June 2006 Issue
The Army is still concepting what the Future Combat System will ultimately
Nonwords, like any other locution, come in and out of style. There was quite a
SECRETARY OF THE A IR F ORCE M ICHAEL W YNNE,
Nonwords, like any other locution, come in and out of style. There was quite a
SECRETARY OF THE A IR F ORCE M ICHAEL W YNNE,
View from the FOB
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a large, new vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations into the American experience of war: GWOT, GSAVE, IED, SVBIED, MOAB, OEF, OIF and...
By Christopher Griffin
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have introduced a large, new vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations into the American experience of war: GWOT, GSAVE, IED, SVBIED, MOAB, OEF, OIF and...
By Christopher Griffin
Blood borders
International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the...
By Ralph Peters
International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the...
By Ralph Peters
Combat fatigue
In wartime, seemingly small things can have large meanings. So it was with an Army helicopter recently returned to the U.S. from Iraq for refurbishing. As Pamela Hess of UPI reported, the...
By Lawrence Korb, Loren Thompson and Caroline Wadhams
In wartime, seemingly small things can have large meanings. So it was with an Army helicopter recently returned to the U.S. from Iraq for refurbishing. As Pamela Hess of UPI reported, the...
By Lawrence Korb, Loren Thompson and Caroline Wadhams
Air heads
Our society, even our military, is so hyper-aware and wired that the ubiquitous presence of the television screen is no more illustrative of Clinton focus-group think than it is of a Rovian...
BY William M. Arkin
Our society, even our military, is so hyper-aware and wired that the ubiquitous presence of the television screen is no more illustrative of Clinton focus-group think than it is of a Rovian...
BY William M. Arkin
The power & limits of jointness
It has been 20 years since Congress passed the Goldwater-Nichols Act, committing the U.S. armed forces to a vision of “joint warfare” wherein the strands of the separate services...
It has been 20 years since Congress passed the Goldwater-Nichols Act, committing the U.S. armed forces to a vision of “joint warfare” wherein the strands of the separate services...
Janus and the god of jointness
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. military’s airstrike against five terrorist training camps in Libya, a retaliation for the bombing of a Berlin discotheque in which...
By Seth Cropsey
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. military’s airstrike against five terrorist training camps in Libya, a retaliation for the bombing of a Berlin discotheque in which...
By Seth Cropsey
Conformity needs competition
It has been nearly two decades since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. That’s a long time, but perhaps more importantly, the...
By Mackubin Thomas Owens
It has been nearly two decades since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. That’s a long time, but perhaps more importantly, the...
By Mackubin Thomas Owens
Rummy & his generals
In early April, a number of retired U.S. general officers stepped forward to call for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Although the immediate bone of contention was the...
In early April, a number of retired U.S. general officers stepped forward to call for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Although the immediate bone of contention was the...
Oil obsession
The reason for skyrocketing gasoline prices isn’t the greed of oil-company executives — it’s something over which we have even less control: the Chinese economy.
By Dan Blumenthal and Joseph Lin
The reason for skyrocketing gasoline prices isn’t the greed of oil-company executives — it’s something over which we have even less control: the Chinese economy.
By Dan Blumenthal and Joseph Lin
Homeland insecurity
Police and firefighters in major U.S. cities still can’t communicate reliably in a crisis. When airline passengers are screened before being allowed to fly, they aren’t checked...
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Police and firefighters in major U.S. cities still can’t communicate reliably in a crisis. When airline passengers are screened before being allowed to fly, they aren’t checked...
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
The force we have
“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.”
By TOM Donnelly
“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.”
By TOM Donnelly
In this issue
In this issue you will find a “new AFJ.” The new look is designed to confirm the larger change in the magazine’s content that has taken place over recent months. Conceived...
In this issue you will find a “new AFJ.” The new look is designed to confirm the larger change in the magazine’s content that has taken place over recent months. Conceived...
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