July 2007 Issue
An even keel
The Coast Guard has been under fire in the press and on Capitol Hill for a variety of problems associated with the Deepwater fleet recapitalization program. But ahead of the storm of...
BY ADM. JOHN CURRIER
The Coast Guard has been under fire in the press and on Capitol Hill for a variety of problems associated with the Deepwater fleet recapitalization program. But ahead of the storm of...
BY ADM. JOHN CURRIER
The digital battlefield
The ever-growing access to information up and down the chain of command is changing leadership models. If information means power, then the soldier has never been more empowered. On the...
The ever-growing access to information up and down the chain of command is changing leadership models. If information means power, then the soldier has never been more empowered. On the...
Technology and leadership
The ubiquitous nature of data and technology, which transforms every soldier and pilot into a node in a network-centric environment, is irreparably changing existing leadership models for...
BY BARRY ROSENBERG
The ubiquitous nature of data and technology, which transforms every soldier and pilot into a node in a network-centric environment, is irreparably changing existing leadership models for...
BY BARRY ROSENBERG
Chinese military theorists have developed a framework for doctrine-driven reform to build a force capable of fighting and winning ‘local wars under conditions of informatization.’”
China’s effort to “informatize” its society demonstrates that no one has a monoply on the coining of nonwords.
— “Military Power of the People’s Republic of China,” the Pentagon’s 2007 report to Congress
China’s effort to “informatize” its society demonstrates that no one has a monoply on the coining of nonwords.
— “Military Power of the People’s Republic of China,” the Pentagon’s 2007 report to Congress
Web tangle
The military and the milbloggers have settled into a predictable, if not altogether comfortable pattern: A new regulation is issued to provide greater official control over milblogs, which...
By CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
The military and the milbloggers have settled into a predictable, if not altogether comfortable pattern: A new regulation is issued to provide greater official control over milblogs, which...
By CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN
The 20/20 hindsight gift
As a career Army officer, I found many elements of Lt. Col. Paul Yingling’s assessment of our general officers’ leadership to ring true, but his use of history and facts are...
BY LT. COL. JOHN MAUK
As a career Army officer, I found many elements of Lt. Col. Paul Yingling’s assessment of our general officers’ leadership to ring true, but his use of history and facts are...
BY LT. COL. JOHN MAUK
Defending the generals
One of the biggest dangers to anyone who criticizes senior leaders within an organization is to lose objectivity to emotion. This is the primary fault of Lt. Col. Paul Yingling in his...
COL. DAVID F. AUMULLER
One of the biggest dangers to anyone who criticizes senior leaders within an organization is to lose objectivity to emotion. This is the primary fault of Lt. Col. Paul Yingling in his...
COL. DAVID F. AUMULLER
The Geezer Brigade
In these years of relentless stress on our understrength Army and Marine Corps, one pool of talent foolishly goes unexploited: military retirees, the “Geezer Brigade,” those of...
BY RALPH PETERS
In these years of relentless stress on our understrength Army and Marine Corps, one pool of talent foolishly goes unexploited: military retirees, the “Geezer Brigade,” those of...
BY RALPH PETERS
12 new principles of warfare
Now that dramatic improvements in weaponry, communications, sensors and even the utility of individual combatants have been demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is clear that America...
BY LT. CMDR. CHRISTOPHER E. VAN AVERY
Now that dramatic improvements in weaponry, communications, sensors and even the utility of individual combatants have been demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is clear that America...
BY LT. CMDR. CHRISTOPHER E. VAN AVERY
Flashpoint: Venezuelan vagaries
If you think the passing of Cuban President Fidel Castro — the larger-than-life leader of the anti-Yanqui, Latin left for almost 50 years — will eliminate a major problem for us...
BY PETER BROOKES
If you think the passing of Cuban President Fidel Castro — the larger-than-life leader of the anti-Yanqui, Latin left for almost 50 years — will eliminate a major problem for us...
BY PETER BROOKES
Protecting the chief
President Bush pulled the plug on Gen. Peter Pace to avoid what Defense Secretary Robert Gates described as a “quite contentious” renomination hearing.
BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
President Bush pulled the plug on Gen. Peter Pace to avoid what Defense Secretary Robert Gates described as a “quite contentious” renomination hearing.
BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Fighting words
J. Michael Waller’s “Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War” is on target [“Word’s worth,” Book Review, May]. To borrow some recent advice in fighting...
J. Michael Waller’s “Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War” is on target [“Word’s worth,” Book Review, May]. To borrow some recent advice in fighting...
Illogical logistics
From those associated with big government and centralized cultures we get top-down solutions. Richard May makes a number of salient points and raises issues that have not been discussed...
From those associated with big government and centralized cultures we get top-down solutions. Richard May makes a number of salient points and raises issues that have not been discussed...
In this issue
“Every soldier, sailor and airman a node in the network” is the type of phrase bandied around in industry marketing materials and Pentagon briefings and, often as not, repeated...
“Every soldier, sailor and airman a node in the network” is the type of phrase bandied around in industry marketing materials and Pentagon briefings and, often as not, repeated...
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