Warfighter in chief (May 2008)If he’d shown signs of being interview-weary, it would have been understandable. It was late afternoon on the Friday that capped a week of congressional hearings during which...BY KAREN WALKER
The nonlinear future (May 2008)The network metaphor dominates current thinking about national security. Network centricity carried to its logical conclusion, however, portends an environment that becomes increasingly...BY CLEMENT C. CHEN
Obsessed with tactics (May 2008)The Navy today is overly focused on the tactical employment of its combat forces, in its doctrine and practice. This might not be a problem in case of a conflict with numerically and...BY MILAN VEGO
Carpet bombing in cyberspace (May 2008)The world has abandoned a fortress mentality in the real world, and we need to move beyond it in cyberspace. America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot...BY COL. CHARLES W. WILLIAMSON III
Ending our oil dependency (May 2008)Oil, and our reliance on it, is a catalyst for terrorism. Yet the U.S. military is powered, fueled and transported by it. Cmdr. Jeff Eggers urges a major research and development effort to...
The fuel gauge of national security (May 2008)Military doctrine favors the indirect and unexpected path to decisive results, hence the prevalence of the flanking maneuver. As we are reminded nearly daily, the seemingly intractable...BY CMDR. JEFFREY W. EGGERS
Fueling alternatives (May 2008)Air Force Capt. Rick Fournier made history March 19 when he flew a B-1B Lancer over Texas and New Mexico — marking the first time an Air Force aircraft had flown at supersonic speed...
Running on empty (May 2008)We are likely standing today on the precipice of a radical shift. The U.S. must therefore prepare to endure — or to survive — the arrival of the event that will signal this...BY MAJ. DANIEL L. DAVIS
