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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.
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.
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.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years.
National Defense December 2006 Grace Jean	Army Training Evolving to Develop Better Combat Leaders The initiative to improve combat leadership skills earlier in soldiers' careers, by better understanding the cognitive processes involved in decision-making, has gained momentum inside military academies and other academic institutions.
Parameters 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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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 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.
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch	Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now.
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 2007 Marc Lindemann	Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
National Defense May 2015 Eoyang & Freeman	Why the U.S. Must Reform The Military Personnel System If our military hopes to continue employing the best and brightest, it needs to consider fundamentally changing the military personnel system, not merely tinker with pay and benefits.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best.
Reason December 2004 Cathy Young	Martial Vices Zell Miller's un-American view of the armed forces is a particularly dangerous proposition in a war on terror that has no end in sight.
National Defense January 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Industrial College of the Armed Forces: A Primer ICAF is located at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to prepare selected military and civilians for strategic leadership and success in developing national security strategy and in evaluating, marshalling, and managing resources in the execution of that strategy.
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
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.
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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.
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought.
Parameters 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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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.
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.
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.
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National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Memo to Commanders: Less Micromanaging U.S. technological prowess has made it possible to centralize command-and-control functions in the military, to the point that a general sitting at the Pentagon can micromanage a war half a world away.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Games Are Gaining Ground, But How Far Can They Go? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks toward simulation systems to teach soldiers about the tradeoffs involved in rebuilding Iraq.
Reason April 2003 Michael Young	Command Performances The civilian-military conflict over the conduct of war
National Defense December 2009 Stew Magnuson	Integrating Civilian Agencies Into Military Operations Remains Difficult The United States' "whole government" approach to rebuilding war-torn nations is nevertheless moving forward.
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 2005 Harold Kennedy	Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 George R. Mastroianni	Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force The relatively recent separation of the Air Force from the Army, coupled with the rapid rise of the Air Force as a powerful, independent institution offers a unique opportunity to explore the organizational cultures of these two services, and to better understand the implications of culture on leadership styles in each of the services.
National Defense February 2007 Grace Jean	Lack of Military-Civilian Coordination Hinders War-Zone Rebuilding Efforts Civilian groups that play critical roles in the rebuilding of Iraq have no clear guidance for how to coordinate their efforts with the military.
National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	Army's Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand The military's lack of knowledge of the Iraqi population and its socio-cultural dynamics was one of the key failings of U.S. policy that led to the rise of insurgency there.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s.
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 December 2007 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Military Still Struggling to Understand Urban Environment Even after four years of combat in Iraq, industry and the Pentagon seem slow to catch up to the demands of urban war.
National Defense February 2013 Paul J. Kern	U.S. Troops Deserve a Competitive Equipment Advantage The Army can take advantage of commercial competitive practices for fast-moving technologies, rather than lengthy bureaucratic processes. The armed forces should have the best capability when they need it -- and at a more affordable price in a time of lean defense budgets.
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National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland	Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies.
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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.
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