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Parameters Summer 2008 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.	Making Revolutionary Change: Airpower in COIN Today The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are air wars as well as ground wars. Airpower has played a critical role in counterinsurgency combat.
Parameters Summer 2008 Fred T. Krawchuk	Collaborative Strategic Planning and Action: A New Approach The complexity of the contemporary US security environment demands a new, comprehensive way of assessing and contending with the ongoing challenges.
Parameters Summer 2008 Robert M. Chamberlain	With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN This article questions the assumption that enhancing the power of the state will make the population less likely to support insurgents.
Parameters Summer 2008 Josh Kerbel	Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community's Struggle to Find its Voice The intelligence community looked introspectively at itself and found self-identity issues staring back with unnerving intensity.
Wired August 2008 Adam Rogers	This NASA Astronaut Was 'Too Busy to Be Scared' Astronaut Peggy Whitson describes her recent harrowing descent to earth.
Wired August 2008 David Hirschman	The T Train: NYC Will Get Its First New Subway Line in 70 Years Proposed in 1929, the new subway line will unite the Upper and Lower East Sides.
Wired August 2008 Brian Ashcraft	15th Anniversary: Absinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal Liquor Once thought to have hallucinogenic effects, Absinthe now gets a clean bill of health from the US.
ifeminists July 22, 2008 Carey Roberts	Moms, Don't Take Your Kids to an Abuse Shelter Cases of unimaginable abuse to children in abuse shelters.
Wired July 21, 2008 Thomas Goetz	How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life The project will turn information from 100,000 subjects into a huge database that can reveal the connections between our genes and our physical selves. Here's how.
Wired July 21, 2008 Jonathan Stevenson	Tackling al Qaeda Where It Thrives -- Online America's current counterterrorism measures can do no more than tenuously contain a threat whose radical ideology spreads like a virus through cyberspace.
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