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Reason February 2008 Jim Henley	Open-Source Warfare In Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization, author John Robb argues, persuasively, that the nation-state's instinctive acts of self-preservation will prove not just useless but counterproductive.
Parameters 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.
Inc. March 1, 2003 Walter Russell Mead	The Storm Before the Calm Might war with Iraq spur economic growth? And what will it mean for small companies?
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Martin J. Muckian	Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies: Adapting to the New Adversary The ongoing conflict in Iraq has sparked a renewed interest in the study of counterinsurgency, leading many to comb the wars of the twentieth century for lessons that can be applied to today. Much of this recent analysis has focused on the knowledge gained from fighting Marxist revolutionaries.
Parameters Summer 2006 Shawn Brimley	Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict.
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.
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.
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.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
Reason January 2003 Mueller & Lindsey	Should We Invade Iraq? A debate
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie	The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks.
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).
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.
Parameters Spring 2005 Metz & Millen	Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new, unforeseen directions
Parameters Autumn 2008 Daniel S. Roper	Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War Though policy initiatives since September 11, 2001 have positively influenced certain agencies in their efforts to secure America, some steps have actually limited the nation's effectiveness in countering the threats it faces.
Parameters Spring 2004 Robert R. Tomes	Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare Thirty years after the signing of the January 1973 Paris peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, the United States finds itself leading a broad coalition of military forces engaged in peacemaking, nation-building, and now counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Jeffrey E. Garten	The Pirates Of Global Trade A new book, Illicit, calls for a global assault on contraband traffickers.
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	Bomb Making Skills Spread Globally The war in Iraq is accelerating the development of IED technology as terrorists and insurgents are forced to adapt their methods to defeat countermeasures.
Parameters Summer 2005 Christopher M. Ford	Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency Using Iraq as a model, this article seeks to examine the relationship between the people and the insurgency, with the ultimate questions being: What role does the civilian population play in the insurgency, and how can this situation be influenced to achieve success?
Parameters 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.
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
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.
Bank Technology News May 2003 Holly Sraeel	Privacy and Regulation: Can They Co-Exist Peacefully? One horrendous day of terrorism, the passage of The Patriot Act and a defiant Iraqi dictator all have tipped the scales in favor of regulation. The price, some argue, is an individual's right to privacy. Financial institutions are caught smack in the middle.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states.
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...
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.
Parameters Summer 2007 Frank G. Hoffman	Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency? A look at the impact and implications of the classical school of thought on revolutionary warfare and an evaluation of the newly issued Army/Marine counterinsurgency (COIN) manual.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Insurgents Learn to Exploit U.S. Military's Vulnerabilities As insurgents continue to develop more lethal means to attack U.S. forces and allies in Iraq, both military and private security officials have been conducting briefings on how to recognize and avoid the ubiquitous threats of suicide bombs, roadside mines and ambushes.
Parameters 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?
Searcher Nov/Dec 2008 Paul Piper	Nets of Terror Terrorist activity on the Internet.
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner	European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption.
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...
Geotimes October 2003 Mohammad Al-Gailani	Assessing Iraq's Oil Potential Iraq is one of the most hydrocarbon-rich countries in the Middle East, and in the future, it could become one of the primary oil producers in the world.
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Richard Vodra	The Next Energy Crisis Diminishing oil supplies could be considered a variable that, like inflation, should be part of a judicious financial plan. Here's what advisers and consumers need to know.
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Giegner & Krause-Jackson	After U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, the State Dept. Steps In The State Dept. is hiring thousands of contractors to help it assume duties in Iraq once the last of the troops departs in a year.
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 January 2007 Johnson & McLaughlin	To Defeat Terrorists, Military Services Must Innovate, Disrupt By any measure, reforming the half-trillion dollar, 3 million-member Defense Department is one of the largest innovation projects in history.
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.
Geotimes May 2003 Josh Chamot	War in Iraq Iraqi forces ignited their country's own oil resources as the United States military began its attack in March. But the damage to the Southern Rumaila oil fields is orders of magnitude less than what the Iraqi forces wrought on their neighbor Kuwait in 1991.
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick	Global Oil Hot Spots As consumers continue to face higher gas prices at the pump, petroleum geologists continue to search the world for oil and natural gas.
Parameters 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.
Parameters 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.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	U.S. Takes Step Back, Revisits Rebuilding Plans To recover from serious setbacks in its reconstruction plans for Iraq the United States will need a more flexible strategy.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	A Talk With Iraq's Finance Minister Iraqi Finance Minister reports the country is mainly stable and ready to grow, and he thinks the sooner the government becomes one of Iraq for Iraqis, the better.
Parameters 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.