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National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean	Naval `Sea Base' Supporters Seek to Prove Worth to Army Navy officials have drawn up plans to deploy a floating military base capable of supporting two combat brigades by 2019. It is not yet clear, however, whether the sea base concept is based on solid analysis or whether its potential benefits justify the cost.
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Deployment of Sea Bases Faces Technical, Budgetary Challenges The notion that ground forces can be launched, supported and sustained solely from ships at sea is still new to the Army and the Air Force, and the Defense Department has yet to figure out how to pay for this capability.
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean	Marine Corps Makes Strong Pitch for `Sea Bases' Senior Marine Corps officials are asking Navy leaders to commit to a plan to deploy floating military bases within the next decade.
National Defense December 2012 Thomas A. Benes	Navy, Marine Corps Rethink Expeditionary Warfare Expeditionary warfare is evolving to meet the demands of a future beyond the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts. The Navy is rebalancing its forward deployment posture, and the Marine Corps is in transition from land-centric warfare.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Taking Cues From New Administration, Naval Forces Shift Focus to Soft Power The Navy and Marine Corps will be turning more attention to "soft power" missions in the coming years, officials said.
National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	Cost of Current Operations Jeopardize Marine Corps' Modernization Plans Current wars are draining the Pentagon's modernization accounts, not just for the Marines but for the other services as well.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Naval Officials Seek `Intellectual Renaissance' in the Sea Services As they continue to ponder the value of naval forces in the nation's wars, Navy leaders want to broaden the debate by encouraging participation from all levels of command.
National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean	Navy Reshuffle Will Move Thousands Of Sailors to Brown-Water Duties The Navy plans to tackle terrorism and other unconventional threats via a massive reorganization that will shift thousands of sailors from traditional duties. This new approach will permit the sea service to conduct operations on land and close up in shallow water.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Ships' Cost Could Sink Plans For Floating Military Bases The success of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forward-looking concept of deploying bases at sea relies heavily on the development of a new class of cargo ships.
Parameters 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 November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Facing Uncertainty, Navy Contemplates `Alternative Futures' Navy officials worry that fleet expansion efforts could be wrecked if the Defense Department cuts naval budgets to pay for the addition of thousands of troops to the Army and Marine Corps over the next four years.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Efforts to Deploy Sea Bases Could Draw Lessons From Special Warfare As the U.S. military attempts to develop the technology and doctrine that will allow it to launch and sustain missions solely from the sea, special operations forces have been carrying out such operations on a smaller scale for more than two decades, according to a top Navy official.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Review: Beltway Dogfighting at Its Best Military officials have, in recent weeks, been diligently articulating their thinking on how each service contributes to the overall national security strategy.
National Defense November 2012 Dan Parsons	U.S. Pacific Shift Aims to Manage, Not Challenge China's Rise Defense Department leaders are set to manage a strategic "shift" or "pivot" that has been in works for a while, but will accelerate once U.S. troops leave Afghanistan in 2014.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Marines Prepare to Fight at Sea, on the Ground, From the Air After more than a decade of slogging counterinsurgency warfare, the Marine Corps is preparing for the conflicts of the future.
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean	More Amphibious Ships Are Needed, Marines Contend Marine Corps leaders have stepped up pressure on the Navy to increase the size of the amphibious vessel fleet.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	Navy Downsizing Could Weaken Marine Corps Expeditionary Posture As the U.S. Navy's investments and planning point towards a shrinking fleet, it remains unclear how the downsizing will affect the Marine Corps and its ability to carry out expeditionary warfare missions.
National Defense June 2014 Dan Parsons	Marines Prepare Modular Force for Future Rife With Conflict Despite a dozen years of combat operations coming to a close, the next decade likely will provide no rest for the war-weary Marine Corps.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean	Navy Leaders to Articulate Current and Future Missions Recent efforts by the Navy to deploy forces for ground combat and engage in other non-traditional duties are signs that the service intends to be relevant in the U.S. war on terrorism.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marine Corps Not Yet Ready To Shake Its Persecution Complex Defense Secretary Robert Gates made it official: The Marine Corps is not going to turn into a "second Army," nor will it have to give up its distinctive role as the nation's 911 force. Regrowing its amphibious roots after a decade of landlocked war has become a cri de coeur for the Corps.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Joint Warfare Has Its Drawbacks... Naval Aviators Told To Tighten Belt... Marines Shifting Non-Combat Jobs to Civilians... Military Training Programs Could See Cutbacks...
Parameters 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 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.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Military Steps Up Training For Joint Close-Air Support The U.S. Joint Forces Command is increasing its efforts to ensure that aviators from all military services follow the same procedures when they provide joint close-air support to ground troops during combat.
Parameters 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.
National Defense November 2004	Washington Pulse Civilians Also Need `Joint' Training... Navy Will Push to Keep 12 Aircraft Carriers... What's on the Air Force Chief's Mind... Army Ponders Spending Priorities... etc.
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Washington Pulse Lobbying Rules Strict Enough, Says Controller... Army Stresses `Joint Expeditionary Mindset'... Defense Spending Fuels Aerospace Growth
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Marine Corps' Vision for the Future Requires More Training, Technology Beginning this month, the Marine Corps will start testing a new war-fighting concept aimed at countering unconventional enemies. The technologies that would support it, however, are lagging, officials said.
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.
National Defense April 2004 Roxana Tiron	Joint-Service Needs Shape Marine Training Programs The Marine Corps is taking steps to align its training programs with joint requirements, officials said. Under the Defense Department's umbrella project called the Joint National Training Capability, the Marines are, for the first time, investing in technologies such as range instrumentation, to ensure they can participate in JNTC training events.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Navy Salvage and Diving Teams Essential to `Sea Base' Concept It is going to take years and considerable investments to make sea basing fully operational.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Naval Leaders Make a Case for the Relevance of Sea Services An armed conflict at sea that interrupts commerce is bad news for most of the civilized world and should be prevented at all costs.
Parameters 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.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	Coast Guard Boosting Cooperation with Military Last summer, as Russian forces lay siege to the nation of Georgia, the Coast Guard cutter Dallas, along with two Navy ships, sailed to the Black Sea to provide relief.
National Defense September 2007 Erwin & Pearce	While Mired in Iraq, Marines Still See Their Future at Sea The Marine Corps for the past four years has committed its people and assets to the war in Iraq. But as the possibility of a force drawdown looms on the horizon, Marine strategists are grappling with fundamental questions about the future.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Comrades in Arms With Penchant for Bitter Rivalries Retired four-star general and West Point professor Barry McCaffrey marvels at the miracle of joint-service combat power.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher M. Schnaubelt	Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
National Defense March 2012 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marine Corps Face Pitfalls When it Comes to Modernizing Equipment As budgets tighten and the military reduces ground forces, the Marine Corps' failed attempt to field the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle may serve as a case study for those hoping to modernize military equipment.
National Defense June 2004 Roxana Tiron	Singapore Pursues Advanced Technology While its high-stakes fighter replacement competition has been making headlines in the defense world, Singapore also has been quietly at work reshaping its armed forces to take advantage of advancements in technology.
National Defense May 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	`Information Fusion' Key to Winning Wars What made a huge difference in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said Roche, was the fusion of information.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Rebuilding Efforts Anticipate A Lengthy Fight The Marine Corps, as it struggles to rebuild, repair or replace its combat-battered equipment, is planning for a conflict that will continue for years to come.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense June 2005 Roxana Tiron	Security Operations In Persian Gulf Require a Broad Coalition Continuous operations in the Persian Gulf are reshaping the U.S. Navy's maritime security tactics and its approach to forming coalitions.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts.
National Defense January 2004 Harold Kennedy	U.S.-Led Coalition Seeks To Block Weapon Shipments The United States and 10 other nations have embarked upon a controversial plan to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction by blocking suspect shipments by air, land or sea.
National Defense June 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Debate Must Recognize Tough Realities Recent American political debate has been more focused on rhetorical back-and-forth than real treatment of critical issues, like the work our military forces are doing in the global war on terrorism, and what they are telling us about their needs for resources.
National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean	Navy Riverine Force to Report for Iraq Duty in 2007 The units will relieve Marines who currently are conducting maritime security operations in the ports and inland waterways of Iraq.