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National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Forces' Skills `Needed More Than Ever' Experts are questioning whether the Pentagon is making the best use of highly skilled special operations forces in the nation's war against extremist Islamic groups.
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean	Commandos see expanded mission portfolio To boost its unconventional warfare capabilities, Canada is revamping its special operations military organization and emphasizing counter-terrorism skills in elite unit training programs.
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.
National Defense January 2016 Sid Ashworth	Turning Point Coming for National Security The national security landscape has seen significant change over the past five years. The number of deployed forces declined by more than 60 percent from 2011 to the start of 2016, and the Budget Control Act of 2011 ushered in a period of uncertainty.
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 July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Operators Seek Greater Cooperation From Foreign Forces The U.S. Special Operations Command increasingly will focus on recruiting and training "surrogate" forces in countries where terrorists are known to thrive, officials said.
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard	The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism.
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 May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology July 28, 2006	BS&T Blogosphere The Tech Vendor Landscape: More or Less... Outsourcing Gaining Ground... Patience Is Still a Virtue... Job Hunting... Hurricane Lessons Learned?... etc.
National Defense May 2013 Stew Magnuson	Special Operations Missions to Require New Doctrine Whether it is called "soft power," or the latest buzzword, "the seventh warfighting function," special operations forces are entering a new chapter in their storied history, senior SOF leaders said.
Job Journal February 1, 2004 Marty Nemko	Let It Go America's most successful executives share passion and temperance.
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons	Special Operations a Valuable Tool In Dealing With Bloody African Conflicts Deploying small numbers of specially trained troops, namely Army Special Operations Forces that are well versed in supporting indigenous troops, can pay dividends, said Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense.
National Defense June 2013 James E. Rainey	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories What can we do right now to improve how we fight modern wars? Second, how do we create, in the words of Gen. Robert Cone, "a structural imperative that ensures we do not lose the lessons of the last decade of war?"
National Defense March 2006 James A. Gavrilis	Army Must Address Irregular Warfare Needs The Army's largest-ever modernization program, the Future Combat Systems (FCS), is expected to deliver a kit bag of new capabilities for the tactical force. It's easy to see how FCS technologies will provide a clear advantage in the conventional fight, but it is less clear how this program will improve capabilities in unconventional warfare.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Units That Work With Civilians Often Disregarded, Soldiers Claim Experienced military troops who are trained to communicate with foreign audiences are neglected and underutilized, argue the authors of "United States Special Operations Command," a new book that is sparking debate within the special operations community.
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.
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.
National Defense April 2009 Grace V. Jean	U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Culturally Attuned Warriors Candidates who hope to join the Army's Special Forces, whether recruited from the services or other programs, will face higher standards in training.
National Defense February 2005 Tiron & Pappalardo	Sharper Focus On Special Operators Seen Worldwide Special operations forces around the world are being molded in the image of the elite military units of the United States, a development that is likely to shape future coalitions.
National Defense October 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	How New Strategy to Defeat ISIS Can Work President Obama's stated objectives are to degrade and destroy ISIS. Although, this goal sounds reasonable on the surface, the president's language does not provide sufficient criteria to formulate military objectives.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
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 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?
Bank Systems & Technology February 1, 2007 John Lutz	Controlling Your Destiny? Today, a collection of external forces and drivers are beginning to dominate the agenda in most financial services firms.
National Defense April 2005 Roxana Tiron	Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism.
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.
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.
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National Defense December 2012 Valerie Insinna	Army Training Contends With Uncertain Future Although the war in Afghanistan is scheduled to come to a close in 2014, the Army is already training its soldiers against a mix of near-peer conventional forces, insurgent elements and criminal groups.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire.
National Defense January 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. European Command Seeks to Deploy More Easily As NATO wrestles with issues of growth, the U.S. European Command, which supplies American forces to the alliance, is undergoing major changes of its own.
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.
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Generals Get Real About Missions, Budget Life in the "post-war" Army indeed will be different. It will not be one of dreary rotational deployments but one of multitasking and responding to unforeseen events.
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