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National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level.
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 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.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Ryan Henry	Defense Transformation and the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review As the Department of Defense enters its third Quadrennial Defense Review this year, it is important to understand how central the QDR has become to the work of the department -- and how different this QDR is compared to its predecessors.
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 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.
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.
National Defense March 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Budget and Quadrennial Review Sidestep Critical Issues The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and the fiscal year 2011 defense budget proposal seek to achieve some worthy goals, but acknowledgement of disconnects between program priorities and existing spending plans is missing.
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.
National Defense January 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	A Decade of Misguided Procurement Decisions The past decade serves as cautionary advice for the Defense Department's weapons procurement decision makers, who will need to adapt to an austere budget environment and break the habits learned during the no-questions-asked spending spree of the early 2000s.
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 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.
National Defense February 2012 Harvey M. Sapolsky	Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked Looming budget austerity raises concerns about the future health of the U.S. defense industrial base. But the coming crisis also offers an opportunity to prune the deadwood.
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 March 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Themes: Investments Leveled, Programs Slipped, Non-Performers Nixed A big portion of the discretionary spending reductions in President Obama's 2013 to 2017 funding request is in the defense budget.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Strategy Drills Air Force strategists preparing for an upcoming war game are setting their sights on 2025, mapping out scenarios for how the service will organize, equip and train its forces two decades from now.
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.
National Defense December 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable.
National Defense August 2013 Lou Kratz	As Spending Comes Down, Strategic Choices Needed After more than a decade of conflict, the United States has begun to draw down defense spending, with sequestration cuts expected to continue over the coming years.
National Defense February 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Pentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can't Be Avoided If Congress reduces the services' procurement top lines as expected, they will probably circle their wagons to protect planned or traditional programs.
National Defense October 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Budget Picture Begins to Take Shape Major adjustments will be required across the defense community -- the military services, agencies, commands and industry. Significant decisions are becoming harder and harder to duck.
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.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states.
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 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.
National Defense January 2013 Rich Sorelle	How to Equip the U.S. Military For Future Electronic Warfare The Navy and Air Force have adopted "air-sea battle." The concept entails highly coordinated, cross-domain operations designed to "disrupt the adversary's intelligence collection and command and control used to employ A2/AD weapons systems.
National Defense October 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Pentagon Feeling the Pressure on Budget There is good and bad news in the defense spending legislation that President Bush signed in August.
Parameters Spring 2005 George H. Quester	Demographic Trends and Military Recruitment: Surprising Possibilities This article will attempt to project current demographic trends in the United States and abroad, along with several related determinants, a substantial distance into the future, so as to explore some possibly surprising implications for the recruitment of armed forces
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.
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al.	10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.
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 September 2004 David M. Walker	Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging.
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.
National Defense August 2013 Macgregor & Burke	Defense Industry Can Profit Despite Downturn For the first time in decades, the Defense Department must aggressively pursue value, not simply effort. The current practice of rewarding senior military leaders and defense appointees for effort, time, staff size and budget rather than bold, effective achievement must be arrested.
National Defense December 2010 Tom Captain	Defense Affordability: Can We Buy Only What We Need? Military acquisition budgets globally are flattening out and declining. Large scale multi-billion dollar programs are running over budget and being delayed.
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.
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?
National Defense March 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	QDR Lays Out Strategy, But Can We Afford It? At first glance, the fiscal year 2007 defense budget reflects the arduous challenges facing the administration in trying to balance long-term strategy and requirements against immediate priorities and fiscal pressures.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
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 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats.
National Defense July 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Difficult Choices Lie Ahead for The Nation's Military Services Much discussion -- even hand wringing -- is taking place among the military, Congress and defense industry about where finite resources need to be placed.
Parameters Summer 2006 Colin S. Gray	Stability Operations in Strategic Perspective: A Skeptical View Stability operations, the demand for them and the provision of new capabilities to perform them well, are the downstream product of larger decisions on U.S. foreign policy and strategy.
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 August 2010 Thomas A. Benes	How Will the Defense Industry Adjust to New Fiscal Realities? Given the country's current fiscal and political environment, everyone, including defense industry leaders, is expecting changes in military spending and acquisition policy.
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 May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
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.