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Military History
December 2005
James W. Shosenberg |
Austerlitz: Napoleon's Masterstroke Facing a formidable coalition, the French emperor devised a plan to defeat his counterparts from Austria and Russia in one swift campaign.   |
Military History
November 2007
Dennis Showalter |
The Day of Doom: The Battle of Gravelotte/Saint-Privat On a single day in 1870, Europe's two greatest armies nearly annihilated each other in an epic slaughter that would not be matched until the stalemates of World War I. |
World War II
November 2003
Ronald E. Powaski |
World War II: Stopping Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Panzers Much of the future course of World War II was determined by Adolf Hitler's decision in the spring of 1940 to stop Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's panzers at their moment of supreme victory. |
Military History
April 2007
David A. Bell |
Napoleon's Total War Napoleon's suppression of Spain's 'guerrilla war' of independence 1808-1814 was something new under the sun: a war against everyone. |
Military History Quarterly
Winter 2007
Edward L. Bimberg |
Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome. |
World War II
August 2006
Jonathan W. Jordan |
Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results! |
Civil War Times
September 2006
Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men. |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Lou DiMarco |
Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency. |
Parameters
November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
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
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
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. |
Parameters
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2005
Peter Suciu |
Imperial Glory The French emperor Napoleon used his military and diplomatic skills to subdue half of Europe. In this game, you can try to do better while controlling one of the five major powers of the era. |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Audrey Kurth Cronin |
Cyber-Mobilization: The New Levee en Masse The U.S. needs a counter-mobilization. So-called information warfare and public diplomacy do not capture the extent of this shift. Putting today's developments within their historical context, the U.S. should get beyond its cultural myopia and turn more attention to analyzing and influencing the means and ends of popular mobilization. |
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. |
Parameters
Winter 2003/2004
Christopher J. Toomey |
Army Digitization: Making it Ready for Prime Time The Army's commitment to creating a digitized force elicits some key questions about how the Army will make the transition from an analog force in the face of rapidly changing technology while maintaining the capability to meet key strategic and operational challenges. |
This Old House
Jefferson Kolle |
High Style with a French Twist We have Napoleon III to thank for the architectural style known as American Second Empire. |
National Defense
April 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004
Hardy Green |
Little Big Man Oxford historian Alistair Horne has added a short, highly entertaining volume to the pile books on Napoleon Bonaparte. "The Age of Napoleon" is a tonic for those wanting to rejuvenate their History 101 gray matter. |
InternetNews
November 18, 2009 |
Missing Hard Drive Exposes Soldiers' Data The U.S. Army said a hard drive was either lost or stolen earlier this month, putting more than 60,000 soldiers' data at risk. |
National Defense
May 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment. |
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. |
