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National Defense June 2005 L. James D'Agostino	Raising the Bar To Meet the Next Wave of Reform Recent procurement scandals have prompted numerous ethics reform initiatives by federal prosecutors, regulators and legislators. Given the volume of spending related to Operation Iraqi Freedom and on-going homeland-security initiatives, the industry can expect the greatest level of scrutiny since Operation Ill Wind in the 1980s.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra Erwin	Procurement Probes Framed By Bleak Financial Forecast A string of procurement debacles at the Defense Department has stirred, yet again, calls for drastic reforms in military acquisition rules and policies.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Roy Mark	House Panel Supports I-SPY Act Spyware vendors are targeted with tougher criminal penalties under legislation approved by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Roy Mark	Mandatory VoIP 911 Bills Introduced Lawmakers want to trump the Federal Communications Commission's call for mandatory 911 Voice over IP service with legislation of their own.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	Homeland Security Briefs DHS begins second phase of Arizona border effort... Northrop Grumman lays keel for National Security Cutter... DHS announces support for rail hazmat placards...
Parameters Summer 2005 Michael H. Hoffman	Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism Terrorists are gaining an astonishing legal edge over US and other armed forces deployed against them. Judicial intervention in the law of war since September 11, 2001 already far exceeds anything ever before experienced, by any nation, in the history of warfare.
Parameters Summer 2005 Pierre Lessard	Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era.
Parameters Summer 2005 Christopher M. Ford	Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency Using Iraq as a model, this article seeks to examine the relationship between the people and the insurgency, with the ultimate questions being: What role does the civilian population play in the insurgency, and how can this situation be influenced to achieve success?
Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond	Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue.
Parameters Summer 2005 Dan Henk	Human Security: Relevance and Implications The human security paradigm in the U.S. relegates the coercive instruments of state power to secondary roles, questions the public sector monopoly on allocation of value, and insists on the essentially equivalent prominence and contribution of individual and corporate stakeholders.
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