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National Defense May 2006 Perry & Flournoy	The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force.
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.
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 September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Downplaying Concerns About Overstressed Force Seeking to slow down momentum on Capitol Hill to increase the size of the Army by at least 20,000 troops, top service officials recently offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook on troop retention and recruiting.
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.
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.
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.
National Defense May 2005 Harold Kennedy	Army Guard, Reserves Confront Long-Term Personnel Problems Of particular concern is the development of new leaders. An Army Reserve chief, recently estimated shortages of 5,000 captains and 7,000 other officers in spite of a strengthened recruitment effort.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2005 Brian Gorman	Is Defense Safe? Recent news from the Pentagon looks positive for the industry, but investors shouldn't be quick to assume they've dodged a bullet.
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 April 2004 Harold Kennedy	Guard Reshuffles Force To Offset Deployment Stress To continue to meet growing deployment requirements around the world, the U.S. National Guard is changing its force mix.
National Defense December 2006 Harold Kennedy	State Units Test Portable Combat Training Program The National Guard -- under pressure to keep supplying thousands of troops for Iraq and Afghanistan -- is pioneering what it says is a more efficient, less expensive way to train those soldiers for combat.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Army Nearing Breaking Point... Third Rotation Into Iraq Begins in September... War Stress Mounting in the Marine Corps... `Security of Supply' Treaties Exclude Vaccines, Fuel...
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 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.
Parameters Autumn 2008 William Mcdonough	Time for a New Strategy The Surge Strategy proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 has accomplished the majority of its goals and now is the time to significantly reduce the US presence in Iraq.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
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.
Vietnam December 2006 Mark DePu	Vietnam War: The Individual Rotation Policy The individual rotation policy was, in hindsight, clearly one of the worst ideas of the war. At the time, however, military planners had few options.
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.
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.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Mark Cancian	Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. Moves to Rearm Iraq The U.S. government--following an extended delay--is aggressively moving to train and equip Iraqi security forces to provide for the internal and external defense of that war torn nation.
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.
National Defense February 2004 Harold Kennedy	Back From Afghanistan, Civil Affairs Unit Deploys to Iraq Elements of the 489th Civil Affairs Battalion are preparing, once again, to deploy into a combat zone. Perhaps within days, they will be on their way to Iraq. It will be the Army Reserve unit's second deployment in three years.
National Defense September 2005 Sandra Erwin	Defense Dept. Rhetoric Reflects War Frustrations Defense officials know so little about the insurgency American troops are combating in Iraq they decided that detailed information about the enemy, such as its strength and capabilities, is not all that important to winning the war.
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.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Crock et al.	A Most Dangerous Moment Can the U.S. restore order -- and engineer a credible transition to Iraqi sovereignty? How many troops are needed, and how many are available?
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Keller	Military Research in Crisis The United States is in the midst of a military research, development, and preparedness crisis. Few people realize it; of those who do, most underestimate its dimensions.
National Defense April 2005	Washington Pulse The cost of equipping soldiers has escalated dramatically since the beginning of the war in Iraq... Pentagon unhappy about leaked memo... Turf feud between the Air Force and the Army on how best to destroy targets on the ground continues... etc.
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.
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Trying to Close the Guardsmen Employer Data Gap As demands on the National Guard and reserves grow, the Defense Department and private sector are hungry for better data to assess the economic impact of deployments.
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.
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.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Iraqi Special Forces Need More Training, Equipment Iraqi commando units, known as special forces, continue to be hampered by equipment and training shortcomings, a Washington think tank expert contends.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Bruce Nussbaum	Clark: What's Wrong with U.S. Policy in Iraq His new book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire, is, in effect, Clark's campaign manifesto, providing insights into what he believes and what he would do as Commander-in-Chief.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Efforts to Reorganize U.S. Army Tied to Emergency War Spending As Iraq war costs approach the $300 billion mark, the Defense Department's increasing reliance on emergency appropriations to pay for military equipment is stirring controversy on Capitol Hill.
Job Journal December 11, 2005 Lacy Salter	Enlist in a Future Career The armed forces offer a wide array of benefits and jobs that translate to the civilian sector.
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 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.
National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy	State Volunteers Eyed for Greater Security Role As officials seek ways to ease the pressure on over-deployed active-duty, National Guard and reserve troops, more and more eyes are falling upon state-operated bands of volunteers that for decades have backed up the country's regular military forces in times of emergency.
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 January 2006 Abshire & Czerwinski	With an Overstretched Military, U.S. Should Create `Home Guard' The U.S. presence in Iraq has in many ways made near-term gains in the war on terror more difficult and thrown America's homeland security into question. But a creative solution with roots reaching far back into American history may be the answer.
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.
Parameters Spring 2007 Anthony J. Schwarz	Iraq's Militias: The True Threat to Coalition Success in Iraq Analysis of the historical, political, and religious roots underlying the growth of extremism in Iraq
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.
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.
Reason January 2006 Julian Sanchez	Don't Ask, Yet The imperative to keep American troops ready for deployment shows up in historically low levels of expulsion of homosexual soldiers from the military during wartime.
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.
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Stan Crock	Iraq: After the Shootout This is one guerrilla campaign the U.S. can't afford to lose.