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
