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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 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 August 2004 Roxana Tiron |
European Defense Agency Raising Hackles in U.S. The creation of the European Defense Agency is sending ripples across the Atlantic and raising questions about Europe diverting resources away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
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. |
National Defense February 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Pentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can't Be Avoided If Congress reduces the services' procurement top lines as expected, they will probably circle their wagons to protect planned or traditional programs. |
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. |
Parameters 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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller |
2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent. |
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons |
Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts. |
National Defense September 2005 Frank Colucci |
Navy, Marine Helicopter Fleets Will See Steady Arrivals of New Aircraft The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps plan to equip their aircraft fleets with 1,429 new rotorcraft during the next 20 years. |
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. |
Defense Update Issue 2, 2007 |
Arming the Attack Helicopter for Asymmetric Warfare Adequately protected and armed, attack helicopters can rapidly deploy as called for by the situation -- even low intensive combat missions.. |
National Defense March 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Skepticism, Inter-Service Rivalry Surrounds Joint Heavy Lift Aircraft Program Just when the Army and the Air Force appear to have settled disagreements over which service will control unmanned aerial vehicles and operate a new light cargo aircraft, along comes a new turf battle. |
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper |
NATO Funding Shortfalls Likely to Continue The latest Russian military intervention in Ukraine is forcing NATO to refocus its attention on its eastern flank. But concerns about a resurgent Russia will not prompt a large boost in alliance procurement. |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe. |
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 March 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Common European Defense Market Still Years Away The newly created European Defense Agency is positioning itself to play a pivotal role in guiding European Union countries towards a common military equipment market. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller |
DOD electronics spending may approach $60 billion in 2006 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are proposing a 7.8 percent spending increase for procurement and research in communications, electronics, and intelligence in fiscal year 2006, compared with spending for the same accounts this year. |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade. |
National Defense November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Airbus Eyes Opening Into U.S. Military Airlift Market The A400M Atlas cargo aircraft is capable of carrying a Stryker armored personnel carrier. |
World War II June 2007 Stephen Hyslop |
Blueprint for Blitzkrieg Hitler's chiefs harnessed lightning -- then discovered the difficulty of making it strike twice |
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 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. |
National Defense March 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Budget Themes: Investments Leveled, Programs Slipped, Non-Performers Nixed A big portion of the discretionary spending reductions in President Obama's 2013 to 2017 funding request is in the defense budget. |
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots. |
World War II Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Turns to Engineers for Troop Transport Fix in Iraq: Analysis (With 6 Next-Gen Chopper Designs!) The Army and Air Force will seek Pentagon approval for the development of new aircraft that can carry big loads and land on poorly built, short runways -- or no runways at all. |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops. |
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 August 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce. |
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 January 2004 Frank Colucci |
Navy Upgrading Sea-Mine Sweeper Helicopters The U.S. Navy intends to deploy the first MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters equipped with organic airborne mine countermeasures with carrier battle groups in 2005. |
National Defense June 2012 Dan Parsons |
Vehicles Strut Their Stuff in Desert Trials The evaluation of non-developmental vehicles is part of a larger analysis of alternatives mandated by the Defense Department to ferret out available commercial technologies that might fit the bill for variants of the Ground Combat Vehicle. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
In Brief BAE Systems seeker detects missile target in THAAD weapon system test... Northrop Grumman wins Marine Corps contract for Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)... etc. |
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. |
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 March 2010 Austin Wright |
Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service. |
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars. |
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy |
Aircraft Fleet Modernization Gains Momentum During the next six years, the Army will procure 1,000 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In addition, the service plans to restore 1,655 Black Hawks, Chinooks, and Apaches as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan. |
National Defense February 2014 Valerie Insinna |
New System to Test Firing Air-to-Surface Missiles from Ground Moog Inc. is scheduled to test whether its new system will allow users to launch Hellfire missiles from combat vehicles and boats in addition to being fired by helicopters and airplanes. That capability has been on the Army's wish list. |
National Defense October 2006 Grace Jean |
Combat Vehicle Designs Seek Increased Utility in Multiple Roles The prevalence of such vehicles at one of the largest ground warfare expositions reveals a trend in how armies are choosing to insert their troops into hot spots. |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Cuts Force Army Unmanned Aviation to Make Do With What It Has As defense budgets decline, the Army intends to stand pat with four basic unmanned aerial vehicle models, officials said at a recent conference. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Power Trip Sophisticated electronics drive the need for plentiful power on the battlefield. |
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper |
Army May Slow Down Procurement of New Light Reconnaissance Vehicle The Army is looking to procure a new scout vehicle for infantry units. But funding constraints and other priorities could hold the project back as the service pushes forward with its modernization plans. |
National Defense December 2011 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers respond to articles about army modernization and reworking the defense budget. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Christopher J. Toomey |
Army Digitization: Making it Ready for Prime Time The Army's commitment to creating a digitized force elicits some key questions about how the Army will make the transition from an analog force in the face of rapidly changing technology while maintaining the capability to meet key strategic and operational challenges. |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Stephen J. Coonen |
The Widening Military Capabilities Gap between the United States and Europe: Does it Matter? Military and political experts on both sides of the Atlantic assert that the widening military capabilities gap between the United States and Europe creates a more challenging environment for transatlantic cooperation. |
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Services Competing For Future Airlift Missions A multibillion-dollar program to equip the Army National Guard with new fixed-wing cargo aircraft fleet has rekindled a turf battle between the services that was supposed to have been settled more than half a century ago. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Samuel J. Newland |
Review Essay Book review: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo... etc. |