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/
Thursday, November 22, 2007
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
The Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College publishes security and strategic reports and publications which serve to influence policy debate and bridge the gap between Military and Academia. Our products are available at no cost.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/
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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