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Salon.com August 3, 2002 Anthony York |
Crazy like a desert fox Saddam's plea to the U.N. is completely phony. But it could be effective. |
Popular Mechanics November 8, 2006 Noah Shachtman |
Rumsfeld Reaction: 4 Policy Battles That Could Shape Our Military When President Bush appointed former CIA Director Robert Gates to the Defense Secretary post today, several of Donald Rumsfeld's pet projects began to enter the political crossfire. |
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Shifting Focus to `Stability Operations' After years of trying to minimize U.S. participation in peacekeeping operations, the Bush administration is embarking upon an ambitious effort to improve the ability of the military services--and related civilian agencies--to conduct such missions as part of its global war on terrorism. |
National Defense May 2004 Harold Kennedy |
The New face of Peacekeeping U.S. leaders have began to rediscover the value of peacekeeping operations. |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Special Forces' Skills `Needed More Than Ever' Experts are questioning whether the Pentagon is making the best use of highly skilled special operations forces in the nation's war against extremist Islamic groups. |
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. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture. |
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). |
Salon.com October 16, 2002 Robert Scheer |
War and peace President Bush could learn a thing or two from Jimmy Carter. |
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. |
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 February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors. |
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Christopher Buckley |
The Rumsfeld Diaries Look out, Condi! Rumsfeld's tell-all offers new memories of the Bush era |
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum |
It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq. |
Parameters 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. |
Reason January 2006 Matt Welch |
From Bob Woodward to Judith Miller America's most reviled political reporter is a direct descendant of its most beloved. Miller's methods are essentially Woodward's. She just had the bad manners of choosing the losing side in an interagency tug of war. |
Reason July 2004 Jesse Walker |
Corporate Soldiers Employees of private security companies in Iraq had been losing their lives, particularly after the spring insurgency began, and the firms found they couldn't rely on the armed forces for protection. So businesses are contracting with each other for military and intelligence support. |
Reason January 2003 Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate |
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. |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Readiness: Candid Assessments Long Overdue Alarm bells have gotten progressively louder and more jarring in recent weeks on the issue of military readiness on the home front. |
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years. |
Wired November 27, 2007 Noah Shachtman |
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social -- Not Electronic A network-centric approach to war allows us to swiftly locate our target and destroy it, but it doesn't allow us to connect with local people to rebuild a city. |
Parameters 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. |
Parameters 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. |
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 August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness? |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there. |
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. |
BusinessWeek June 27, 2005 |
The Books of Summer From neoconservatives to Julius Caesar, here's a summer book sampler for vacation. |
National Defense March 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Day of Reckoning Ahead for U.S. Defense Spending The nation's dismal economy has cost millions of Americans their jobs, homes and life savings. Barring a miraculous recovery, the economy's next target could be America's military superiority. |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises. |
Reason June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger. |
Salon.com March 20, 2002 Hadani Ditmars |
Denis Halliday The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe... |
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for a New Era of Global Instability How the nation's military will keep up in a rapidly changing and dangerous world is the proverbial 64-million-dollar question. |
National Defense December 2014 Sandra Erwin |
Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else. |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Stifles Innovation Despite Urgent War Needs The Defense Department has been a leading developer of cutting-edge technology. But at the same time, it has created self-defeating mechanisms that quash innovation and fail to capitalize on available opportunities. |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Fortune Tellers See a Mix of Boom and Bust For the defense industry, depending on whom you talk to, these are the best of times, and the worst of times. |
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Why Is Congress Launching Yet Another Roles-and-Missions Probe? Congress may have the power of the purse, but it has been largely powerless in just about every attempt to influence the course of the war in Iraq and to substantially reshape military spending priorities. |
Reason December 2004 Jeff A. Taylor |
Rant: War of Addition Tearing thousands of men and women out of civilian life and sending them to battle signals more than a nation at war. It reveals a nation at a crossroads. |
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration. |
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building. |
Inc. September 1, 2009 Cheney et al. |
Grabbing a Piece of the Defense-Spending Pie A look at seven Inc. 500 companies that sell technology and services to the Pentagon |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Drake Bennett |
A Management Primer from the Decider-in-Chief In his memoir, George W. Bush breaks his Presidency up into a series of decision-making case studies. Unfortunately, running a country isn't just a series of decisions |
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. |
Parameters 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. |
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget. |
Popular Mechanics February 12, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of War: Can Special Ops Become Business as Usual? Is the Pentagon capable of shifting its resources and strategies over to so-called irregular warfare? Experts at the Special Operations Conference in D.C. debate whether or not the U.S. is ready for a new kind of fight. |