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Parameters Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
Parameters Autumn 2004 |
Book Reviews In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. By Rick Atkinson... America's Inadvertent Empire. By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric... The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. By James Mann... The Iraq War. By John Keegan... 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 Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... 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 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 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 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. |
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 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
Parameters Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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 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 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 November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 |
Book Reviews The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. By Thomas X. Hammes... Who Killed the Canadian Military? By J. L. Granatstein... A War of a Different Kind: Military Force and America's Search for Homeland Security. By Stephen M. Duncan... etc. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Book Reviews The New Chinese Empire... The Franco-Prussian War... First Great Triumph... etc. |
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 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 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 2006/2007 |
Review Essays Joseph C. Myers, The Quranic Concept of War... George H. Quester, Asia's Nuclear Dilemma... Larry M. Wortzel, Resolving China and Taiwan's Differences... |
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 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 2006 Shawn Brimley |
Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
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 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 2005 Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
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 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 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 2004 P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
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 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 November 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Technology and the Yom Kippur War... More on "Attrition" -- Maneuver, Theory, and Strategy... 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 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 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. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
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 Spring 2005 |
Review Essay Is there a Chinese Way of War?... Political Success Trumps Operational Victory... Use Force Sparingly; Repeat as Often as Needed... etc. |
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. |
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? |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Robert M. Cassidy |
Terrorism and Insurgency Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives is a collection of essays that provide insight into the challenges that make this perennial and irregular war exceedingly difficult. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 2004/2005 Doron Almog |
Cumulative Deterrence and the War on Terrorism A cumulative deterrence strategy designed for the war on terrorism would build on victories achieved over the short, medium, and long terms that gradually wear down the enemy. |