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Salon.com September 12, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Why terrorism works Alan Dershowitz says the world community opened the door to al-Qaida by rewarding Palestinian terrorists -- and makes the case for national I.D. cards and torture. |
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 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 Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
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. |
Reason February 2002 Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
Salon.com October 8, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
War and peace Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world... |
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? |
Reason October 2002 Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
Parameters Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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 Spring 2004 Matthew J. Morgan |
The Origins of the New Terrorism A history of terrorism and where it's headed. |
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 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 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 |
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. |
Salon.com September 12, 2002 Robert Scheer |
Where's Osama? Sept. 11 could have been avoided if our intelligence agencies had done their job. |
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie |
The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Laura Miller |
A new breed of terrorism A security expert says it's time for the U.S. to declare war on those who are waging war on America... |
National Defense January 2012 Russell Aldrich |
U.S. Should Invest in Truly Unconventional Forms of Warfare Spending enormous resources to increase the already insurmountable conventional military advantage cannot compensate for a disadvantage in non-military warfare capabilities. The face of warfare is changing rapidly, and the United States must adapt. |
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 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 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. |
Salon.com September 25, 2001 David Rieff |
There is no alternative to war Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him... |
Military History Quarterly Spring 2006 Gregory G. Bolich |
Terrorism in the Ancient Roman World Pax Romana was the rule against nations, but even the empire could not control vandals, rogues, and rebels. |
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. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2008 Paul Piper |
Nets of Terror Terrorist activity on the Internet. |
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Israeli Defense Forces Trying to Perfect Urban Combat Tactics, Techniques Israel Defense Forces have been working to perfect their urban warfare tactics, in an effort to eliminate militant cells in the disputed zones of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
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. |
Salon.com May 13, 2002 Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Salon.com November 22, 2001 David Talbot |
"The North Vietnamese never bombed American cities" Progressive congressman Barney Frank talks about why he supports the war, opposes Bush's attack on civil liberties and thinks Clinton's military legacy is just fine... |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Special Forces' Skills `Needed More Than Ever' Experts are questioning whether the Pentagon is making the best use of highly skilled special operations forces in the nation's war against extremist Islamic groups. |
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. |
Reason October 2002 Jacob Sullum |
The Forever War: How long can an emergency last? The war on terrorism now looks less like World War II, and more like the war on drugs: an intermittently violent campaign against an amorphous enemy that can never be decisively vanquished. That fact has important implications for the debate about how much liberty we should give up. |
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. |
Reason November 2003 Tim Cavanaugh |
Talking With Terrorists Jessica Stern's new book reports from the front lines of the War on Terror. |
Reason February 2002 Brian Doherty |
PATRIOT Games As the U.S. government moves past the Afghan stage of the War on Terrorism, it will need to choose its battles cautiously. Various countries are likely to invoke the new global mandate against terror to justify egregious and unwarranted violations of human rights... |
Salon.com September 10, 2002 Bill Clinton |
The path to peace The only way to beat terrorism is for the U.S. to unite the world, not divide it. |
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. |
Salon.com September 28, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Friends like these Why did so many of the Sept. 11 hijackers have ties to Saudi Arabia? Why can't the U.S. use Saudi bases to fight the war on terrorism? What Americans don't know about their best Muslim ally... |
Salon.com December 14, 2001 Gawain Charlton-Perrin |
Are you ready to dance on Osama's grave? The apparent architect of our worst nightmare is seen celebrating our losses. Will we do the same when he comes to a violent end? |
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. |
Reason December 2001 Nick Gillespie |
The New Cold War More and more parallels emerge between the war on terrorism and the Cold War... |
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright |
Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack. |
Salon.com February 8, 2002 Nina Burleigh |
Bush, oil and the Taliban In a new book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," two French intelligence analysts allege that before Sept. 11, the White House put oil interests ahead of national security... |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2011 Arunava De |
Defense Investing in a Post-bin Laden World As war moves away from the battlefield with the help of 21st-century technology and tools such as UAVs begin to dominate, companies that specialize in these weapon systems stand to make significant gains. |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum |
Fighting A New Cold War The U.S. and Europe must commit to a global offensive to defeat terrorism akin to the decades-long battle against communism |
Parameters November 2004 |
Editor's Shelf For decades, indeed centuries, terrorists have been quietly gathering support throughout the world. But it took the events of 9/11 and the resulting global war on terror to turn the oblivious heads of most Americans. |
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? |
Wired August 23, 2007 Ralph Peters |
Washington Ignores Cyberattack Threats, Putting Us All at Peril 21st-century-warfare will be to deny entire states the ability to process, protect, and communicate information. The Pentagon doesn't seem to fully grasp the dangerous potential of this new domain of warfare. |