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Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc.   |
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Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
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Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
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Summer 2008
J. Boone Bartholomees |
Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars. |
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Summer 2008
Kenneth Payne |
Waging Communication War This article sets out to explore the ramifications of poor communication and lack of support of the population in a modern war. |
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Summer 2006
David W. Barno |
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. |
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Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
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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). |
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Summer 2008 |
Book Reviews A. J. Langguth's book Union 1812: Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence makes history read like a novel... Muhammad: Islam's First Great General by Richard A. Gabriel focuses on the political aspects of the religious leader... etc. |
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Spring 2006
Janeen Klinger |
The Social Science of Carl von Clausewitz Carl von Clausewitz's unfinished book On War is well-known as being prone to misinterpretation. This article attempts to add conceptual clarity by demonstrating that Clausewitz was formulating a social science approach before that terminology and discipline had emerged. |
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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. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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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. |
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Autum 2008 |
Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc. |
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Summer 2007
Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
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Spring 2004
Bruce Fleming |
Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us from Future Mistakes? The Weinberger Doctrine of 1984, for example, considered by many strategists the template of the first Gulf War, is both drawn from and cites Clausewitz. |
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Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
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Summer 2007
Brian Reed |
A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency A network analysis of war and insurgency differs markedly from conventional approaches, a fact that might require us to rethink some of our more conventional analytical tools. |
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Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
Reason
January 2003
Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate |
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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. |
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Winter 2003/2004
Donald Chisholm |
The Risk of Optimism in the Conduct of War The Rapid Dominance approach to warfare can be appealing to a country like the U.S. that has technological advantages, but it requires an optimistic view on one's ability to manipulate the will of adversaries. |
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Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
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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. |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
National Defense
December 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable. |
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Autumn 2008
Steven L. Schooner |
Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future. |
Vietnam
Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
A little bit at war Wall Street Journal's Max Boot says that, contrary to the Powell doctrine, America can and should fight small wars, build nations and do without an exit strategy... |
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Spring 2007
Paul Robinson |
Ethics Training and Development in the Military While relatively new, formal military training programs for ethics have produced a number of common virtues that might provide a basis for a universal (military) code or ethic. |
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Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
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Summer 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Embedding: More Background... Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us?... Civil-Military Relations at the Top... etc. |
Military History
Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr. |
Korean War: A Fresh Perspective More than forty-five years after shipping out to fight in Korea, the author gains new insight into what the war had been all about. |
National Defense
December 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Before War Strategy Is Settled, Political Aims Must Be Defined Amid uncertainty and unease about the future of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the importance of clear political objectives can't be overstated. |
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... |
Military History Quarterly
Winter 2007 |
Letter from Winter 2007 MHQ For centuries soldiers have used military history to develop a theory of war and principles for planning an armed conflict or campaign. The same is true for the current war in Iraq. |
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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. |
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Spring 2005
Kenneth Payne |
The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. |
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Winter 2006/2007 |
Commentary & Reply Beware of Boldness... The Most Professional Military... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
C. A. Fowler |
Asymmetric Warfare: A Primer The armed forces of United States are the most capable military ever assembled. Are they designed, however, to handle a determined insurgency? Here's a look using famous engineer Frederick W. Lanchester's Mathematics in Warfare as a guide. |
Reason
April 2003
Michael Young |
Command Performances The civilian-military conflict over the conduct of war |
Reason
June 2003
Jesse Walker |
What Next for U.S. Foreign Policy? Power, stability, and the post-Iraq world order: interviews with three men with very different ideas about the emerging world system. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2002
David Talbot |
The making of a hawk From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove... |
National Defense
April 2013
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level. |
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Summer 2007 |
From the Editor Although hamstrung by a myriad of political, economic, and cultural realities, visionaries share one common opinion regarding the future of the Middle East; Iran will play a pivotal role. |
Reason
September 2006
Brian Doherty |
How Did You Vote During the War, Daddy? The war in Iraq is increasingly unpopular in America. However, public disenchantment with the war probably won't matter in November's congressional and Senate races. |
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Spring 2005
Colin S. Gray |
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? For the West, and for the most part, 12 of the past 15 years can fairly be described as an interwar period. That brief no-name era, usually referred to neutrally as the post-Cold War period, came to an explosive end on 11 September 2001. |
Salon.com
September 29, 2001
David Talbot |
Democracy held hostage We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate. But the war fever crowd wants us all to march in step... |
National Defense
December 2011
Dan Parsons |
U.S. Government Turns to Crowdsourcing for Intelligence Applied Research Associates, a New Mexico-based firm, has launched a program it hopes will improve upon the traditional methods of gathering expert opinion by using computer software that could make better-informed predictions. |
