's Been All Talk, Now It's Time to Walk U.S. military spending peaked in 2010 at $668 billion. It has dropped slightly since then, as the military started withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. But real austerity has yet to come.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
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 October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Readiness: Candid Assessments Long Overdue Alarm bells have gotten progressively louder and more jarring in recent weeks on the issue of military readiness on the home front.
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Pentagon Strategists Ponder Value of High-Tech Weapons The Pentagon's sweeping review of strategy and programs is expected to bolster investments in sensors, networks, information technology and precision-guided munitions.
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr.	National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944.
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Roxana Tiron	Defense Contractors Brace for the Big Squeeze Defense contractors may be in for cutbacks similar to the squeeze that occurred after the end of the Cold War.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	While More Research is Directed to Irregular Combat, War Spending Could Deter Advances in Military Weapons Irregular insurgents have not only have forced military commanders to rethink their strategies and tactics, but they also have set off a transformation in how defense researchers and scientists think about developing new technology.
Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling	Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes...
Reason May 2008 Veronique de Rugy	The Trillion-Dollar War The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I -- but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Hardware: What Do Users Want? At a time when the Pentagon is under orders to make "tough choices" about which weapons it should acquire, military buyers may want to consider paying more attention to what troops in the field really need.
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 March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Message to Weapons Buyers: Make it Cheaper and Faster Robert Gates concluded that the only way to deploy hardware quickly enough to war zones was to circumvent the traditional buyers and create ad-hoc "rapid procurement" teams.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 Stanley Holmes	High-Tech Weapons: A Loss Of Control? The Pentagon may be ceding too much power to Boeing and other contractors.
Salon.com October 11, 2002 William M. Arkin	Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Medical Costs Threaten Pentagon's Fiscal Health As if his weapons budget proposals weren't already a tough sell on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates also will try to get Congress to endorse unpopular health care fees for military retirees.
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Drake Bennett	A Management Primer from the Decider-in-Chief In his memoir, George W. Bush breaks his Presidency up into a series of decision-making case studies. Unfortunately, running a country isn't just a series of decisions
Wired February 2003 Douglas McGray	The Marshall Plan For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda has foreseen the future of war -- from battlefield bots rolling off radar-proof ships to GIs popping performance pills. And that was before the war on terror.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Fortune Tellers See a Mix of Boom and Bust For the defense industry, depending on whom you talk to, these are the best of times, and the worst of times.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Noah Shachtman	The Great Weapons Debate The Pentagon wants to deploy a host of exotic new weapons systems. Critics say too much of this costly hardware is designed to fight the wrong war.
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 December 2014 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller	Defense budgets headed down, no matter who's in the White House In fact, fuel prices should have a much broader influence on defense spending over the next several years than who's resident in the White House.