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Parameters Autumn 2008 Tomislav Z. Ruby |
Effects-based Operations: More Important Than Ever To successfully utilize effects-based operations (EBO), we must ensure that EBO are properly planned and executed and that the effects are measured within the decision cycle of current operations. |
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. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Pierre Lessard |
Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era. |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
Parameters November 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Technology and the Yom Kippur War... More on "Attrition" -- Maneuver, Theory, and Strategy... etc. |
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. |
National Defense June 2013 James E. Rainey |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories What can we do right now to improve how we fight modern wars? Second, how do we create, in the words of Gen. Robert Cone, "a structural imperative that ensures we do not lose the lessons of the last decade of 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. |
National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell |
Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology. |
National Defense April 2006 Claude V. Christianson |
Joint Logistics: A Personal Perspective We have an opportunity to significantly advance our systems, processes and organizations to improve support for the joint force commander -- and we must seize it, says this Army Lt. Gen. and director for logistics on the Joint Staff. |
National Defense September 2013 Jeffrey Trumbore |
Combat Experience of Bomb-Disposal Teams Should Be Codified The last 12 years of conflict have firmly established the roles of explosive ordnance disposal teams in supporting joint operations. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 |
From the Editor An overview of the topics covered in the issue including Congress allocating the annual defense budget as a specific percentage of the gross domestic product, the pros and cons of effects-based operations, and the risks of nuclear energy. |
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 2005 Michael Peck |
Joint Staff Officers Often Unprepared for New Jobs Military officers assigned to newly-created "joint staff" jobs arrive with little or no training on how to function in a multi-service environment. |
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Deployment of Sea Bases Faces Technical, Budgetary Challenges The notion that ground forces can be launched, supported and sustained solely from ships at sea is still new to the Army and the Air Force, and the Defense Department has yet to figure out how to pay for this capability. |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Revised Rules for Close Air Support Under new procedures now in place, all participants in close air-support operations will be trained to follow the same protocols across all services, and will employ common terminology for assigning targets and ordering air-to-ground strikes. |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006 |
The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens. |
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 2015 Haber & Jeffress |
Pentagon Must Tread Carefully On 'Joint' Weapon Acquisitions With downward budgetary pressures on U.S. defense spending, it will be worth watching how the Pentagon moves forward with joint-service acquisitions. |