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Autumn 2004
George Reed et al. |
Mapping the Route of Leadership Education: Caution Ahead A networked approach to joint leadership development can lead to multiple perspectives of leadership more appropriate to a rapidly changing environment and one more worthy of the military profession.   |
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November 2004
Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
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Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
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Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
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Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
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Winter 2006/2007 |
Book Reviews From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. By Cole C. Kingseed... The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training and Root Causes. Edited by James J. F. Forest... etc. |
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Autum 2008 |
Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc. |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
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Summer 2005
Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
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Summer 2007
Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
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Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
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Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
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Autumn 2004 |
Commentary & Reply On "Serving a Nation at War"... Praising (mostly) "In Praise of Attrition"... |
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Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
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Autumn 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
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Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
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Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
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Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
Reason
January 2003
Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate |
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Spring 2006 |
Editor's Shelf Book Reviews: An Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict edited by John J. McGrath... Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, edited by Michael D. Krause and R. Cody Phillips... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Hollywood Fact Check: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone? The military conspiracy-thriller Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny. |
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Spring 2007
Louis Rene Beres |
Israel's Uncertain Strategic Future An assessment of current threats to Israel's survival along with recommendations for an end to its policy of nuclear ambiguity. |
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Summer 2004
Brownlee & Schoomaker |
Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war. |
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Winter 2005/2006
George R. Mastroianni |
Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force The relatively recent separation of the Air Force from the Army, coupled with the rapid rise of the Air Force as a powerful, independent institution offers a unique opportunity to explore the organizational cultures of these two services, and to better understand the implications of culture on leadership styles in each of the services. |
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Summer 2004
Robert S. Bolia |
Overreliance on Technology in Warfare: The Yom Kippur War as a Case Study Using the Yom Kipper War as an example, this article describes the consequences of overreliance on technologically advanced systems over the course of a single war. |
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Summer 2004
Gordon & Sollinger |
The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it. |
National Defense
August 2007
James A. Gavrilis |
Army Must Embrace Unconventional Fight Even a major unconventional campaign such as Iraq can have major conventional operations as part of it. In war the two are not mutually exclusive. The trick is finding the right mix. |
National Defense
March 2006
Harold Kennedy |
At Special Ops Forum, Experts Weigh Prospect of WMD Attacks As military leaders devote increasing attention to neutralizing roadside bombs in Iraq, specialists caution that it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. |
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Autumn 2008
Mark Cancian |
Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future. |
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Summer 2006
Conrad C. Crane |
Beware of Boldness The main argument of this article is that the US military does not need a culture that encourages daring risk-taking, especially at senior levels. We may already be paying a price in Iraq for this new emphasis on boldness. |
National Defense
June 2013
James E. Rainey |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories What can we do right now to improve how we fight modern wars? Second, how do we create, in the words of Gen. Robert Cone, "a structural imperative that ensures we do not lose the lessons of the last decade of war?" |
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Summer 2004
Mahnken & Fitzsimonds |
Tread-Heads or Technophiles? Army Officer Attitudes Toward Transformation This article presents selected results of the first systematic effort to understand officer attitudes toward transformation in recent years. |
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Spring 2007
Richard Swain |
Reflection on an Ethic of Officership Reminder that America's Army has operated for over 200 years without an officer's creed to govern the actions of its leaders. |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
National Defense
May 2006
Perry & Flournoy |
The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force. |
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
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Winter 2003/2004
Wilson, Gordon & Johnson |
An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades. |
National Defense
December 2011
Harvey M. Sapolsky |
Army Acquisition: Not Broken and Not Fixed The U.S. Army is prone to considerable introspection, and when it comes to reflecting upon its acquisition experience, which it does frequently, it is almost never happy. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2001
Asla Aydintasbas |
The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening? |
National Defense
December 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Ponders Future Force: Not Too Large, Not Too Small, Just Right In a pep talk to Army leaders recently, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pointed out the obvious: There aren't many countries out there building massive tank armies, and it is "unlikely that we will be re-fighting Desert Storm in the future." |
National Defense
March 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Army Crime Fighters Shift Focus to Wars The U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command--which usually concentrates on bringing that service's own lawbreakers to justice--now is employing its detective skills against enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to the unit's deputy commander, Col. Paul R. Capstick. |
National Defense
October 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Over Army Objections, Industry and Congress Partner to Keep Abrams Tank Production 'Hot' As far as producing Cold War era weapon systems the military says it has enough of, but Congress continues to fund anyway, there is probably no bigger poster child than the Abrams tank. |
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November 2004
Scott Boston |
Toward a Protected Future Force The US Army plans to introduce its next-generation ground force quickly, starting with an experimental battalion by the end of the decade and a full brigade--called a Unit of Action--in 2014. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack. |
National Defense
September 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Army Criticized for Not Learning From Past Wars Events in Iraq, particularly, prove that the U.S. Army needs to reform its educational institutions to teach officers analytical skills and cultural awareness, said a senior military strategist. |
National Defense
October 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Predicting the Future Of Warfare: Why Bother? Let down by the hype of technowarfare and wised up by the harshness of counterinsurgencies, the Army is not about to make grandiose jumps into the future. |
