January 2006 Issue
In this issue
The strong turnout for Iraq’s parliamentary elections offers hope that we are entering a new period in which Iraq begins to resolve its problems through a peaceful, democratic process....
The strong turnout for Iraq’s parliamentary elections offers hope that we are entering a new period in which Iraq begins to resolve its problems through a peaceful, democratic process....
No silver bullets
Along with impatience, a great American weakness is our belief that every problem has a straightforward solution, if only we can figure it out. Especially in complex foreign endeavors, such...
By Ralph Peters
Along with impatience, a great American weakness is our belief that every problem has a straightforward solution, if only we can figure it out. Especially in complex foreign endeavors, such...
By Ralph Peters
Off the radar
“The deployment of effective missile defenses is an essential element of the United States’ broader efforts to transform our defense and deterrence policies and capabilities to...
By David J. Trachtenberg
“The deployment of effective missile defenses is an essential element of the United States’ broader efforts to transform our defense and deterrence policies and capabilities to...
By David J. Trachtenberg
Tipping period
American soldiers and strategists in the Vietnam War were forever in search of a “tipping point” that would tilt the balance of forces in Southeast Asia away from the North...
American soldiers and strategists in the Vietnam War were forever in search of a “tipping point” that would tilt the balance of forces in Southeast Asia away from the North...
The political battles ahead
The idea of a more-extended “tipping period” in Iraq was first advanced by Jeffrey White, a longtime analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and now an analyst at the...
By Tom Donnelly
The idea of a more-extended “tipping period” in Iraq was first advanced by Jeffrey White, a longtime analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and now an analyst at the...
By Tom Donnelly
Measuring success
How can we know if we are succeeding in Iraq? This is one of the central problems facing the Bush administration, and America, today. The counts of “enemy” bodies that...
By Frederick W. Kagan
How can we know if we are succeeding in Iraq? This is one of the central problems facing the Bush administration, and America, today. The counts of “enemy” bodies that...
By Frederick W. Kagan
Building an Iraqi Army
There was Sgt. Noah, the tough, squared-away Iraqi soldier who had no problem giving orders to anyone — including American journalists. And there was the nameless, smiling Iraqi...
By Gordon Trowbridge
There was Sgt. Noah, the tough, squared-away Iraqi soldier who had no problem giving orders to anyone — including American journalists. And there was the nameless, smiling Iraqi...
By Gordon Trowbridge
Strategic redeployment
The only measure of where and when to use our military forces is: Does it make us safer? More than 2½ years into the continuous deployment of more than 100,000 troops to Iraq, the clear...
By Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis
The only measure of where and when to use our military forces is: Does it make us safer? More than 2½ years into the continuous deployment of more than 100,000 troops to Iraq, the clear...
By Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis
Disruptive voice
Retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, who died Nov. 12, joins George S. Patton, Billy Mitchell, Hyman Rickover and others in that great brotherhood of military innovators who...
By James Blaker and Robert Holzer
Retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, who died Nov. 12, joins George S. Patton, Billy Mitchell, Hyman Rickover and others in that great brotherhood of military innovators who...
By James Blaker and Robert Holzer
QDR’s crucial question
Sometime late this month or perhaps early in February the Pentagon will release its report on the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), by my count the fifth attempt of the “post-Cold...
By TOM Donnelly
Sometime late this month or perhaps early in February the Pentagon will release its report on the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), by my count the fifth attempt of the “post-Cold...
By TOM Donnelly
Much ado about QDR
The QDR is winding down, at last. The Quadrennial Dread Ritual, that is.
By William Matthews
The QDR is winding down, at last. The Quadrennial Dread Ritual, that is.
By William Matthews
The Air Force terminologist will: manage the Air Force Military Terminology Standardization Program
Who marshals neologisms, new meanings and nonwords? In the Air Force, it takes a terminologist. To be fair, the
U.S. A IR FORCE GLOSSARY , 6 SEPTEMBER 2005
Who marshals neologisms, new meanings and nonwords? In the Air Force, it takes a terminologist. To be fair, the
U.S. A IR FORCE GLOSSARY , 6 SEPTEMBER 2005
This theory won’t fly
I take issue with retired Maj. Gen. Scales’ article, “The shape of brigades to come” [October]. Scales claims that Special Forces operations in Afghanistan and Northern...
I take issue with retired Maj. Gen. Scales’ article, “The shape of brigades to come” [October]. Scales claims that Special Forces operations in Afghanistan and Northern...
Standing Army not needed
The biggest mission creep the Regular Army faces is its continued existence.
The biggest mission creep the Regular Army faces is its continued existence.
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