http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/12/
The next president
Wars, and how they are fought, are signposts that direct the future-gazer toward battles in the world to come. That’s the contention behind Robert Scales’ article, which uses...
Dishonest doctrine
A year after its publication, the Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency manual remains deeply disturbing, both for the practical dangers it creates and for the dishonest approach employed...By Ralph Peters
Averting the system reboot
BY SHAWN BRIMLEY AND VIKRAM SINGH
Eleven years after the last American soldier left Vietnam, Andrew Krepinevich published “The Army and Vietnam,” a blistering critique of failure...
Going coastal
Navy crews are taking on an age-old problem — seagoing thugs. The late October incident in which American destroyers engaged pirates who had hijacked vessels off the coast of Somalia...
Forward to the past
One of the most potent weapons our irregular opponents can exploit is our own desire to simplify — for contrast rather than nuance, for the one-page summary before we have undertaken...
By MARTIN N. MURPHY
Why the Navy needs more ships
The Navy needs a larger number of ships, not only for winning a war at sea against a stronger opponent but also for carrying out diverse missions in peacetime, ranging from humanitarian...
BY MILAN VEGO
Infantry and national priorities
The progress of war, like other forms of human endeavor, is defined in terms of epochs, cycles of periodic change that sweep through and shape the course of Western civilization. Political...
BY MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. SCALES (Ret.)
Bridging the civil-military gap
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or on the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C., even before ...
BY FRANK HOFFMAN
Military no-how
Of the top 10 candidates running to become the next U.S. commander in chief, only one — Sen. John McCain — has experience in the military. And unless McCain manages to improve...
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Flashpoint: Missile mistrust
In a way, Russian-American relations since the fall of the Berlin Wall haven’t changed that much. During the Cold War, the security relationship was characterized as one of mutually...
BY PETER BROOKES
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Military Review - November-December 2007
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/NovDec07/indexengnovdec07.asp
FEATURED ARTICLES
Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars
Michael Vlahos
Our enemies understand that “it is in the living of war’s mythic passage that identity will be truly realized.” We, for our part, blunder blindly on, fitting ourselves to their Manichean narrative.
The “Armed Reconciler”: The Military Role in the Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Process
Michael W. Mosser, Ph.D.
Experience and logic suggest general principles of the AR2 process operate in an environment of interdependent dimensions common to all cultures. In any post-conflict society, an “armed reconciler” is likely the key to making those principles succeed.
The Law of Occupation and Post–Armed-Conflict Governance: Considerations for Future Conflicts
Colonel David A. Wallace, U.S. Army
According to international law, “regime change” necessarily entails interim responsibility for security and governance in Iraq. Here’s what we need to know now and for future operations involving “the ‘O’ word.”
The Preemption of Nuclear Weapons
Tim Bakken
With Iran casting a nuclear shadow over the Middle East and Europe, a USMA law professor makes a case for a new international doctrine that addresses nuclear weapons preemption.
Armed Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: A Primer for Military Professionals
Colonel Daniel Rice, U.S. Army Reserve, and Major John Dehn, U.S. Army
Practical military considerations play into any decision to use force to initiate humanitarian intervention. Two experts review the moral and legal tradition for military professionals who will have to help in weighing alternatives.
The Chinese Military’s Strategic Mind-set
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, U.S. Army, Retired
Based on readings of recent Chinese military literature, an expert offers an illuminating peek into the rising power’s strategic modus operandi.
China’s Pragmatic Rise and U.S. Interests in East Asia
Major Jin H. Pak, U.S. Army
China’s ongoing trade-and-aid charm offensive should be taken for what it is: not a disavowal of force, but a pragmatic ploy to help the nation attain its four strategic objectives.
Army Planning Doctrine: Identifying the Problem is the Heart of the Problem
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas G. Clark, U.S. Army, Retired, Ph.D.
The Army has long based its doctrine on the indispensable capacity to solve problems, but neither doctrine nor professional military education curricula offer a problem-structuring methodology.
The Future of the Uniformed Army Scientist and Engineer Program
Major John M. Thane, U.S. Army
As technology accelerates, the advantages of employing the best advances innovatively and creatively have not been lost on those developing future Army doctrine. The Army’s “warrior scientists” can help effect that doctrine.
The Strategic Plans and Policy Officer in the Modular Division
Major Francis J.H. Park, U.S. Army
Expert in strategic appraisal, strategic and operational planning, interservice and interagency integration, and strategic education, the functional area 59 officer plays a key role in the new modular division headquarters.
Brigade Headquarters for National Guard Civil Support Teams: A Homeland Security Imperative
Lieutenant Colonel James D. Campbell, U.S. Army National Guard
There are currently 55 civil-support teams with WMD expertise dispersed across the country. They are in dire need of a better command-and-control structure.
Contest Winners
1st Place: 2007 DePuy Writing Contest
S.W.E.T. and Blood: Essential Services in the Battle between Insurgents and Counterinsurgents
Major Erik A. Claessen, Belgian Armed Forces
Zakat-jihad organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah are a relatively new phenomena that the West must come to grips with in the war on terrorism.
2nd Place: 2007 DePuy Writing Contest
Clarity and Culture in Stability Operations
Major Michael B. Siegl, U.S. Army
In the current and likely future operating environments, stability operations will be essential to U.S. success. It is time for the service to take this mission truly to heart.
2nd Place MacArthur Writing Contest
Becoming an Adaptive Leader
Major Harold H. Whiffen, U.S. Army
Today’s Army officer must be able to recognize change and respond to it promptly and properly, as this study of a former Army star’s misadventures in Iraq attests.
Book Reviews Contemporary readings for the professional
FEATURED ARTICLES
Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars
Michael Vlahos
Our enemies understand that “it is in the living of war’s mythic passage that identity will be truly realized.” We, for our part, blunder blindly on, fitting ourselves to their Manichean narrative.
The “Armed Reconciler”: The Military Role in the Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Process
Michael W. Mosser, Ph.D.
Experience and logic suggest general principles of the AR2 process operate in an environment of interdependent dimensions common to all cultures. In any post-conflict society, an “armed reconciler” is likely the key to making those principles succeed.
The Law of Occupation and Post–Armed-Conflict Governance: Considerations for Future Conflicts
Colonel David A. Wallace, U.S. Army
According to international law, “regime change” necessarily entails interim responsibility for security and governance in Iraq. Here’s what we need to know now and for future operations involving “the ‘O’ word.”
The Preemption of Nuclear Weapons
Tim Bakken
With Iran casting a nuclear shadow over the Middle East and Europe, a USMA law professor makes a case for a new international doctrine that addresses nuclear weapons preemption.
Armed Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: A Primer for Military Professionals
Colonel Daniel Rice, U.S. Army Reserve, and Major John Dehn, U.S. Army
Practical military considerations play into any decision to use force to initiate humanitarian intervention. Two experts review the moral and legal tradition for military professionals who will have to help in weighing alternatives.
The Chinese Military’s Strategic Mind-set
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, U.S. Army, Retired
Based on readings of recent Chinese military literature, an expert offers an illuminating peek into the rising power’s strategic modus operandi.
China’s Pragmatic Rise and U.S. Interests in East Asia
Major Jin H. Pak, U.S. Army
China’s ongoing trade-and-aid charm offensive should be taken for what it is: not a disavowal of force, but a pragmatic ploy to help the nation attain its four strategic objectives.
Army Planning Doctrine: Identifying the Problem is the Heart of the Problem
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas G. Clark, U.S. Army, Retired, Ph.D.
The Army has long based its doctrine on the indispensable capacity to solve problems, but neither doctrine nor professional military education curricula offer a problem-structuring methodology.
The Future of the Uniformed Army Scientist and Engineer Program
Major John M. Thane, U.S. Army
As technology accelerates, the advantages of employing the best advances innovatively and creatively have not been lost on those developing future Army doctrine. The Army’s “warrior scientists” can help effect that doctrine.
The Strategic Plans and Policy Officer in the Modular Division
Major Francis J.H. Park, U.S. Army
Expert in strategic appraisal, strategic and operational planning, interservice and interagency integration, and strategic education, the functional area 59 officer plays a key role in the new modular division headquarters.
Brigade Headquarters for National Guard Civil Support Teams: A Homeland Security Imperative
Lieutenant Colonel James D. Campbell, U.S. Army National Guard
There are currently 55 civil-support teams with WMD expertise dispersed across the country. They are in dire need of a better command-and-control structure.
Contest Winners
1st Place: 2007 DePuy Writing Contest
S.W.E.T. and Blood: Essential Services in the Battle between Insurgents and Counterinsurgents
Major Erik A. Claessen, Belgian Armed Forces
Zakat-jihad organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah are a relatively new phenomena that the West must come to grips with in the war on terrorism.
2nd Place: 2007 DePuy Writing Contest
Clarity and Culture in Stability Operations
Major Michael B. Siegl, U.S. Army
In the current and likely future operating environments, stability operations will be essential to U.S. success. It is time for the service to take this mission truly to heart.
2nd Place MacArthur Writing Contest
Becoming an Adaptive Leader
Major Harold H. Whiffen, U.S. Army
Today’s Army officer must be able to recognize change and respond to it promptly and properly, as this study of a former Army star’s misadventures in Iraq attests.
Book Reviews Contemporary readings for the professional
Joint Force Quarterly - 1st Quarter 2008
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/i48.htm
JFQ Dialogue
Priorities and Strategic Objectives of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
by Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN
JLASS: Celebrating 25 Years of Educating Future Leaders
By Sean R. Connors and Theodore P. Ogren
Forum
Juridical Warfare: The Neglected Legal Instrument
By Harvey Rishikof
Habeas Corpus and the Detention of Enemy Combatants in the War on Terror
By James P. Terry
Rendition: The Beast and the Man
By Kevin M. Cieply
The Role of Targeted Killing in the Campaign against Terror
By Peter M. Cullen
Rethinking the U.S. Policy on the International Criminal Court
By Brian A. Hoyt
The International Criminal Court: A Concept Whose Time Has Not Come
By James P. Terry
Special Feature
An Interview with General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., USAF, Commander, North American Aerospace Command and U.S. Northern Command
By David H. Gurney and Jeffrey D. Smotherman
Supporting Homeland Partners
By James M. Castle
Creating Shared Situational Awareness
By Stewart Swan
Fighting Narcoterrorism
By Amanda M. Leu
Radiological Events in the Homeland
By James B. Brown, Russell E. Coble and Emery J. Chase
The Domestic IED Threat
By John Kress and Steven Grogger
Applying Lessons of Hurricane Katrina
By Gregory A.S. Gecowets and Jefferson P. Marquis
The Science and Art of Disaster Response by the National Guard
By Charles G. Rodriguez
Reconstituting Capability to Conduct a Crisis Nuclear Detonation
By Drew Miller
Features
Counterair and Counterland Concepts for the 21st Century
By Ellwood P. Hinman IV
The Art of Strategy and Operational Warfare: Getting It Right
By Christopher R. Davis
Attacking al Qaeda’s Operational Centers of Gravity
By David M. Witty
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: A State within a State?
By Mark J. Roberts
Major Joint/Combined Operations
By Milan N. Vego
The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends
By Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
Interagency Dialogue
Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947 (690K)
By Charles A. Stevenson
Recall
Austere Recovery of Cargo Gliders
By Keith H. Thoms, Gerald Berry, and Lee Jett
JFQ Dialogue
Priorities and Strategic Objectives of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
by Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN
JLASS: Celebrating 25 Years of Educating Future Leaders
By Sean R. Connors and Theodore P. Ogren
Forum
Juridical Warfare: The Neglected Legal Instrument
By Harvey Rishikof
Habeas Corpus and the Detention of Enemy Combatants in the War on Terror
By James P. Terry
Rendition: The Beast and the Man
By Kevin M. Cieply
The Role of Targeted Killing in the Campaign against Terror
By Peter M. Cullen
Rethinking the U.S. Policy on the International Criminal Court
By Brian A. Hoyt
The International Criminal Court: A Concept Whose Time Has Not Come
By James P. Terry
Special Feature
An Interview with General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., USAF, Commander, North American Aerospace Command and U.S. Northern Command
By David H. Gurney and Jeffrey D. Smotherman
Supporting Homeland Partners
By James M. Castle
Creating Shared Situational Awareness
By Stewart Swan
Fighting Narcoterrorism
By Amanda M. Leu
Radiological Events in the Homeland
By James B. Brown, Russell E. Coble and Emery J. Chase
The Domestic IED Threat
By John Kress and Steven Grogger
Applying Lessons of Hurricane Katrina
By Gregory A.S. Gecowets and Jefferson P. Marquis
The Science and Art of Disaster Response by the National Guard
By Charles G. Rodriguez
Reconstituting Capability to Conduct a Crisis Nuclear Detonation
By Drew Miller
Features
Counterair and Counterland Concepts for the 21st Century
By Ellwood P. Hinman IV
The Art of Strategy and Operational Warfare: Getting It Right
By Christopher R. Davis
Attacking al Qaeda’s Operational Centers of Gravity
By David M. Witty
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: A State within a State?
By Mark J. Roberts
Major Joint/Combined Operations
By Milan N. Vego
The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends
By Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba
Interagency Dialogue
Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947 (690K)
By Charles A. Stevenson
Recall
Austere Recovery of Cargo Gliders
By Keith H. Thoms, Gerald Berry, and Lee Jett
Proceedings - December 2007
First Women in the Military Issue
• An Interview with Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau, USN
• The Benzene Queen
• Abundant Opportunity
• Not Home Yet...
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/
• An Interview with Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau, USN
• The Benzene Queen
• Abundant Opportunity
• Not Home Yet...
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/
Air & Space Power - Winter 2007
Senior Leader Perspective
The Coalition Air Force Transition Team: Rebuilding Iraq’s Air Force
Maj Gen (sel) Robert R. Allardice USAF Maj Kyle “Brad” Head, USAF
Focus Area
Airpower and Irregular Warfare
Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals
Features
Air-Minded Considerations for Joint Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF
To Bomb or Not to Bomb? Counterinsurgency, Airpower, and Dynamic Targeting
Maj Jason M. Brown, USAF
Maritime Homeland Defense: A Role of Land-Based Airpower?
Lt Col Alexus G. Grynkewich, USAF
Dawn of the Cognetic Age: Fighting Ideological War by Putting Thought in Motion with Impact
Lt Col Bruce K. Johnson, USAF
more contents at
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj07/win07.htm
The Coalition Air Force Transition Team: Rebuilding Iraq’s Air Force
Maj Gen (sel) Robert R. Allardice USAF Maj Kyle “Brad” Head, USAF
Focus Area
Airpower and Irregular Warfare
Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals
Features
Air-Minded Considerations for Joint Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF
To Bomb or Not to Bomb? Counterinsurgency, Airpower, and Dynamic Targeting
Maj Jason M. Brown, USAF
Maritime Homeland Defense: A Role of Land-Based Airpower?
Lt Col Alexus G. Grynkewich, USAF
Dawn of the Cognetic Age: Fighting Ideological War by Putting Thought in Motion with Impact
Lt Col Bruce K. Johnson, USAF
more contents at
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj07/win07.htm
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Proceedings - November 2007
The First Battles of the Long War
By General James T. Conway, U.S. Marine Corps
The leaders of the Sea Services present the first new Maritime Strategy in more than 20 years.
The Few. The Proud. The (Harvard???) Marines
By Art Pine
In what was once a hotbed of antiwar sentiment, Marines have found a home.
Guadalcanal: A Real Hot Potato
By Lieutenant Colonel Merrill L. Bartlett, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
Marines in the first great land battle of World War II issued an irreverent jab at Navy commanders. But did they deserve it?
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/
By General James T. Conway, U.S. Marine Corps
The leaders of the Sea Services present the first new Maritime Strategy in more than 20 years.
The Few. The Proud. The (Harvard???) Marines
By Art Pine
In what was once a hotbed of antiwar sentiment, Marines have found a home.
Guadalcanal: A Real Hot Potato
By Lieutenant Colonel Merrill L. Bartlett, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
Marines in the first great land battle of World War II issued an irreverent jab at Navy commanders. But did they deserve it?
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/
Armed Forces Journal - November 2007
Support grows for standing up an unconventional warfare command (November 2007)
An idea that wouldn’t die may be getting a new lease on life. Despite years of the idea being shot down at the highest levels, there are again growing calls from inside and outside the...BY SEAN D. NAYLOR
Risking critique (November 2007)
Openly critiquing one’s boss or his concepts is dicey. Such criticism carries risk and requires wisdom, as well as courage, to successfully transmit a controversial but important...BY COL. ALLEN BATSCHELET, MAJ. BARRY HAFER AND MAJ. MIKE RUNEY
Fast forward to the robot dilemma (November 2007)
Technological capabilities have already placed semiautonomous robots in a number of key military roles. New developments will expand their capabilities and applications. Who is morally...BY MAJ. DAVID F. BIGELOW
Counterproductive (November 2007)
For all the valuable roles that private military contractors are playing in Iraq, the end effect appears to have harmed, rather than helped, the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S....By Peter W. Singer
Robots on the battlefield (November 2007)
In Afghanistan and Iraq, “battle bots” are spying, patrolling, securing and even “dying” in combat. Soldiers give their scout robots names, honorary...
Who decides: Man or machine? (November 2007)
When the industrial revolution of the early 19th century threatened the centuries-old caste of the English artisans by replacing man with machine, they rose up, allegedly led by a man named...BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
Robots make war more survivable (November 2007)
No one can accurately predict what the robot-inhabited battlefield of the future will look like in five, 10 or 20 years. But we can look at the technical history of military equipment and...BY VICE ADM. (RET.) JOSEPH W. DYER
Flashpoint: Arms racing (November 2007)
Instability in Iraq, sectarian violence, Islamic extremism, ethnic rivalries, the rise of Iran and questions about America’s long-term commitment to the region are making for a Middle...By Peter Brookes
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/11/
An idea that wouldn’t die may be getting a new lease on life. Despite years of the idea being shot down at the highest levels, there are again growing calls from inside and outside the...BY SEAN D. NAYLOR
Risking critique (November 2007)
Openly critiquing one’s boss or his concepts is dicey. Such criticism carries risk and requires wisdom, as well as courage, to successfully transmit a controversial but important...BY COL. ALLEN BATSCHELET, MAJ. BARRY HAFER AND MAJ. MIKE RUNEY
Fast forward to the robot dilemma (November 2007)
Technological capabilities have already placed semiautonomous robots in a number of key military roles. New developments will expand their capabilities and applications. Who is morally...BY MAJ. DAVID F. BIGELOW
Counterproductive (November 2007)
For all the valuable roles that private military contractors are playing in Iraq, the end effect appears to have harmed, rather than helped, the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S....By Peter W. Singer
Robots on the battlefield (November 2007)
In Afghanistan and Iraq, “battle bots” are spying, patrolling, securing and even “dying” in combat. Soldiers give their scout robots names, honorary...
Who decides: Man or machine? (November 2007)
When the industrial revolution of the early 19th century threatened the centuries-old caste of the English artisans by replacing man with machine, they rose up, allegedly led by a man named...BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
Robots make war more survivable (November 2007)
No one can accurately predict what the robot-inhabited battlefield of the future will look like in five, 10 or 20 years. But we can look at the technical history of military equipment and...BY VICE ADM. (RET.) JOSEPH W. DYER
Flashpoint: Arms racing (November 2007)
Instability in Iraq, sectarian violence, Islamic extremism, ethnic rivalries, the rise of Iran and questions about America’s long-term commitment to the region are making for a Middle...By Peter Brookes
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/11/
Joint Force Quarterly - October 2007
Special Feature
An Interview with Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
by David H. Gurney & Jeffrey D. Smotherman
Moving the Throttle Forward in the Pacific
by Timothy J. Keating and Terrance J. McCaffrey III
An Interview with Ambassador Ravic Huso, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
by David H. Gurney
Training Strategy in the Pacific Theater
by Robert B. Brown
The Enduring Value of Military-to-Military Cooperation in Southeast Asia
by John D. Wheeler and Herschel Weinstock
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/i47.htm
An Interview with Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
by David H. Gurney & Jeffrey D. Smotherman
Moving the Throttle Forward in the Pacific
by Timothy J. Keating and Terrance J. McCaffrey III
An Interview with Ambassador Ravic Huso, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command
by David H. Gurney
Training Strategy in the Pacific Theater
by Robert B. Brown
The Enduring Value of Military-to-Military Cooperation in Southeast Asia
by John D. Wheeler and Herschel Weinstock
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/i47.htm
Military Review - November-December 2007
Features include
Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars
by Michael Vlahos
The “Armed Reconciler”: The Military Role in the Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Process
by Michael W. Mosser, Ph.D.
The Law of Occupation and Post–Armed-Conflict Governance: Considerations for Future Conflicts
by Colonel David A. Wallace, U.S. Army
Armed Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: A Primer for Military Professionals
by Colonel Daniel Rice, U.S. Army Reserve and Major John Dehn, U.S. Army
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/NovDec07/indexengnovdec07.asp
Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars
by Michael Vlahos
The “Armed Reconciler”: The Military Role in the Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Process
by Michael W. Mosser, Ph.D.
The Law of Occupation and Post–Armed-Conflict Governance: Considerations for Future Conflicts
by Colonel David A. Wallace, U.S. Army
Armed Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: A Primer for Military Professionals
by Colonel Daniel Rice, U.S. Army Reserve and Major John Dehn, U.S. Army
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/NovDec07/indexengnovdec07.asp
Air & Space Power Journal - Fall 2007
Senior Leader Perspective
Revisiting Leadership in the Armed Forces
Air Commodore Aslam Bazmi, Pakistani Air Force, Retired
Focus Area
Coalition Operations
Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals
Features
Predator Command and Control: An Italian Perspective
Col Ludovico Chianese, Italian Air Force
Military Institutional Communication: Its Geostrategic Importance
Dr. Alexandre Sergio da Rocha
Offensive Airpower with Chinese Characteristics: Development, Capabilities, and Intentions
Erik Lin-Greenberg
A Rescue Force for the World: Adapting Airpower to the Realities of the Long War
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj07/fal07.htm
Revisiting Leadership in the Armed Forces
Air Commodore Aslam Bazmi, Pakistani Air Force, Retired
Focus Area
Coalition Operations
Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals
Features
Predator Command and Control: An Italian Perspective
Col Ludovico Chianese, Italian Air Force
Military Institutional Communication: Its Geostrategic Importance
Dr. Alexandre Sergio da Rocha
Offensive Airpower with Chinese Characteristics: Development, Capabilities, and Intentions
Erik Lin-Greenberg
A Rescue Force for the World: Adapting Airpower to the Realities of the Long War
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj07/fal07.htm
Joint Force Quarterly - Summer 2007
Joint Force Quarterly is published for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, to promote understanding of the integrated employment of land, sea, air, space, and special operations forces.
The journal focuses on joint doctrine, integrated operations, coalition warfare, contingency planning, military operations conducted across the spectrum of conflict, and joint force development.
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/
Features:
The Missing Component of U.S. Strategic Communications
by William M. Darley
Abolish the Office of the Secretary of Defense?
by John T. Kuehn
Arresting Insurgency
by Kyle B. Teamey
The Route to the British Strategic Defence Review
by Andrew "Wil" Wilson
The U.S. Air Force and Stability Operations Transformation
by Oliver Fritz and Gregory A. Hermsmeyer
Anaconda: A Flawed Joint Planning Process
by Richard B. Andres and Jeffrey B. Hukill
Five Years after Operation Anaconda: Challenges and Opportunities
by Michael W. Isherwood
Current Issue: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/i47.htm
The journal focuses on joint doctrine, integrated operations, coalition warfare, contingency planning, military operations conducted across the spectrum of conflict, and joint force development.
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/
Features:
The Missing Component of U.S. Strategic Communications
by William M. Darley
Abolish the Office of the Secretary of Defense?
by John T. Kuehn
Arresting Insurgency
by Kyle B. Teamey
The Route to the British Strategic Defence Review
by Andrew "Wil" Wilson
The U.S. Air Force and Stability Operations Transformation
by Oliver Fritz and Gregory A. Hermsmeyer
Anaconda: A Flawed Joint Planning Process
by Richard B. Andres and Jeffrey B. Hukill
Five Years after Operation Anaconda: Challenges and Opportunities
by Michael W. Isherwood
Current Issue: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/i47.htm
Armed Forces Journal - September 2007
Features include:
Jack-of-all-trades (September 2007)The Littoral Combat Ship is most appealing because of its sophisticated transformational capabilities — as envisioned, it is a unique capability addition to the fleet. Yet, it is the...BY CMDR. JOHN PATCH
Eating soup with a spoon (September 2007)
The Army's new manual on counterinsurgency operations (COIN), in many respects, is a superb piece of doctrinal writing. The manual, FM 3-24 "Counterinsurgency," is comparable in...BY LT. COL. GIAN P. GENTILE
The Air Force at 60 (September 2007)
At the B-52's rollout ceremony in 1954, then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan Twining described it as the long rifle of the air age. It was natural for Twining, an infantryman before...
Two decades of decay (September 2007)
The Air Force begins its sixth decade in circumstances that aviators elsewhere might consider enviable: unrivaled for global air dominance. But that is not the way Air Force leaders view...BY LOREN THOMPSON
The dual-role dilemma (September 2007)
The Air Force finds itself at an unwelcome and unexpected crisis at its 60th birthday. Although the service is tremendously successful at its core capacities, as demonstrated in a series of...BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
Flashpoint: No bungle in the jungle (September 2007)
Whether you agree with it or not, it's likely there will be some changes to the current size and shape of U.S. forces in Iraq over the next year. For reasons from the political to the...BY PETER BROOKES
Building resilience (September 2007)
A pair of books build on Jared Diamond's warning in "Collapse" that rigid social structures and environmental mismanagement combined to destroy a society from within. Both share...BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/features/
Jack-of-all-trades (September 2007)The Littoral Combat Ship is most appealing because of its sophisticated transformational capabilities — as envisioned, it is a unique capability addition to the fleet. Yet, it is the...BY CMDR. JOHN PATCH
Eating soup with a spoon (September 2007)
The Army's new manual on counterinsurgency operations (COIN), in many respects, is a superb piece of doctrinal writing. The manual, FM 3-24 "Counterinsurgency," is comparable in...BY LT. COL. GIAN P. GENTILE
The Air Force at 60 (September 2007)
At the B-52's rollout ceremony in 1954, then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan Twining described it as the long rifle of the air age. It was natural for Twining, an infantryman before...
Two decades of decay (September 2007)
The Air Force begins its sixth decade in circumstances that aviators elsewhere might consider enviable: unrivaled for global air dominance. But that is not the way Air Force leaders view...BY LOREN THOMPSON
The dual-role dilemma (September 2007)
The Air Force finds itself at an unwelcome and unexpected crisis at its 60th birthday. Although the service is tremendously successful at its core capacities, as demonstrated in a series of...BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
Flashpoint: No bungle in the jungle (September 2007)
Whether you agree with it or not, it's likely there will be some changes to the current size and shape of U.S. forces in Iraq over the next year. For reasons from the political to the...BY PETER BROOKES
Building resilience (September 2007)
A pair of books build on Jared Diamond's warning in "Collapse" that rigid social structures and environmental mismanagement combined to destroy a society from within. Both share...BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/features/
Military Review - September 2007
Features include:
"Learning From Our Modern Wars: The Imperatives of Preparing for a Dangerous Future", by LTG Peter W. Chiarelli and MAJ Stephen M. Smith (Article recently discussed in the NY Times (10 Sep)
"Fighting 'The Other War': Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan, 2003-2005", by LTG (Ret.) David W. Barno
"Iraq: Tribal Engagement Lessons Learned," by LTC Michael Eisenstadt
"Linking Doctrine to Action: A New COIN Center-of-Gravity Analysis", by COL Peter R. Mansoor and MAJ Mark S. Ulrich
"The Man Who Bent Events: "King John" in Indochina", by LTC Michel Goya, French Marines, and LTC Philippe Francois, French Marines
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/SepOct07/indexengsepoct07.asp
"Learning From Our Modern Wars: The Imperatives of Preparing for a Dangerous Future", by LTG Peter W. Chiarelli and MAJ Stephen M. Smith (Article recently discussed in the NY Times (10 Sep)
"Fighting 'The Other War': Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan, 2003-2005", by LTG (Ret.) David W. Barno
"Iraq: Tribal Engagement Lessons Learned," by LTC Michael Eisenstadt
"Linking Doctrine to Action: A New COIN Center-of-Gravity Analysis", by COL Peter R. Mansoor and MAJ Mark S. Ulrich
"The Man Who Bent Events: "King John" in Indochina", by LTC Michel Goya, French Marines, and LTC Philippe Francois, French Marines
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/SepOct07/indexengsepoct07.asp
Parameters - Summer 2007
Features include
War in the Modern Age:
"Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War" by Patrick Porter
"Last Resort and Preemption: Using Armed Force as a Moral and Penultimate Choice" by Eric Wester
"Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency?" by Frank G. Hoffman
"Measuring Effectiveness in Irregular Warfare" by James Clancy and Chuck Crossett
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/07summer/contents.htm
Proceedings - Summer 2007
Features include
* The sexual misconduct case of former Midshipman Lamar Owens
* Why do military strategy documents feel like marketing campaigns?
(no-cost site registration required)
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/index.asp
* The sexual misconduct case of former Midshipman Lamar Owens
* Why do military strategy documents feel like marketing campaigns?
(no-cost site registration required)
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/index.asp
Strategic Studies Institute
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JFQ: Abolish the Office of Secretary of Defense?
by John Kuehn
JFQ / issue 47, 4th quarter 2007
The political and defense communities of 2006 had the wrong debate about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Instead of "should he stay or should he go," the debate should have been whether we even need the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). It is perhaps time to admit that the great post-World War II American experiment called "unification" has failed.
More at http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i47/26.pdf
JFQ / issue 47, 4th quarter 2007
The political and defense communities of 2006 had the wrong debate about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Instead of "should he stay or should he go," the debate should have been whether we even need the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). It is perhaps time to admit that the great post-World War II American experiment called "unification" has failed.
More at http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i47/26.pdf
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