Driven to print
One of the most striking features of military blogs is their short life spans. As many of the best milbloggers return from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, they stop posting and leave their...
BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
The undecided continent
frica has suffered many curses, from massive corruption to AIDS to dysfunctional borders drawn by cynical Europeans. Oppression, illiteracy, deadly ethnic and religious rivalries —...
By Ralph Peters
The fleet we need
We require for the guidance of our naval policy
something of a wider vision than the current conception of naval strategy, something that will keep before our eyes not merely the enemy...
BY FRANK HOFFMAN
A better war in Iraq
“Fighting an irregular war is an extremely difficult conversion for any regular army, even a superpower.”
By Lt. Col. John A. Nagl
America’s adventure
The struggle for Iraq is, even as the fighting continues, a struggle to shape history; how Iraq is understood and remembered may be as strategically important as any other facet of the...
“Fiasco”
By the winter of 2003-04, the Marine Corps was ordered to head back to Iraq to lend a hand. Its units would replace the Army in one of the toughest parts of the country, al Anbar province,...
By Thomas E. Ricks
Energy gap
For several years, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., has warned that world oil production would soon peak, demand will continue to rise and the world will start to run out of oil. This spring, as...
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Long-distance affair
If the experience of the past five years means anything, it is that the Long War for the greater Middle East is most likely to be fought at close range, whether the mission is combat,...
By Tom Donnelly
In this issue
This month’s issue of AFJ concentrates on the “war in words”; that is, how Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun to be recorded by history, or at least history as it...
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