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National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best. |
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Wanted: Soldiers With Cultural Savvy One of the catchphrases in Army circles these days is "culture training." |
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. |
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. |
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Review: Beltway Dogfighting at Its Best Military officials have, in recent weeks, been diligently articulating their thinking on how each service contributes to the overall national security strategy. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale |
A Message from the Editor The Military Technologies Conference will zero in on the hottest and most promising technologies that will make the network-centric American fighting force a reality. |
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch |
Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now. |
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 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? |
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. |
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 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. |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Marines Probing New Ways to Fight Future Insurgencies Officials stress that the aim is not to write a war plan for the current conflict Iraq, but rather to generate fresh ideas for countering so-called "irregular" threats in the coming decades. |
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Why Is Congress Launching Yet Another Roles-and-Missions Probe? Congress may have the power of the purse, but it has been largely powerless in just about every attempt to influence the course of the war in Iraq and to substantially reshape military spending priorities. |
National Defense October 2006 Sandra Erwin |
Roadside Bombs: An `Arms Race' With No End in Sight Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Douglas Stone conveys to defense contractors and government scientists the frustration that military commanders experience in the war zone, where inescapably, almost on a daily basis, troops are killed and maimed by hidden explosives. |
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things. |
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. |
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 Roxana Tiron |
Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism. |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger. |
Military History Quarterly Winter 2007 |
Letter from Winter 2007 MHQ For centuries soldiers have used military history to develop a theory of war and principles for planning an armed conflict or campaign. The same is true for the current war in Iraq. |
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Digital Age Logistics Systems Still No Panacea for Troops Providing essential supplies and services to troops on the front lines ranks increasingly consumes larger bites of the Pentagon's half-trillion-dollar annual budget. |
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. |
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for a New Era of Global Instability How the nation's military will keep up in a rapidly changing and dangerous world is the proverbial 64-million-dollar question. |
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Is Defense Safe? Recent news from the Pentagon looks positive for the industry, but investors shouldn't be quick to assume they've dodged a bullet. |
CIO April 15, 2002 Stephanie Overby |
Leadership Lessons from the Modern Military Military methods hold unexpected how-tos for corporate CIOs... |
National Defense May 2010 Austin Wright |
Recruits Expect, But Don't Always Get, Cutting-Edge Training Simulations Many military recruits grew up playing video games, and they expect training simulations to stack up with the latest Xbox or PlayStation products. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller |
The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future? |
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Raise Stirs Questions on `Fair Pay' A proposed 2.2 percent pay raise for military personnel (the same raise that the Bush administration recommended for civilian workers) raised eyebrows in Washington. Giving equal salary increments to military and civilians, critics argue, implies that the Pentagon is failing to reward the dangerous work that troops are doing in Iraq. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
Military Technologies Conference March 15-16 Will Center on Military Transformation The conference's three modules reflect three of the most pivotal technologies for leading the U.S. military into the 21st century and for transforming it from an industrial-age to an information-age force. |
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999. |
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Leathernecks Sharpen Focus on Cultural Awareness The Marine Corps has launched an effort to improve the ability of its troops to cope with the complex cultural issues that they are encountering in anti-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. |
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Washington Pulse Joint Warfare Has Its Drawbacks... Naval Aviators Told To Tighten Belt... Marines Shifting Non-Combat Jobs to Civilians... Military Training Programs Could See Cutbacks... |
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. |
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 February 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Tough to Free Troops From Oppressive Tyranny of Fuel The current wars have exposed a previously ignored military vulnerability: the huge dependence on fossil fuels. |
The Motley Fool May 30, 2011 Chris Birk |
Military Families Find Signs of Progress in the Fight Against Financial Exploitation Those who make great sacrifices are often targeted by the unscrupulous. That may be changing. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller |
U.S. And Its Allies Get Serious About Systems Interoperability Recent international exercises involving U.S. and allied military forces, as well as police departments and first responders, are finally getting the idea across that military leaders are getting very serious about interoperability. |
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. |
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 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. |
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Pentagon Claims $100M in Cybersecurity Costs The threat is real, but so is the fight for budget financing in Washington. |
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 March 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Day of Reckoning Ahead for U.S. Defense Spending The nation's dismal economy has cost millions of Americans their jobs, homes and life savings. Barring a miraculous recovery, the economy's next target could be America's military superiority. |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
U.S. Military Still Struggling to Understand Urban Environment Even after four years of combat in Iraq, industry and the Pentagon seem slow to catch up to the demands of urban war. |
National Defense June 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell |
Defense Debate Must Recognize Tough Realities Recent American political debate has been more focused on rhetorical back-and-forth than real treatment of critical issues, like the work our military forces are doing in the global war on terrorism, and what they are telling us about their needs for resources. |