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National Defense
October 2011
Sandra I. Erwin
Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2006
Sandra Erwin
An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2004
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years. 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
March 2004
Roxana Tiron
Real-World Missions Shape Army Training The U.S. Army has reorganized its training centers to fill gaps in areas such as stability and support operations, according to senior officials. The revamped training programs draw from lessons learned from counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Redefining Combat Among the hard lessons the U.S. Army is learning in Iraq is that the line between "major combat" and "stability operations" is blurred, at best, and that the enemy gets to decide when the war is finally over. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Changes to Military Strategy, In Time for the Next War Iraq is far from over, but the Defense Department is already rewriting military doctrine so that forces are adequately trained and ready for another Iraq-like conflict years or decades from now. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean
Army's Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand The military's lack of knowledge of the Iraqi population and its socio-cultural dynamics was one of the key failings of U.S. policy that led to the rise of insurgency there. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright
Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2005
Roxana Tiron
Army Badly Equipped To Fight in Low-Intensity Wars The Army's most ambitious procurement program, the Future Combat Systems, may be directed at the wrong threat and the service needs to adjust its investments accordingly. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
While Still at War, Services Brood Over `What's Next?' The business of planning for the future indeed can be scary, especially when it comes to predicting when and where the nation will fight the next war. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
May 2004
Harold Kennedy
The New face of Peacekeeping U.S. leaders have began to rediscover the value of peacekeeping operations. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean
Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2004
Joe Pappalardo
Demand for Non-Combat Skills Fuels Interest in Games The success of tactical shooting games as military training tools has bolstered the case for expanding the use of this technology into non-combat areas. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Iraq Lessons Pervade Army War Games Insights gleaned from two years of fighting a brutal counterinsurgency in Iraqi cities are being folded into the Army's strategy to prepare for the next war. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2004
Roxana Tiron
Special Operators Must Change to Win War Despite their successes in recent conflicts, U.S. special operations forces need to alter their approach to win the war on terrorism, according to top military officials. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Autumn 2004
Michael O'Hanlon
The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2010
Sandra I. Erwin
Army Reorganizes Training for Intelligence Units "The focus now is on getting soldiers used to identifying information that could be useful" to commanders in Afghanistan, says Army Maj. Eric Butler says during a recent teleconference with military bloggers. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Obliged to Add Troops, Army Agonizes Over Costs Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody asserts the issue that should have been more thoroughly debated by political leaders, but has largely been ignored, is not the draft, but rather how the nation will pay for the additional troops the Army requires to keep fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2007
Stew Magnuson
Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2008
Breanne Wagner
Special Operators Ponder the Right Mix of Roles and Missions U.S. Special Operations Command is growing. From 48,000 personnel today, its numbers are expected to increase to 58,000 in the coming years. But how will they be used? mark for My Articles similar articles
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." mark for My Articles similar articles
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005
Operation Iraqi Freedom C 4ISR Lessons Learned Operation Iraqi Freedom was the first major military operation conducted under the newly introduced US Army Net-Centric Warfare (NCW) doctrine. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2004
Harold Kennedy
Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Wanted: Soldiers With Cultural Savvy One of the catchphrases in Army circles these days is "culture training." mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Dangerous Convoy Duties Prompt Expanded Training for Truck Crews The Army is intensifying the training drills required for truck drivers and maintenance crews heading to Iraq. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2004
Washington Pulse Could Competition Avert Accounting Fiascos?... Iraq Will Be a "Long Marathon War"... U.S. Unprepared for 4th Gen Warfare... Sharing Air Space Could Be Risky... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson
Increasingly Complex Operations Force Rapid Changes in Army Training The increasingly complex battlefield is prompting the service to rethink the way it trains for war. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Civil Affairs Army and U.S. Special Operations Command officials are studying proposals to reorganize the small but highly in-demand civil affairs force. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2004
Harold Kennedy
Army Reserve Seeks to Toughen Up Training for Part-Time Soldiers As reservists encounter tough fighting in Iraq, the Army is revamping training programs to better prepare these troops for combat. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Spring 2005
Saxby Chambliss
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson
Integrating Civilian Agencies Into Military Operations Remains Difficult The United States' "whole government" approach to rebuilding war-torn nations is nevertheless moving forward. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Junior Leader Training Emphasizes Fast `Thinking' in Defeating Guerillas To better prepare junior officers and sergeants to fight urban guerillas, the Army is adopting a new training philosophy, one that is designed to "develop leaders who can think." mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information. mark for My Articles similar articles