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National Defense
July 2006
Stew Magnuson
Hunters Unearth Smuggling Tunnels Authorities along the border with Mexico have uncovered the longest underground smuggling passageway discovered by law enforcement so far. Training and technology used to hunt tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders has immediate applications in Southwest Asia. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson
New Tunnel Detection Test Site in the Works The Defense and Homeland Security Departments are expected to break ground during the coming year on a joint clandestine tunnel detection test site at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. mark for My Articles similar articles
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2006
Urban Combat -- The Israeli Experience Recent conflicts are challenging the world's military powers with urban low-intensity conflict (urban-LIC) warfare... Stealth operations in LIC... New equipment fielded by israeli forces... Subterranean warfare... Rocket and mortar (RAM) attacks... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2011
Stew Magnuson
Tunnel Detection Task Force Speeds Sensors, Robots to Border A federal task force organized to halt the construction of illegal tunnels being built underneath the U.S.-Mexico border has begun deploying ground sensors and robots in the Southwest. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2009
Erwin, Jean & Magnuson
Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2008
Breanne Wagner
Urban Wars Fuel Demand for More Accurate Sensors Suppliers of high-tech military hardware are developing new sensors that could help troops identify the enemy in close urban quarters. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson
Military Researchers Seek Ways to `Interrogate' Buildings Buildings may hide weapon caches, bomb-making factories, enemy combatants or command and control centers -- and more often than not -- innocent civilians who may have nothing to do with these nefarious activities. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2012
Erwin et al.
Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best. mark for My Articles similar articles
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2006
The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2011
Beidel et al.
10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2010
Chris Sweeney
The World's 18 Strangest Tunnels: Gallery The tourist and traveler can learn about tunnels all over the world and their unique features and background. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Battlefield Information Glut Not Always Useful to Soldiers The U.S. military services need to find better ways to collect and manage intelligence in complex urban war zones, according to U.S. Joint Forces Command studies. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Joe Pappalardo
High-Tech Border Patrol: 5 New Tricks to Find Smuggler Tunnels From ground penetrating radar to cosmic rays, new technology gives border patrol the edge. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2008
Stew Magnuson
To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2009
Magnuson & Breitbach
Tech vs. Terrorism For every threat to the homeland, there's a business that has a technology waiting in the wings to counter a would-be terrorist's moves. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2006
Stew Magnuson
Lawmakers Introduce Tunnel Legislation The movement of illegal immigrants or narcotics through a tunnel under a U.S. border is a felony, but there are no laws on the books preventing the excavation itself. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson
U.S. Military Still Struggling to Understand Urban Environment Even after four years of combat in Iraq, industry and the Pentagon seem slow to catch up to the demands of urban war. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2007
Stew Magnuson
Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2013
Sandra I. Erwin
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2007
Stew Magnuson
Soldiers Test Tools for Urban Surveillance Field tests begin for the first technologies scheduled to reach soldiers' hands from the Future Combat Systems program. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2006
David W. Barno
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Robert N. Charette
Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2006
Robert M. Cassidy
The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2013
Stew Magnuson
Battlefield Sensors Continue To Make Technological Leaps Hyperspectral and wide-area surveillance sensors are two examples of technologies that military leaders have touted as success stories. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2004
Roxana Tiron
Poor Intelligence Hampers Precision Weapon Performance Despite the widely publicized success in precision strike operations during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. military lacks the intelligence and sensor capability to assess its targets and battle damage, according to a top Defense Department weapons expert. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2004
Robert M. Cassidy
Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
While More Research is Directed to Irregular Combat, War Spending Could Deter Advances in Military Weapons Irregular insurgents have not only have forced military commanders to rethink their strategies and tactics, but they also have set off a transformation in how defense researchers and scientists think about developing new technology. mark for My Articles similar articles
Vietnam
Stephen B. Young
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2004
Roxana Tiron
Israeli Defense Forces Trying to Perfect Urban Combat Tactics, Techniques Israel Defense Forces have been working to perfect their urban warfare tactics, in an effort to eliminate militant cells in the disputed zones of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2004
John Keller
Military transformation: beyond the buzzwords Military transformation is drowning in hyperbole that would have us believe that this new approach represents a reinvention of warfare itself. It doesn't. Warfare is essentially the same today as it was more than 3,000 years ago -- find and defeat the enemy, or be destroyed yourself. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
Ben Ames
Smaller Sensors Make Unmanned Vehicles Smarter Army researchers are now developing another part of FCS-an armed robotic vehicle (ARV) that uses autonomous sensors and weapons to minimize soldiers' battlefield exposure. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2010
Stew Magnuson
Ultra-Light Aircraft Emerge As Newest Threat On Southwest Border After several years of cat-and-mouse games with Mexican smugglers who tunnel under southwest land crossings, Customs and Border Protection has had to play defense in the air. Ultra-light aircraft have emerged as the latest challenge to agents. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Autumn 2007
William K. Mooney, Jr.
Stabilizing Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Nation-Building While outside actors have played a major role, the weakness of the Lebanese government lies at the foundation of conflicts within the region. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Salon.com
November 13, 2001
Suzy Hansen
"We need to get lucky" Michael Ignatieff, author of "Virtual War," talks about the politics of bombing Afghanistan, the viability of U.S. military strategy and why morality has nothing to do with either... mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
March 2005
Motorcyling on Vientam's Ho Chi Minh Trail A North Vietnamese war veteran, Cuong, will be your guide, offering his unique perspective on historic landmarks like the birthplace of the trail's namesake revolutionary; the hand-dug underground Cu Chi Tunnels, safe havens for Viet Cong fighters and villagers mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2010
Austin Wright
Tunnel Detection System Digs Deeper Ground-penetrating radar sensors might have reached new depths. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2010
Eric Beidel
Secret Tunnels Can't Hide From Gravity A project under way at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will use gravity to battle subterranean threats. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
John Keller
Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change. mark for My Articles similar articles
Salon.com
December 5, 2000
Ana Arana
Ground zero in the Colombian drug war The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict? mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Shactman et al.
Techwatch Servicing military robots... Underground bunker busters... Lab-grown bladder... mark for My Articles similar articles